An incident dated as far back as 17th century wherein a body turns into flame and burns itself into ashes without external source of fire. The strange part is that the clothes, bed, or chair if the body was sitting down, would remain unburnt or just slightly singed while the rest of the body is charred. At least 200 incidents have been recorded and the phenomenon still remain unexplained.
In the late 1950's, a 19-year-old was dancing with her boyfiend in a London disco club when suddenly she went into flames. Witnesses claimed the the fire appeared to be coming from inside of her body. She died on her way to the hospital. Another story in 1964 when a 75-year-old former actress, Olga Stephens, while sitting in her car suddenly burst into flame in front of other people. The car was undamaged. The youngest reported incident was an 11-month-old baby from London in 1939. Soon after the baby was put to bed, a family visitor heard a scream and went running to the nursery wherein he saw the room was on ablaze. The baby died and after the firemen put out the fire, they could not find any source of the fire nor could they explain why the furnitures were not burnt.
Source:
Fire From Heaven: A Study of Spontaneous Combustion in Human Beings by Michael Harrison.
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