Episode 117: The Isdal Woman

SKIP TO 00:16:55 TO GET TO THE STORY Welcome to Episode 119: The Isdal Woman. Just before 10am on Sunday, November 29, 1970, a professor father and his two young daughters are out hiking the rocky hillsides of Ice Valley, located just outside the Norwegian city of Bergen. As the trio makes their way up and down the many hills jutting up from a pine tree-laden black lake, one of his daughters, age 12, clambers up ahead, scrambling excitedly over rocks and brush. Suddenly, she turns on her heel and comes running back to her father and sister. “Daddy!” she yells, “There’s a funny looking mannequin over there!” She points towards the area where she just ran from. Her father continues onward toward the spot where his daughter had just pointed. Upon peering over some boulders, his worst fears are soon realized: there, nestled tightly in a crevice, he sees not a mannequin, but the burnt and charred body of a woman. This woman would come to be known as “The Isdal Woman”. Who was she? How did she end up burned to death in such a remote area? Join us on this week’s episode as we seek to unravel this decades-old mystery. TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 - INTRO/DONORS/PERSONAL HAUNTINGS 00:16:55 - PART I: NORWAY 00:25:19 - PART II: THE ISDAL WOMAN 01:00:16 - PART III: THE MODERN INVESTIGATION 01:09:54 - PART IV: THE THEORIES — Other Important Stuff: Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Donate to our stupid show: https://ko-fi.com/dogmomusa Buy Venterra Farms CBD Products: https://www.venterrafarms.com & use code “HAUNTED15” at checkout for 15% off Buy Manscaped products: https://www.manscaped.com & use code “LETSGETHAUNTED” for 20% off Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: [email protected] — Theme song by: Steven Suptic Royalty free music used in this episode: - “Haunted Mansion | Dark Music Box/Scary Lullaby | Royalty free Music” uploaded to youtube by Jonathan Segev, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jMkAjwd_Q - “Aftermath” by Kevin MacLeod found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJApqlWZTHo - “Abyss” by Myuu, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmKYYm1Elw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices