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Image of the Tollund Man, the most well-preserved bog body What is a Bog Body? This mystery is more of a creepy one and involves human corpses and mummies. A bog body is a human corpse that has been mummified in a peat bog through natural and environmental elements present in the bog. It is caused by the unique physical and biochemical composition of the bogs. While it's difficult to exactly say how many bog bodies there are, the number is surely in the hundreds. These bodies, sometimes known as bog people, have been found all over the world as well as dating back to different periods, for example, some have been dated to around 8000 BCE while some near the Second World War. While there is such a level of differentiation between these bog bodies, the unifying factor among them is that they have all been found in peat bogs and preserved to a decent extent. Due to the effect of peat, these bog bodies are preserved in a very unique and different way, they often maintain their

Stock Image of a Troll road sign What is a Road Troll? To start off, What exactly is a troll? A troll is a creature birthed in tales from Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. Their characteristics vary based on different accounts but they do share some distinct features. Trolls are said to be giant, monstrous beings, who sometimes have the power to control magic. Some sources claim that their appearances very ugly and grotesque looking, usually with warts and a green skin tone while others say that they look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristics about them. All trolls are said to usually be Hostile to men, and also connected to landmarks which the "haunt", killing trespassers and other people at night. Their haunting of landmarks and leaving at night is also backed by claims that if they are exposed to sunlight they burst or turn into stone. Over the years, the depiction of trolls has changed drastically and in more

Stock Image of a Burning Forest The Tunguska Event This strange phenomenon, known as "The Tunguska Event," is one of the greatest mysteries of all time if judged on the scale of the event. The Tunguska Event was a large explosion that occurred near the Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia which was at the time, a part of Siberia known as Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The explosion took place in the early hours of 30th June 1908 and reports suggest that the initial sight was a fireball that would have been 50-10 0m wide. It depleted 2,000 sq km of the Taiga forest in the area, flattening a whopping 80 million trees. The shock wave from the explosion has been estimated to have been about a 5.0 on the Richter scale w hich would have been capable of destroying a large metropolitan area. This event has been classified by most scientists to have been an asteroid impact and also the largest "impact event" (collision between 2 astronomical objects causing an impact) in recorde

Bigfoot is one of the more well known urban legends that I'm sure lots of you must have heard about at some point or the other. The legend states that Bigfoot is a large, primate-like creature that walks in an upright position like humans standing at about 7-9 feet tall and there are assumed to be more than one in existence. They are described to be very muscular and covered in black or dark coloured hair. Most importantly, as the name suggests they leave massive footprints which are said to be as large as 24 inches in length and 8 inches in width. These creatures are primarily spotted in North America and are also known by the name "Sasquatch" While there are traces of wild man-like creatures from earlier times it never really formed into the bigfoot legend that we know until around the 1950s. This is because, In 1958, a journalist named Andrew Genzoli highlighted a letter from a reader stating that loggers in California had found mysteriously large footprints in the wo