Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous human combustion has been around since the 17th century, but has gained more attention after Charles Dickens wrote a book called Bleak House in 1853. In the book he killed the alcoholic junk merchant, Mr. Krook, with spontaneous human combustion. After the backlash he got, Charles defended his case by showing 30 other historical cases of spontaneous human combustion. Although his claims were weaker than he said the evidence was still there. So what is SHC? SHC is when a human bursts into flames with no outside fire source and virtually no fire damage is caused to the place where they were except for black scorch marks.
Most documented cases show that the victims are mostly overweight and alcoholics, with the majority of victims