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23rd April 2011, 07:54 PM
The strange case of the Dyatlov Pass incident.
By Daniel La Ponsie, 21 April, 2011, No Comment
Did UFOs Kill 9 College Students in 1959?
Decades before a group of campers fictitiously died in the film The Blair Witch Project, a group of college-aged campers were killed in the mountains of Soviet-era Russia under extremely suspicious circumstances. For real.
Now Hollywood Reporter is reporting that director Simon Fellows is planning to make a film of one of the creepiest mysteries of the 20th Century: the Dyatlov Pass incident.
This is one of the creepiest mysteries of the past 100 years, but also one of the least known; although this will probably change when the movie comes out. In my opinion, this is a mystery on the level of the Mary Celeste — that ship that was discovered with the entire crew missing.
The director is known in the UK for his film Malice in Wonderland. I’m looking forward to seeing it, and I’m also looking forward the inevitable books and documentaries that will follow.
The Dyatlov Pass incident happened in the northern Ural mountains in 1959. A group of 10 Russian hikers from Ural State Technical University were led by Igor Dyatlov. One of the members of the group became ill and wasn’t able to join the expedition for the final leg of the journey. The final 9 went ahead. What happened to them might never be settled — and not for lack of evidence. In fact it’s the evidence is what makes the case so compelling, and creepy.
The mountain’s pass was, as you may have guessed already, was named after the group’s leader following the incident. The mountain’s name is Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл); a Mansi name, meaning ‘Mountain of the Dead.’
The group consisted of eight men and two women. Most were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute (Уральский Политехнический Институт, УПИ), now Ural State Technical University. Here’s the list of names, from the article at Wikipedia:
* Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов), the group’s leader
* Zinaida Kolmogorova (Зинаида Колмогорова)
* Lyudmila Dubinina (Людмила Дубинина)
* Alexander Kolevatov (Александр Колеватов)
* Rustem Slobodin (Рустем Слободин)
* Yuri Krivonischenko (Юрий Кривонищенко)
* Yuri Doroshenko (Юрий Дорошенко)
* Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle (Николай Тибо-Бриньоль)
* Alexander Zolotarev (Александр Золотарёв)
* Yuri Yudin (Юрий Юдин)
What actually happened is unknown. In the last communication, with Yury Yudin who stayed behind due to illness, Igor Dyatlov said it was possible they would be running a few days behind schedule. But when the group failed to show up several days later, the families contacted the authorities.
Yuri Yudin
The institute sent out a search-and-rescue team of teachers and students. And then the police joined the search. And then the Soviet army dispatched their airplanes and helicopters. Eventually the bodies were found.
For whatever reason the group had set up camp out in the open, away from the woods. It would have made more sense to set up camp in the nearby woods, for better protection from the elements. Perhaps something was seen inside the woods that prompted them to stay away?
The tent was torn when it was found by the search team … torn open from within. All belongings and clothing was left behind. The bodies were found wearing only pajamas and undergarments. The corpses showed no signs of struggle.
Two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs. As I said, no external signs of struggle. No external wounds at all. “It was equal to the effect of a car crash,” said the doctor, Boris Vozrozhdenny, according to case documents.
One other thing: one of the victims was missing her tongue.
Not weird enough? How about this: Near the location of the bodies, broken branches were found scattered across the ground and the charred remains of a fire was found. Some of the victims’ clothing contained “substantial levels” of radiation. At the funeral, many of the victims bodies had turned a strange orange color, and the hair had turned white.
Were they killed by a weapon blast of some kind?
Soviet investigators eventually concluded that “a compelling unknown force” had caused the deaths. The case was closed, and all documented evidence was locked away. Some of the evidence was never seen again.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, the chief investigator, Lev Ivanov, said in an interview in 1990 that he had been ordered by senior regional officials to close the case and classify the findings as secret. He said the officials had been worried by reports from multiple eyewitnesses, including the weather service and the military, that “bright flying spheres” had been spotted in the area in February and March 1959.
“I suspected at the time and am almost sure now that these bright flying spheres had a direct connection to the group’s death,” Ivanov told Leninsky Put, a small Kazakh newspaper. He retired in Kazakhstan and has since died.
The declassified files contain testimony from the leader of a group of adventurers who camped about 50 kilometers south of the skiers on the same night. He said his group saw strange orange spheres floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl.
Ivanov speculated that one skier might have left the tent during the night, seen a sphere and woken up the others with his cries. Ivanov said the sphere might have exploded as they ran toward the forest, killing the four who had serious injuries and cracking Slobodin’s skull.
Yudin said he also thought an explosion had killed his friends. He said the level of secrecy surrounding the incident suggests that the group might have inadvertently entered a secret military testing ground. He said the radiation on the clothes supported his theory.
Yudin also said the released documents contained no information about the condition of the skiers’ internal organs. “I know for sure that there were special boxes with their organs sent for examination, “ he said.
No traces of an explosion, however, have been found near Kholat-Syakhl. There are no records of any launches at the time. And it was thought that the charred remains of a fire was from a camp fire assembled by one of the victims in an attempt to keep warm.
Yury Kuntsevich is head of the Yekaterinburg-based Dyatlov Foundation, which is trying to unravel the mystery. Kuntsevich said he had led a group to the area last year and found a “cemetery” of scrap metal that suggested the military had conducted experiments there at some time. “We can’t say what kind of military technology was tested, but the catastrophe of 1959 was man-made,” he told the St. Petersburg Times.
Therefor Kuntsevich agreed with Yuri’s weapon-test theory, saying another clue to the deaths was the fact that the faces of the first five bodies had been inexplicably tan. “I attended the funerals of the first five victims and remember that their faces look liked they had a deep brown tan,” he said.
In 1967, Sverdlovsk writer and journalist Yuri Yarovoi published the novel “Of the highest rank of complexity” which was inspired by this incident. According to the Wikipedia article, Yarovoi had been involved in the search for Dyatlov’s group and the inquest. He also acted as an official photographer for the search party, and the investigation. Therefor had insight into the events, and plenty of behind-the-scenes information.
Unfortunately, Yarovoi was ordered by the Soviet government to avoid revealing anything beyond the “official position.” The book romanticized the story, and had a ridiculously happy ending: only the group leader was found deceased, and everyone else lived happily ever after. Yarovoi’s colleagues say that he had two alternative versions of the novel, but both were censored.
Upon Yarovoi’s death in 1980, all his archives, including photos, diaries and manuscripts, have been “lost.”
It seems reasonable to conclude that the orange lights and all the other evidence, including the government cover-up, all point to a secret government weapons test. But what about the missing tongue? Incidentally, many cattle mutilations include the tongue being removed. Throw that into the mix, and what you get is likely the result of an extraterrestrial attack; don’t you think?
"From now on we know, that snowmen exist."
Other theories include an avalanche, attack by local indigenous people, and a Russian “snow man.” The attack by any human was ruled out right away. The avalanche theory was ruled out, as well.
A scrap of paper had been found nearby the camp sight with the following words scrawled on it: “From now on we know, that snowmen exist.”
However, this doesn’t seem like something a bigfoot would do. Unless, that is, the bigfoot was carrying a large weapon that leaves behind a lot of radiation. And had an interest in removing human organs. (Guess I’m really hung up on that missing tongue, but it seems pretty damn significant.)
Was this the result of an “unknown compelling force” exhibited by the Soviet Union, or something from another world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pp6POvlER4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.datelinezero.com/2011/04/21/the-strange-case-of-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/
By Daniel La Ponsie, 21 April, 2011, No Comment
Did UFOs Kill 9 College Students in 1959?
Decades before a group of campers fictitiously died in the film The Blair Witch Project, a group of college-aged campers were killed in the mountains of Soviet-era Russia under extremely suspicious circumstances. For real.
Now Hollywood Reporter is reporting that director Simon Fellows is planning to make a film of one of the creepiest mysteries of the 20th Century: the Dyatlov Pass incident.
This is one of the creepiest mysteries of the past 100 years, but also one of the least known; although this will probably change when the movie comes out. In my opinion, this is a mystery on the level of the Mary Celeste — that ship that was discovered with the entire crew missing.
The director is known in the UK for his film Malice in Wonderland. I’m looking forward to seeing it, and I’m also looking forward the inevitable books and documentaries that will follow.
The Dyatlov Pass incident happened in the northern Ural mountains in 1959. A group of 10 Russian hikers from Ural State Technical University were led by Igor Dyatlov. One of the members of the group became ill and wasn’t able to join the expedition for the final leg of the journey. The final 9 went ahead. What happened to them might never be settled — and not for lack of evidence. In fact it’s the evidence is what makes the case so compelling, and creepy.
The mountain’s pass was, as you may have guessed already, was named after the group’s leader following the incident. The mountain’s name is Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл); a Mansi name, meaning ‘Mountain of the Dead.’
The group consisted of eight men and two women. Most were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute (Уральский Политехнический Институт, УПИ), now Ural State Technical University. Here’s the list of names, from the article at Wikipedia:
* Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов), the group’s leader
* Zinaida Kolmogorova (Зинаида Колмогорова)
* Lyudmila Dubinina (Людмила Дубинина)
* Alexander Kolevatov (Александр Колеватов)
* Rustem Slobodin (Рустем Слободин)
* Yuri Krivonischenko (Юрий Кривонищенко)
* Yuri Doroshenko (Юрий Дорошенко)
* Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle (Николай Тибо-Бриньоль)
* Alexander Zolotarev (Александр Золотарёв)
* Yuri Yudin (Юрий Юдин)
What actually happened is unknown. In the last communication, with Yury Yudin who stayed behind due to illness, Igor Dyatlov said it was possible they would be running a few days behind schedule. But when the group failed to show up several days later, the families contacted the authorities.
Yuri Yudin
The institute sent out a search-and-rescue team of teachers and students. And then the police joined the search. And then the Soviet army dispatched their airplanes and helicopters. Eventually the bodies were found.
For whatever reason the group had set up camp out in the open, away from the woods. It would have made more sense to set up camp in the nearby woods, for better protection from the elements. Perhaps something was seen inside the woods that prompted them to stay away?
The tent was torn when it was found by the search team … torn open from within. All belongings and clothing was left behind. The bodies were found wearing only pajamas and undergarments. The corpses showed no signs of struggle.
Two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs. As I said, no external signs of struggle. No external wounds at all. “It was equal to the effect of a car crash,” said the doctor, Boris Vozrozhdenny, according to case documents.
One other thing: one of the victims was missing her tongue.
Not weird enough? How about this: Near the location of the bodies, broken branches were found scattered across the ground and the charred remains of a fire was found. Some of the victims’ clothing contained “substantial levels” of radiation. At the funeral, many of the victims bodies had turned a strange orange color, and the hair had turned white.
Were they killed by a weapon blast of some kind?
Soviet investigators eventually concluded that “a compelling unknown force” had caused the deaths. The case was closed, and all documented evidence was locked away. Some of the evidence was never seen again.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, the chief investigator, Lev Ivanov, said in an interview in 1990 that he had been ordered by senior regional officials to close the case and classify the findings as secret. He said the officials had been worried by reports from multiple eyewitnesses, including the weather service and the military, that “bright flying spheres” had been spotted in the area in February and March 1959.
“I suspected at the time and am almost sure now that these bright flying spheres had a direct connection to the group’s death,” Ivanov told Leninsky Put, a small Kazakh newspaper. He retired in Kazakhstan and has since died.
The declassified files contain testimony from the leader of a group of adventurers who camped about 50 kilometers south of the skiers on the same night. He said his group saw strange orange spheres floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl.
Ivanov speculated that one skier might have left the tent during the night, seen a sphere and woken up the others with his cries. Ivanov said the sphere might have exploded as they ran toward the forest, killing the four who had serious injuries and cracking Slobodin’s skull.
Yudin said he also thought an explosion had killed his friends. He said the level of secrecy surrounding the incident suggests that the group might have inadvertently entered a secret military testing ground. He said the radiation on the clothes supported his theory.
Yudin also said the released documents contained no information about the condition of the skiers’ internal organs. “I know for sure that there were special boxes with their organs sent for examination, “ he said.
No traces of an explosion, however, have been found near Kholat-Syakhl. There are no records of any launches at the time. And it was thought that the charred remains of a fire was from a camp fire assembled by one of the victims in an attempt to keep warm.
Yury Kuntsevich is head of the Yekaterinburg-based Dyatlov Foundation, which is trying to unravel the mystery. Kuntsevich said he had led a group to the area last year and found a “cemetery” of scrap metal that suggested the military had conducted experiments there at some time. “We can’t say what kind of military technology was tested, but the catastrophe of 1959 was man-made,” he told the St. Petersburg Times.
Therefor Kuntsevich agreed with Yuri’s weapon-test theory, saying another clue to the deaths was the fact that the faces of the first five bodies had been inexplicably tan. “I attended the funerals of the first five victims and remember that their faces look liked they had a deep brown tan,” he said.
In 1967, Sverdlovsk writer and journalist Yuri Yarovoi published the novel “Of the highest rank of complexity” which was inspired by this incident. According to the Wikipedia article, Yarovoi had been involved in the search for Dyatlov’s group and the inquest. He also acted as an official photographer for the search party, and the investigation. Therefor had insight into the events, and plenty of behind-the-scenes information.
Unfortunately, Yarovoi was ordered by the Soviet government to avoid revealing anything beyond the “official position.” The book romanticized the story, and had a ridiculously happy ending: only the group leader was found deceased, and everyone else lived happily ever after. Yarovoi’s colleagues say that he had two alternative versions of the novel, but both were censored.
Upon Yarovoi’s death in 1980, all his archives, including photos, diaries and manuscripts, have been “lost.”
It seems reasonable to conclude that the orange lights and all the other evidence, including the government cover-up, all point to a secret government weapons test. But what about the missing tongue? Incidentally, many cattle mutilations include the tongue being removed. Throw that into the mix, and what you get is likely the result of an extraterrestrial attack; don’t you think?
"From now on we know, that snowmen exist."
Other theories include an avalanche, attack by local indigenous people, and a Russian “snow man.” The attack by any human was ruled out right away. The avalanche theory was ruled out, as well.
A scrap of paper had been found nearby the camp sight with the following words scrawled on it: “From now on we know, that snowmen exist.”
However, this doesn’t seem like something a bigfoot would do. Unless, that is, the bigfoot was carrying a large weapon that leaves behind a lot of radiation. And had an interest in removing human organs. (Guess I’m really hung up on that missing tongue, but it seems pretty damn significant.)
Was this the result of an “unknown compelling force” exhibited by the Soviet Union, or something from another world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pp6POvlER4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.datelinezero.com/2011/04/21/the-strange-case-of-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/