What’s scarier, quicksand or spontaneous human combustion?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Quicksand / mud. That is real, though probably not as the video clip.
People do occasionally become trapped in quicksand (a slurry of sand and water) or mud on tidal shores, and can be caught by the incoming tide, or die of hypothermia. The emergency services have special equipment and methods for rescuing them.
Farm workers have also been killed in a way akin to drowning, having fallen into grain-silos.
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"Spontaneous human combustion" is a myth from a very small number of people having been burnt to death alone, by accidents whose causes were not recognised or investigated. Or were, but the real cause did not satisfy the fantasists.
People do occasionally become trapped in quicksand (a slurry of sand and water) or mud on tidal shores, and can be caught by the incoming tide, or die of hypothermia. The emergency services have special equipment and methods for rescuing them.
Farm workers have also been killed in a way akin to drowning, having fallen into grain-silos.
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"Spontaneous human combustion" is a myth from a very small number of people having been burnt to death alone, by accidents whose causes were not recognised or investigated. Or were, but the real cause did not satisfy the fantasists.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK Is that where it came from? I expect the belief already existed but Charles Dickens was never one to waste a lurid myth.
Nor come to that, was Arthur Conan Doyle - he talked up the Mary Celeste legend, French-ifying the name in the process, and the Cottingley Fairies hoax.
Nor come to that, was Arthur Conan Doyle - he talked up the Mary Celeste legend, French-ifying the name in the process, and the Cottingley Fairies hoax.