[Maelstrom]

The alcohol fumes are what burn.

But to make the pig burn they needed a wick and a heat retardant cover to hold the heat in.

[Calvin Locke]

That was the point. To debunk the "pickled" hypothesis.

I think the show determined human combustion was, say a cigarette acting as a wick on a body.

So, the person was obviously unable to react to the burning. Dead, unconscious, paralysis.

It's a curiosity because of the localized burning. The body, or a part, but only charring around the bed, the chair, the floor.