The Bog Body of Lindow Moss

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it was like perfect. And how about the Gore? How about Disney plus saying, you know what, we gotta get ready for Deadpool, Let's just go for it, let's slash some throats. Yeah. But what I loved about it was the B movie gory nous of it, like so over the top. Yeah, you know, we're getting in the mood for the season. We watched Where Wolf by night we watched Hube Halloween and anyway, so today's episode we're going

to get into it. No thoughts on Hube Halloween, moving on, moving on, We've got a story to get to, that's true, though, super excited for today's another spooky story. Creepy, creepiness. I don't know what else to say, creepiness. Let's just give it to you. Peter Rheinbart was married, but his Melika Fernandez,

had disappeared without a trace. Police were suspicious, but even though they dug through Peter's backyard garden, they didn't find any evidence that Peter had done anything to Melika, so Peter could breathe a sigh of relief until one day workers unearthed a human skull in the Pete bog Nearest house school. The game was up for Peter, but the real twist in the story was yet to come. Let's hear all about Peter Rheinbart, Melika Fernandez and bog Body,

Bog bodies. Let's go, hated friends. Let Fandez. You're welcome to hell. There's no match making a romantic teas he's judged as you were lying in crypt. I love him, my being type of unco demonic do. But if there's worth a second Chits show a production of I Heard Radio. Peter Rheinbart was an airline employee in nineteen fifty nine when he met a portrait artist and travel enthusiast named Melika Fernandez. Awesome, please introduce me to a portrait artists

travel enthusiasts. Well, no, you're not a portrait artist. I was about to say, you don't take any pictures, you don't do any paintings. I'm not an artist. Well you could say I draw portraits of people in these podcasts. Oh yeah, podcast artists. Yeah, you do your own version of a portrait. Yeah, a verbal portrait painting a picture with words, Yeah, yeah, a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

And you pumped about two thousand words into this. So this is this is two pictures worth the story everybody. So yeah. Pianot met Milika and they'd only known each other for two two hours when Peter proposed marriage, Malika accepted, and only four days later they were married. You know, I mean, things weren't that bad back then. Maybe it was like a whirruined romance and they were both swept off their feet. I want to say their dating history

must have been really miserable. Two hours. What kind of interview is conducted before you propose? In two hours? Do you have to be? Like? What kind of politics do you have? How do you feel about raising children? What your money situation got? Any death? Ultimate speed date for real? But as quickly as they got married, their marriage started kind of founder within a few months. It's not a flounder, No, well, it could be. I guess founder. Founder means to crumble.

I think, all right, flounder is founders of fish. I think he's a flounder is a fish. But floundering, Uh to struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud like a bog, And foundering is to fill with water and sink of a ship typically All right, okay, yeah, so either way they were stumbling or sinking. Either way, things weren't working out. And you all got a vocabulary lesson today, so did I? Right? So yeah, things were shaky between the two and they kind of were living

a little bit separately. So Malika would travel alone, she would use Peter's airline discounts, and Peter would stay home at his cottage in Cheshire, England and they went on like that for two years, which, honestly it doesn't sound so bad. I got an airline discount and go wherever I want, all right, And he clearly was like, cool, I like to be in my cottage. Everything's great. I know. I literally know married couples like at or one of them is a flight attendant, and they're perfectly happy to

just not see each other very often. I know, well, you and I have I guess, an unusual marriage in that way that we're enjoy spending time together, that we're constantly together. I know a lot of people could probably not handle that. Yeah, and sometimes I dream of what it would be like to have some time to yourself. How dare you? I'm delightful at all times. Every second with me is a gift. What's so funny? Oh? Nothing, just your delivery, I guess, not the content hilarious at

all times. Well, Malika didn't have an Eli, she had a Peter, so she was off traveling. He would hang out at home chilling, and that was how they went on for two years until Molika mysteriously disappeared. Well police were suspicious, obviously, serious disappearances are kind of their things. There was no trace of Malika anywhere, and none of

her family or friends had heard from her. I mean, if she had decided to leave her husband, like, surely she would have told someone, right, or maybe gone somewhere through a friend's house, a relative or something. Now, obviously their first suspect, boom, Peter, knock, knock knock. Hey buddy, your wife mysteriously disappeared. Uh, it's probably you. Because over half of murdered women in America and the UK are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. So you know, you

got good odds. But even though they searched his house and his yard, they even dug up his garden to try and search for remains, they didn't find any evidence that Peter had done anything wrong or that Malika had even been killed. So finally they were forced to give up. I mean, without a body, they had nothing to prove. So Peter just kind of chilled out. He was like, all right, you know, the heats off, I can go

back to in my chair, not doing anything. Yeah. Now, Peter lived only three hundred yards away from a fifteen hundred acre Pete bog known as Lindo Moss, according to Science History dot org this bog was formed when I smelted eleven thousand years ago um and for generations, poor folks in this area supported themselves with pete, which brings us to our new segment. It's time for a speed date with science searching for connection now. Pete is extremely

useful in a number of ways. Environmentally, it helps with water management and it acts as a carbon store. In fact, burning pete is being banned in England right now because it releases more carbon dioxide than burning cold. But for a very long time, pete was used as a fuel for stoves and as soil for crops. So workers in this area they would cut blocks of pete by hand,

end out of the bog. They'd lay them in the sun and turn them regularly for two years to dry them out like a dirt rotisserie, and then they'd sell it. So literally dirt, farmers, literally dirt. I'm going out cutting out bricks of grassy sod, pretty much, lay it out in the sun and every day. Or did you turn the peak today? I turned it yet? All right, I'll go out and turn it. No, No, you turn the

peak yesterday, I'll get it. I'll get it today. Maybe this is the origin of Pete and Pete, Peter and Pete. I wish I had something, I got nothing. I had a wall on that one. I got no reaction. Sometimes they fall flat, That's all I know. Alright. So yeah, we had our poor peasants doing all this by hand for a very very long time. But finally in the nineteen eighties the process was mechanic, so digging machines would

scoop the peat out of the ground. It lays in the sun in a loose pile to dry out, and then it's ground up for compost and s. Science History says quote sold to mushroom growers around the country. But first workers do have to check the raw peat to make sure that there aren't chunks of bark or branches in there that might, you know, clog up the grinder. Okay, so yes, robots took their jobs, but robots can't take

every job. You still need human hands. At some point you have to supervise the robots being once again automation coming in and destroying another career, the dirt farm. You know. See, this is what we're letting happen. Every time we let the cars drive us around, someone could be cutting that

dirt out by hands. Think about that, you know, someone said back then they were like, oh, you know, sure, it's just dirt farmers today, But one day even painters their jobs will be taken by some sort of artificial intelligence. That guy knew he was ahead of his time. So on Maree, when two workers named Andy Mold and Stephen Dooley were standing by the Pete Mills conveyor belt and noticed a big chunk of something in the peat, they

did their job and they pulled it out. Now, Andy thought that it looked like maybe a small black leather soccer ball or something like that, or of course in England they would have said a football or football. So they showed this lump their manager and they're joking around like, oh wonder, what what whoa do I find a donosaur rag or something like that, And so they wanted to figure out what it really was, so they washed it off, but instead of an egg, they realized what they were

holding was a human skull. Its jaw was gone, but it still had some skin, and it had hair as well, and one eyeball still intact, staring back at them unseen. This was no joke. They took the skull straight to the police and will uncover this mystery. Right after this commercial break, Welcome back to the show everyone. So, yeah, they found a skull in the pea. It's so creepy.

So they took it to the police. And even though it had been over twenty years at this point since Melika Fernandez went missing, the police were still keeping an eye on old Peter Rheinbart. They wanted to close this cold case for good. And when forensics reported that the skull belonged to a woman between thirty and fifty years old,

they figured they'd pinned it. I mean, they had everything they needed right, So they went straight down to his house, knocked down his door and said, oh hello, Peter, smy either constable again and listen, we just found the skull of a woman basically in your backyard. Is there anything you'd like to share with the class. He's like he's got in his hand and he's like, alas your poor wife, I knew who well, Peter. He's like I've been I've been trying to get ahead of this case for a

long time. Yeah, this this cops should really go on his stand up tour in the Edinburgh Festival only well, Peter took one look at this constable holding the skull of an old dead woman. I assume he didn't actually have it with him, but and Peter just broke down. He told the police everything, you just spilled the whole beans for breakfast right there. He said. After they married, Malika would go on all these trips and she left Peter to stay behind happily with his lover a man.

Shocking development. So it sounds like maybe he proposed a fake marriage to Malika. That's why everything went so quickly. Like they would both have all the freedoms they wouldn't otherwise have, Like she could be married to this dude, you know, and everybody stopped harassing her about getting married. She could just go travel. I've got a husband, and he could have his partner that he loved, and people not harassing him about when are you marrying some lady

and having babies and all that stuff? Right like a beard, right, she was his beard, I guess very House of the Dragon and dying as we see. Yes, perhaps it's speculation station this was the foundation of their marriage. It all seemed good enough for Malika anyway. At the time. What Peter says sometime in nineteen sixty one, she came home from one of her trips and she started demanding money from him. She told him that if he didn't pay,

she would tell everyone that he was gay. Now we know from past episodes that homosexuality was illegal in England at this time, so really Peter had some pretty high stakes in keeping his sexuality a secret. He could be imprisoned for living with a man. That that's the worst case scenario, but at best his life and career would be destroyed. So find it very hard to live in Cheshire if she was too loud about it. So Peter

told the cops. Look, I didn't have any money. I didn't have anything to give her, and she just kept threatening me, and he said, quote, something just boiled over inside of me. He grabbed her shoulders and started shaking her. He told the cops. He didn't even realize that he had killed her until he stopped shaking and she dropped to the ground. He had strangled her to death. Damn, he like blacked out, he told the police. Quote, I was terrified. He could not think clearly. The only thing

that came to mind was to hide her. So like you do, he got an ax and dismembered her. Come on, Peter, he chopped off her head and her limbs. United Press International article says he told the police that dismembering her was quote a terrible mess. I was covered in blood, blindy who gonna thought? Oh, Peter, what did you think? It's gonna be a terrible mess? And then he tried burning her body you know, no trace, you know, kind

of thing. But it requires extreme heat and several hours for a human body to burn to ash CREMATORI ums burn remains for over two hours in ovens that reached six to eight teen hundred degrees fahrenheit. Right, And even then, bones don't burn. They have to be ground down into a powder. Right. They usually get a giant to come

in and grind those bones to make their bread. Yeah. Classic, It's very interesting to learn this, and it does seem kind of obvious once you do, because like the human body, for example, is very wet, so you couldn't just light a match and watch it. I mean like I've had a pie in the oven too long, uh, and you know it's not going to catch fire. Even if it does, you're gonna left be left with a big charred pie.

It's not going to disappear and nothing. So I don't know why someone would think that just a little campfire is gonna I guess yeah. I'm sure he watched a lot of movies out here in the bog. It's well, your mom's gonna be like, actually, there's a great movie from He's just like, that's what you do, fire corpse.

He was probably just like, I don't know, it's the only way when when you want to burn, when you get rid of some evidence, you go into a He had definitely not yet seen breaking bad, so he hadn't quite learned the proper way to dispose or snatch where they fed him too pigs. Oh, he should have just fed him to some pigs. There's gotta be pigs around in Cheshire somewhere. Surely if you live in Cheshire, let us know if there's a lot of pigs around that

He couldn't human flesh hungry pigs. No, anyway, So it's really not a surprise that Peter discovered that burning was not going to work nearly as fast or as neatly as he was hoping. So you know, he's probably in a panic at this point. He's like I've got all these body parts scattered around to floodle over me. I'm like, how us suspicious? Covered in blood? And I've got charred

human chunks all over my house. This story makes it more obvious why the police were a little suspicious, because surely somebody was looking at Peter, like, what's he doing today? Why does it smell like a barbecue? No. Instead, Peter realized that he had a convenient bog nearby, so he scattered her remains in there, and he kind of hoped that they would break down and just become a part of the soil and no harm, no foul, except for

you know, Molika. But Peter was dead wrong. Science history explains that if a body is thrown into a bog when it's thirty nine degrees are colder, and if the bog maintains a regular temperature lower than fifty degrees and stays wet all year, it can actually preserve bodies better

than ancient mummies. In Egypt, they write, quote Sphagnum mosses changed the chemistry of the bodies of water around them, making them highly acidic for a natural environment and very low it dissolved materials as the floating mosses die, they build up layers at the bottom of the bog. The decaying mosses release sugars and humic acids into the water, which consume oxygen as they break down. With the surface blocked by the live moss, the water becomes anaerobic or

oxygen free. Under these conditions, human tissues don't decay. Instead, they tan like leather, skin turns brown, hair turns red, and objects in or around the body dissolve away, as does most clothing. Oh I f L science dot com rights quote. Fall into one of these and when you get discovered centuries later, you very well could look like somebody who fell in yesterday while playing dress up as a murdered four hundred BC peasant. So there's no way

Malika could have decomposed as completely as Peter was hoping. Right. Unfortunately, right because we found some evidence now putting away of murderers. Yeah, I mean, this is like falling into a cryogenic tube and dying there. How weird I know, I'll i'll dissolver and from malde hyde. Peter needed a speed date with science. Now. As far as the lead policeman, Detective Inspector George Abbott, was concerned the case was closed and the head's the

right age, Peter confessed, no big deal, We're done here exactly. So, as Peter awaited his trial, Detective Abbott oversaw a crew who searched the bog carefully for the rest of Malika's remains, but they never found anything else. Just this head. Now that struck Detective Abbott is being kind of weird, like where's the rest of Malika? So ever curious, he sent the head to Oxford University and asked them to take

a look at it. Maybe they'd be able to answer more questions than the police forensics team had been able to, which I love the idea of being a professor at Oxford just being like, oh, package, I wonder it's in here to we just randomly get sent body parts by strangers. But the main thing for Detective Abbot was they got the murderer, you know, so we're good to go. Peter's trial began in December n The cops wanted a life sentence. Peter was hoping to get his charges downgraded from murder

to manslaughter coup. He was like, I was being blackmailed and felt threatened and so on. But one piece of testimony through the entire courtroom into an uproar, and we'll find out what that is. Right after this spooky word from our sponsors, Boom, Welcome back to the show, everyone. A professor from Oxford University's archaeology department had examined Malika's head as requested by Detective Abbott. According to him, the radio carbon dating demonstrated that there was no way in

hell that this skull belonged to Malika Fernandez. Why well, because the skull belonged to someone who died over sixteen hundred years ago in the year four ten. Ship people were gosh swoggled, especially Peter, who basically had the worst face palm of all time, right damn it? I mean he immediately tried to recant his confession. WHOA wait, did I say murdered my wife? Because I meant I murdered Uh, the joke that I told her very funny really slayed. I burned that joke up and drowned it in a

bog and I dismembered it. But as I F L. Science writes, quote, it was a bit late for take sea back seas. I think that's a legal term. In the Three Nighted Press International article. The prosecutor, Martin Thomas told the jury quote, the skull has been preserved in the peat bog for over sixteen centuries and obviously has nothing to do with Melika Reinbart. But the supreme irony is this. Its discovery led directly to the arrest of

the defendant and to his detailed confessional. I mean, seriously, how much is Peter kicking himself for the rest of his life? Probably interviously never talked to the police. The jury deliberated for three hours before finding Peter Reinbart guilty of murder, and he spent the rest of his life in prison. But the story does not end there. Remember Andy Mold, the guy at the Peak factory who discovered that small leather soccer ball that kicked us all off.

He found yet another grizzly discovery at work following year in he plucked what looked like a piece of wood out of the peat and in an interview with the Manchester Museum in two thousand eight, he said, quote, we gave it a little clean, then we saw the toenail. Surprised. Tone nails are just gross. I'm not like to be surprised. You're not expecting a toenail, and you get a toenail, it's always bad news. I don't care what situation you're in. There's never a point in your life where you say, oh,

good a tonail. I expect it, but I'm glad I found it. I'm saving this for later. Now. The police as well as the local archaeologist, Rick Turner, were immediately notified. Now everybody thought that this had to be a piece of Melika Fernandez, right because they've been looking for the rest of her limbs for serious But not only was it not her, it did not belong to the person whose skull they found either. What this was a completely different guy who had died between two BC and one

nineteen CE. Oh my God, now known as Lindo Man, and scholars are still heatedly debating whether or not Lindo Man was murdered, died naturally or was a ritual sacrifice. Okay, so malikam other lady, Ye, the head they found some and now Lindo Man, how many bodies are they going to dig out of this bog? I mean, it's kind of sounding like Lake Mead in Vegas, and they're like, now that the water is going down, we're finding lots of mafia kills, mob bodies, bog bodies and mob bodies. Jeez,

that's there. This bog's just this bog is actually we discovered seventy six human remains. We thought it was dirt this whole time turns out to be well preserved two thousand year old feet just all over this bog. That's crazy nuts nuts, um. I don't know. Part of me is like bury me in a bug. I guess that the you know, one day they can just reanimate me. Weekend it Bernie's your bog body. No, don't weekend it, Bernie's it, actually reanimate me. I don't want to be sorry.

I want to be puppeted around. You want to actually okay, I wanted to take the little rey gun that will invent in the future that brings well preserved bodies back to life, the same one they're going to use for like Walt Disney and all of them, of course. And you know, now here's my question. In this scenario, your body has degraded significantly. Does this regun restore you regun brings you back to my my most youthful, hottest age. Yeah, whatever that might be. YEA, let's say some of us

are hotter later in life. Do you know what I mean? Okay, so you would if you could, you would go back to your twenty two year old look. H yeah, sure, we're like nine. Nine, I was a cute kid. Wow. I hope people were not going up to your nine year old being like, wow, you're a real hottie. I was a hot kid. I said, I was a cute kid. I said, was your hottest look? And you said nine. I'm just thinking to myself, at my most confident, when I was nine, probably nine, I really felt I was

the world in my hands. What happened? People kept telling me I was gifted? Where what happened to that? Well? Yes, both the Lindo man and Malika presumably, and this other head that they found. These are all examples of bog bodies, and these are becoming more and more are well known. The first bog body was discovered in sixteen forty in Germany, but since then many more have been discovered in Pete Boggs in Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, UK, northern Germany, a

lot of boggy places, even even the North America. Pretty Much anywhere there's a bog you might find some bodies

in there well, and with those very specific conditions. That's what I find so interesting about this that they were like, it has to be a certain temperature when you fell in, and it has to maintain a certain temperature and all this stuff like it's very like pretty pretty um exact, because you've got to think there can't be a lot of other animal life in there too, Like you fall into the Yoaki Finoki swamp here in Georgia and your

gator food. That's it, right, Nobody is ever going to find any part of your body because you will have become one with the ecosystem very quickly, extremely quickly. I know. That's what maybe I was kind of like, oh, it's a bog must be different from Marsh, because Marsh feels hot to me, like tropical kind of bog is cool and foggy, and maybe sort of sounds like I mean, if again my knowledge of fifties horror movies is right,

A bog is bogcast fog bogcast, bog boghast frog. I looked up Marsh and I just found the first thing to come up is Marsh Insurance Company. I don't care about that. Also, why would you call it marsh. Oh yeah, I really want my insurance company to be all about sticky, swampy, it's dark, gooey places. All I think of his monster plantation from Six Flags and they go, don't go into the marsh. Course, of course, if you're from Atlanta, that's the first thing you think when you hear the word marsh.

Marsh is an area of low lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains water logged at all times. So is a bog of marsh? Look, I don't know who. Do we need? Any colleges? Yeah, somebody right in and tell this difference between bog and marsh. Yeah, I'm sure we could google it, but we'd rather hear it from you. Yeah. No, it's always better that you're like, what is just google it?

I'm like, because I'd rather hear a human being and knows what they're talking about tell me than like the internet come up. Sometimes that's so true, especially with science, like a science fact or something where people you might get a nerd who's like real into it and they'll be like, not only will I answer your question, but I'm going to tell you something real fucking weird about you that you never would have seen. Ye, kind of like if someone was like, hey, tell me the story

of the bog body on this show. Before you know it, they're learning about the difference between foundering and floundering. They're learning about Pete Moss and dirt farmers because people like us can't help it. No, it's true, because keep talking to fill the silence, all right. So science History says, the way back in the day sixteen seventeen hundreds, when these bog bodies were discovered, they were usually given regular

Christian burials and they would decompose naturally. But in more recent years people got more interested in how these bodies were so well preserved. So instead of just finding one and saying, oh, I'll throw it in a grave, they're like, wait, let's what the hell is going on here? Yes, okay, this guy looks normal and he's been dead along time.

Because that's the thing. These look much better than even the carefully preserved mummies of ancient Egypt, a Science History writes, quote the famous Tolland Man of Denmark, for instance, could almost pass for an old man peacefully asleep with a hat still on his head. Whiskers on his chin and a leather garat around his neck. So hot tip from Ridiculous Romance. Everybody, if you're planning on killing anybody this Halloween, just remember don't throw him into a bog and it

will not burn very quickly either. Hotter tip. Uh, don't just don't. Don't. Don't tell anybody, please. We had enough of that, plenty of that to go around. So yeah, that's the story of the bog body. And they still have not found a trace of Malika Fernandez, damn. And he went and confessed the whole thing's boy, is my foot in my mouth? Um? Somebody? Somebody, Oh toenail man?

What a awkward confession. Potter tip. If the cops come to you with a skull and say is this your ex wives, maybe just say like a lawyer, please, yeah, never confess. Don't say anything a lawyer president unless you did it, and then please do confess. I mean I'm not like, oh, I wish Peter hadn't got away with murdering you know that's true obviously, but it does. It is a big, like you said, a face palm moment. Yeah,

I'll say too. I want to throw this out there, especially if you know this story or if you want to go look it up and find more information, um, it's history. Dot Org does go on to say that Peter Reinbart had been imprisoned at some point for quote, sex crimes against children, and on this IMDb forum, a user says they dug a little deeper and found that Peter and his accomplice, Paul Corrigan, kidnapped and killed a

thirteen year old boy. Now that seemed odd to me that the police were keeping an eye on this guy because he had committed sex crimes against children that he got out of jail for andimly and then they like let him go back home. I don't know. That just didn't make a lot of sense to me. So I googled Peter's name is trying to find some particulars about this case or why they let him out or whatever, and I just can't find anything to back this up. Paul Corrigan did come up, Um, he certainly did kill

a young boy. Um his accomplice. His name in the reports though, is Derek mcgines, not Peter Reinbart. So I'm just really not sure where anyone got that information. And that's why we didn't really include it in this story. But you're from England. If you know what they're talking about, please let us know, because it makes me hate Peter a lot more, right because I did. I don't want him to get away with murder, but I did feel a little sympathy if his if his if it's true

that Malika was trying to blackmail him sexuality. I don't think you should murder anyone over that, but you can kind of see where that might cause a lot of fear and a lot of anger in someone and cause him to snap. So it's again not to condone murder or anything. I was just like, well, you know, Peter should should get in trouble, but I can see why at least there's a reason, if not an excuse for

his behavior. Can bring that down to manslaughter, maybe bring it down to manslaughter, which is one of the reasons we have a difference between those two things, right exactly, there's circumstances, Yeah, thats right, But then but if he,

like you know, killed a young boy. Also, if he's just a murderer, that's definitely a different story, right, And you know, that was an other reason it felt like a red flag to me that they said sex times against children, because that was again homosexuality was illegal, and often often there's doing it today. A lot of the rhetoric likes to tie anyone gay with pedophilia. It is crazy and untrue and completely fucked up to do that.

So I was kind of like, maybe somebody accused him because he was gay and he got in trouble, but he never actually did anything. I really don't know. I couldn't find anything, so please do let us know if you have any idea where that info came from. Right, very interesting this one. It's so it's a different kind of creepy. It's this episode is recryptulous solely in the

fact that there's a bug. I mean, like, this could be any time of the year murder story, but you throw up an English bog in there, and suddenly I'm in the spookiest place I can imagine. Right, it's definitely there's definitely if there's a bog, then it's all misty, it's cold, and somewhere in the distance there's like a horse with flaming eyes. You know, I was going to

feel like an owl hooting. Definitely, they're like a wrestling in the bushes or something or some other weird squawking side, Like you don't know if it's a bird and a monster with footstep or twig breaking. You just know there's someone out there, but you can't see me. Maybe they can see you. Very scary. Um, you sounded like you're real terrified. It really got me on that and your pants they're yeah, definitely horrified. Uh, this is a cool story. Um,

this is a tragic couple. Yeah, and an untimely demise and a fascinating science experiment. Yeah. I do wish we knew a little more about that two hour conversation they had originally. I know, well, I like your idea that he was just like, hey, you need someone to marry. I need someone to marry. We get along, okay, but

how do they know that? That's what I'm just like in the two out where they like hanging out at an airport bar or something, and they just happened to start cutting it up, you know, like you do with a stranger and he's just like, well, you know, I'm an airline attendant whatever he did for the airline, And she's like, I just love to travel. My dream is to have a husband who works for the airline. So that I can travel for free. And he's like, my dream is to have a wife who won't want to

suck me. And she was like, listen here, I don't want to fuck you. So this could work out great. Yeah, that could be. I mean, like, what was the what was the secret gay language back then? Hilaris Hilaris? Was that happening at this time? Yeah, maybe she knew it. Maybe she dropped a couple of terms and he was like, oh, you're down with and yeah and um and and that's

how the whole thing started. Maybe I'm just so curious how they decided with so quickly to bind their lives together and then four days later get married, which I'm assuming they just were like, let's just go on down and get it, get this done, and she's like, I got I'm trying to get to the Maldives. Let me

get he No for real. I mean, the fact that it was so quick, I think lends a lot of credence to that angle, right that they're like, they're this marriage was not one born of some deep infatuation that happened very suddenly because he was gay for one um. So so yeah, it does seem like they quickly came to an arrangement. I don't know, you know, and how

true was the two hours thing? Either it's true, there's I mean, who who knows how long they really Maybe they did know each other like back in the day or something like its kids or I don't know. That's what we'd like to bring on this show, a lot of I don't know, that's why you come to us. Oh, I guess we we'll have to go dig in through the bog if we ever want to find the answers, and then we'll have to reanimate Malika's skull, and then she can tell us why why did y'all get married

so quickly? What happened? She was like, this is why you're reanimated my decapitated head. It's probably like thanks for finding my decapitated head. Yeah, sure, that's what I would tell her. Like sounds ungrateful, but okay. Or it's like Buffy or she's like I was in paradise and you reanimated me into this swampy decapitated skull. True. Look, it's Halloween. We're all excited about ghouls and corpses around here. Uh, Malika's too, So I'm so glad that y'all tuned in

for this one. Hope the spooky season is upon you and making you feel all creeped out. Yeah, it was just really cool learn the science of all the creepy bog bodies and body preservation and burning body. I've just took a lot of notes for no reason. Oh okay, all right, well you ab in case I need it right, it's on record. UM, just want to put that out there for everyone to make sure you download this episode and keep it close. Inspector Abbott Casey, I'm mysterious it disappears.

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