Shall we report him to the police?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220907-the-mystery-of-the-human-sacrifices-buried-in-europes-bogs

"What was spectacular about him was that he was almost killed three times," says Miranda Aldhouse-Green, emeritus professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University and author of the book Bog Bodies Uncovered. "He was given a very special protracted death by people who understood human anatomy: he was hit on the head hard enough to stun him, but not kill him. He was then garrotted, and at the same time, his throat was cut."

Even today, the raised bogs can be mesmerising, says Ole Nielsen, director of the Silkeborg Museum in Hovedgården, Denmark. "It doesn't really take a lot of fantasy to imagine that there are more forces going on than you can really see."

The details of his fatal injuries also points in this direction. "The perpetrator was very knowledgeable about human anatomy, and knew how to keep this person hovering on the edges between life and death for quite some time," says Aldhouse-Green. "When he was then thrust face down into the bog, he was still breathing, because there is water in the lungs."

Giles agrees. "You're dealing with entities that are influencing your life, gods or spirits, there's something supernatural there that can be accessed though the bog," she says. There may have been an element of circularity to the offering of people to the gods via the bog, Giles adds. "As people were taking so much from the bogs, they seem to have been compelled to give things back." Sometimes these things were cauldrons, sometimes they were food offerings such as bog butter. "If you give up a person, a life – that could be the very best kind of offering you can make."

It was imperative to feed Europe's waters to keep their anger at bay. The ancients knew, but their wisdom had been mostly forgotten.