he was a 16-year-old girl who died a violent death. Her body was left in a bog.

She is called Yde Girl, named after

the region, in what is now the Netherlands, where her body was found.

After workers discovered her remains in 1897, a local newspaper article made mention of the find under the heading "miscellaneous," which said the corpse "could have been lying there for at least a dozen years."

In fact, Yde Girl had been lying in that bog for almost 2,000 years. She's one of six bog bodies displayed alongside hundreds of stunningly well-preserved prehistoric artifacts in "The Mysterious Bog ...

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