{"id":1178,"date":"2010-09-11T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2021-08-21T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T01:28:42","slug":"the-dyatlov-pass-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"The Dyatlov Pass Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Joseph sending me a link to a Mark Morford column<\/a>, I just learned about the creepy Dyatlov Pass Incident. Ever heard of it? Here’s a summary: In February, 1959 nine experienced Russian mountaineers set off on a cross-country skiing expedition in the Ural mountains. When they failed to arrive to their destination, a search expedition was sent out and discovered their camp, abandoned. They had apparently built a camp for the night in an unplanned location due to inclement weather. Their tent had been cut open from the inside and their clothing and equipment was left behind.<\/p>\n

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The abandoned campsite. The tent had been cut open from the inside.<\/p><\/div>\n

Eventually, they found two bodies, barefoot and in their underwear, in a forested area 1.5 kilometers downhill from the camp. There was evidence that the men had tried to build a fire and had attempted to climb a tree to locate the campsite. Three more bodies were found near the forest heading towards the camp. Although one of these bodies had a fractured skull, the official cause of death for all five was determined to be hypothermia.<\/p>\n

It took two more months before the other four bodies were discovered, buried under deep snow in a ravine. All four bodies had signs of traumatic injury: one had a crushed skull, two had broken ribs, and the third was missing her tongue. There were reports of high radioactivity found on the bodies, and even reports of apparent blindness in some of the victims.<\/p>\n

So, the legend began: what caused these nine experienced mountaineers to hastily leave their tent in the middle of the night and run out into the snow in -25 F cold in their underwear? Why did they cut open the tent rather than opening the ties? What caused the injuries? You can imagine where people’s imagination went… to a world of UFOs, Yeti, and other unexplained phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Yet, Brian Dunning of Skeptoid put together a perfectly feasible explanation<\/a> that doesn’t require anything supernatural. As usual. I tend to think his explanation is the closest to the truth (because let’s face it – our world is too boring for UFOs or abominable snowmen), but nobody really knows why those nine people died on that strange night in 1959. What’s your theory?<\/p>\n

Read more about the incident here:
\nFortean Times: The Dyatlov Pass Incident<\/a>
\nSt. Petersburg Times: Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved<\/a>
\nPass Djatlova (in Russian)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Joseph sending me a link to a Mark Morford column, I just learned about the creepy Dyatlov Pass Incident. Ever heard of it? Here’s a summary: In February, 1959 nine experienced Russian mountaineers set off on a cross-country skiing expedition in the Ural mountains. When they failed to arrive to their destination, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7656,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}