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MOTORIST Joe CLEWER started worry in his rural neighborhood - when hebegan to keep paths of fires and scorchmarks wherever he walked.The Confusing Burning Personis comb with the difficult happened in June 2005, and was chronicled by Television news teams and countless witnesses. Surprised researchers in the University of New South Wales unearthed that Joe was producing 30,000 volts of static electricity: a cost effective enough to soften synthetic rugs. But somehow he survived the mystical"ínner fire" without the slightest lesion on his epidermis - the only visible evidence of the colossal voltage he'd carried being a charred hole in the knee of his jeans.Many media outlets handled the Clewer situation as an one-off event. But SHC [Spontaneous Human Combustion] has been strangely happening for significantly more than 2000 years,with among the earliest documented events dated 52 BC.In this excellent guide, best-selling author and reporter John Pinkney explains the mystical background of the' fires from heaven" -a phenomenon which obsessed even Charles Dickens, who explained it in his novel Bleak House.Pinkney also provides a new assortment of some of the most tantalizing cases that he has investigated during a lifetime's study:UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCES, from the enigma of the vanishing heiress to the saga of the 'jinxed' ship, which disappeared with 130 people aboard.