Lake of bones

On the day FT405 arrived (20 April), but before I read about the report on the lake of skeletons in the Himalayas [ p.12], I watched a YouTube video on the subject (https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=yYBPdL8cjfo). The information in both is generally in agreement – but at 6.38 minutes in, it states: “In fact, it seems extremely unlikely that these people could have been soldiers at all, as there were many women and children amongst the dead, and only a single weapon was ever found at the site, an iron spearhead.” This conflicts with the FT statement: “There were no children”. In the end, the 15-minute video comes to no definite conclusion, although it speculates (without evidence) that some of the dead might have been victims of the Thuggee cult, which might explain the relative lack of man-made objects found in the lake.

Ian Rippey

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