In 1942, a park ranger working for the government of India was out hiking high up in the Himalayan mountains, up near the border with Tibet.

He was tracking rare animals supposedly and he might have been actually looking for

unauthorized incursions into India,

because this was during World War II,

and India was really worried about invasion

as everyone was.

And he came across this beautiful glacial lake and like a jewel in the mountains, way high up at 16,000 feet and he went down to investigate and made this terrifying discovery.

He was absolutely astonished to find that there were human remains everywhere, a bones and skulls, and also flesh preserved.

I mean, this was at 16,000 feet, way, way above the tree line,

a week from any kind of human habitation.

And here were hundreds, literally hundreds of dead people.

And of course he was really freaked out by this

and immediately reported it to the Indian government.

And the Indian government was freaked out because this was during World War II and they

immediately assumed it were the remains of an invasion of Japanese from the north.

We've been caught in bad weather and died

because these bodies, a lot of them,

were fairly well preserved.

So the Indian government sent soldiers up to investigate this mysterious lake.

They were turned back by bad weather a number of times, but they finally made it to the Lake's edge.

And they quickly realized these were not Japanese soldiers

that these bodies were very old.

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