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Mystery skeleton lake riddled with hundreds of bones which emerge from snow

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Mystery surrounds a skeleton lake filled with hundreds of bones which emerge from melted slow every year.The glacial lake, called Roopkund, sits high up in the Indian Himalayas at 16,500ft above sea level.

The remote site in Uttarakhand, India, can take five days to trek to from the nearest village.Within its depths lie hundreds of human bones, which are also scattered around its edge.Although it remains frozen for most of the year, when the snow melts the skeletons emerge.They are thought to belong to between 600 and 800 humans.The human remains, some of which are well preserved, were first found by a British forest ranger in 1942.To this day, it is unknown exactly where they are from and why they are there.But one theory suggests extreme.

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