The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

[Zorch]

Why did 9 people die at Dyatlov Pass in 1959? The BBC looks at this old mystery.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOd ... atlov_pass

[Simulacra53]

...it was Russians [:D]

[demyansk]

I read a recent book on this

[Zovs]

Very interesting article thank you.

[Blond_Knight]

Skeptiod.com figured it was likely an avalanche.

[sullafelix]

Impossible for an avalanche. They were not camped on any real slope to speak of. They did not have to dig out the tent either. The tent was cut from the inside out. The best guess would have been the home made stove caught fire, but again the authorities found it packed up and no being used. The eyes and tongue being missing on some of them were from small animals. I have read every book on it, even the crazy ones. One of the latest theories is that the wind was at just the right speed and strength to make a weird sound that also effects human minds. Sort of like resonance. I forget the actual name. Something scared them enough to cut out of a perfectly good tent and run out into Siberia with only socks etc.

[demyansk]

That Josh Gates had an episode on his show recently
.

[CGGrognard]

And he ruled out the Yeti and the Russian military.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: CGGrognard

And he ruled out the Yeti and the Russian military.

But what about Bigfoot and aliens? [:D]

[Simulacra53]

ORIGINAL: CGGrognard

And he ruled out the Yeti and the Russian military.

= Putin apologist, Russian bot or useful idiot

Take you media 101 pick [:D]

[demyansk]

Trumps fault

[dox44]

most interesting book of the several i've read

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mountain-Un ... ext&sr=1-2

[IslandInland]

I would say they were attacked by the locals, the Mansi.

[TheGrayMouser]

Donnie Eichars book was pretty thorough and he makes a good case for his theory (backed by science as possible) for panic/ extreme anxiety caused by a natural occurrence of infrasound. The only other plausible case has been made is that the hurricane force winds cause enough noise and possibly a small snow slide that the team, believing an imminent avalanche was approaching bailed out of there... Its a very compelling mystery, one that will never be truly solved.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: TheGrayMouser

... Its a very compelling mystery, one that will never be truly solved.

+1

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: IslandInland
I would say they were attacked by the locals, the Mansi.

I've read a few books on this, and one of them proposed this as well...they had plausible explanations for the lack of footprints, etc.

The fascinating thing about this case is that every explanation that I've heard is contradicted by at least one inconvenient fact.

I've read about the "infrasound" as well, but don't recall anyone ever showing that such a thing actually exists, at least outside of a lab. So I'm not sure that it is much better than "aliens" as an explanation. If it does actually exist, would it really cause every member of the party to flee the tent in their underwear in the middle of a Russian winter night? Seems like it would affect some people more than others, perhaps some not at all? Moreover, it doesn't seem like such a freakish effect (if it exists at all) would persist for very long--and yet not only did they flee the tent, they stayed away from it for some time, some of them even starting a fire a couple of kilometers from the tent. Why?

The fact that many of the bodies had been crushed (as if in a car accident) is also rather strange...I haven't seen any real evidence that this could have been caused by all of the snow piled on them during the winter.

And of course the tongue being cut out is rather...creepy, but at least plausibly explained by animals...

Definitely not an avalanche, the tent wasn't even buried.

If you haven't read about this case, you absolutely need to do so, but you can kiss many hours goodbye as you go down the rabbit hole.

[warspite1]

An interesting article - thanks for posting.

[CaptBeefheart]

Yeti seems the most logical answer to me.[;)]

Interesting stuff and this is the first I've heard the story.

Cheers,
CB

[Zovs]

Was there ever a theory of the Soviets using LSD and somehow they decided to test it on these poor lost souls? That could explain some of the crazy killings and gruesome out comes.

A theory like that is not that far fetched, the CIA used the Hell's Angels to distribute mind altering drugs to the hippies at Woodstock in 1969.

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: Zovs
Was there ever a theory of the Soviets using LSD and somehow they decided to test it on these poor lost souls?

I've not seen this suggested, and frankly it doesn't seem very plausible--if the Soviets wanted to test LSD on human subjects, seems like they would have done so with some of the many prisoners in the gulag or common criminals--all of whom were already removed from society and could be more closely observed--rather then picking a bunch of random students in the wilderness.

And while I'm not completely familiar with the effects of LSD, while it might explain their behavior, I'm not sure that its use would explain the crushing, etc., undergone by some of the bodies. Not to mention the fact that the victim's skin had turned a peculiar orangish hue. This is some weird shit...