Man Spontaneously Combusts - And Lives To Tell About It

[Initech]

Frank Baker faced death while earning two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, but the scariest moment of his life came in June 1995.

Baker was in his home in Vermont, when he suddenly burst into flames, an experience he discusses for the first time on "The Unexplained Files," airing Oct. 2 on the Science Channel.

"We were getting ready for fishing and sitting on the couch," Baker said on the episode. "Everything was great. [Friend] Pete [Willey] was sitting next to me [and] we were having a helluva time."

That is, until things started heating up -- literally -- when flames appeared on Baker's body.

"It was the damndest thing I've ever seen," Willey remembered. "Frank was freaking out and making me freak out."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/frank-baker-spontaneous-combustion_n_4024833.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Was he drinking?

Serious question.

[dimbear]

2. There's a longstanding association between alcoholism and spontaneous combustion.

It gives the whole thing a certain suspicion of possibility. Still not buying it, but there you go.

Most cases are probably caused by burning adipocere. Yucky.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. That's what i seem to remember reading, too.

I mean, it does make a certain amount of sense, if the BAC is high enough. I guess.