[healy61]

A man ended up in the heated water. All they found was boiled bones the next day. All tissue had boiled off.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I recommend this book if you want to read about some of deadly horrors at Yellowstone. It includes descriptions of some horrible scalding deaths, including a man who leaped into the boiling springs to save his dog. Neither dog nor man survived.

Death In Yellowstone (ISBN-10 : 1570984506)

[Jan_Sobieski]

It’s not simply the heat. My understanding is that The extremely high alkalinity of the boiling water eats away flesh immediately