Topic: Rigor Mortis

The "Boiled Egg Theory" is introduced to explain how internal organs could petrify while the rest of a body is destroyed. Wilkerson suggests that the chest cavity acts as a pressure cooker during high-heat events, allowing the heart—protected by the fatty pericardium—to harden into stone. He shares an anecdote from a listener whose dog's heart allegedly petrified during a 36-hour cremation fire.