Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/mystery-deepens-dead-of-skele.html
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I’m sure it’s just a typo in the link, but “rebunks” should definitely be the word for when a debunking is unbunked.
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I wonder if there is any tectonic activity in the area causing the lake to “burp” CO2 periodically. This phenomenon killed nearly 2k people in Cameroon in 1986.
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Fyre Festival v0.1?
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That appears to be an umbrella handle - so we know at least one of them was British.
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dead of Skeleton Lake weren’t killed by a hailstorm
maybe they werent, but this happend sunday:
A hailstorm that flattened crops, broke windows and wrecked roofs and vehicles throughout the region Sunday also killed and maimed more than 11,000 waterfowl and wetland birds at the Big Lake Wildlife Management Area west of Molt.
A neighboring landowner reported baseball-sized hail that broke windows in the area Sunday evening. Local weather reports said Molt and Rapelje suffered two-inch hail propelled by a 70-mile-per-hour wind.
FWP wildlife biologist Justin Paugh estimated that 20 to 30 percent of the birds at the lake were killed or injured. Of the birds that still are alive, Paugh estimated that five percent of ducks on the lake and 30 percent to 40 percent of living pelicans and cormorants show some sign of injury or impaired movement – mostly broken wings and broken wing feathers.
http://fwp.mt.gov/news/newsReleases/fishAndWildlife/nr_1256.html
more “freak”-weather-events to come as the climate-catastrophy goes on.
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Extreme Dieting, it was a huge problem back then. Don’t laugh, it can happen again…
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Rebunks or debunks…read the original article.
“The studies of the skeletons revealed a common cause of death: blows to the back of the head, caused by round objects falling from above.” (Wiki)
The bones are from two groups of people, the ones from a 1000 years ago were South Asian and the ones from 200 years ago were eastern Mediterranian origin.
Plus the Englishman with the umbrella. The umbrella did not help during the icestorm/rocky landslide I presume.
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Wrong umbrella
This is the one authorized by HM government for use in case of a nuclear attack; it should deal with any hailstorm with ease:
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I remember there was a time
When dead and buried meant just that
Underneath the cold dark ground
Things stay put!
Oh them bones they make them bodies walk
Them bones, them bones
If they could only talk!
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but no volcanism
There are no fire-spitting volcanoes in the Himalayas, yet most people think of volcanoes when they think of earthquakes, mountains, and (Opa!) breaking plates. A “ring of fire”, for example, surrounds the Pacific Ocean with, well, a ring of volcanic fire. But there’s the rub – an ocean of water lubricates the subduction zones surrounding the Pacific. Ironically, water allows the ring of fire to exist while the lack of an ocean of water in the landlocked Himalayas quenches any possible volcanic action there.
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A lethal game of Marco Polo?
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Yikes, that’s a deeply scary event!
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UFO dumping ground
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The team determined that the majority of the deceased indeed died 1,000 or so years ago, but not simultaneously. And a few died much more recently, likely in the early 1800s.
Bigger mystery is how some people lived to be over 800 years old!!!
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OK. . . so we still don’t know what killed the dead of Skeleton lake, but what killed the skeletons of Dead Lake?
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Religious ritual.
Videogames.
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Kiplingesque scenario : a long-forgotten but still active greek city dating from Alexander the great :
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