Still Spooktober: They Built It on a Haunted Burial Ground - The Dirt 67

Spooktober winds to a close once again, and we end with a mystery. Bundle up and join Anna and Amber at Roopkund Lake, where bones scatter the shore and speculation and science meet. Who were the people whose skeletal remains keep appearing in a remote lake in northern India? How did they get there? How might we find out?

Links

• Nanda Devi Raaj Jat Yatra (Uttarakhand Tourism)

• 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand)

• Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia)

• There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science)

• Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura)

• Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains

• Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That’s Interesting)

• Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express)

• The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper (The Atlantic)

• Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org)

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