BOG BODIES: THE PRESERVED DEAD OF NORTHERN EUROPE

Episode 129 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious EventsIn this Mystery episode we focus on bog bodies — the hundreds of preserved human remains found in the peat bogs of Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, and the Netherlands, many dating to the Iron Age between 500 BC and 100 AD, most showing signs of violent death and deliberate ritual placement.This episode covers how the chemistry of sphagnum moss preserves bodies for thousands of years, the specific cases of Tollund Man hanged and placed carefully in a Danish bog in 350 BC, Grauballe Man with his throat cut, and Lindow Man killed three separate ways, and what their last meals — analyzed with modern forensic precision — suggest about the nature of their deaths.Two and a half thousand years ago someone placed them in the water. The water kept them.#HistoryMystery #BogBodies #TollundMan #AncientHistory #MysteryPodcast