Spontaneous Human Combustion
Fire crews from Muldrow, Redland
and Maple,OK were responded to a house fire on Bawcom Rd/County Road 4700
Monday early afternoon. Witnesses said they saw smoke coming out of the house.
Officials said they found a man's burned body in the middle of the
kitchen floor. The house did not have any fire damage and the cause is unknown,
according to Sheriff's office.
Sequoyah County Sheriff Rock
Lockhart said he has never seen a case like this, “it’s kind of a unusual fire
scene. I’ve worked many fire scenes, but I’ve never seen anything like this
that’s why we’re calling it suspicious right now.” Lockhart said the man's
death may be a case of spontaneous human combustion and they are not ruling
this out.
The strange case has everyone
talking about the rare phenomenon.
The body has been sent to the
medical examiner's office in Tulsa, OK.