SHC on TV 2014
Spontaneous Human Combustion with Larry Arnold
Thursday,
December 4, 2014: Science Channel runs a marathon of Season 1 of "The
Unexplained Files" beginning at 9:00AM EST. It wraps up with Episode 4
featuring Spontaneous Human Combustion and the first-ever nationally televised
investigation of the strange, SHC-like death of Danny Vanzandt by local
officials and Larry Arnold.
Science Channel - "The Unexplained Files: Spontaneous Human Combustion and
Mexican Pilot UFO" - 3:00-4:00PM EST
Monday, November 10, 2014; 6:00-7:00AM EST Science Channel The Unexplained Files: Spontaneous Human Combustion and Mexican Pilot UFO
Spontaneous Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a pile of ashes in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO- Pilot Carlos de los Santos recounts his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico City Airport. One would think that the SHC debunkers would have realized long by now that if the wick theory worked as claimed, every crematory owner in the world would be using free matches and a few ounces of gasoline or acetone (as is newly suggested in this episode) to incinerate corpses, rather than spend $100K on high tech retorts, filters and cremulators. One would think?
Monday, November 3, 2014;
5:00-6:00AM EST
Science Channel
The
Unexplained Files: Spontaneous Human Combustion and Mexican Pilot UFO
Spontaneous
Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a pile of
ashes in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO- Pilot Carlos de los Santos
recounts his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico City
Airport.
One would think that smart people would have realized long by now that if the
wick theory worked as claimed, every crematory owner in the world would be
using free matches from banks and a few ounces of gasoline to incinerate
corpses, rather than spend $100K on high tech equipment. One would think.
Right????
On this
Halloween eve, Thursday, October 30, 2014.
1. Science Channel, October 30, 3:00-4:00AM EDT. "Investigation
X: Spontaneous Human Combustion." (Original airdate 2008)
This is among our fav productions. It examines the classic SHC-style death Mary
Reeser in St. Petersburg, Florida, in July 1951. The cremation of fireman
(yes!) George Irving Mott in his bedroom in upstate New York in 1986, another
classic SHC scene. The 21-minute-maximum inferno that consumed Helen Conway
near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1964. The macabre demise of Beatrice Oczki
in her suburban split-level in Bolingbrook, Illinois, during Thanksgiving
weekend of 1979. And the survival of spontaneously appearing 2nd-degree burns
upon the body of Tanis Helliwell. We personally investigated the latter four
cases, visiting locations and interviewing the first-responders and the
victims' next-of-kin. All were baffled, including Bolingbrook's Fire Marshal
Vince Calcagno, and all told us they were willing to consider SHC as
cause-of-death. Eventually, this production interviews Elayne Pope, Ph.D. - the
"Dame of Flame" - who rejects the idiocy of SHC and convinces the
now-retired Calcagno that Oczki - and presumably all others who incinerate to
ash amid unburned surroundings - is explained by (regular viewers of our
SHC programs can answer already) ... yes, the human wick theory. Again.
But listen carefully to Ms. Pope's application and defense of the wick theory:
she acknowledges using gasoline in her experiments to burn up bodies that, she
then argues, end up looking like these "so-called SHC" fire scenes.
Huh? Calcagno told us he tested for gasoline and any other accelerant at the
Oczki fire, and found none. Also, the burned-up cadaver shown by Ms. Pope in no
way resembles the dry powdery ashes found beneath Mott's bed, in Reeser's
apartment, and in scores of other similarly remarkable cases around the world.
So why does Calcagno end up accepting her simple - simplistic -
"solution" after three decades of puzzling over the one fire in his
career that so mystified him? And why did the program producers not question
her use of gasoline and her not-comparable results? And after being promised by
the producers that we would be meeting with Calcagno again for the Oczki
segment, thus able to challenge Ms. Pope and the wick theory, why was that
opportunity suddenly cancelled? And how does dousing a body with gasoline
explain the blistering that plagued Tanis Helliwell? Just more puzzlement to
add to the long list of haunting mysteries of SHC.
2. Science Channel, October 30, 3:00-4:00PM
EDT. "The Unexplained Files: Spontaneous Human Combustion." (Original airdate 2013)
This program begins in Oklahoma as it documents in real time Larry's
investigation of the February 2013 fire fatality of Danny Vanzandt in Sequoyah
County, where Sheriff Ron Lockhart and first-responders encountered a fire
scene that belies what they are trained to expect. The sheriff is open to the
possibility of SHC, for which he is roundly criticized by the naysayers (who
don't know he has 20 years experience as an arson investigator prior to being
elected sheriff). He knows what to find at a fire scene; what he should be
finding; and in this remarkable case, what he is not finding. Which is to say,
most of Mr. Vanzandt's body in a fire that burned little else inside his small
house.
Vermont is
another stop, where Frank Baker recounts for the first time on television his
two times with flames erupting from his body, witnessed each time by a friend
who attests to the unbelievable. Obviously, Baker survived his double ordeals,
and he is left to wonder why. And how.
The wick
proponents get their say. Again. Have they finally put to bed the myth of
so-called Spontaneous Human Combustion? Or does the horror of these haunting
fires truly linger beyond this year's Halloween?
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/tv-schedule.htm
Wednesday,
October 22, 2014; 4:00-5:00PM EDT
Science Channel
The
Unexplained Files: Spontaneous Human Combustion and Mexican Pilot UFO
Spontaneous
Human Combustion- Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a pile of ashes
in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO- Pilot Carlos de los Santos recounts
his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico City Airport.
SHC and
researcher Larry Arnold, author of ABLAZE! The Mysterious Fires of
Spontaneous Human Combustion, is being featured twice on The Science
Channel during the week of October 12-18, 2014:
Monday, October 13, 2014, 5-6AM EDT
"Investigation X"
Can people spontaneously burst into flames that rise from within their own
bodies? Investigators apply the latest technology in search of answers to the
spontaneous human combustion phenomena.
Another porcine experiment that attempts to "prove" the wick theory
as the "solution" to alleged SHC-type fire scenes. Will it work this
time? Watch for yourself and decide ...
Saturday, October 18, 2014, 9-10AM EDT:
"The Unexplained Files" (2013 - Season 1, Episode 4)
Spontaneous Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a
pile of ashes in his own home. Local fire-fighters are perplexed by what they
find at the Vanzandt home, and consult with Larry Arnold.
And a double-survivor of partial SHC tells his story for the first time on
television. This time it's not a pig but supersaturation of acetone in one's
body that is proposed to explain these incredible human burns. Again, watch for
yourself and decide ...
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/tv-schedule.htm
Wednesday,
Sept 17, 2014: Science Channel runs a marathon "The Unexplained
Files" of both Season 1 and Season 2 programs.
"Spontaneous Human Combustion & Mexican Pilot UFO" (S1E4) that
features our research and a new imaginative but flawed 'explanation' for SHC,
airs at 2:00-3:00PM EDT
AHC will
debut its running of the 3-part series "Investigation X" on August
12, 2014, from 9:00AM-noon.
Tuesday,
August 12, 2014; 11:00AM-noon EDT:
American
Heroes Channel - "Investigation X" ... Spontaneous Human Combustion
TV-14
Can people
spontaneously burst into flames that rise from within their own bodies?
Investigators apply the latest technology in search of answers to the spontaneous
human combustion phenomena.
http://www.ahctv.com/tv-shows/tv-schedule.htm
Science Channel will rebroadcast the 6-part season 1 series of "The
Unexplained Files" on August 17, 2014, from 9:00AM-4:00PM.
Sunday, August 17, 2014; noon-1:00PM EDT:
Science Channel - "The Unexplained Files" ... Spontaneous Human
Combustion and Mexican Pilot UFO (S1, E4) TV-PG CC
Spontaneous
Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a pile of
ashes in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO - Pilot Carlos de los Santos
recounts his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico City
Airport.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/the-unexplained-files/tv-schedule.htm
Larry Arnold consulted on and appears in both programs, discussing his research
and investigations of the heatedly debated and officially denied phenomenon of
SHC, the subject of his third book, ABLAZE! The Mysterious Fires of
Spontaneous Human Combustion.
Currently available online is his 60-minute interview with Rob McConnell of
"The X Zone: The World of the Paranormal and the Science of
Parapsychology" that debuted Tuesday, August 5, 2014:
http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/2994878
Larry Arnold
had an internet interview that debuts August 5, 2014, 10PM(?) EDT with
rebroadcasts thereafter - on "The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show" with
Canadian broadcaster Rob McConnell:
Link to the general site:
http://www.xzoneradiotv.com/
Direct link to the opening-hour segment with Larry E Arnold being
asked/challenged about SHC:
http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/2994878
Monday, August 4, 2014,
from 10-11PM EDT:
Larry E Arnold
will be the guest on the internationally syndicated radio show, "The 'X'
Zone Radio/TV Show" which is broadcast internationally and syndicated by
The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network (www.xzbn.net). A professional broadcast
radio show delivering The ‘X’ Zone with Rob McConnell, it reaches a worldwide
audience on terrestrial radio stations, satellite program providers, and
internet and handheld device listeners and have been doing so since 1992 and
enjoys a growing worldwide audience with affiliates now across Canada, the
United States, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Germany, Spain,
Norway, Sweden, Africa, India, Japan, Australia and Asia.
The ‘X’ Zone
airs Monday - Friday from 10 pm - 2 am Eastern (7 pm - 11 pm Pacific) and then the show is repeated in
its entirety every 4 hours for the entire 24 hour clock. On the weekends, we
play “The Best of The ‘X’ Zone.”
The interview will also be
available on iTunes, Spreaker, Facebook, Fanbox, FailZoom, YouTube, Twitter,
MySpace, RadioVybe, Turquoise Radio, Blubrry, Boxee, Google+, Libsynpro and a
variety of other social media sites plus internet broadcast sites.
"The Unexplained
Files" (Season 1, Episode 4) on ScienceChannel
Sunday, July 20, 2014; 9PM and Midnight EDT
Monday, July 21. 2014; 7AM and 10AM EDT
Larry
Arnold re-appears on "The Unexplained Files: Declassified" in a few
hours ... Wed, 7/9/14, 5-6AM EDT on The Science Channel.
Larry Arnold
is being interviwed live (best way!) on June 7, worldwide about our research by
friend and fine fellow fortean Scott Colburn via http://www.kzum.org from
11:35AM-12:50PM EDT. In Lincoln, NE, the "Exploring Unexplained
Phenomena" radio program is broadcast on KZUM Radio 89.3 FM (public radio
in Lincoln).
The program will be archived and available free of charge worldwide by the next
day, via http://www.eupradio.net .
1) Larry
will be the
guest on ParanormalGeek radio tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/13/14 10PM
EDT.
http://www.paranormalgeeksradio.blogspot.com/
2) INFO has resurrected its fine conference series after a 3-year hiatus. A
very fine line-up of speakers, if we do say so ourself. :)
Would be nice if some of the PA group wuld support and attend.
GREETINGS! SPEAKERS FOR FORTFEST ~ MAY 16-17-18 2014:
WEBSITE
Some of you have not checked out the website. This has been up for quite a few
weeks. Please do so and scroll down to see your bio.
Keep in mind the artwork at the top has some buzz words associated with each
speaker, but it's NOT the true name of your talk.
http://fortfest.eventbrite.com
Ramada Inn Hotel: 410-712-4300
7253 Parkway Dr
Hanover, Maryland 21076
Medieval Times (Friday Night Dinner): No Local Phone
Number
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Hanover, Maryland 21076
Dave & Busters (Sunday Venue): 443-755-0113
7000 Arundel Mills Circle, Suite D-1
Hanover, Maryland 21076
FRIDAY NIGHT ~ MEDIEVAL TIMES FEAST & HORSE SHOW
Doors Open around 6:30 for the Bar. Dinner starts
around 7:30. You can drive over there yourself or
join the group carpooling from the Hotel. Some of us will likely take the Hotel
Shuttle, however they will charge a nominal fee. We should be leaving the hotel
at 7:00PM at the latest. Show goes until 9:30. Afterward, you can hit the Live Casino or join us in
the Hospitality Room 717.
SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE ~ RAMADA INN MEETING ROOM
The hotel will assign our meeting room based upon all the groups booked and
final numbers of attendees. So I can't give you the name of the meeting room.
But the hotel is not huge and you should be able to easily locate the meeting
room. Likely it will be set up Friday night. Each
speaker will get a table with two chairs behind it to set up their books and
other articles for sale. This is all within the one room, so no one has to miss
a presentation. Fans can talk quietly with you at the back of the room. We are
a good-natured bunch, and we will watch your stuff while you speak or take a
break.
9:00 - 9:15 ~ Welcome! Opening Remarks
9:15 - 9:45 ~ Sue Swiatek > Tribute to Phyllis
Benjamin & Arundel Mills Bigfoot
9:45 - 11:00 ~ Joe McMoneagle > Remote Viewing:
Things You May Not Know About RV
11:00 - 12:15 ~ David Paulides > Bigfoot: With
Insights from the Hoopa Tribe
12:15 - 1:15 ~ LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 ~ Larry Arnold > Ablaze! The
Enigma of Spontaneous Human Combustion
2:15 - 3:15 ~ Rob Gutro > A Medium Solves a
Double-Murder Mystery & Sees Pets in the Afterlife
3:15 - 3:35 ~ BREAK
3:35 - 5:00 ~ Dr. Robert Schoch > Solar Outbursts
and the Early Forgotten History of Civilization: From the Great Sphinx of Egypt
to the Megaliths of Easter Island
HAPPY HOUR at the Bar! DINNER on Our Own. We will pull together some groups
going various places and make sure our speakers are all taken care of for
Dinner.
9:00PM until ? Late Night in the Hospitality Suite.
SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE ~ DAVE & BUSTERS EMPORIUM ~ CHESAPEAKE THEATRE ROOM
This theatre is WAY at the back of this place. Allow yourself a few extra
minutes for walking through the cavernous establishment. I will see if we can
locate a back-door so we don't have to carry heavy boxes of books all the way
through the place.
11:30 - 12:45 ~ David Paulides > Missing 411:
Mysteriously Missing People
12:45 - 1:30 ~ LUNCH & Video of UFO Abduction
Case: the Case That Convinced the Swiateks
1:30 - 2:30 ~ Micah Hanks > Echoes From the
Gralien Report: This Fortean Universe
Mr. Paulides has to jet off to his plane at the conclusion, or perhaps BEFORE
the conclusion of the program. During Lunch, I'll show a video of a UFO
abduction case my husband and I researched, so as people are eating and moving
about, it will be permissible for people to find their way and visit with Mr.
Paulides at the back, before he has to bid us a final good-bye. After Micah
Hanks is done with his presentation, we may not get much time in the room. But
maybe we can get a waitress back there and extend into a Happy Hour, or maybe
we'll have to move to one of the bar areas. In any case, we'll try to
"decompress" together after the conference.
Thanks again for speaking at this special "Fortfest" -- a re-booting
of the International Fortean Organization.
Larry is the
featured guest for a KTPF live online interview about SHC on Sunday, April 27,
2014, 8:00PM gmt, 2:00PM EDT on KTPF.com
http://www.ktpf.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article?id=123
2)
Larry appears (again) on "The Unexplained Files: Declassified" about
SHC on Science Channel, Friday, May 2, 2014, noon-1PM EDT.
www.ScienceChannel.com
3)
Larry is among the impressive line-up of speakers for the revitalized
long-running International Fortean Organization (INFO), being held outside
Baltimore (near BWI Airport) May 17-18, 2014.
www.fortfest.eventbrite.com
ScienceChannel is rebroadcasting the "The Unexplained Files:
Declassified" episode about SHC on Tuesday, April 22, 6-7AM EDT.
Science Channel will telecast the newly formatted entire first season
programming of:
"The
Unexplained Files: Declassified" series this Wednesday, April 9, from
9AM-3PM EDT.
Episode 4 (about SHC) is
scheduled for Noon-1PM EDT.
The pop-up factoids add additional info, but at least twice the factoids about
SHC are wrong. The writers should've consulted Larry Arnold first. ;)
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/tv-schedule.htm
UPDATED:
"The Unexplained Files: SHC" - Tuesday, 3/25, 7-8PM
"The Unexplained Files Declassified: SHC" - Tuesday, 3/25, 8-9PM
(this is the debut of a reformatting of the original/previous program)
"The Unexplained Files Declassified: SHC" - Tuesday,
3/25, 11PM-midnight
"The Unexplained Files: SHC" - Wednesday, 3/26, 2-3AM
"The Unexplained Files: SHC" - Wednesday, 3/26, Noon-1PM
"The Unexplained Files Declassified: SHC" - Thursday, 3/27, 3-4AM
These shows
are scheduled as of now, including a new reformatting of the original "The
Unexplained Files".
ScienceChannel - "The Unexplained Files" (Season 1 Episode 4)
Spontaneous Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced
to a pile of ashes in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO- Pilot Carlos de
los Santos recounts his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico
City Airport.
Tuesday, March 25, 7-8PM EDT
Wednesday, March 26, 2-3AM EDT
Wednesday, March 26, Noon-1PM EDT
Thursday, March 27, 3-4AM EDT
ScienceChannel - debut of "The Unexplained Files Declassified"
(a reformatting of the original series, w/ factoids embedded throughout):
Spontaneous Human Combustion - Oklahoma, February 2013 - a man is reduced to a
pile of ashes in his own home. Carlos de los Santos/UFO- Pilot Carlos de los
Santos recounts his mid air encounter with three UFO’s en route to Mexico City
Airport.
Tuesday, March 25, 8-9PM EDT
Tuesday, March 25, 11PM-midnight EDT
This means Science is running two versions of the same episode, back-to-back. A
first ever? Do believe so.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/the-unexplained-files
SyFy is running a marathon
of "Weird or What?" with William Shatner on Wednesday, March 5, from
7:00-11:00PM EST.
At
9:00-10:00PM, Season 1 Episode 7 - "Medical Mysteries" - deals in
part with Spontaneous Human Combustion, and pits Larry Arnold's research
against professional skeptic Joe Nickell. Who wins the debate based on evidence
is for the viewer to decide.
http://www.syfy.com/weirdorwhat/episodes/season/1/episode/7/medical_mysteries
From alien invasions to
alternate dimensions, the world of Weird
or What is typically takes on cosmic proportions. But what
about the mysteries that happen closer to home? The weird could be
lurking...under your very own skin.
Shoot!
Where's my 'Chute?
Shayna
Richardson of Silent Springs Arkansas was a seasoned thrill-seeker and trained
skydiver on October 5th, 2005 - the day her parachute failed to deploy.
Richardson veered off course and plummeted a stomach-churning 11,000 feet until
a nearby parking lot broke her fall. Amazingly, Shayna survived.
Though a
bit rough around the edges, Shayna walked away from the harrowing experience
displaying no lasting signs of physical trauma.She was, however, diagnosed with
a medical condition that would change her life forever. Shayna was pregnant.
After
carrying her son to term with no unusual complications, Shayna is grateful for
every second that she has with her family, and feels no need to test her luck
with a parachute again any time soon. Most call Shayna's a tale of luck, others
posit that she hit the ground at a favorable angle or that her mangled
parachute still lowered her terminal velocity to a survivable 50 feet per
second, but there will always be those who call this case nothing short of a
miracle.
Burning Man
Charred
remains sat smoldering in an otherwise largely undamaged room. What could have
caused this mysteriously selective inferno?
Larry
Arnold may not technically be a scientist, but he does know one thing: This
case is an instance of spontaneous human combustion. He believes that tiny
particles, dubbed "pyrotrons" fly through the universe at astounding
speeds, with the potential energy to cause a localized explosion. Essentially,
as these particles bob and weave between our protons and electrons they may
accidently crash...and burn.
But Joe
Nickel, Paranormal Investigator and Weird
or What favorite, is dubious. Instead, he hypothesizes that seeming
instances of spontaneous human combustion are, in fact, agonizingly slow,
relatively weak smolderings that use the human body like a candle. With the
clothing acting like a wick and our own body fat providing the fuel for the
fire, a human body could be burnt to cinders without disturbing its
surroundings, the radiant heat perhaps only melting nearby plastic. Even if
this more mundane answer holds the truth, it's still most definitely Weird or
What!
A Shocking Ability
Debbie Wolf
believes that her body is able to disrupt electrical devices and even produce
an amplified electric charge of its own. When she walks into a room, lights may
flicker, the television may change channels, and appliances will begin to
malfunction.
Electrical
Engineer, William Beaty calls this strange ability "Street Light
Interference," naming the individuals who exhibit it "Sliders."
He believes that sliders charge their bodies by unwittingly stripping electrons
off of the very air they breathe. But skeptics, argue that anyone storing
electrical energy in this manner would fry themselves from the inside out.
Dr. Suwan
Jayasinghe, a biophysics researcher, believes that a sliders' body acts like a
capacitor, soaking up excess electricity to be released at a later date in a
safe and manageable quantity. After testing Debbie, he was able to show
quantifiable evidence that her electrical levels did indeed increase as her
emotions became more volatile. While the resulting readings were above average
for a human, he was not able to tease out a voltage capable of causing any real
interference with the outside world. For now, this mystery remains simply weird
or what.
DestinationAmerica
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 6-7PM EST
TV-14 CC
http://www.destinationamerica.com/tv-shows/tv-schedule.htm
It's said to be impossible: that people can spontaneously burst into flames
that rise from within their own bodies. If so, can the "impossible"
be impossibly survived? Frank Baker and his friend say the answer is
"Yes!" Investigators apply the latest theories in search of answers
to the spontaneous human combustion phenomena. The "latest theories"
includes a demonstration that acetone is the end-all solution to dismiss the
concept of SHC as anything more than misguided myth and superstition. Does this
"latest theory" succeed? Larry Arnold, SHC researcher, faults an explanation
that requires a massive concentration of acetone to form inside a living
person. Pay attention, and notice that lower percentages of acetone-soaked
samples do not sustain combustion. Tune in ... and decide for yourself.
Can people
spontaneously burst into flames that rise from within their own bodies?
Investigators apply the latest technology in search of answers to the
spontaneous human combustion phenomena. The "latest technology"
includes another attempt to employ the wick effect as the end-all solution to
dismiss the concept of SHC as anything more than misguided myth and
superstition. Does the
"latest technology" succeed this time? Tune in ...
ScienceChannel
has finally settled on the times it is re-running SHC in "The Unexplained
Files" for January.
Tuesday, January 7, 8-9PM
and 11PM-Midnight EST
Thursday, January 9, 3-4AM
EST
Sunday, January 19, 4-5PM
EST (marathon of all First Season episodes in numerical order).