Roopkund: The Secret Behind India's 'Skeleton Lake,' With Over 800 Human Remains!

In Himalayas India, a remote Roopkund lake lodged in a snowy valley is found littered with hundreds of human skeletons. The lake is sited 5,029 metres (16,500feet) above sea level underneath a hilly slope on the Trisul mountains, one of the highest mountains in India, Uttarakhand state.

The Frozen Lake

There is a trending folk song in the areas of the village that speaks about how Goddess Nanda Devi founded a hail storm that is as hard as iron and it killed people finding their way past the skeleton lake.

The Nanda Devi mountain, which is India's second-highest mountain is indicated as a goddess.
Recent studies of skeleton have shown that many of the people who died were tall because their stature is more than average.

Nearly all of them were middle-aged between the ages of 35 to 40. No babies or children were found and a few of them were elderly women with good health.

Disastrous Event in 19th Century

Moreover, there is a general assumption that the remains were of a group of people who were laid to rest altogether in one disastrous event in the 19th Century.

The recent five-year research which includes 28 co-authors from 16 different institutions located in India, Germany, and the United States, discovered that all these assumptions may be false.

Researchers genetically investigate the skeletal remains of 38 bodies discovered at the lake.
No weapons or arms were seen at the place and the lake is not sited on a trade way. Genetic studies discovered no proof that there's a presence of old bacteria that could explain the cause of their death.

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