Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reeser
TIL of Mary Reeser, a Florida woman in the 1950s whose death was stated to be caused by spontaneous human combustion. When police found her body, only her skull, her backbone, and her left foot in a slipper survived.
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*Careless smoking
There’s no such thing as spontaneous combustion.
Aaaah, the Wick Effect. Nasty, but not spontaneous combustion.
Rumor has it her left foot is still living somewhere in the Everglades.
South Park did it
https://youtu.be/pvS4MVNgAB4
Leonard Nemoy and In Search Of had a generation convinced.
Wow. Has there ever been an instance where spontaneous combustion affected pets? Now that would be a story for the dog park.
> survived
I don’t think her left foot survived