The Isdal Woman: The Most Mysterious Unidentified Person in European History

In November 1970, two hikers in a Norwegian valley found a woman's body. Still burning. Around her: sleeping pills, liqueur bottles, a passport. At Bergen railway station three days earlier — two unclaimed suitcases. Inside: eight more passports. Eight different names. Eight different nationalities. Every document was forged. Her fingerprints had been deliberately removed. Every clothing label had been cut out. An encrypted diary found among her belongings took cryptographers 46 years to partially decode. Norwegian police investigated for two years. They contacted Interpol. They interviewed hundreds of witnesses across fourteen countries. In 1972 they closed the case. They still don't know who she was. This is the Isdal Woman — one of the most exhaustively investigated and completely unresolved identity mysteries in modern European history. What they left out. ───────────────────────────────── SOURCES & FURTHER READING ► Norwegian Police Investigation Files (released 2016) ► NRK Documentary: The Isdal Woman (2017) ► Interpol Case Archives ───────────────────────────────── TAGS #isdalwoman #unsolvedmysteries #conspiracy #truehistory #unexplained #documentary #mystery #coldcase #creepy #unknown own #modernhistory