Michrine

From the BBC World Service and N.R.K. this is Death in Ice Valley.

Some people take their secrets with them to the grave when they die.

And some graves hold more secrets than others.

There's one in particular in the main cemetery in Bergen, a city on the west coast of Norway.

It's hidden on Rød-Rød-Rød-Rømbosch.

You could walk right past it on the gravel path and you wouldn't know it was there.

There's no headstone, no cross, no sign at all identifying Hula's beneath.

One morning in February 1971, a small group of people working for the Bergenpolis

huddles together in the icy rain.

They watch as a white coffin is slowly lowered into the ground on this spot.

The coffin is decorated with tulips and conations and lined with sink.

None of the funeral guests know the dead person inside.

There are no relatives of the deceased at the grave site.

The priest opens his Bible and reads from the verse about the unknown woman,

saying that the woman before them is also unknown.

He adds, as the coffin disappears from view, in all probability,

she is also buried in a land unknown to her.

The zinc-lined coffin wouldn't disintegrate.

It was chosen in case her family were ever found and she could be returned home.

When people go missing, they're usually missed.

Someone must have missed her somewhere when she was gone.

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