This is so weird. There\’s a little town in Sicily where electrical appliances have been spontaneously catching fire. Electricity to the town was cut off but things are still burning.

Police ruled out a possible prankster or pyromaniac after they saw wires burst into flames.

The hypotheses now range from a buildup of electrical energy caused by grounding wires running off the railway to a rare “natural phenomenon” in which surges of electricity rise from the earth’s core.

This sounds like it would make a good movie.
[ From Slashdot ]