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The Mummified Bog People

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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...

Ro-Langs, The Zombies of Tibet

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Stock Photo of the Himalayas looking creepy and perfectly zombie-like. Zombies & The Ro-Langs Zombies are supposedly undead creatures born from the infection and/or reanimation of a human body. Zombies are very popular in movies and pop culture and have been portrayed in many different ways. The most popular thought of the creation of zombies is that they pass on a virus or pathogen through biting a healthy human being which makes them a zombie as well. Some other types are also said to be formed through magic or a curse of sorts. This process of their rapid multiplication continues making them very hard to stop. On the plus side, zombies seem to lose most of their cognitive abilities and become very close to mindless creatures who have just a single goal, to find other healthy humans and bite them. Today's mystery is about real-life zombies in the scary heights of the Himalayan mountains and Tibet. A Ro-langs is a sort of zombie-like being that originated from Tibetan...