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They call this place Dead Mountain for a reason (Dyatlov Pass incident) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Her eyes were missing, her tongue was missing, parts of
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  Speaker 1: her lip was missing, and a portion of her skull
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  Speaker 1: had fractured and a piece of her skull had been removed. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, guys, mister ballin here from TikTok on
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  Speaker 1: your resident scary storyteller today, I have a really cool story.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually one of the first unsolved mysteries that really
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  Speaker 1: captured my attention and drew me into researching all of
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  Speaker 1: these kind of crazy unsolved.
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  Speaker 2: Mysteries that are out there.
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  Speaker 1: The too long, didn't read version of this is you
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  Speaker 1: have nine highly experienced hikers that go off into the
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  Speaker 1: mountains and die under extremely mysterious conditions. There are photos
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  Speaker 1: and journal entries, I mean, there's just a preponderance of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: but no one can make any sense of it. And
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  Speaker 1: to this day it is one of the single most
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  Speaker 1: interesting things that I've ever found on the Internet. So
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine, ten hikers decided to head out
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  Speaker 1: on this one hundred and ninety mile journey through the
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  Speaker 1: Ural mountains in the northern part of the Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 1: Now this was not a vacation, This was more like
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  Speaker 1: a mission. To this group of experienced hikers because in
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  Speaker 1: completing this one hundred and ninety mile journey, they would
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  Speaker 1: receive their Level three hiker certification, which at the time
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  Speaker 1: was the highest in the country, so they would be
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  Speaker 1: the top dogs in hiking. So on January twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: they set off on the sixteen day one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety mile journey. The group was in good spirits the
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  Speaker 1: pictures of them, they were happy, they were on course,
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  Speaker 1: everything was going right, and then they reached this kind
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  Speaker 1: of critical juncture in the trip. They reached this mountain
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  Speaker 1: pass that actually was subsequently renamed the Dyatlov Pass.
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  Speaker 2: After the leader of the group. The leader was named
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  Speaker 2: Igor Dyatlav. And so they reached this mountain pass and
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  Speaker 2: they know they need to go through it.
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  Speaker 1: They need to negotiate this mountain pass, and so they
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  Speaker 1: set up camp, and the plan is early the next
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  Speaker 1: day they're going to attempt to push through this mountain
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  Speaker 1: pass and hopefully, over the space of one day they
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  Speaker 1: would be able to get through that mountain pass and
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  Speaker 1: set up camp on the other side. So early the
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  Speaker 1: next morning they get up and they begin their ascent
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  Speaker 1: through this mountain pass. But unfortunately, a very bad weather
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  Speaker 1: system rolled in and it pushed them off course, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact, it pushed them onto a different slope that
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  Speaker 1: the local Mansey tribe called Dead Mountain. And so they
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  Speaker 1: get pushed off course, they're not going to get to
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  Speaker 1: the mountain pass. And then one of the first strange
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  Speaker 1: things happens. For some reason, Now, this group of experienced
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  Speaker 1: hikers that should have known that their best bet at
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  Speaker 1: this point, because of the bad weather and being pushed
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  Speaker 1: off course, would be to retreat off the mountain and
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  Speaker 1: find somewhere that was more protected to spend the night.
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  Speaker 2: Because this point they got a set up camp somewhere, but.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, they decide to stay on the exposed
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  Speaker 1: slope of Dead Mountain, which means that they would be
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  Speaker 1: setting up camp and not only just a wickedly windy
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  Speaker 1: area and there's like risk of avalanche and any number
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  Speaker 1: of things could happen, but they'd also be exposed to
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  Speaker 1: negative forty degree temperatures.
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  Speaker 2: They're like out in the open, just getting crushed by
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  Speaker 2: the elements.
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  Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, they make camp right on the
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  Speaker 1: slopes of Dead Mountain. So when the hikers don't show
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  Speaker 1: up to a rendezvous point that they were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: meet at a predetermined time. The folks they were set
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  Speaker 1: to meet, who obviously didn't meet up with the hikers.
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  Speaker 2: They let authorities know. You know, it was noted that
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  Speaker 2: they had not made rendezvous.
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  Speaker 1: But because this was an experienced group, this was a now,
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  Speaker 1: let's send out the search party. It was more like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they should have been here, but it's nine people.
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  Speaker 2: They know what they're doing. They'll get here soon.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks ago and still no one's heard from these
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  Speaker 1: nine hikers, and at this point, you know, a search
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  Speaker 1: party is sent out, even including military units are sent
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  Speaker 1: out to find them. And relatively quickly, the search party
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  Speaker 1: comes across the campsite on Dead Mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And what they find is just horrifying. So the first
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  Speaker 2: thing they.
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  Speaker 1: Noticed is that the tent they had been staying in
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  Speaker 1: had been slashed open except from the inside, meaning someone
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  Speaker 1: inside the tent had slashed it open.
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  Speaker 2: And then in the tent itself, neatly stacked was all.
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  Speaker 1: Their cold weather gear or the majority of their cold
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  Speaker 1: weather gear, like their shoes and their jackets.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's all there, and there's no sign of
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  Speaker 2: the hikers.
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  Speaker 1: And then near the camp, like literally right out of
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  Speaker 1: this tent is this neat set of footprints leading down
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  Speaker 1: towards this forest, and investigators and they looked at the footprints,
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  Speaker 1: they could determine a couple of things. One, the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the hikers had either been barefoot or only wearing
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  Speaker 1: one shoe.
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  Speaker 2: In addition, they're cadence. They were looking at the space
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  Speaker 2: of their footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Their gait, I should say, was indicative of a group
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  Speaker 1: of people that was walking calmly.
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  Speaker 2: This was not a panicked runaway from your campsite.
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  Speaker 1: This was a walking calmly away from your campsite with
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  Speaker 1: not the right clothing on, probably no shoes on, down
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  Speaker 1: to the forest in an exposed mountain slope with negative
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  Speaker 1: forty degree temperatures. So investigators they start following these footsteps
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  Speaker 1: down towards this forest, and it leads them to this
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  Speaker 1: area right at the outside of this forest, right underneath
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  Speaker 1: this big cedar tree where there's evidence of a campfire,
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  Speaker 1: and around that campfire are two of the hiker's bodies
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  Speaker 1: and they're just wearing underwear, their barefoot and their hands
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  Speaker 1: had been like scraped.
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  Speaker 2: The palms of their hands had been badly scraped.
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  Speaker 1: And the tree that was right next to them had
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  Speaker 1: evidence of someone had been trying to climb it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the branches have been ripped down, as if
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  Speaker 1: someone had desperately tried to climb up this tree but
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  Speaker 1: was unsuccessful, you know, as if they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: seek shelter from something or someone on.
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  Speaker 2: The ground, but obviously they did not make it in time.
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  Speaker 1: Within several hundred feet of that campfire, the investigators found
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  Speaker 1: three other hiker's bodies. They were similarly underdressed, and it
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  Speaker 1: appeared the way their bodies had frozen, that they were
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  Speaker 1: actually trying to make their way back.
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  Speaker 2: Up to the campsite.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators noted that one of those three hikers had a
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  Speaker 1: head injury that was consistent with someone repeatedly smashing their head.
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  Speaker 1: Another of those three had a strange rectangular bruise on
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  Speaker 1: their side. And then, oddly enough, while they were underdressed,
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  Speaker 1: each of those three were wearing the other's.
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  Speaker 2: Bits of clothing they put on.
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  Speaker 1: They all collectively put on the wrong clothes and not
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  Speaker 1: enough of not enough clothes. Despite the strangeness of the
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  Speaker 1: five bodies that were found in what they were wearing, right,
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  Speaker 1: I guess what they weren't wearing. It was determined that
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  Speaker 1: they all died of hypothermia and that there was no
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  Speaker 1: foul play. It wasn't until May, when the weather warmed
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit and some of the snow had melted,
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  Speaker 1: that investigators were able to locate the remaining four hikers'
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  Speaker 1: body bodies. And you know, it was really the condition
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  Speaker 1: that they were found in the second group of hikers
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  Speaker 1: that really took this mystery and elevated it and made
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  Speaker 1: it this kind of urban legend, because it makes no
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  Speaker 1: sense how they were found. So the remaining four were
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  Speaker 1: found in this creek bed that came to be known
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  Speaker 1: as the diatlob Den. They were buried under about thirteen
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  Speaker 1: feet of snow. And so of the four bodies that
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  Speaker 1: were found in the dat loved In, one of them
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  Speaker 1: had simply died of hypothermia and kind of was a
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  Speaker 1: lot like the first group, right, there's no severe injuries, really,
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  Speaker 1: just they died of hypothermia.
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  Speaker 2: But the other three that was not the case at all.
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  Speaker 1: The seventh hiker had a skull fracture that occurred right
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  Speaker 1: before he died. The eighth hiker had these extreme chest
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  Speaker 1: fractures that it was almost like he'd been hit by
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  Speaker 1: a car. The ninth hiker really was the most unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did she also have her chest kind of
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  Speaker 1: caved in, but her eyes were missing, her tongue was missing,
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  Speaker 1: parts of her lip was missing, and a portion of
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  Speaker 1: her skull had fractured and a piece of her skull
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  Speaker 1: had been removed. Even more bizarre is in this second group,
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  Speaker 1: they had all taken pieces of clothing from the other,
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  Speaker 1: indicating that they had.
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  Speaker 2: All died at different times. It was like one would
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  Speaker 2: die and then the.
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  Speaker 1: Other hikers would take their clothes and put them on,
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  Speaker 1: and then someone else would die and they would take
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  Speaker 1: their clothes and put them on. And I guess even
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  Speaker 1: stranger than that is the clothes themselves had traces of.
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  Speaker 2: Radiation on them. The Soviet government was quick to close
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  Speaker 2: the case.
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  Speaker 1: They cited, you know, either a natural disaster or you know,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the hiker's incompetence as the result or the reason
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  Speaker 1: behind this horrible tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, nobody really believed.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody as in the family, the friends, really the Soviet population,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't believe.
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  Speaker 2: That that could be the actual explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Early on, after this case has been closed, the Soviet people,
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  Speaker 1: they started to believe a couple theories. One of them
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  Speaker 1: was there was this local Mansei tribe that was in
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  Speaker 1: the area that perhaps ambushed the hikers and killed them.
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  Speaker 1: That we kind of explained the reason for the hikers
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  Speaker 1: suddenly abandoning their tent and not being dressed, and also
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  Speaker 1: the injuries of the second group that could be explained by,
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  Speaker 1: you know, an attack by this Manci tribe.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a couple issues with that theory. One
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  Speaker 2: the Manci tribe is known as.
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  Speaker 1: This incredibly peaceful tribe that it's just very uncharacteristic for them.
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  Speaker 1: There was also no other footprints leading into the area.
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  Speaker 1: It was just the footprints of the hikers that were,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the area.
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  Speaker 2: Another popular theory is a swift.
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  Speaker 1: And violent avalanche that you know, the group couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: seen coming, and they hear it the last minute, they
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  Speaker 1: jump out of their tent, you know, cut it open,
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  Speaker 1: they go running. But the problem with that is the
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  Speaker 1: tree line down near the forest they walk to. There's
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  Speaker 1: no sign that the trees have been damaged anyway.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there weren't any to breeze from an.
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  Speaker 1: Avalanche like there would be, and in that area, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there were locals like the Manci tribe, and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: report an avalanche. They didn't hear an avalanche, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: historically there had never been a reported avalanche in that area,
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  Speaker 1: and subsequently, for decades afterwards, there's still has never been
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  Speaker 1: an avalanche. Another popular theory is that the reason they
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  Speaker 1: left their tent in the first place is because when
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  Speaker 1: you get hypothermia, you know, it can cause you to
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  Speaker 1: actually believe, kind of paradoxically that you're actually too hot
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  Speaker 1: and you start stripping your clothes before you ultimately succumb hypothermia.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that doesn't really cover down on the injuries
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  Speaker 1: of the second group. And then, of course, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: with any sort of unsolved mystery at this magnitude, there's
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  Speaker 1: theories that range from you know, government cover up, to
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  Speaker 1: a YETI attack or an alien an abduction.
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  Speaker 2: This case was closed, and the Soviet government.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of just gave a fairly ambiguous answer as to why.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities actually officially said that the cause of death for
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  Speaker 1: these hikers was a compelling natural force that they were
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  Speaker 1: not able to overcome, which that in and of.
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  Speaker 2: Itself is an eerie way of putting it right.
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  Speaker 1: They were unable to overcome a natural force it's not
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  Speaker 1: saying this was a you know, a natural disaster necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: They're just saying it was a natural force, which is
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  Speaker 1: just a very interesting way to put it. But either way,
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  Speaker 1: the case was closed, you know, and that was that.
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  Speaker 1: But in twenty nineteen, Russia actually officially reopened this case
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  Speaker 1: and they decided they were going to get to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of it because this was a case that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is quite high profile in the world of kind
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  Speaker 1: of unsolved mysteries. I mean, I think if you google,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, top ten unsolved mysteries, the Diatlov Pass
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  Speaker 1: is going to come up in that top ten. This
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  Speaker 1: is just one of the more well known cases. And
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  Speaker 1: so Russia officially reopens it in twenty nineteen. But they
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  Speaker 1: were only willing to look at three theories, which was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, an ice slab or a snow slab breaking
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  Speaker 1: and coming down and hitting them, an avalanche or a hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, despite diving into this and doing their diligence,
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  Speaker 1: they really didn't come to any sort of conclusive conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of ended it. They closed it, I should say,
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  Speaker 2: much the same.
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  Speaker 1: Way they did back when it actually happened in the
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  Speaker 1: late fifties, which is yep, some natural force did this.
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  Speaker 2: They did that was it? It was really unsatisfying.
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  Speaker 1: The only real conclusion that they made in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: was that no criminal activity was indicated.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever happened, they're saying what was natural, it was
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  Speaker 2: not you know, it was not criminal.
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  Speaker 1: So with that, the mystery today remains technically closed, but
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  Speaker 1: unofficially I would say this mystery is not even closed
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  Speaker 1: to solved. And I'd love to hear in the comments
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  Speaker 1: what you think happened at datlog Pass.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to do it. Guys. I encourage you
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