Modern Mysteries

Woman 'spontaneously combusts' in park

By T.K. Randall
November 5, 2015 ·  57 comments

The woman became inexplicably engulfed in flames. Image Credit: sxc.hu The bizarre incident took place in a park in Germany where the woman, who had been sitting on a bench minding her own business, reportedly burst in to flames without any warning.

Shocked passers-by called the emergency services while one brave man attempted to smother out the flames using his own jacket but it was too little, too late - the woman was already badly burned.

When medics arrived she was loaded on to a helicopter and rushed to a hospital in the city of Lubeck however her injuries were severe and she continues to remain in a critical condition.Investigators have since been attempting to determine exactly what happened and haven't ruled out the possibility that the woman may have set herself on fire in a bid to commit suicide.

The actual phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion (SHC), which has been studied extensively over the centuries, typically sees a victim burst in to flames and burn to death without any apparent means of ignition and without damaging anything else in the vicinity of the fire.

Whether that's what actually happened to the woman in this case however remains unclear.

Source: News.com.au | Comments (57)

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