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Rotten Human Archive

Rotten Human Archive

By: Mirko Peters
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 Welcome to Rotten Human Archive — a documentary series at the intersection of forensics, archaeology, radiology, and human error.

Here, every case file is real.
Every fracture pattern, every custody failure, every imaging anomaly is drawn from an actual archival record.

These are not murder-mystery fantasies.
These are the parts of human history we weren’t meant to keep — and the pieces the world tried to throw away.

In each episode we reconstruct a case with clinical precision:
• natural mummification in caves
• broken chains-of-custody
• bone trauma and fetal metrics
• imaging signatures that tell the truth even when people don’t
• museums rescuing what private collectors damaged
• remains that survive for centuries — and then almost die again in modern garages, attics, basements, and illegal shipments

No invented drama.
No fake narrative.
Just the honest record — and the uncomfortable data that lives inside it.

Our job is simple:
take the archive seriously.
Follow what the evidence actually supports.
Draw the line between what we know, what we can prove, and what our culture imagines.

If you want “true crime,” this isn’t it.
If you want the real forensic universe — the one built from CT slices, cave chemistry, textiles, radiocarbon, human negligence, and accidental preservation — you’re home.

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Enter the files.
And remember: the bones never lie — only the living do.

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Episodes
  • Case File 80-913: Taphonomic Progression and Unauthorized Stasis

    Case File 80-913: Taphonomic Progression and Unauthorized Stasis
    Nov 1 2025
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:00:37) Provenience Analysis
    (00:04:55) Biological Profile Overview
    (00:08:59) Maternal Injury Patterns
    (00:18:16) CT Scan Findings

    A bundled adolescent female, near-term pregnant, naturally desiccated in a cave system in the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico — then extracted without permits, smuggled across a border, and stored for fourteen years in a cardboard box in a suburban garage.

    This case is not fiction.

    This episode examines the long forensic arc of a body that survived centuries of perfect microclimate — only to lose almost all contextual meaning in the modern world through custody failure.

    We reconstruct the file in layers:
    • cave microclimate and natural mummification
    • plant volatiles, mat wrapping, and burial practice signatures
    • chain-of-custody collapse and unlogged contamination
    • the museum accession that finally stopped the informational bleeding
    • radiocarbon, biological profile, textile data, and fetal orientation
    • thin-slice CT signatures — pelvic ring disruption, acetabular displacement, sacroiliac irregularity

    We move carefully between anthropology, imaging, and mechanism analysis — without sensationalism — and without invented narrative where the archive is silent. This is not entertainment built around guessing.This is structural reading of evidentiary limits.

    This file raises a bigger question:
    what is truth in cases where the material is intact, but the story is destroyed?

    We follow what can be proven: a late-teen female, near thirty weeks’ gestation, with a lateral-compression injury constellation in remote terrain — likely fatal even today without care.

    Context lost. Bone intact. Imaging decisive.

    Subscribe to access additional case files as they are released — including provenance breaches, custodial contradictions, and non-fiction imaging-forward forensic reconstructions drawn directly from archival or documented material only.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rotten-human-archive--6781658/support.
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