Did an Indian baby spontaneously combust 4 times? I was just reading the "news". There's a story going around about a baby in India who has spontaneously combusted 4 times. The story has turned up in numerous "news" sites around the globe. > "A THREE-MONTH-OLD boy has reportedly burst into flames four times during his young life as doctors order tests to work out if it is due to his sweat." Previously, skeptics has debunked spontaneous combustion, but the story specifically says > "His mother... rushed him to hospital in disbelief, after watching her son burst into flames _without any source of combustion in the vicinity_ " (emphasis added) Is this real or a hoax?

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> Spontaneous human combustion is a phenonmenon that has no plausibility — no scientific evidence whatsoever showing that anything like this actually exists in nature.
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> The only other plausible theory is that there is some form of child abuse going on here unless there was just some source of flame in the house near the crib or something that they weren't aware of.