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Unsolved Mysteries: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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#1 · (Edited)
In 1959, a group of nine Russian climbers died in the Ural mountains under amazing circumstances. The case remains one of the worlds most unusual unsolved mysteries.

In short, the group made camp in the open on the mountainside in waist deep snow, nearly a mile above timberline. Some time during the night something caused some of them to cut their way out of their tent from the inside and flee down the mountainside wearing only what they had worn to bed, some barefooted and other only wearing socks on their feet in temperatures reaching -30C.

Another portion of the group went in a different direction, some of them wearing clothing from the first group. All were killed, many suffered internal injuries including fractured skulls and broken/crushed ribs such as you would see in a car accident except that the injuries were all internal with no outside appearance of the trauma.

Additionally, the second group's clothing was highly irradiated and the bodies showed signs of radiation poisoning, hair was turned gray, skin was "deeply tanned".

Whatever happened remains a mystery...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/dyatlov-pass-incident-strangest-unsolved-mystery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J1AUgb0kjcc
 
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#12 · (Edited)
The tanned skin was likely caused by the sun. It was five weeks before they were found. The sun likely would have done a lot of damage. Running around all crazy like can be a sign of severe hypothermia and with extremely cold conditions hypothermia is a very real possibility. Not sure about the injuries, that's slightly odd. Oh wait the whole thing could have been caused by an avalanche........
 
#14 ·
Let's not lose sight of the fact that we're talking about:

-incomplete photocopies of records which were
-gathered 5 weeks after the 'incident'
-by officials of an oppressive government with an interest in concealing the truth from its citizenry and the world
-who probably had an incomplete understanding of what they were dealing with which were
-bodies left out in the elements for 5 weeks

Now with Johnny Ringo's info, the 'radiation' component seems plausibly explained.

It seems doubtful to me that aliens, yetis, chupacabras or Ural Benchlegs were involved.
 
#18 · (Edited)
I tend to agree, though there are still some things unexplained... like breaking out of their tents in their pajamas in -30 weather.

If I had to guess, this has something to do with the military, possibly some new thing they were testing. In the Urals there's a base that's deep in the mountains (like NORAD) that's rumored to have stockpiles of all kinds of chemical and biological weapons secretly stockpiled there to this day. Not sure how close that is to where this incident took place, but it might have something to do with this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Yamantau
 
#15 ·
Open loop reactors were used at Hanford to produce Plutonium during the crash weapons development programs. The water was sourced from the Columbia River and returned to the river after passing through the operating reactor.

The only containment was the aluminum tubes that enveloped the fuel.
 
#21 ·
Except that there was no avalanche. The campers tracks were clearly visible and the tents were cut open from the inside. Their clothes were inside the tents. For some reason they cut their way out of the tents and ran for their lives, barefoot and half dressed.
 
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