Why are bogs so good at preserving dead bodies?
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Summary
They essentially 'pickle' people. In August of 1984, commercial peat cutters working near Wilmslow, about a half-hour drive south of Manchester, England, discovered a dead body in the moss. The corpse was determined to be a 25-year-old man with a closely shorn beard and well-manicured nails. He had …
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