Yesss! A young pre-Alice Cooper had to have watched that video and thought “I can do this”.
As a kid I had a “Ripleys Believe it or Not” book that had all kinds of stories about spontaneous human combustion. Kept me up nights...
I had a Reader’s Digest book called Mysteries of the Unexplained. The story of Mary Reeser scared me as a kid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reeser