3,000-year-old bog body found in Irish bogland

Irish Hide and Go Seek Champion!

they found her id, it was Joan rivers. RIP

she said she was only going out to buy a packet of cigarettes, see smoking does kill you

I suppose your sense of humour depends on the type of *bar* you are used to frequenting..as Judge Judy says...'No matter how smart you think you are you are not half as smart as me'...My mamma didn't raise no idiots...!

I expect she did something heinous like told some bollically challenged sh*t for brains to stop stalking/harassing her...however his pathetic *little* (tee hee) ego couldn't accept the rejection so he had to keep making barely disguised threats all the while digging his own grave metaphorically speaking...stoopid is as stoopid does...Wind your d*ck in d*ckhead...Ugh!Ugh!Ugh!

There are no chemicals in moss to perserve the body. The moss grows in dampness, creating a layer of the plant as you all know. As it grows it doesn't allow bacteria to penetrate through, therefore no bacteria can break down what is in the bog area, or underneath the moss so this is why the body(ies) are perserved in such a unique way. The tanning colour comes from years of lying in that environment. It's a case of lack of bacteria and not chemicals as it was...3,000 yrs ago.

Where is the logic in this being a hu man sacrifice?

Ms.Gail ... we usually post with our tongues firmly stuck in our cheeks here. I'm 'sorry for your loss' if she is your multi-grand mother, but if you mean 'rip' as R.I.P. you see on headstones,it is worth remembering that this death took place 1000 years before Christ was supposed to have been born! Another thought is that this partial carcass was spotten by chance before the Bord na Mona (The Turf or Peat Board) drove his milling machine over it. So I wonder how many others have not survived the process and are now squished up in bales of Briguettes (processed and condensed peat sold as fuel for open fires) waiting like many before to heat up the home and waft the scent of burning Irish 'Turf' (and people) across the countryside in the sweet evening air.

This article seems to have brought out those with a sense of humor! Since she could be my great* granny, I say rip and thanks for the info you'll provide to us. Thanks Irish Central for reporting these finds.

i hope its my mother in law

I love the stuff that's found in the bog - pretty freaking amazing!

Re: Bog body find...A ghostly voice was overheard upon the find, "Oh, for peats sake, what's all the fuss? Did anyone find my bogweiser beer?

No woman would be that dense...she would have deposited it with the head honcho for the Prosecution......Less of 'the mother in law'you 21st century man...!Women a re more likely to be 'the 'mother' of all law/yers'

@themurphia-If its written on some goat skin and clutched in her hand.There's a good chance the tanic acid will have preserved that too.Not to diminish her demise but I've said in this forum several times not to bury the mother-in-law in a bog.It preserves her.Sure you may aw well phone up the State pathologist and give her the mother-in-law.

I hope she left a message with the lawyers and Gardai identifying her assailant...that's what I'd do...always a good thing to keep a record of threats of violence iimplied or otherwise!That reminds me I have a report to finish...to finish a reporter...!