Spontaneous Human Combustion is thought to occur when aperson is found burned to death, but nothing much aroundthem has caught on fire. Often only the bed or chair theywere on shows signs of being burned, while the rest of thearea is intact. The theory that the human body canspontaneously combust is controversial, but a recent case inFlorida may be an example of it.
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Tree rings and ice cores may not accurately reveal howwidely the climate changed in the past, according toscientists who have studied weather data from the last 1,000years. This is important to know as scientists try to figureout if current bizarre weather, such as the recenthurricanes in Florida, is related to global warming.
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Scott writes, in one of our new Communion Letters: I would like to share an experience my mother and I had with what I would classify as an Orb. This was around 1972 when I was six years old. I lived in Phoenix in an area at that time was not fully developed, and is surrounded by range of ancient volcanic mountains (a very strong presence I might add). We were heading north on a dirt road about a half a mile from our small suburb early in the evening. I was in the back seat while my mother was driving, when I saw a light appearing on the left in my peripheral vision. It seemed to have popped in from nowhere. At arms length, it appeared somewhat larger than Venus, with an odd pale glow, sort of greenish or blue white. I yelled frantically out to my mother to look.
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A museum curator has discovered that Alfred Packer, who wasconvicted of murder because he ate his five companions whenthey were lost in a Colorado winter 130 years ago, mayactually have been innocent.
Robert Weller writes that David Bailey, who works at theMuseum of Western Colorado, has been researching the casefor years and has come to the conclusion that Packer onlykilled to defend himself from a member of their party whohad slain his fellow prospectors and was eating them.
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