Combustible Town In Sicily
By James Donahue
Fires were breaking out in homes and buildings throughout the village of Canneto di Caronia, Sicily, between 2004 and 2005 and nobody could determined the cause. The entire town became so dangerous the people were evacuated for several months. Then during the summer of 2014 the phenomenon started again. This time police arrested a 26-year-old local man on charges of arson. A mounted street camera caught him in the act.
Before the arrest people told how things burst into flame without warning. Mattresses, cars, cell phones, refrigerators, radios, televisions and a variety of household items are just being hit with spontaneous combustion, even when the electricity has been turned off. One fire even broke out at the local water plant. Another burned a bundle of wiring that was unattached to any circuit. The strange fires made world headlines.
Apparently nobody has been hurt.
The local electric company replaced the town’s wiring service and made improvements along the entire grid serving the community. It did not help.
While the mystery remained unsolved, various theories evolved. They range from ghosts and evil spirits, someone that is pyro kinetic and may not realize it, a malicious person using a Tesla-type magnifying transmitter, and even aliens starting the fires from UFOs flying overhead.
One newspaper published a leaked government report that suggested the fires were caused by alien forces. The story said the fires were "caused by high power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made."
By James Donahue
Fires were breaking out in homes and buildings throughout the village of Canneto di Caronia, Sicily, between 2004 and 2005 and nobody could determined the cause. The entire town became so dangerous the people were evacuated for several months. Then during the summer of 2014 the phenomenon started again. This time police arrested a 26-year-old local man on charges of arson. A mounted street camera caught him in the act.
Before the arrest people told how things burst into flame without warning. Mattresses, cars, cell phones, refrigerators, radios, televisions and a variety of household items are just being hit with spontaneous combustion, even when the electricity has been turned off. One fire even broke out at the local water plant. Another burned a bundle of wiring that was unattached to any circuit. The strange fires made world headlines.
Apparently nobody has been hurt.
The local electric company replaced the town’s wiring service and made improvements along the entire grid serving the community. It did not help.
While the mystery remained unsolved, various theories evolved. They range from ghosts and evil spirits, someone that is pyro kinetic and may not realize it, a malicious person using a Tesla-type magnifying transmitter, and even aliens starting the fires from UFOs flying overhead.
One newspaper published a leaked government report that suggested the fires were caused by alien forces. The story said the fires were "caused by high power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made."