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From: tab@vax135.UUCP (Tracey Baker)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion and people!
Message-ID: <1262@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 15:14:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 15:14:16 1986
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>From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
>Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion and people!
>
>Just so the original poster doesn't think he/she is crazy...  Yes, I
>have heard of it too.  I saw an "In Search Of ..." show on it a few
>years ago.  There were no conclusions reached except that some people,
>they claimed, had been found burned while nothing around them was,
>etc...  No, I don't really buy it (the idea being that something
>internal to the body generated enough heat to ignite part of the body)
>but there are lots of things I can't explain.
>-- 
>Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center    {decvax,seismo,cbosgd}!decuac!avolio
>
	It does seem strange that something in the body could (supposedly)
generate that much heat, but I have heard of other examples of
spontaneous combustion that sound just as strange.  The most promenant
in my mind is something that was drilled into my head on horse farms:
When new bales of hay arrived at the barn, a thermometer was inserted
into the middle of each bale.  Apparently, if the hay was not cured
properly, the temperature in the middle of the bale could get
high enough to set the hay on fire.  This sounds pretty strange too,
but it does happen.


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