Come Play With Us: A Spooky Storytelling Podcast

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Leila and Ruby Episode 35

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Today, Leila talks about spontaneous human combustion, a mysterious ailment that causes a person to burst into flames. Listen to anecdotes throughout history and the possible reasons spontaneous human combustion can happen.

Other media mentioned in the episode: 

  • Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens published in 1852.
  • Long Legs, a horror film directed by Oz Perkins and released in 2024
  • The Fourth Kind, a fake documentary about alien abduction released in 2009