Fire Inside: Strange Cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion

[@GraemeKent]

I once went to the hospital with a kidney stone midway through watching the Parks and Rec episode about a kidney stone, really hope the same thing doesn't happen again here

[@ethanrabbitts9906]

Just checking in dude, you didn't burn alive did you?

[@camerabox1]

@@ethanrabbitts9906dude hasn't responded, he absolutely went up in flames. R I P

[@MikkaKang]

I'm so glad I found your channel via your trumpet skeleton video being recommended to me! I've been binging almost all of your videos and I've enjoyed every single one of them. The production quality is insane and the humour hits me just right. Keep making great content!

[@redwiltshire1816]

Check out 10 tapes if you haven’t you won’t be disappointed

[@VictorSantos-gs3rk]

Same. Hope you grow and we get to see more of you

[@littlemissmisses2981]

Same!

[@apotatoflewaround3085]

I've been watching this guys' videos for 3 days straight,,, im not getting bored

[@ButtsiesVinegrette]

Same here!! These videos have brought me such joy. I’m so excited to watch this channel grow

[@korvaenaamah187]

I can completely relate.. I have an encyclopedia of unexplained phenomenon and I was reading the chapter on Spontaneous Human Combustion when my daughter had a fever. I spent all night awake, convinced that she was going to combust at any moment if I took my eyes off her.

[@Mayo_Nayoo]

you can relate? but you didn't combust?

[@WetOwl]

​@@Mayo_Nayoo I think he relates to Jeffiots anxiety on thinking worst case scenarios on stuff

[@arcanealchemist3190]

great video. all respect to Rahul, someone in his family wanted him gone. that is the simplest possible explanation for anyone catching fire multiple times. assuming they're not doing it themselves, which he obviously wasn't

[@5h4d0w5l1f3]

Unless theyre unknowingly ingesting something which happens to make them more flammable, like ether as another person pointed out

[@Dragonveign]

Rahul had an older brother who also caught fire, Sanjay, he died of vommitting, the family was ousted from the village they lived in for the incident, the local authorities believe she lit them on fire due to Munchausen by proxy

[@TakeWalker]

add this to those lists of things like quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle that we thought as children were going to be much more relevant in the adult world than they actually are

[@caseymckenna7111]

I often think of Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger running through the “happy premises” agreed upon by he and his therapist, including “even though I feel like I might ignite, I probably won’t.” This says to me that there has been much discussion between he and his therapist about this particular topic and the best they could settle on, which feels accurate because that’s pretty much as close as any of us can get.

[@YakovTow]

you know, all the cases that you described are very similar to the consequences of using ether. People who have been using ether for a long time (now it is quite unpopular, but it is extremely easy to make or get it) can become quite flammable and literally burn out!! And they also smell very sweet:3 at least until the moment when they burn down

[@visasha]

:3

[@oriharaizaya8623]

Where can I find more information about that? I've heard that it has something to do with ether before and I want to know more about it

[@kaaaputnik]

For the Robert Bailey case - have you ever heard of the short film Six Shooter with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson? There's a part of it where they talk about a particularly gassy cow, and actually the fact it's from a film isn't relevant at all, my point is: to deal with cows that have trapped wind, and prevent them from literally blowing up, farmers have to vent the gas by poking a hole in the side of the cow, to release the methane. And since methane is flammable, they'll usually ignite the end where the methane is coming out, just to have a visual indicator. The flame from this is blue. I have no idea how, logistically, this guy would've got a hole in his abdomen, or then gotten a flame near it, but all I can imagine from the way there's specifically a hole with one source of flame in this story is that Mr Bailey had some sort of Six Shooter flaming methane vent incident...?

[@babbittybabbitt]

Certain problems in the bowels, etc. can cause fistulas (holes) in the abdomen that go from the organ to the outside, so it seems possible that he had a fistula, gasses were escaping through it and were ignited somehow. Though you'd think they'd notice that lol

[@eliasseverholt4308]

Just stumbled upon this channel today and I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed it only had 2k subs. Definitely quality content! You'll be big in no time.

[@jeffiot]

Hey, i appreciate it! Hoping to grow to make this channel a feasible thing to spend so much time on, so your comment and subscription etc really helps the algorithm and me :)

[@Blakbox92]

I gotta say, your style of video editing is some of the funniest I've seen on KZbin, the choice of having the maid be from a Maid Cafe and the countess turn into a flat cutout had me laughing so hard.

[@nicolechen9316]

She’s so wide and also on perspective 😭

[@tmnaaz4021]

Related to your opening rant. Have that same kind of anxiety, especially in big groups of people. Lucky your therapist keeps going cause the longest I’ve lasted with one is like 2 months lol. Great video as usual! Keep it up! :)

[@jonnyreverb]

I first heard about SHC as a kid from my parents who told me that it was more likely to happen if I thought about it. They later recanted, but you can never tell if it is to stop my anxiety attacks or because they really made it up.

[@lillep777]

I originally was recommended your video on the final destination series and have binged your entire channel over the last while. I'm so glad to see that you are getting the traction you deserve.

[@natfranklin]

Just here for the Horse content :) The plane anxiety is real tho, I live /near/ an airport so they fly over really loudly and every time my brain is immediately like "that's definitely about to crash here"

[@jeffiot]

Oh yeah I live very close to an airport too, which is why I used that example. Every 7 min or so there's a loud plane

[@Max_G4]

My thoughts were always that it might be a jet dropping a bomb - right here

[@Shoob-k5u]

7:16 the clothes catch fire and melt the body fat. It’s called the wick effect. Her body essentially became a big candle, burning itself down to nothing. And iirc she took some sleeping pills?

[@datguyuno98]

The fact that this channel isn't at least at 250k subs is insane for the amount of production and level of quality of these videos. Keep at it Jeff, you're gonna go far

[@lucyalvey2770]

the most anxiety inducing thing in this video is the way you hold that mug with the board in the same hand. I keep thinking it's about to fall

[@Fa1cono]

if I die, this is how I want to go

[@countlessgifts]

Im over halfway through all the videos on this channel (forgive me if I skip the scary ones it's 1am) and I just realized you're the "10 tapes" guy. It certainly explains how your production quality is so high for someone who just start and why your acting is so dang good. I'm only saying cause I think it's funny and I know comments are helpful

[@WidespreadKnown]

Methane burns blue so if that detail is consistent with all/most cases then it might have to do with high concentrations of methane in the body and some sort of spark to ignite the methane.

[@leonadragonheart]

i remember being in elementary school and walking around the yard thinking how i could burst into flames any second. glad im not the only one

[@febinthomas1133]

I am kind of late to this video but it was awesome! For a channel still at the starting stage, your videos are so entertaining that it feels like you have a lot of prior experience. I really hope your channel blows up :)

[@JonéeLillard]

2:56 "Mistress" is also the feminine for "master" so it would have been useful here.

[@AugustRx]

that's miss. it's not a shortened form.

[@T.BG822]

Bailey didn't "drink a lot of alcohol": it's surmised he drank methylated spirits. Literal fuel, sometimes consumed by poor/homeless drunks, which can light with a blue flame.

[@oneofthoseyoutubeusers]

12:25 - 12:44 love this whole scene the deadpan 'Are you an idiot?' is so good

[@Lampe2020]

The phenomenon is even more perplexing because living human beings are usually ~70% water, which is strictly non-combustible and has a strong cooling effect when boiling off, making sustaining fire hard when water is involved.

[@yeeyeeuni]

I literally have the same "Something horrible will just happen" anxiety and when I learned about spontaneous human combustion it haunted me and still does

[@nicolechen9316]

I can’t describe the way your videos tickle my brain

[@PlatoonGoon]

my vision is now mostly back in my eye, still recovering still listening/watching. Oh, and I subbed. Cheers bud.

[@Parzivle]

I’ve been eating up your videos for days and I only just now find out you made 10 tapes? That’s fuckin wild man i really enjoyed all the hard work that went into making such a pleasantly difficult and rewarding experience

[@FalllenLove]

@11:10 Ridiculously natural, from the flow, i was going to give it to you that you were there at the inception of that meme.

[@aiden.e.f]

just want to say i’m so glad i found your channel! i’m a big ARG fan so i found your project “10 tapes” thru Night Mind, but i’m also a video essay / commentary fan. and you really kill it in both artistic spaces! cant wait to binge more of your already posted vids and see new stuff over the next year 💗

[@TheHuntermj]

I have a few theories on SHC, loss of blood flow to adipose tissue could cause a rotting of portions of body fat that could break down into low moisture, highly flammable fat and gasses. This could seep through the skin and create a "candle" style burn.

[@Gremlin_Boi_]

0:58 for me its "i wonder what it would be like if the plane just crashed into the house" "what if i just explode one day???"

[@narlie2974]

this video is so good!! i just got it recommended to me and i instantly subscibed i gotta put out the fire coming out of my abdomen now

[@yvaincallipso84]

I've always wondered about this horrifying concept

[@katrijndc5718]

okay, so I have a theory about this. (well at least about the older cases) So i watched like this documentary about like dangers in Victorian England. And they said that like one of the first types of plastic made was very flammable ( I think tabletennis balls were still made from this?) But people wore like clothes made of this type of plastic and there are like stories of dresses catching on fire and all and burning entirely. So yeah my theory is flammable clothing in the Victorian era

[@katrijndc5718]

Also I haven't researched any of this btw so I might be totally wrong

[@Lucy_Ford]

That's like a pretty reasonable theory like, I bet in at least a couple cases like from that time like you might be right. But because like you use "like" so often people reading your comment might like not take it serious or like give your theory any consideration.

[@phoxic6756]

If i do SHC I'll come and haunt you in Ghost Guys - Episode "which ever you're up to at that point"

[@Annafyz]

Update 2024. There has been another case, in Russia, where I live. It happened on the night of January 8 in Moscow, in the apartment of one of the houses on Shokalskogo proezd. A guy woke up from a terrible scream in his apartment and saw his wife, engulfed in flames, running down the corridor. Terrified, the man threw a blanket over her, put her out and quickly called an ambulance. By then the woman was already unconscious. The victim was urgently hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute with burns to 65 percent of her body. The woman could not be saved: she died without regaining consciousness.

[@Midorikonokami]

Oh lordy I laughed so hard at the floating thumb and then didn't stop!

[@koshercub]

Subtle AJJ reference with the Conair line. Nice.

[@redwiltshire1816]

Spontaneous combustion puts a whole new meaning to “going out with a bang” But In all seriousness my personal theory would be some sort of gas buildup either from breathing in gases from the environment and combustion inside the body or gastric pressure that somehow doesn’t erupt the organs and creates an explosion that ingulfs the body

[@mayamacisaac]

this video showed up in my recommendations at like 700 something views and i just wanted to say great job i enjoyed it a lot :) keep up the great content!

[@BigChungo420]

the countess and the maid "prayed for 3 hours"? is that what they called it lol

[@Chouhesi]

*laughs politely* Amazing editing effort for all the backgrounds. How much masking did you do just to move yourself up the stairs at 3:03 ?

[@jeffiot]

had to separate the railing to be able to put myself behind it. when needing the effects to look 100% photo real there's no shortcuts.

[@latetunnel8892]

Thumb got me. Thankfully there's a ton more content to consume on this channel since I found it. Great stuff. Edit: Scratch that. Entire video is hilarious. Great stuff.

[@KewlKat626]

I too learned about SHC as a small child and it haunts me to this day. This video brought me no comfort but I guess it's nice to know I'm not alone 👍

[@Disaster_Circus]

I swear to God, at the end of this video I burped and smoke came out and I immediately started panicking until I realized I took my nighttime vitamins 10 minutes ago and what actually happened was I had a little mini puke and some of the powder from the likely broken or dissolved capsule came out.

[@chaosco6462]

That;s gross and funny asf

[@GPReeds]

This is incredibly interesting. I've always slightly feared this phenomenon.

[@zshnippeh]

i am so glad you followed the international law of having to say "ooh biiig stretch" whenever your pet does a big stretch

[@FalllenLove]

@6:34 Im assuming there was no way she was pregnant? Or perhaps some extra anomolous action of another calcified baby? And that was the skull found?

[@TopTierDopamine]

Bless you Jeffiot Infinity.

[@tay-lore]

As someone who once caught their bed on fire while sleeping in it, that Cornelia Zangheti Bandi story makes perfect sense

[@misadate8688]

lmao, the thought about airplane crashing in to my house is so relatable, literally everytime i hear airplane flying over i think of that

[@SimonSnoww]

Came here from the trumpet skeleton video and now Im suscribed, your humor and all of your videos are so funny, i love them ❤

[@AllCloudsAreBunnies]

I don’t know if it says something about me that I’ve recognized pretty much every single song that you used in this from their original SNES game… I’m old! and also I really like super Nintendo 😂

[@AnAnxiousTurnip]

I love your tangents and the fact that I can keep up while being entertained is superb! Looking forward to future videos and eventually joining the patreon

[@caustic1611]

"Curious" is right!! I don't need another type of sudden death to have anxiety about, so I'm just going to neatly file this information in the back of my brain 😂

[@guaranteedtopwn]

I burst into flames while watching this video literally every minute

[@catcube-v4f]

Great video! I really like the twin peaks reference!

[@RedTail1-1]

I also found out about SHC from a book. I was pretty dang young too. Young enough that I had an irrational fear of bursting into flames at any moment for any reason, which lasted for YYYEEEAAAARRRSSS until I was like 20 something and read a bunch of new and plausible theories that I agreed with and I stopped worrying.

[@RedTail1-1]

The end of the video... Thank you SO MUCH!! Anxiety back and stronger than ever. I’ll never leave the house again.

[@Distrustfulness]

I'm always think about the worst case scenario and knowing that it can't get worse than that

[@FilmmakerReactions]

One fascinating subject. I have read about even older cases, from the Roman empire and before.

[@Loop42]

Det fascinerar verkligen mig att du inte har mer subscribers (än), jag har helt bingeat hela din kanal, fuckin älskar din stil (och din musche).

[@newted333]

this channel bout to blow up i can feel it

[@thepaperbrickroad]

but in a good way 😂 thisisfinefire

[@ExistenceUniversity]

You got a like for describing what that airplane I hear daily--and which obviously narrowly misses me--is doing.

[@newdawn8477]

That book sounds like an old Readers Digest book they came out with around the early 90s, it covered a bunch of unsolved mysteries and UFO stories.

[@a-little-sunshine]

I've always been interested in this topic! This was a fun watch :D

[@GrassAndSpiderwebs]

I have no idea if it was the same book but I distinctly remember also getting really scared of bursting into flames at any moment after reading one of those kinds of books. The book was "The World's Greatest Mysteries" by Nigel Blundell.

[@cuvpake]

I remember as a kid reading those articles about spontaneous human evaporation and combustion and being so scared, thinking that this shiz could one day happen to me Glad someone else has more or less the same fascination about the subject

[@Halfendymion]

Now wait wait, spontaneous human _evaporation?_ Like they just turn into a puff of steam?

[@niaaaa764]

Omg! Spontaneous combustion is an irrational fear of mine too!

[@djadj_]

great video, it really made me feel warm inside :) ow

[@pa1ntsniffer207]

amazing video and great editing

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

As long as you don't feel bored and heavy, but if you do... you know what that means!

[@Lozinlimbo]

Wow, well that's terrifying! :D

[@brenmacdonald9189]

Joe Scott has an excellent video on spontaneous human combustion. In it he offers an explanation for the cause, if anyone’s going around paranoid about suddenly bursting into flames spontaneously.

[@brenmacdonald9189]

Won’t spoil the fun for anyone who doesn’t want it spoiled

[@kizl666]

Dude your channel rocks. Thanks for the upload!

[@jeffiot]

Thanks for watching!!

[@Blakbox92]

6:00 clearly her head shrunk and then, in a panic, she tried to heat up her head so it would expand, causing the fire! Mystery solved.

[@coversconojeras5626]

GG. ver Good Guess

[@hieithefox]

The best explanation we have for spontaneous human combustion is the wick effect myth busters even did an episode about it and did an experiment

[@amsie02]

when I found out about this as a kid I thought it was common and could happen to anyone at any time😭terrifying

[@priestachristopher3461]

This is the first video of yours that I watched and I enjoy it, subbed.🤗

[@jeffiot]

Glad to have you, welcome!

[@constructionbird]

i love that you have triangle of sadness represent the bermuda tiangle

[@JeevesPeabodyPOGO]

Yes, it did sound natural when you said homeboy and the addition of it in thar sentence made the whole thing funnier. Also, this video is extremely funny so thank you for that. 👍 Fantastic stuff. Also, I didn't know you edited for Disrupt. I've watched them for a long time. Bad luck about one of the creators, they do still make great content after that guy left though.

[@TheGrinningViking]

The secret Ingredient where smoking is involved is polyester. If there's a fireplace or drinking or whatever - no polyester needed. 👍🏻

[@nosidenoside2458]

1: she was a vampire or the maid killed her 2: unlucky with cigarette flame 3: he eated strong alcohols and maybe acids, and the alcohol decomposed and burst into flame. For 3 i think instead of like whiskey, it was more like a different, stronger alcohol traditionally considered inedible. For example submarine sailors used to drink torpedo fuel. Stuff like that, that is primarily used as a fuel, or maybe as like paint remover

[@TheSmollestoftheBois]

Spontaneous Human Combustion is scary but also stone man syndrome and tree man syndrome is too and honestly I'd rather spontaneously combust than have those

[@tehdrumerer3]

I need this aesthetic as heck shirt

[@ashtray0belief]

Istg, I must have read the exact same book as a child. In a translation to my mother tongue, in any case - I learned about those three things through some random book that I can't even recall the name of anymore, and spontaneous human combustion literally lives rent free in my head from that day forward. 9:04 "Jesus, and I can't stress this enough, Christ." Thank you for sharing your anxiety with me, sir. 2024's first gift to me was discovering your content.

[@Lucas-qo5go]

I was so scared of this when I was kid. A kid in the neighborhood told me about it and I cried to my mom worrying I would catch on fire

[@fairucku]

Hello This is Peter's Mom I found this video on his computer and some horrid smelling ash and some hands and feet!?!? please explain sir where is my son or I will call my lawyer thank you Sarah

[@balsdown]

I normally don't give my life story in comments, but I feel this is applicable. So when I was 4, my father fell asleep drunk with a lit cigarette. He caught on fire and ended up with 3rd degree burns on 30% of his body. Now, my mom didn't know how to explain to me what had happened, so she just said "it just happens sometimes". That was all fine and dandy until I was watching a show as a kid that went over weird phenomenon and one of them was SHC. I'm sure you can imagine my conclusion. For YEARS I was terrified of SHC. Like, paranoia levels of terrified. I was convinced if I slept, it would happen and that led to me sleeping in my mom's bed because I thought that if I was next to her, she could stop the flames if they started. I even slept in the tub sometimes so I could just turn the shower on if it happened. Eventually I learned the truth of the situation but yeah. Moral of the story is don't smoke cigarettes when you're drunk and don't let seven year olds watch weird tv.

[@RoboChemist]

Congrats on the JazzSkeleton video blowing up!!

[@henrydalton-j5l]

what I get from his words is that the flame was lit with alcohol as fuel leading me to think that some other cause was what lit the initial spark as a fire needs oxygen fuel and heat, commonly this heat is derived from friction however it is my belief that the heat from the stomach acid must have been mixed with some friction from some other foods and oxygen that somehow got inside his stomach, most likely through drinking alcohol that would bring oxygen bubbles through with it and eventually was enough to cause a fire resulting in smoke being made and rupturing through his stomach and also choking him on its fumes. The blueness of the flames could be explained by some minerals in the food he ate that could change its colour. I must say that I have barely any idea what I am talking about but I'm just using what I remember from science classes.

[@henrydalton-j5l]

WAIT THE FALLING OFF OF THE LIMBS CAN BE EXPLAINED MY AN EXPLOSION AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE MOSTLY IN TACT (except the tiny heads)

[@henrydalton-j5l]

I cannot explain the lack of burning of nearby objects tho

[@deadrunable]

Watching all the way to the end was worth it! XD

[@BierBart12]

Being suddenly turned into a pile of ashes actually seems like one of the more pleasant, less painful for you and everyone else ways to go It also feels like some teleporting being popped in and zapped the hell out of someone with a cartoonish energy blaster that only destroys organic matter. It really makes no sense from any scientific angle. Who knows, maybe these were all people that would've affected the future in some negative way and a time traveler had to take em out with some futuristic weapon lol

[@UNTHESUNTHESUNTHES]

9:23 6 foot square is a meter AND a half, not half a meter, 1 foot = 30 cm

[@DominionMobile]

In your "pictures" you show a fake pile of ashes, but if you show the actual picture of the scene, there are some famous ones, it makes it obvious that the person was siting, or whatever, and the center of them was consumed by the fire. So by not showing that you can make it seem that they just burst into flames or something, which they didn't. They just burned like a candle.

[@Parzivle]

Man I had a book just like that when I was a kid by some guy called Charles berlitz and I remember one of the stories was of a guy tripping on acid and bilocating and eating lunch with a friend at the same time and it wasn’t until the afterward of the book that he revealed it was him.

[@joraxsway2591]

Homeboy sounded natural to me. Also caught me off guard lol, a pleasant surprise

[@earth88_]

I was gonna be there for the premiere but it was 1am so I decided to sleep instead lol