Yeah right!

[staropeace]

Likely story Edmonton guy....what were you up to that you do not want the Edmonton PO-lice to know,eh?
Witnesses tell Edmonton police man spontaneously combusted; investigation underway - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

 

[Lily Sawyer]

What the hell??!!?? He awakened on fire?

As if.

 

[staropeace]

He was probably cooking something that wasn't food.

 

[Kurben]

There is nothing unique about this. There have been many cases where a person have ignited for some, not clear, reason. Some died in the process. Read a fact story about the phenomena some years ago. Fairly common through many years back in time. At home or outside they suddenly just burst into flames. Don't know about this person though.

 

[arista]

C'mon on baby light my fire.

 

[Kurben]

C'mon on baby light my fire.

When? And Where?

 

[staropeace]

Kuren, I read the various stories about people burning this way and I do not believe it for one minute. This guy that caught fire here was probably up to no good. Why was he not phoning from the place he suffered the burns....why was he is a convenience store. I think he was cooking drugs.

 

[Kurben]

Kuren, I read the various stories about people burning this way and I do not believe it for one minute. This guy that caught fire here was probably up to no good. Why was he not phoning from the place he suffered the burns....why was he is a convenience store. I think he was cooking drugs.

I'm not saying he wasn't. Very probably he was. I was just pointing out that the phenomena as such has been known for well over 100 years as reported in various newspapers and alike around the globe concerning very different kind of poeple in very different kind of situations. some or perhaps even most because of the individual. I'm not a believer or whatever you called but neither do i believe that we know everything today. I do believe that in the future scientific discoveries will be made that perhaps can explain, if not this igniting thing then something else. Science is a progressing thing.

 

[staropeace]

When I took psychology we spent one semester studying the paranormal. After all of the things we studied, I am still a skeptic. If the scientific method can prove any of this, I will believe....but, not until then.

 

[Kurben]

When I took psychology we spent one semester studying the paranormal. After all of the things we studied, I am still a skeptic. If the scientific method can prove any of this, I will believe....but, not until then.

Thats the right attitude i think. I don't believe either. Just saying that i'm open minded. I'm open for facts, even if they should point to something we today think is impossible. I only meant that just because it can't be proven now doesn't mean it (whatever it is) can't be proven in the future.

 

[staropeace]

Kurben, I think what really turned me off from believing was the internet...so many phonies. I spent a big part of my life believing in the supernatural but that sorta changed my mind. I really wish I had kept my happy thoughts and believed. It would help with the cancer stuff I am now going through lol.

 

[Kurben]

Kurben, I think what really turned me off from believing was the internet...so many phonies. I spent a big part of my life believing in the supernatural but that sorta changed my mind. I really wish I had kept my happy thoughts and believed. It would help with the cancer stuff I am now going through lol.

Oh, so sorry to hear about it... Yeah you can't trust internet if you're after facts! Never do myself. I go to the book (and often to another book that holds another opinion too) and if they are serious they have sources that you can look at. i mean real studies by scientists or something. And not some article by some sensationjournalist.

 

[staropeace]

I did too many psych abstracts to want to read any more of it lol. I have the cancer thinking under control though....I have great coping skills that way. I think life is interesting on it's own account without the woo-woo....but I would love to believe in vampires...that would be coolios.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...probably was lighting farts under the blankets....it's all fun & games till somebody combusts....

 

[SusanNorton]

Ok, you guys are going to think I'm riding the crazy train, but my purse spontaneously combusted once. True story.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Ok, you guys are going to think I'm riding the crazy train, but my purse spontaneously combusted once. True story.

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[SusanNorton]

I was leaving a doctor's appointment and walking across the lobby to the front door of the building. There were people all around me (I mention this because a friend of mine insisted at the time that it was a hallucination), and they witnessed it as well. My purse was unzipped, and as I was walking to the door, I looked down and began to reach in for my keys. I saw a flame coming out of my purse, which was a small, leather purse that looked like a bladder. I gasped and threw it to the ground. I should mention that there was nothing flammable in the purse. Other people stopped to watch, and the flame grew to about 9" from the top of the purse. I kneeled down and swatted at the purse, and blew on it, and after a few seconds it stopped burning. I shrugged at the other people, and we all kind of laughed, and then I picked up my purse and looked inside - I had my wallet in there, and money, and wanted to see how bad the damage was. Nothing was burnt, or singed, or even hot!

So... I'm not sure that is actually combustion, because nothing was destroyed. But it was odd, to say the least.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I was leaving a doctor's appointment and walking across the lobby to the front door of the building. There were people all around me (I mention this because a friend of mine insisted at the time that it was a hallucination), and they witnessed it as well. My purse was unzipped, and as I was walking to the door, I looked down and began to reach in for my keys. I saw a flame coming out of my purse, which was a small, leather purse that looked like a bladder. I gasped and threw it to the ground. I should mention that there was nothing flammable in the purse. Other people stopped to watch, and the flame grew to about 9" from the top of the purse. I kneeled down and swatted at the purse, and blew on it, and after a few seconds it stopped burning. I shrugged at the other people, and we all kind of laughed, and then I picked up my purse and looked inside - I had my wallet in there, and money, and wanted to see how bad the damage was. Nothing was burnt, or singed, or even hot!

So... I'm not sure that is actually combustion, because nothing was destroyed. But it was odd, to say the least.

Your real name is Charlie McGee. OMG. What did that doctor tell you that upset you enough for your purse to erupt in spontaneous flames??

 

[SutterKane]

Hopefully they run a chemical test or whatever on his skin, this sounds to me like the guy was in a Meth Lab explosion or something. It would explain both the burns and the mental state of the people who told the cops it was a "Supernatural occurrence".

Sorry, I just don't buy people randomly igniting like that anymore then I buy Crop Circle Theories. Either show Proof or it didn't happen IMO