Preliminary examinations of the skeletons found
clinging to each other in the Irish bog were revealed to be an adolescent male
and female, both in their late teens. Fanciful stories about the macabre pair flew
even from the tongues of seasoned academics.
Some postulated that the boy was slain by the
girl’s jealous lover and pushed into the bog. Unable to fathom life without her
love, the bereaved miss jumped in and died with him.
Others speculated that the pair had a forbidden
love like Romeo and Juliet, drank poison, and clung to each other as they sank
into eternity as one.
Still others believed that the girl had died of an
opportunistic illness. Driven mad with grief, the boy took her body in his arms
and jumped into the bog. Over time, the bodies were repositioned clinging to
each other in an eternal embrace.
“Flights of fancy, the lot of it,” the decorated
seventy-five-year-old archaeologist, Zaidy Ruggieri, declared quietly, reaching
to squeeze the fingers of her friend of fifty-seven years and husband of
forty-five.
Preliminary examinations of the skeletons found clinging to each other in the Irish bog were revealed to be an adolescent male and female, both in their late teens. Fanciful stories about the macabre pair flew even from the tongues of seasoned academics.
Some postulated that the boy was slain by the girl’s jealous lover and pushed into the bog. Unable to fathom life without her love, the bereaved miss jumped in and died with him.
Others speculated that the pair had a forbidden love like Romeo and Juliet, drank poison, and clung to each other as they sank into eternity as one.
Still others believed that the girl had died of an opportunistic illness. Driven mad with grief, the boy took her body in his arms and jumped into the bog. Over time, the bodies were repositioned clinging to each other in an eternal embrace.
“Flights of fancy, the lot of it,” the decorated seventy-five-year-old archaeologist, Zaidy Ruggieri, declared quietly, reaching to squeeze the fingers of her friend of fifty-seven years and husband of forty-five.
