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Larry Arnold

Larry Arnold

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Larry Arnold is a researcher and author recognized as the world's foremost investigator of spontaneous human combustion (SHC), having spent decades documenting and analyzing cases of this baffling and terrifying phenomenon. As a guest on late-night radio, his comprehensive book Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion and his detailed case presentations made him the definitive authority on one of the most disturbing unexplained mysteries.

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March 10, 1996: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Larry Arnold & Linda Moulton Howe

Mar 10, 1996
1h 17m
Larry Arnold, author of Ablaze: The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion, presents two decades of research into cases where human bodies incinerate under conditions that defy conventional fire science. Arnold details the 1966 death of Dr. John Irving Bentley, a 92-year-old Pennsylvania physician whose bo...