What is your opinion of the Burning Girls conspiracy theory? Top Answers Jarray Montez, Ex-Rookie - Now: Bemused Quora user - 2 year mark achieved Answered October 15 For anyone who’s new to this, The Burning Girls is a conspiracy that asserts that the Disappearance was somehow caused by a handful of women around the world who set themselves on fire. Some believers think the Burning Girls saved the world from overpopulation or nuclear war. For others it’s demonic and these girls died in a Satanist sacrifice. Either way, the conspiracy espouses a fiction and glamorizes the issue of suicide. What’s true: At least 200 women died of burning on August 26th/27th. But how unusual is this? It’s hard to find numbers for how many women burn to death on an average day, but if you consider that 2,200 people commit suicide daily, it isn’t that insane to see this as coincidence. Also it’s likely a lot of these women were murdered. Given the lack of police investigations in the confusion after the Disappearance, we don’t know all these burnings were suicide, or even that burning was the cause of death, where it might be a murderer disposing of a corpse. These are just some considerations why the Burning Girls is not based on solid facts.