Case No. 002 — Bergen, Norway, 1970 Status: Identity unknown · Cause disputed
Case File — Unsolved

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The Case

A Burned Body. A Scraped-Out Name.

On 29 November 1970, a father walking with his two daughters found a woman's body among the rocks of a valley outside Bergen, Norway — a place locals call . Every label had been cut from her clothes. Every mark had been scraped from her belongings.

For fifty years she had no name — only eight false ones. In 2016, isotope analysis of her teeth finally gave her something real: . It didn't solve the case. It gave her a before.

The full account — every false name, every theory, every anomaly checked against the documented case record — is in The Woman Who Wasn't There, Book Two of The Unlucky Thirteen.

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Isdalen, the valley outside Bergen where the body was found
Exhibit 01

The valley

Isdalen — "Ice Valley." Locals call it Dødsdalen: Death Valley.

Reconstruction of items found in the suitcases
Exhibit 02

The suitcases

Found in left luggage — 500 Deutschemarks sewn into the lining.

Facsimile of the coded notebook
Exhibit 03

The coded notebook

A simple cipher that mapped her last months across Europe.

Route from Bergen to Isdalen
Exhibit 04

The route

Bergen Railway Station to Isdalen. View the case board ↓

Exhibit 04 — Case Board

The case, by location

Tap a pin. Real satellite imagery of Bergen — Fløyen, Isdalen, and Møllendal Cemetery, precisely placed.

Bergen, Norway — real satellite imagery, three key sites marked.

Also part of the case — not pictured above:

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What's your theory?

Cold War spy, eliminated by her own side or the other. A woman running from something far older than Bergen. Or something in between. Fifty-five years on, the case is still open for debate.

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Case No. 003 — Ural Mountains, USSR, 1959

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Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent in the middle of a freezing night and ran, half-dressed, into the dark. All nine died. A 2021 scientific study proposed a leading theory — but it hasn't settled the case for everyone.

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