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small town in the Midwest named after an 18th-century fort built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. He built this fort, claiming it to be the best fortress he had ever built, and challenged the British, the Indians, and all the demons of hell. Warehouse owner Scott Olson is struggling with the pre-Christmas rush. He hears a scream outside and runs out to see what happened. What he saw took his breath away. What the. A scene appears before him, as if from a horror movie. We stood in disbelief, watching this and trying to understand what was happening.
The tree burns, but it burns from the inside. It looks as if the fire is rising straight from the ground. How can this be? To some, the footage seems almost demonic. Looking at something so strange, you might think it was touched by evil. It looked like a devil's tree. Satan rises. The residents, like their city itself, are defiant. We will not allow demons to be in our city. Next up: a crazy giant column of water. This is unlike any rain I have seen before. Where does all this water come from? And scientists are searching for the strange force behind a to make this thing
burn and create the fire I see here? In Ohio, cameras captured an oak tree burning from the inside. How can a tree suddenly catch fire? There must be some explanation. The video is being analyzed by botanist Jeffrey Deane of Mississippi State University. He knows that organic substances can ignite without warning. This phenomenon is quite well known in composting plants. These things ignite spontaneously. In spontaneous combustion, an object catches fire without any apparent external cause.
There have been unconfirmed reports of a In 1980, the charred body of Henry Thomas was discovered in his home. Only his legs below the knees remained. It is believed that the human body can burn like a candle turned inside out. Clothes are the wick, fat is the wax that supports the flame. Studying the footage, Dean thinks the heartwood of the tree looks dead and suggests that this could be a likely cause. When wood rots, microbes that break down this material produce heat. And if the heat can't escape quickly enough, it can potentially set the material on fire. wildfire expert at Ohio State University. While analyzing the video evidence, he notices something that, in his opinion, rules out spontaneous combustion.
All the leaves have fallen from the trees. So, this indicates that it is winter now. One of the critical ingredients we lack for spontaneous combustion is heat. From my point of view, this could not have been spontaneous combustion. William is horrified, suspecting that the Hells tree fire may have started from below. Not long ago in Ohio we had a peat fire where all the fire was underground. You didn't see any flames. Invisible beneath the surface, peat fires can smolder for years before flaring up. Just recently, in Indonesia, such a fire destroyed an area 440 times the size of Manhattan, claiming 100,000 lives.
Huge clouds of smoke from this fire even reached China. It is possible that the fire is spreading underground and could reach some trees. Soil analysis in this part of Ohio shows no peat deposits, and Scott confirms that there was no sign of smoke or fire for weeks before the fire. At Mississippi State University, electrical engineer David Wallace watches a video. When I started to look more closely at this tree in the video, I noticed a crack in the bark running along the trunk. This is a very convincing sign of a lightning strike.
Lightning strikes kill thousands of people every year. They cause deadly wildfires and billions of dollars in damage. A heat source is required for ignition, and lightning certainly provides enough energy. Lightning heats the air around it to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit- five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. When lightning strikes a tree, current flows from the discharge through the center of the trunk, heating it to extreme temperatures. And it gets to the point where the juice literally explodes outward, creating a characteristic pattern from the passage of lightning. So when you look at this tree, it looks like something pure evil.
Studying a charred stump, Roger Williams tries to find more evidence in favor of his theory about lightning. Well, you can see where the clear line of charring runs right here. I believe this tree was struck by lightning. But a check of local weather data shows calm weather conditions on the day Scott Olson witnessed this horrific fire. I don't remember any thunderstorms that day, and I don't remember any lightning the day before this event. In the absence of conclusive evidence, the mystery of the " Hell Tree" fire in Ohio remains unsolved. We still don't know exactly what This tree is more than just a mystery. For Defiance residents, this is a source of anxiety. If it happened once, it can happen again. And if it happens during the dry summer months,
their entire city could burn down
