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Date: 1864
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Unnamed Woman's Fiery Death
The Legend:
In 1864, an unnamed woman was found burnt to death in her room, which was filled with a thick, black smoke. Her clothes were on fire, and a chair had been burnt; and some of her flesh had been burned to the bones.
Theories
Joe Nickell, in his book Secrets of the Supernatural, gives an account of this event he found in Thomas Stevenson's The Principles and Practices of Medical Jurisprudence (1883); I will track down a copy of this text. Nickell says that according to Stevenson, the woman "was given to habits of intoxication;" Stevenson concluded that her death was "nothing more than a casualty by fire."
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