From Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park's Facebook page
of a burning hay bale discovered at the park. They say, "This past Saturday, one of the interns and rangers came across an unexpected: a rolled hay bale that had spontaneously combusted."
Oh, sure. "Spontaneously combusted." Like we're supposed to believe that hay bales just catch fire on their own, without the influence of angry ghosts, still fighting a battle that was 150 years ago? Let's be real. Obviously, it's ghosts.
Though, it turns out that hay bales can spontaneously combust.
The process of spontaneous combustion involves both microbial growth and chemical changes and may be slow to develop. The wet hay will first stimulate microbial growth and as these organisms grow they produce heat while drying out the surrounding surfaces of the hay for energy. More drying surfaces produces more microbial growth and different types of microbes live and die as the internal bale temperature climbs.
OK, fine. Ghosts didn't set the hay bale on fire. But who put the hay bale in the middle of the battlefield? That was ghosts, for sure.
