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For decades she was the 'blindfolded girl of the bog.' πŸͺ¦
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Creepy DiscoveriesAug 14, 2026

For decades she was the 'blindfolded girl of the bog.' πŸͺ¦

For decades she was the 'blindfolded girl of the bog.' πŸͺ¦ . . . In May 1952, peat cutters at Windeby, Germany pulled a teenage body from the peat with a woolen band over the eyes and half the scalp shaved. Textbooks called her an adulteress drowned around 41 BCE. In 2005-2006, anthropologist Heather Gill-Robinson ran analysis at the Schleswig museum and argued the 'girl' was a 16-year-old boy β€” though today's scientific consensus has swung back to identifying the body as female.

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