"Jcarr" (jcarr)
08/18/2015 at 16:52 • Filed to: None | 2 | 8 |
I read about this a few years ago and was fascinated so I thought I’d share it with you all.
From !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event that resulted in the deaths of nine hikers in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the eastern side of Kholat Syakhl. Since then, the mountain pass where the incident occurred has been called Dyatlov Pass after the group’s leader, Igor Dyatlov.
Investigators determined that the skiers had torn their tents from the inside out in order to escape from an apparent threat. They fled the campsite, some of them barefoot, under heavy snowfall. Although the bodies showed no signs of struggle, such as contusions, two victims had fractured skulls and broken ribs. Soviet authorities determined that an “unknown compelling force” had caused the deaths; access to the region was consequently blocked for hikers and adventurers for three years after the incident. Due to the lack of survivors, the chronology of events remains uncertain, although several theories exist, some involving a possible avalanche, a military accident, or a hostile encounter with extraterrestrial life.
The abandoned campsite
Igor Dyatlov’s body
Rustem Slobodin’s body buried face down in the snow
Semi-cheesy video summary:
Rainbow
> Jcarr
08/18/2015 at 16:59 | 0 |
Cracked actually covered this recently. They were hit by an avalanche, accounting for the damaged tents and trauma. And... that’s all there is to it. All evidence points to an avalanche. All of the contradictory evidence... wasn’t in the original reports at all and never actually happened.
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> Rainbow
08/18/2015 at 17:04 | 0 |
Bro, do you even alium invasion?
Jcarr
> Rainbow
08/18/2015 at 17:17 | 0 |
Yeah, I read the Cracked piece that discussed this (from 2008, I believe). An avalanche does seem like a very plausible explanation.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Rainbow
08/18/2015 at 18:40 | 1 |
Cracked is mostly a crock of BS, though.
It doesn’t add up - all information in the report points to them fleeing in fear and there is no way they could have outrun an avalanche on foot, even if they were awake. They were a considerable distance from the tent and some died after making a fire. Something scared them out (cause is a mystery) then they died of hypothermia or falls (injuries are equally mysterious).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_P…
Berang
> Jcarr
08/18/2015 at 19:52 | 1 |
If I have some time to wrack my brain and remember, I think I know of a few stranger stories.
Jcarr
> Berang
08/18/2015 at 20:43 | 0 |
I'd love to hear them. Mysterious stuff like this fascinates me.
Berang
> Jcarr
08/18/2015 at 20:48 | 1 |
I think one of the oddest ones is a story of a “cow vampire” - but no matter how I try to search for it I can’t find anything about the story now. This was a story from the 1800s, involves a hurricane - and after the hurricane had passed the townspeople found all the livestock in town was dead and drained of blood. But I can no longer remember the name of the hurricane or the town.
This is a less weird one that I do remember enough to find:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Joyita
Rainbow
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/19/2015 at 09:19 | 0 |
Cracked is full of links to reliable sources...
I’m not saying they outran the avalanche. It hit them, but they all survived. What else are they going to do in that situation other than try to find help and/or shelter? So they left the area, but without supplies they eventually fell to hypothermia.