What Causes Spontaneous Human Combustion - Heat, Oxygen and Acid

Man, 65, believed to have died from spontaneous acid combustion after a pile of charred remains were found and no trace of fire source or other damage.

Police believe a man may have died from spontaneous combustion after they found his burned body in his home but no other fire damage or evidence of accelerant use.

Sequoyah County authorities are determining the circumstances surrounding the death of 65-year-old Danny Vanzandt after his charred remains were found at his Tulsa home on Monday.

After neighbors saw smoke coming from the house they called the fire service and attempted to put out what they thought was a pile of burning trash.

They soon realized it was in fact a body believed to have died from spontaneous acid combustion.

So what causes human spontaneous combustion?  The answer is simple - an acidic lifestyle and diet which gives rise to an increase in body temperature or heat combined with body oxygen and the fuel from metabolic and dietary acid will start a body fire witnin - death by spontaneous combustion.  

The following list of foods will increase body heat and acidic fuel for starting a good body fire and therefore should be eliminated from the diet in the prevention of sickness and disease, including the increased risk of spontaneous human combustion.

1)  Alcohol of any kind

2)  Energy drinks

3)  Black tea

3)  Soda drinks

5)  Beef, chicken, pork and eggs

6)  Fermented foods like soy sauce

7)  Cheese and other fermented dairy products like cottage cheese, Skim Milk and Yogurt

8)  Corn and corn derivatives like corn syrup that are high in fructose including agave which is 90% fructose

9)  White and brown sugar

10)  Beans and white rice

Sequoyah County: Authorities are attempting to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of 65-year-old Danny Vanzandt after his charred remains were found at his Tulsa home on Monday

Expert: Sheriff Lockhart said the way the victim's body was burned was inconsistent with an accidental fire - such as from a cigarette dropping

Interior: The floor below the 65-year-old was not damaged and there was no sign that any accelerant was used

Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart said: 'This is very bizarre. You’re thinking someone poured something on him, but there was no fire source.

'The body was burned and it was incinerated. I think there is only about 200 cases (of spontaneous combustion) worldwide. I'm not saying this is what it is, but I haven't ruled it out.'

Sheriff Lockhart spent about 20 years as an arson investigator for the Fort Smith, Arkansas Police Department, and said he had never seen anything like it.

The floor below the 65-year-old was not damaged and there was no sign that any accelerant was used.

Authorities said the man had a history of heavy drinking and smoking, according to Tulsa World.

But Lockhart said the way his body was burned was inconsistent with an accidental fire - such as from a cigarette dropping.

Family members said they noticed the back window of the man’s pickup truck was busted out.

An autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death.

Hawaii: Young Sik Kim was found enveloped in blue flames in December 1956. By the time firemen arrived on the scene, Kim and his easy chair were ashes. Strangely enough, nearby curtains and clothing were untouched by fire

The remains of Mrs Mary H Reeser, left, which were largely ashes, were found among the remains of a chair in which she had been sitting, right, and only part of her left foot and her backbone remained, below

Limbs: The remains of Mrs Mary H. Reeser remains after she allegedly spontaneously decombusted

A baffled coroner ruled last year that a man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous human combustion.

Dr Ciaran McLoughlin, the coroner for West Galway in Ireland, said that although Michael Faherty, 76, had been found lying on his back close to a fire in an open fireplace, that blaze had NOT caused his death.

He said a detailed investigation into all other possibilities had offered no other explanation, so he was delivering such a verdict for the first time in his 25 years as a coroner.

In December 1956, Virginia Caget of Honolulu, Hawaii, walked into the room of Young Sik Kim to find him enveloped in blue flames.

By the time firemen arrived on the scene, Kim and his easy chair were ashes but nearby curtains and clothing were untouched by fire, in spite of the fierce heat that would have been necessary to consume a human being.

On July 2, 1951, Mrs Mary Reeser's remains, which were largely ashes, were found among the remains of a chair in which she had been sitting. Only part of her left foot and her backbone remained. 

Plastic household objects at a distance from the seat of the fire were softened and had lost their shapes.

The FBI eventually declared that Reeser had been incinerated by the 'wick effec't. As she was a known user of sleeping pills, they hypothesized that she had fallen unconscious while smoking and set fire to her nightclothes. 

The theory of the wicker effect is that the human body can become an 'inside out' candle.

The person’s clothes are the wick, while their body fat is the wax or flammable substance, that keeps the blaze going. 

Limbs may be left intact because of the temperature gradient, with the bottom half of the body being cooler than the top.

'AN INSIDE OUT CANDLE': HOW THE HUMAN BODY CAN SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST

There have been a number of documented cases where police have found corpses burned almost to ashes but no burned furniture around them.

Temperatures of 3,000 degrees would be required to burn a human body to this extent, yet in these cases only smoke damage is reported.

Puzzled scientists have come up with the ‘wick theory’ to explain such events. The theory is that the human body can become an ‘inside out’ candle.

The person’s clothes are the wick, while their body fat is the wax or flammable substance, that keeps the blaze going. Limbs may be left intact because of the temperature gradient, with the bottom half of the body being cooler than the top.

A grisly aside is that greasy stains left after such an event could be a residue for the person’s body fat.

The combustion would not be ‘spontaneous’ however, because it would need an external source to start it off, such as a cigarette. Some have postulated that static electricity could cause the needed spark.

A body would take around five hours to burn in this way to ashes. Victims are often elderly, sick, or under the influence of an acidic beverage like alcohol, which might explain why they would not have been able to escape.

Charles Dickens provides a very graphic depiction of the death of the shopkeeper Mr Krook by spontaneous combustion in his 1852 novel Bleak House, where the author does away with the alcoholic rag-and-bone man Krook by making him mysteriously burst into flames.

Dickens had done his research: in the 1850s, the main theory used to explain these occurrences was acidic alcohol — that, if you drank enough, it seeped into your skin  and made it possible to catch alight if you brushed past a flame.

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