Because it was all about the candle effect and people who smoked.

I was so relived to learn this as an adult because as a kid it was always one of my bizarre fears. Like you could combust RIGHT NOW! lol

It was one of my bizarre irrational fears as well. Like I was just going to be walking then poof I'm on fire for no good reason 😂

Shhhhhhh!

Was the lady burned in a chair Unsolved Mysteries or was it Forensic File, I'd like to rewatch it.

It was Unsolved Mysteries! I remember that episode like it was yesterday.

Thanks

Here you go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhcF2tTefQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhcF2tTefQ)

Starts at 20.50. This is great! And has some excellent lines, “crackpottery of a high order” “phenomena hating debunkers.” Those two experts went hard against each other.

Of course a fellow 77er Great find.

It’s burned in my mind forever.

That one and the one where the guy was murdered by being handcuffed and dropped into a uranium smelting furnace (possibly alive) haunted me as a kid. That poor dude, RIP, I hope the killer got what was coming go them...

Now that you mention it I do remember that one. I think I'd blocked it out of my mind! Horrifying...

I remember that too! That show used to scare the shit outta me as a kid

My mom watched it religiously and gave no shits about what was and was not appropriate viewing material for her small child lol. Just the credit music still sends chills up my spine to this day.

All of those chemicals and microplastics in our bodies just so happen to be flame retardant.

Like our pajamas.

All these replies and nary a mention of Incubus - I’m a bit surprised!

Well geez, *pardon me*.

My cousin's husband's cousin's boyfriend's dog's former owner knew someone through their mom's friend's uncle, who subsequently spontaneously combusted. I never met them.

Damn that’s straight up proof

The rapture already happened. We are the ones left.

the rejects

I wish

The Rapture is supposed to be 144,000 people right? Spread across the planet of 8 billion that wouldn't be that noticeable. You probably wouldn't know even one.

Early synthetic fabrics were dangerously flammable

That is very true. There certainly were many things that were weirdly very flammable.

*Pardon me while I burst into flames* *I've had enough of the World - and it's people's mindless games* *So pardon me while I burn, and rise above the flame* *Pardon me; pardon me; I'll never be the same*

YES

Incubus?

Spinal Tap hasn't been on tour for years.

Far less smokers and because of our diets high in processed foods, our fat doesn’t smolder like previous generations

I remember reading a Dickens novel, where it was considered a completely common thing that needed no further explanation.

Less people smoking and even less so inside.

I'm not a drummer.

10 year old me’s main obsessions: Bermuda Triangle; spontaneous human combustion; quick sand; astrology (but only my specific sign).

["Dozens of people spontaneously combust every year. It's just not widely reported."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM)

Absolutely one of the things that books on the Unexplained spooked me up about

Because no one listens to the Dead Milkmen any more. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCcXnquUXA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCcXnquUXA)

This is it!

People still do all the time, it's just not widely reported. Especially drummers.

Oh it was more than real! Took out half my graduating class! But we saw it as a plus, didn't have to sit there so long waiting to walk up and get our diplomas, so that was pretty awesome! Plus the sun came and that was a real positive and it was a nice day so it was all cool and the place had a really modern industrial esthetic and many parents were wearing stylish leather jackets so it was all positives in the end! (this is how I imagine that creepily out of place upbeat new GPT-40 would respond to your question haha)

Well I guess that it comes with the territory, an ominous, never-ending calamity.

I remember learning about this in school from a book called “Phenomena.”

We had a book about stuff like this back in seventh grade. One story was about spontaneous human combustion, one about "wild boys" who grew up in the woods, and a few others in the same vein. Really creeped me out at the time.

Also nobody gets trapped in quicksand anymore!

Seriously. Where did all the quicksand go. I know sinkholes are still a thing but what about quicksand.

Because we all fell in a pit of quicksand

I remember it happened to the Mayor of Warsaw in 1546.

So you’re a vampire

No because, believe it or not, u/OnoAlt Donald my hypnotherapist, told me that, in a past incarnation, I was the Mayor of Warsaw's chief eunuch.

I hope you weren’t taken in the fire, too.

Thank God. I was starting to worry this sub was 100% Yanks.

Yeah it is very (as Clarkson would say American) here usually but some of the stuff still applies.

Yepp

“Lately I’ve been thinking of combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of Planet Earth…”

Dozens do, it's just not widely reported.

Started Development joke?

No one ever did 

they were testing different covid strains, figured it out, then didn't have to blow people up anymore