12. Mary Reeser Spontaneous Combustion
Known as the Cinder Woman case, his photograph shows all that was left of Mary Reeser after she supposedly spontaneously combusted at her home in Florida. The 67-year-old widow died in 1951 and the authorities found that almost all of her remains had been essentially cremated by some sort of intense fire. Even stranger was the fact that these flames had not damaged any of the surrounding objects or structures.
Neither the police or the FBI have ever been able to offer a full explanation of what happened to Mary Reeser. Many of the hallmarks of spontaneous human combustion were not present in this instance, including significant damage to the surrounding area and an exploding or swollen skull. The case remains open with little chance of ever being fully solved.
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