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During the Cold War, very little information leaked out of the Soviet Union if the powers that be chose not to allow the press to release it.
Such was the case in the "Dyatlov Pass Incident." Â Not until many years later did people learn of this bizarre event.
In late January 1959 a group of experienced skiers and hikers set out on a voyage across the northern Urals, which is near the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. Led by Igor Dyatlov, the goal of the expedition was to reach the mountain of Otorten.Â
Everything was going as planned for the group of nine until they lost their direction and deviated west toward the top of Kholat Syakhl. Dyatlov quickly realized the mistake and set up camp on the slope of the mountain intending to backtrack the following day.
Everything was going as planned for the group of nine until they lost their direction and deviated west toward the top of Kholat Syakhl. Dyatlov quickly realized the mistake and set up camp on the slope of the mountain intending to backtrack the following day.
 They never made it and when they did not send a telegraph as expected a massive man hunt was conducted. The lifeless bodies of all nine people were mysteriously found spread over a large area. Many abnormalities had occurred.
 There was evidence that the group fled their tents in the middle of the night as they were ripped out from within. All deaths were thought to be from hypothermia until autopsies were performed. Four of the hikers were determined to have died from a force that could not have been inflicted by another human.
They had chest and head trauma equivalent to a high speed car crash. The bodies had no external signs of injury. Some were wearing each others clothes, one victim had no tongue, and trace amounts of radioactive contamination were found on clothing.
 As the Soviet Union was in the middle of the Cold War the story was kept secret. The files were not made public and the final diagnosis was that the deaths were caused by an “unknown compelling force.â€Â Many have speculated that the tragedy was the result of military testing, an unexplained UFO encounter, or a mysterious Yeti like creature.
To this day, no one knows exactly. Â When the files were finally opened to journalists, several pages were missing, probably removed many years before.
posted on May 30, 2011 12:59 PM ()
What creeps me out the most is them having each others' clothes on. These days we are so accustomed to knowing all about everything that happens just about anywhere in the world, it's hard to accept unexplained mysteries like this. This one just cries out to be made into a novel even if all the facts can't be verified.
Wow! Screwy mysteries. I do believe in the existence of some non-human biped creatures, as the evidence mounts. This episode is a rare instance of what could be a physical contact with them.
comment by jondude on May 30, 2011 7:02 PM ()
You are spot on about the radiation in the Urals. It was there that the Soviets mined their uranium for their nuclear weapons program. Being sent to work in the uranium mines was often equivalent to a death sentence for those who dared to oppose the Soviet Union during the cold war. To this day, there is a lake in the Urals so contaminated that people will not go near it. Something definitely scared these people. I think we can rule out military exercise, so that leaves Bigfoot(Yeti, as it is called in those parts) or ET. I lean also toward the yeti theory. 
But I don't believe in extraterrestrial UFO theories. And radiation can come from many sources, particularly anywhere near the Urals. The Soviets had a huge nuclear incident near Magnitogorsk in that era near the same time. There is a vast area of forest in the region deemed uninhabitable due to the radiation that was spread over a wide area, even larger than the much later Chernobyl incident.
Somewhere there is a written account!
comment by greatmartin on May 30, 2011 5:08 PM ()
If those missing pages were not destroyed, which would not surprise me.
Like marta says.Weird.Some day they will come up with an answer on this.
Very weird. 
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