SHOW NOTES

This week, we break some news too terrible even for a bat dress, two yummy sandwiches go head to head, Melanie adds to the Quicksand Irrational Fears Hall of Fame and gets aggressive about pancakes.

Content warnings: second trimester loss, grief, funeral planning, death by burning, alcoholism, animal experimentation.

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06 Jul 1951, 12
08 Jun 1805, 3
13 Jan 1819, 2
15 Feb 1828, 1
20 Apr 1822, 2
31 Oct 2019, T6
A fire within
Burn, Baby, Burn: Understanding the Wick Effect
Death of Michael Faherty
'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion
HOT TOPIC Spontaneous human combustion is REAL and burns you ‘like an incendiary bomb’, top scientist claims
Is spontaneous human combustion real?
New light on human torch mystery
Spontaneous combustion in St. Petersburg? The curious case of Mary Reeser.
Spontaneous human combustion
Spontaneous Human Combustion: Facts & Theories
Temperance movement
The Anatomy of Drunkenness