Published Oct 27, 2026 3:43 PM EDT In August of 1984, commercial peat cutters working near Wilmslow, about a half-hour drive south of Manchester, England, discovered a dead body in the moss. The corpse was determined to be a 25-year-old man with a closely shorn beard and well-manicured nails. He had suffered two or three heavy blows to the head, and had sustained a cut throat and a fractured rib. But this wasn’t a fresh corpse: His body had been laying in that peat bog for nearly 2,000 years.