The mystery of India's Skeleton Lake
Hundreds of skeletons found dead of unknown causes
In the midst of WWII, a British forest guard came across an alarming sight in the northern mountains of India: hundreds of human skeletons surrounding a high alpine lake. At the time, the British military worried that the skeletons might have been from Japanese soldiers trying to sneak into British territory, so they sent a squad of archaeologists out to examine the remains.