The first known account of spontaneous human combustion came from the Danish anatomist Thomas Bartholin in 1663, who described how a woman in Paris "went up in ashes and smoke" while she was sleeping. The straw mattress on which she slept was unmarred by the fire. In 1673, a Frenchman named Jonas Dupont published a collection of spontaneous combustion cases in his work "De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis."
The underlining is mine. This seems to be a clue when trying to understand SHC in many cases. If you google images you will see that the immediate surroundings are often just scorched, not burnt as it would be if you ignited firewood.
i find the entire baby burning story fishy. i would request a detailed report on the father who claims to "have lost everything" (?) and "needs" government assistance (money?!).
i couldnt find anything about the effect being witnessed by ppl i would suspect not to be in on it. that the burns r apparent is only proof of the baby having experienced extreme heat (edit: or cold for that matter)
>i would request a detailed report on the father who claims to "have lost everything" (?) and "needs" government assistance (money?!).
I think that means that there is little in the way of free medical care or social security so that the baby needing full time hospital care has taken all their savings.
>i couldnt find anything about the effect being witnessed by ppl i
You might be better Googling for the photographic evidence of other SHC cases.