Unsolved Mysteries: The Spontaneous Combustion of Mary Reeser

La combustión espontánea en humanos es un fenómeno hipotético que no se ha demostrado empíricamente. Pero, ¿podría ser la única explicación para los casos de fallecidos en incendios repentinos?

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+ landlady: casera + to deliver: entregar + tenant: inquilina + doorknob: pomo de la puerta + burnt: quemados + as was: al igual que lo estaba + evidence: evidencia + whatsoever: de ningún tipo + to disagree: estar en desacuerdo + to fall asleep: dormirse + to set fire: prender fuego + lit: encendido + to muder: asesinar + equipment: equipamiento + to heat up: calentar + to fabricate: falsear + to burst into flames: estallar en llamas + wheter...or...: si...o...

It was July 2nd, 1951 in St. Petersburg, Florida, when Mary Reeser’s landlady + landlady: casera discovered that something was very wrong. The landlady, Pansy Carpenter, wanted to deliver + to deliver: entregar a telegram to her sixty-seven-year-old tenant + tenant: inquilina , but when she touched the doorknob + doorknob: pomo de la puerta on the door to Mary’s apartment, it was hot. Alarmed, Pansy called the police, and when the police arrived they discovered the burnt + burnt: quemados remains of Mary’s body inside her apartment.

What was mysterious in this case was that almost all of Mary’s body was carbonized, as was + as was: al igual que lo estaba the chair that she had been sitting on, but nothing else in the apartment was burnt. There was no other evidence + evidence: evidencia of a fire whatsoever + whatsoever: de ningún tipo . So, what had happened to poor Mary? Authorities disagreed + to disagree: estar en desacuerdo on this point.

On examining the evidence, the FBI hypothesized that Mary, who had been a smoker and been taking sleeping pills, had fallen asleep + to fall asleep: dormirse while smoking and set fire + to set fire: prender fuego to her clothes with a lit + lit: encendido cigarette. However, professor Wilton M. Krogman, a physical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, contested this theory. He later hypothesized that Mary had been murdered + to muder: asesinar at another location, then burnt in a crematorium, before being transferred to her apartment, where the murderer had used special equipment + equipment: equipamiento to heat up + to heat up: calentar the doorknob and fabricated + to fabricate: falsear the scene.

Today, many believe that Mary was a victim of spontaneous human combustion, a phenomenon in which a person spontaneously bursts into flames + to burst into flames: estallar en llamas , without any apparent external source of ignition. However, scientists contest that spontaneous human combustion is truly possible, so we still don’t know what really happened to Mary Reeser, whether + wheter...or...: si...o... she was murdered or died from natural or supernatural causes. Perhaps we never will.

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