Often, burnt bodies are found in the same stance,
known as the "Boxer Pose" due to muscles contracting from heat.
It's an incredibly disturbing looking thing, I first heard about it from my Grandfather that fought in Burma. During the war he was present at a Burmese funeral in which the cadaver was burnt on a pyre. Just as the flames began to singe the corpse, it sat up straight. The Burmese, of course, got a good laugh out of the British soldiers collectively shitting themselves, as contractions due to heat during cremation is apparently rather common.
Doesn't make it any less creepy.
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