
Roopkund: The Skeleton Lake DNA Made Stranger
Hundreds of bones sit in a Himalayan lake at 16,470 feet. A 2019 genome study was supposed to end the mystery. Instead it found people who should not be there.
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Hundreds of bones sit in a Himalayan lake at 16,470 feet. A 2019 genome study was supposed to end the mystery. Instead it found people who should not be there.

In 1828 a dazed teenager appeared in Nuremberg with a strange letter. Was he a lost prince? Three DNA tests later, the answer still slips away.

In October 1967, witnesses watched a 60-foot object with four lights dive into the sea off Nova Scotia. The Navy searched for days and found nothing.

In 1997, NOAA hydrophones caught a sound louder than a blue whale from an empty stretch of the South Pacific. The ice theory answered part of it.

In September 1961, a New Hampshire couple lost two hours on a dark road. The Betty and Barney Hill case launched the modern age of alien abduction.

In 1970, a woman's burned body was found in a Norwegian valley with nine aliases, coded notes, and every label cut from her clothes. She has never been named.