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There are records of people discovering bodies and bogs for almost 400 years. Archaeologist Miranda Auldhaus Green has written that sometimes they were ground into a powder, put into jars, and sold as medicine. Egyptian mummies were also used to make Mummy Powder. Even after people stopped using Mummy Powder as medicine, it continued to be used as a pigment for painters. One London-based paint company manufactured it until 1964 when they told Time magazine that they'd run out of mummies.

In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the police. A foot had been found in a nearby bog.

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