On December 22nd, 2010, a man named Michael Faherty was found in his home nearly burned to ash. Nothing else around him had been touched by the fire, however. The official coroners report read: Spontaneous Human Combustion

But what is SHC, and why does it happen? Let’s take a morbid little tour through history

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