The body first came to light when police were alerted to human remains on the surface of a peat bog in the village of Bellaghy in Northern Ireland. Initial examination of the body showed that it ...

He was anchored to the peat with two long wooden stakes ... A small percentage of bog bodies are children. Yde Girl appears to have been strangled and stabbed at the age of 16.

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team leader Alan Howarth said: “This suddenly became a lot more serious when the girl became stuck up ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

The personal belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, have gone on display on the Isle of Lewis, forming part of a rare exhibition shedding light on one of ...