Maybelle Andrews' Combustion
The Legend:
In October 1938, Maybelle Andrews was dancing in a Soho nightclub with her boyfriend, Billy Clifford, when flames erupted from her back, chest and shoulders. Clifford was badly burned trying to put the flames out; he said there were no flames in the room, that they had come from Newcombe herself. Newcombe died on the way to the hospital.
Theories
It's impossible to deny the similarity of this case to that of Phyllis Newcombe's Combustion and the London Combustion; I have to wonder if this is an urban legend, a popular tale that retains the same overall structure while its details change with each retelling. Only more research can tell.
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