I Am Positively Obsessed With Mummified Bog People

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Thu, 07/19/2018 - 2:50am

"There is a strange power in bog water which prevents decay," noted an 1837 Danish almanac. "Bodies have been found which must have lain in bogs for more than a thousand years, but which, though admittedly somewhat shrunken and brown, are in other respects unchanged.” These leathered corpses are called bog bodies (or bog people), and I love them.

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