While Roopkund, also commonly referred to as “Skeleton Lake”, is an extremely beautiful lake in a scenic, uninhabited, location in the Himalayas, it hides a very morbid secret. When the snow melts and the ice thaws, this lake reveals the grisly origin of the nickname it has earned: human skeletons rest at the bottom. Skeletons, spearheads, leather slippers, and rings are also scattered around the lake, making the area quite macabre. It is the final resting place of approximately 300 human bodies. It’s unsure of how these people died but they were first discovered in 1942. Even more bizarre is that an investigation revealed that all of these people perished at the same time, first of all indicating that this was some sort of massacre; the bones showed signs of blunt force trauma to the skull. One theory is that the group were caught in a severe hailstorm with no shelter. DNA testing also suggests that these bones date back to around 840AD, meaning that these skeletons had been in their glacial tombs for over 1,000 years before being discovered.
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