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) [https://uttarakhandtourism.gov.in/activity/nanda-devi-raj-jat-yatra/] * 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand) [https://www.euttarakhand.com/10-things-know-nanda-devi-raj-jat-yatra] * Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia) [http://www.ecoindia.com/lakes/roopkund.html] * There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science) [https://www.iflscience.com/environment/theres-a-frozen-lake-in-india-thats-full-of-skeletons-what-on-earth-happened-here/] * Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura) [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india] * Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains [https://sciencedummy.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/mystery-solved-the-skeleton-lake-of-india/] * Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That's Interesting) [https://allthatsinteresting.com/roopkund-lake] * Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express) [http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/tourists-to-roopkund-trek-back-with-human-skeletons/238208/] * The Mystery of 'Skeleton Lake' Gets Deeper (The Atlantic) [https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/roopkund-skeleton-lake/596416/] * Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org) [https://phys.org/news/2019-08-biomolecular-analyses-roopkund-skeletons-mediterranean.html] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * Digital Marketing Course [http://2b57d328r930q16ked3cym-hea.hop.clickbank.net/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/]

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