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A peat cutter swings a spade. Something pale and leathery turns up in the dark soil. It's a human body, skin intact, hair still on its head. Nobody alive knows its name.
That's the eerie opening to Morbid's "The Violent Deaths of Bog Bodies." Across northern Europe, peat bogs have given up human remains that are hundreds, even thousands, of years old. The acidic, low-oxygen water preserved them in startling detail. Many of them did not die peacefully.
Hosts Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley and Eric Whitehurst bring their usual mix of dark curiosity and gallows humor to a story that is far older than any cold case file. They dig into what researchers have pieced together about how some of these people died, and the questions that still hang over them. Were they victims of murder? Punishment? Ritual? It's an unusual, historical entry point if you usually stick to modern crime.
The truth is that scholars still debate the answers, and the bodies can't speak for themselves. That's what makes this one so hard to shake. Press play tonight and listen on Apple Podcasts, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
