I read the Snopes writeup, and I think the key is open flame vs. smoldering cigarette. And fumes have to be pretty intense to explode. The outhouse story may have been true, if enough fumes.
When I was about 16, I worked for a neighbor after school and weekends- lots of farm stuff, but lawn and garden as well. I worked for the dad, but his kid (5 years older than me) was the boss. We were raking the oak leaves in Dad's yard- son poured some gas on the pile before lighting it, then got called to the phone. Came back 5 minutes later, threw a match on the pile, nothing. Figured the gas had all evaporated, so poured a little more on. KA-WHUMP! Blew flaming leaves all over the yard. The first gas had just settled, not evaporated. I started stomping out the fires, he stopped me- "Lets just let 'em burn, that way we'll have less to rake again."
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