The Dröbnitz Girl

 

In 1939 the body of a girl was found in a bog in Dröbnitzer Moor, Dröbnitz (Drwęck) Poland. In an attempt to recover the mummy both of her legs were removed at the hips and were left in the bog. The mummy was well preserved and with x-rays, it was determined all internal organs were recognizable and extremities were well preserved.

The body would be dubbed The Dröbnitz Girl and was between 12 to 14-years-old when she died. She likely lived and died in the iron age during the Hallstatt period around 650 BCE. She was wrapped in a large sheepskin cloak with her arms crossed over her chest. A wooden comb and a crest were found with her body. It's believed that this was a ritual funeral instead of sacrificial.

The body was destroyed or lost during WWII so further research could not be done. There is some information though. Samples of the bog suggest when the body was placed in a shallow pond that silted up and became a peat pond. Her stomach contents had the presence of leaves, flowers, residues of peas, wheat, meat fibers, and animal fats. High amounts of pollen were also discovered leading them to believe she may have been buried in the spring. She had evidence of malnutrition, whipworm, roundworm, and their eggs in her stomach. Which at the time would not have been uncommon

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Wikipedia

Mummipedia

GHOSTS: The Vulcan Hotel's The Rose

  

St. Bathans, New Zealand (Formerly Dustan Creek) was the settlement center for the Otago Gold Rush, though the mining has long since stop and people now visit the town for a holiday retreat. The city had many historic buildings including the Vulcan Hotel.

The Vulcan Hotel was built in 1882 of mudbrick and originally went by the Ballarat Hotel. The hotel holds a lot of history and the spirit of a murdered young woman called "The Rose". The Rose was a prostitute who worked in Room 1 of the hotel. In the 1880's she lost her life in the hotel by being strangled to death. Her murderer was never found and that is why she still haunts the hotel.

People have said that they've seen her in the corner of their eyes. That she terrorizes male guests that stay in Room 1 by pinning them down onto the bed. The room would be freezing cold though it was warm elsewhere.

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Wikipedia

NZ Herald

Stuff

Mary Cacknall Wright Murders Her Newborn

Before 06 August 1873 20-year-old Mary Cracknall Wright had given birth to a baby. She was the daughter of the landlord of the Queen's Head Inn. She had slit the throat of her newborn twice and hid the body between the mattress and bed in her room in Bradwell, England. When asked she admitted to killing the child and that she had also planned to kill herself by slicing her own throat. A corners jury returned with a verdict of Willful murder.

SOURCES:
The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser 06 August 1873
The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser 09 August 1873

The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser 09 August 1873

The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser 09 August 1873

The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser  16 August 1873

UNIDENTIFIED: Jan. 14, 1953 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Babes in the Woods

On Jan. 14, 1953, the bodies of two young boys (initially believed to be a boy and a girl) were found in a brush-filled area of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. They were covered by what looked like a woman's rain cape. They were laying in a straight line with their feet almost close together and heads in opposite directions. They could have been dead for up to the fall of 1947. 

There was a hatchet found at the scene. Both boys had wounds to their heads. One of the victim's skull had a wound in the back of the head that the hatchet fit perfectly. The other skull was fractured by what may have been the hammer of the hatchet. It's believed that the killer was the mother. 

It's believed that the body of Boy A was laid down first where they were found. He was faced down in a shallow depression. Boy B was then placed down where he was found and it's believed that the killer (a woman) lost her shoe underneath his left shoulder and between a log. Before she left she covered the boys in her coat and in a panic left her shoe where she lost it. 

The boys weren't identified. It wasn't until a DNA test in 90's that Boy b was found to be a boy instead of a girl. 

There was a possible lead to identifying the children. In 1949 or 1950 a man working in a logging camp, and his companion picked up a woman and two children. During the ride, she told them that she had been in trouble with Mission Police for vagrancy charges. They learned that one or both children at some time attended Cedar Valley School and she lived on Cherry St. in Mission B.C. It's possible that the men mistook "Vag C" instead of vagrancy which was the code for prostitution at the time. 

The woman was described as having red hair. The two boys were around 6 or 7 years old with one of them wearing an aviator flying helmet. The lead managed the find the family name of Grant, but this lead was exhausted after speaking to family members. 

There was a report a few years before the bodies being found of an adult male and female walking in the woods with two young boys. One of the boys was carrying a hatchet. Later that day the couple was seen again this time without the boys and the woman was without one of her shoes. 

Police don't believe that they'll catch the person who murdered these young children. It's likely that the killer would be deceased by now anyway. They just want to give the children back their names. 

Boy A is a white male between 7 and 10 years old. He was described as having a sturdy build. He had many cavities. Clothing deteriorated. He was wearing brown oxfords with white crepe rubber soles, a belt and a leather aviation helmet with goggles, and a zipper jacket or sweater (one article states it's a red Fraser Tartan Jacket). 

Boy B is a white male and was between 7 and 10-years-old. He was described as having a slender build. He had more cavities than his brother. He was wearing identical brown oxfords with white crepe rubber soles, but 1/2 an inch longer, a belt, a zipper jacket or sweater, an aviator helmet with goggles, and the underwear he was wearing was deteriorated but believed to be too big as a safety pin was used in the elastic to keep them up. 

The hatchet at the scene was typically used by shinglers and lathers. It was rusty and the handle was broken into two by the time it was found. 

The coat was a cheap dark brown (dyed rabbit) with leg-of-mutton shoulders that were popular in 1943. The coat is a size 16 and is 40 inches long. The lining material of the coat indicated it had been worn for 2 or 3 years. The woman's show was a moccasin style size 5 1/2 with crepe soles with a light grey plastic quarter lining and a red plastic quarter binding. 

There was a light blue with white trim children's lunch box by the bodies. It isn't stated if there was anything inside the lunchbox when the children died. 

There is no mention of a bracelet that I could find, but one article has a picture of a piece of a child's bracelet with a button from the coat. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network Boy A

Doe Network Boy B

Mysterious Universe

Wikipedia

The Globe and Mail

Global

The Vancouver Sun Jan 19, 1953

The Vancouver Sun April 15, 1953

MONSTERS: Tiyanak

 

Photo by Sebastian Unrau

The Tiyanak is a vampiric creature in Philippine history. The Tiyank are babies who are offsprings of a woman and demon, babies who died before receiving baptism, aborted fetuses, and or babies born in a coffin birth. It is said that the Tiyanak lives in the forests. 

They will transform into normal-looking babies and cry trying to attract a human to their aid. When a human finds it the tiyanak will transform back to its demon form and attack its prey, most likely eating it. If becoming prey to a Tiyanak the best way to survive is to turn your clothes inside out. The Tiyanak will find it funny and release you.

The looks of the Tyanak's form differ from story to story. One says that it stays the same as a normal baby, but grows fangs and claws. Another is that it shares similarities with dwarves and its true form is a wrinkled old man with a long beard, mustache, a flat nose, and eyes the size of pesta coins, and the reason it takes the form of a baby is because of its difficulty hunting due to uneven legs. Another story is said to fly through the forest as a baby and can transform into a blackbird. Another version from Pampanga it's described as a small, nut-brown person with large noses, wide mouths, large fierce eyes, and sharp voices and they float instead of walk.


SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Mythical Creatures Guide

Boogeyman Wiki

SACRIFICE: Achiometl's daughter

In 1323 the Mexica would ask the new ruler of the Culhuacan, Achicometl, for his daughter as a bride. They would tell him that she would reign as "Sovereign of the Mexica and wife of their god,” Huitzilopochtli".  Achicometl complied not knowing of their actual plans to make her the goddess Yaocihual meant.

He would then bring her to the Mexica. Unbeknownst to Achicometl to make her the goddess Yaocihual meant that his daughter was going to be brutally sacrificed. Her skin was flayed from her body. The Mexica would invite  Achicometl and some of the people of Culhaucan to some festivities.

They would see a dancing priest wearing the young bride's skin. It would anger the Culhuacan people and especially Achicometl. The Mexica were chased out.

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Wikipedia

David Bowels

Time Toast

MISSING: Charles Henry Baxter

Sometime after June 30, 1939, 31-year-old Charles Baxter went missing from the Hawarden District. Saskatchewan, Canada. There are several theories on what had happened to him. It was thought possible he went across the river to Tichfield to find work, or possibly joined the military and went overseas. However, these were never proven and he'd never seen his family again.  Charles is a caucasian male. 

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Doe Network

Saskatchewan Association of Chief of Police