“Four feet distance from the bed there was a heap of ashes, two legs untouch’d, from the foot to the knee, with their stockings on,” wrote Paul Rolli, a fellow of the British Royal Society, describing ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.

Scientifically speaking, spontaneous combustion is a real phenomenon, and not just a plot device in novels. CREDIT: Jose A. Bernat Bacete via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) is one of the most disturbing and mysterious phenomena in modern history. How can a person suddenly burst into flames without an external source? In this video, I ...

ELK, Wash. - It's been known since September that the Oregon Road Fire was human caused, but Wednesday, The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed that "spontaneous combustion" was also part ...