Still Spooktober: They Built It on a Haunted Burial Ground - Ep 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) Contact Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates Wildnote Digital Marketing Course TeePublic Timeular