Dyatlov Pass
Claire Matheny
Imagine...
Twenty-Five days later your body is found with four other skiers' corpses.
Nobody may ever know what happened to you.
Overview
The public will probably never know what truly happened to the 9 Russian skiers on that cold night, but we do know that what these people experienced was absolute horror.
February 1, 1959 at approximately 7:00 PM the team decided to put up their tent on the side of a mountain and enjoy a meal. Nearly an hour after that most of the crew decided to sleep due to the exhausting trek of the day. At around 11:00 at -1 degrees Celsius the tent was shredded from the inside out and everyone fled. Twenty-Five days later five of the victims are found dead and spread out (Krivonischenko, Doroshenko, Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorov). All four were reported to have died from hypothermia. On May 4, 1960 four more bodies were found and identified (Thibeaux-Brignollel, Dubinina, Zolotarev, and Kolevatov) all of which exept Kolevatov died of fatal injuries. This injuries include many broken ribs, skull fractures and even a missing tongue. Two of the victims had trace levels of radiation found on them which is the cause of many conspiracies as well as the orange tint, and the lack of clothes found on the bodies.
So as Paul St. Claire questions in his article Dyatlov Pass Incident, "Why did nine people flee from their tent in conditions that were almost certain to result in their death?"
Victims:
Alexander Kolevatov
Alexander Zolotaryov
Yuri Krivonishchenko
Where?
Why So Strange?
- Research found that humans couldn't inflict the injuries that three of the skiers sustained
- Many people were found barely clothed
- The bodies were found in different places (why did they split up?)
- One person's tongue was cut out
- The area was sealed for at least three years following the incident
- There was no sign of struggle found
- The tent was shredded from the inside out
- Trace levels of radiation were found (this may or may not be true)
- An orange tint was found on all the bodies
Modern Evidence and Research
'Yeti' photo found on a camera
'Alien Lights in the Sky' photo found on camera
Theroies
- Avalanche- A snowstorm was occurring that night which could have triggered an avalanche
- Hypothermia- Hypothermia can have side effects that mess with your mind, including one called paradoxical undressing that causes the victim to want to undress (this could explain why some of them were found barely clothed)
- Animal Attack- The fist thing an animal looks for when scrounging for food is the soft mouth tissues which would explain why one of the females was found without a tongue
- Mansi Natives- Mansi Natives are harsh natives that could have attacked the four victims found in May; this points to why they had fatal injuries
- Russian Yeti- Do I need to explain?
- Secret Weapon Testing- It has been thought that Russia was testing military weapons near the campers without knowledge of them, this explains the fatal injuries and the trace levels of radiation
- UFO/Aliens- People suspect aliens are the ones responsible for the orange/tan tint and the damage done to the bodies
- Infrasonic- A specific sound range that may or may to be heard, but causes anxiety, sorrow and chills and could have caused irrational thoughts (to learn more about infrasonic realating to Dylatov Pass see http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/01/infrasonic-intrusion-a-new-theory-behind-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/)
Bibliography
Claire Matheny
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