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Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Matt Mills
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10th May 2021
Stories of spontaneous human combustion have been retold since the 1920s, but do those retellings reflect the truth?
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19th April 2021
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From the archives: Korean fan death, the curiously-local mass killer
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The Mystery of Hellfire Pass: Part One
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12th July 2005
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