Hey everybody, this is Dylan.

So if you spend some time browsing around on Atlas Obscura, looking through the thousands

of places we have all over the world, you will find some distinct themes.

And today, we're going to dive into one of those areas of expertise, a slightly more

macabre area, and a favorite of mine.

Because today, on the show, it's Mummy's Day.

Our Mummy's go well beyond just the classic ancient Egyptian model.

Who better to share some of our favorite Mummy stories than Jonathan Carey and Michelle

Cassidy, our places editors?

They manage the Atlas Obscura database, including over 100 Mummy entries, and they're going

to tell you their favorite Mummy stories.

So first up is Michelle, to tell you about an ancient Mummy with a mysterious origin.

Picture this.

It's the 1830s, it's Northern Denmark.

There are a couple of guys out working in the peat bog outside a largest state.

It's a wide flat expanse.

There are a couple little pools of water, there are few scraggly trees breaking through

this big wide carpet of spongy moss.

These workers are hacking through the moss to get at the peat that sits below it.

It's a thick layer of basically just dead and decaying plant material, but it's actually

really valuable.

Remember, this was almost 200 years ago.

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