spontaneous human combustion at around 8:00 a. m. on July 2nd 1951 a woman named pansy Carpenter received a telegram it was addressed to one of her tenants a 67-year-old woman named Mary Hardy reer she went to reeser's apartment to deliver the telegram but despite calling out to her multiple times pansy didn't receive any response she tried to open the door but the door knob Teresa's apartment was uncomfortably hot to the touch unsure of what to do next pansy called the police after arriving on the scene officers opened the door by force however what they saw behind that door would haunt them for the rest of their lives reer was gone in her place was a pile of Ashes scattered across the floor upon closer inspection officers found part of her left foot still wearing a slipper along with fragments of her backbone even more bizarrely later reports mentioned that her skull had shrunk to the size of a teacup what made the discovery even stranger was the condition of the apartment the fire that had consumed reeser's body was confined to a shockingly small area the surrounding Furniture remained untouched in his report St Petersburg Police Chief Jr reer stated we request any information or theories that could explain how a human body could be so destroyed and the fire confined to such a small area and so little Damage Done to the structure of the building and the furniture in the room not even scorched or damaged by smoke Reser's death became one of the most infamous cases of what is now referred to as spontaneous human combustion this phenomenon describes cases where people seemingly ignite and burn to ashes without any external fuel source leaving behind only a few remains like a leg or a hand a similar thing happened to physician John Irving Bentley in 1966 where the only thing left of him was the lower part of his right leg and the rest was burned to ashes later in 1979 another case made headlines a 51-year-old woman named beatric oi suffered from the same Fate on Thanksgiving in a village in Bowling Brook Illinois and as absurd as the concept of humans unexplainably Catching Fire sounds it's definitely not a hoax or Legend one of the earliest documented cases of spontaneous human combustion was recorded in 1746 when Paul relly wrote about the mysterious death of CEST Cornelia zangari Bondi since then dozens of similar incidents have been reported across the world one of the recent examples of this phenomenon was in sequa County Oklahoma in 2013 the cause of this house fire is still undetermined where they found a man dead inside his home but the sheriff says he isn't ruling out spontaneous human combustion as one of those causes investigators say they found a man dead from a fire lying on the kitchen floor but the sheriff says there were only reports of smoke coming from the house fire investigators who have years of experience say they've never heard or seen anything like this before I really would like to see the corners report on this one after they after it goes to the State Crime Lab so uh what's going on how could a human body that's around 60% water go up in flames of course some theories lean into the bizarre claiming phenomenon like Poltergeist activity lightning strikes or even unexplained Cosmic forces there's even speculation about a mysterious subatomic particle called a pyron that allegedly ignites human bodies but these ideas are for the most part easily dismissable the people making these claims don't have any real evidence to back them up that said we can get some idea of what's going on after taking a closer look at all of the reported cases and after sifting through most of them I noticed some similarities between the victims notably many of them were elderly and on the heavier side when it came to weight had an unhealthy drinking or smoking problem and a potential source of fire was nearby like a burning stove or fireplace researchers have noticed these similarities as well and have proposed the wick effect Theory to understand this Theory think of how a candle works when we light the wick on fire it uses the whack surrounding it as fuel to burn for an extremely long time so according to the WIC effect Theory something like this must have happened the fire likely started from an external Source like a lit cigarette or a spark from the fireplace igniting the victim's clothes the person was either passed out from drinking or was too weak to immediately put the fire out or before the clothes could burn off the fat stored in their bodies started acting like the wax in a candle making them burn until there was nothing left this would also explain the bizarre burning pattern where the Torso is completely incinerated and the legs are left behind since we carry most of our fat content in our abdominal region and very little in our legs unfortunately experiments performed to prove this Theory haven't been very successful for instance back in 2016 BBC decided to recreate the conditions of the wick effect with a pig carcass and while its body was completely roasted it didn't disintegrate into Ash like the many cases of human combustion that's simply because the fire fuel by fat tissue doesn't have the temperature required for what's essentially cremation back in 2012 biologist Brian J Ford tried to explain the high temperature requirements in his 2012 paper titled solving the mystery of spontaneous human combustion according to Brian factors like alcoholism or low carb dieting produce acetone in our bodies which is the same chemical found in paint thinner now acetone is extremely flammable and can easily reach temperatures that would turn a person into nothing but Ash Brian also created small puppets out of pig meat coated them with acetone and lit them on fire the puppets burned for about 30 minutes and left only the legs intact just like with the human cases but if Brian's theory is correct it still doesn't explain why spontaneous human combustion is so rare if all it 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m. the rider truck exploded with the force of 5,000 lb of TNT within moments the surrounding area looked like a war zone a third of the building had been reduced to Rubble with many floors completely flattened dozens of cars were incinerated on the spot and more than 300 nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed the momentary damage was estimated to be over $650 million but the human toll was far worse the explosion claimed the lives of 168 people including 19 children around 700 people were also injured in the initial detonation and the resulting collapse of the building it wasn't long before the FBI was on the scene and looking for Clues to find the suspect which didn't take long on April 20 investigators found the rear axle of the rider truck that single piece of evidence carried a vehicle identification number leading them to a body shop in Junction City Kansas with the help of the employees of the shop inves were able to create this sketch of the person who rented the rider truck that was used in the attack the next step was to circulate it around town by April 21 the break they needed arrived a local hotel employee recognized the sketch and even remembered the man's name Timothy James McVey a 27-year-old ex- Army soldier however when investigators began looking for Timothy they made a shocking Discovery he was already in jail as it turns out he had been arrested just 90 minutes after the bombing roughly 80 Mi north of Oklahoma City Oklahoma State Troop Charlie Hangar pulled him over for driving without a license plate the state trooper also found a concealed weapon on Timothy which led to his arrest a thorough search of his getaway vehicle also revealed a business card with an incriminating statement written on the back reading TNT at $5 a stick need more as investigators looked deeper they learned about Timothy's motive behind causing such a tragedy his actions boiled down to extreme radicalization and anti-government rhetoric much of his anger stems from the 1993 Waco Siege in Texas a 51-day standoff between federal agents and the branch devidians a religious cult The Siege ended in a catastrophic fire that killed 86 people including women and children Timothy was particularly angered by the government's use of tear gas on women and children he had been exposed to the gas as part of his military training and was familiar with its painful effects however despite catching their suspect and learning about his motive the investigators wanted to weed out any potentially hidden accomplices like foreign terrorist organizations they reviewed multiple pieces of information and found out that Timothy used barrels and ammunition nitrate fertilizer as the primary source for the explosion they also discovered and arrested his two accomplice who helped him throughout the process Michael forier and Terry Nichols with their arrests investigators believe the case had finally been cracked wide open however during the rescue efforts the police encountered a new problem amid the rubble they discovered an unidentified left leg by this point most of the victims had been accounted for and buried the existence of this leg didn't make sense who did it belong to things became even more disturbing when the owner of the L was identified as one of the victims Lakisha Levy a member of the US Air Force however when they assumed there to place the leg where it belonged the investigators were shocked to see that Lisha was already buried with two legs a left and a right further investigation revealed that the unidentified leg did indeed belong to Lakisha and she had been mistakenly buried with one wrong leg but this raised an even bigger question who was the owner of the leg Lisha was buried with it it has been nearly 30 years since the incident and we still don't have an answer a popular Theory I came across was that the mysterious leg belonged to a second accomplice who came with Timothy and was mistakenly caught in the blast this would be a viable theory if not for the fact that the investigators did not find any solid evidence pointing towards a second suspect being at the crime scene but despite the lack of proof the mystery has sparked some wild conspiracies you see there's a group of people who believe that the bombing was a government conspiracy to cleverly destroy investigative documentation regarding the clintons and the Whitewater scandal according to this Theory the mysterious lag belonged to the second accomplice who was working for the government and the reason it hasn't been identified even after all these years is because it's part of a deliberate cover up but from what I've seen this theory is a bit too far-fetched to be true think of it this way if the people in power wanted to get rid of some documents they had a million other more suitable ways to accomplish this goal ones that didn't involve the tragic loss of so many lives the more likely explanation for this mysterious leg is that it belonged to some undocumented homeless person who was near the building at the time of the incident one Reddit user also backed this Theory with a personal account stating I visited the area the day before with a cooworker to get a search warrant from the US District Court and also visit the people in the murh building I was there during the investigation as an investigator there was a black homeless woman that panhandled in front of the mura building everyone in my office was convinced it was her we had seen her many many times you'll never change any of our minds that the leg wasn't hers however we really don't know if this is true to this day and we likely won't ever as I highly doubt the FBI or the Oklahoma government would reopen the 30-year-old case and spend tons of money just to confirm or deny the theories floating on the internet hybrid in March of 2002 a tabletop RPG called the one paragraph RPG was published by a person named Matthew C++ it was already an extremely bizar an overly complicated game with nonsensical rules and mathematical equations however the author changed its name to hybrid and kept updating the game over the upcoming years and with each update the game got more and more complicated as it stands right now hybrid has a total of 551 rules which explain everything from the progression to the power system but the truth is these rules don't really explain anything hybrid is a chaotic mishmash of disjointed ideas and Concepts that fail to work together leaving the game completely unplayable of course the large number of rules is a massive deterrent for most people not to mention the horrendous headache inducing color scheme of the website but even those who actually spent the time to read and decide for these rules have come to the conclusion that the vast majority of hybrid is utter nonsense for example Matthew included countless mathematical equations in the rule set but solving these equations often requires abbreviations like C2 DP and LP none of which are ever defined in the game to make matters worse some of the equations themselves are entirely made up and don't even adhere to basic mathematical principles and as if that wasn't enough the game is also riddled with odd tangents like movie reviews and a brownie recipe in case the players got hungry while reading the rules now some people have tried to rationalize Matthew's intent behind creating these pages of utter chaos and nonsense seeing this as a genuine attempt from someone with zero knowledge of game design however given the sheer Oddity of this whole thing that doesn't seem to be the case which leaves us with only two options to justify the existence of hybrid for starters it's entirely possible that this whole thing is a massive troll the author knows that 99% of his quote game doesn't make any sense and made it just to confuse people on the internet now this could have been a plausible theory if not for the fact that Matthew kept working on it for years the website hosting the game was shut down in 2009 but the author came back with a Blog in 2006 and has continued the game since not even the most dedicated trolls have the time and energy to turn out so much gibberish for so many years from what I've seen the more likely option is that hybrid is the life's work of a Madman Matthew is serious about creating the most complicated tablet toop RPG ever however he's also suffering from some sort of mental illness likely schizophrenia which would explain everything from the random tangents nonsense rules and bizarre rants in fact the hybrid RPG poses a striking resemblance to poorly planned Comics by someone named Jack Masters which I discussed in a previous video Jack was also suffering from severe schizophrenia and created something just as bizarre as hybrid sadly given how long it's been going for at this point I really doubt the author of hybrid would ever come out and explain his situation and intentions in plain text Temple OS Terren Andrew Davis was born in 1969 in West Alice Wisconsin he had a keen interest in computers from a young age which resulted in him learning the assembly programming language on a Commodore 64 as a teenager he later earned both a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and began working for Ticket Master as a programmer he had a good education a steady job and loving parents things were looking up for Terry unfortunately by the time he turned 27 he started experiencing regular manic episodes he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia the latter of which became the driving force behind the project that made him famous temple OS you see back in 2003 he experienced a self-described revelation in his words God spoke to him and asked him to create a temple which would later take the shape as an operating system this operating system went through many names including J operating system Sparrow OS and lose those Terry finally settled on the name Temple OS in 2013 and published his work for the world to see the most impressive thing about Temple OS is that Terry spent a decade building it from scratch it featured 119,000 lines of code and every single one of them is written by Terry himself without relying on any existing libraries of code and for an OS created by a single person it's chalk full of features including his own programming language called holy sea and multiple games based around religion like after Egypt which requires the player to travel to a burning bush which generates randomized text Terry believed that this text was coded messages from God however while his programming skills remained sharp his ability to grasp the reality around him kept getting weaker by the day he would often go on incomprehensible rants with an unhealthy dose of slurs God I hate Frasier [ __ ] the CIA glow in the dark you can see him if you're driving you just run them over that's what you do CIA he posted similar rants on his Twitter account as well however among the madness he would sometimes become lucid and say some extremely profound statements what's reality I don't know when my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought that bird has no idea what he's looking at and yet what does the bird do does he Panic no he can't really Panic he just does the best he can is he able to live in a world where he's so ignorant well he doesn't really have a choice the bird is okay even though he doesn't understand the world you're you're that bird looking at the Monitor and you're thinking to yourself I can figure this out maybe you have some bird ideas maybe that's the best you can do unfortunately his mental health took a devastating turn in December 2017 after refusing to take his medication Terry got into a heated argument with his parents well I'm King Terry and uh learned how to P purify myself in a horribly impure environment uh it's pretty rough living uh homeless and uh in uh the confrontation pushed him to leave his home and he spent the following months living on the streets homeless and struggling in September 2018 Terry's life came to a tragic end when he was involved in an accident with a train near an overpass in Portland however despite passing away over 6 years ago Terry still has a dedicated fan base online that's willing to keep his memory alive for decades to come [Music] Chris Burton Christopher Lee burden was an American artist who began his work in the early 1970s however unlike many artists whose goal is to create something visually pleasing Chris's art was more about the idea of personal danger as artistic expression and this was Apparent from the get-go his first known art performance was at the University of California in 1971 where for his final thesis he locked himself in a locker for 5 days with nothing but a junk of water to drink and an empty junk to relieve himself his next big art piece was a picture of him with a pistol aiming at an airplane while he did get a visit from the FBI for this one it was far from his most disturbing art pieces because in 1972 he performed what was later called TV hijack which involved him going on an interview on TV and then holding the host of the interview at knife Point fortunately he explained to the terrified host that this was just an art piece and no one got heard but the most chilling thing about Chris work was that he wasn't afraid of getting hurt in his 1971 performance called a shoot he gave his friend a rifle and told him to shoot him in the arm now the idea was the friend would barely graze his arm however he missed the mark and ended up shooting Chris clean through his arm forcing him to be rush to the hospital and while the pain in this performance was accidental Chris has also done pieces where he gets hurt on purpose like the 1974 performance called transfixed for this performance Chris Burton crucified himself shirtless onto the the back of a pale blue Volkswagen Beetle with nails hammered through his palms he remained in that position as the car was driven slowly around his neighborhood in his later years he moved on to more traditional sculpture based art however his willingness to put his life on the line for what he considered art is still unmatched as for the meanings behind his many deeply unsettling performances experts have yet to reach a consensus it's unclear if his stunts had some genuine meaning behind them or if many of them were just to say look what I can do but knowing Chris and his words this is exactly how he'd want his work to be remembered the Luna Park fire on June 9th 1979 at around 10: p. m.
