In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss cases and origin of Spontaneous Human Combustion.

We will begin way back in the 1400's discussing an origin and then in the 1700's a case that would bring a poet to coin the actual term Spontaneous Human Combustion.

Then we will get into 3 cases, Mathilda Rooney of 1885 in Illinois, Mary Hardy Reeser case in 1951 Florida, and then a case in Ireland in 2010 of Michael Faherty.

Decide for youself what you think about SHC!!

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References for this Episode:

https://www.livescience.com/16215-spontaneous-human-combustion-real.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/irishman-died-spontaneous-human-combustion-coroner-claims-flna1c6437165

https://irishmysteries.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-case-of-michael-faherty.html

https://vocal.media/criminal/the-bewildering-christmas-human-combustion-of-matilda-rooney

https://www.britannica.com/story/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/10/17/spontaneous-combustion-in-st-petersburg-the-curious-case-of-mary-reeser/

Irish Independent News: Friday September 23, 2011; Brian McDonald-"Man died from spontaneous combustion, inquest finds"

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/the-death-of-mary-reeser/802/

https://thedeadhistory.com/2020/08/13/mary-reeser/

**Numerous other articles from Newspapers.com--

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

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