Esoteric Ramblings

From time to time, an Iron Age dead body turns up in a European peat bog; the Talking Heads announce the poor sod was a human scarifice to the Swamp Gods and "The National Geographic" does an exhaustive piece on the find. OK, maybe a sacrifice, but maybe not. Let me explain. Starting last December, the bodies of young women who worked as escourts have been turning up on the barrier islands off Long Island; I've been following this story because Gilgo Beach, Oak Beach, Jones Beach were my old stumping grounds. Fifty years ago, I spent many a Saturday night at the Oak Beach Inn (back then one could drink at 18 in New York). So I got to thinking. If these bodies had not turned up until 2,000 years in the future, would the finders have assumed we practiced human sacrifice? Maybe these Iron Age bodies were plain old murder victims and the murderer just wanted to off load the remains - what better place then a swamp? Just wondering.