The Dyatlov Pass Accident




Photo: infodjatlov.narod.ru

In 1959, nine experienced cross country skiers, led by Igor Dyatlov, were trapped in a snowstorm and decided to set camp and sleep it out.

Later that night, something made all nine people leave their tents in such a hurry that they ripped them open from within. These people stumbled down the slope, in subzero weather, only in their underwear with no socks or shoes. All nine were discovered dead and frozen by a search party about a month later.

Here’s where it gets really creepy: three of the nine suffered massive chest and head injuries that could only be caused by forces akin to that of a car crash, but without any external wounds. There were high doses of radioactivity. And if those weren’t weird enough: one victim was missing her tongue.

Read more about the Dyatlov Pass Accident, including how mysterious "bright flying spheres" were seen nearby and why the findings of the investigation were classified as secret: Link | Photo Gallery (in Russian) | Wikipedia entry - via SF Gate and Super Punch


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Posted on March 3, 2008 at 3:07 am by Alex
Category: Paranormal



20 Comments to "The Dyatlov Pass Accident"

  • emptyminded
    March 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 am

    This sounds like the plot for the next ‘X Files’ movie.

  • popeye
    March 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 am

    it also sounds similar to the plot in kafka on the shore.
    especially the bright flying object.

  • MoonCake
    March 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 am

    the friend who was left behind said their faces were more tan than usual… could it be because they were surrounded by snow and it is common to get burned by the reflection of the sun off of the snow? they never said anything about that…

  • Paul22
    March 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 am

    It’s hard to believe that more than a week after the incident probably happened ‘investigators’ were able to come up with so much footprint evidence.

  • Geekazoid
    March 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am

    I just read about this in the San Francisco Chronicle homepage a few days ago. Creepy in the spirit of that Japanese manga about the human figured holes in the mountain side.

  • Adam Stanhope
    March 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Great post. I’ve never heard about this before.

  • bean
    March 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Just sounds like the Russians were experimenting with a dirty bomb and it blew up in their face.

  • Ali S.
    March 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Woah! Alex, are you a fan of the podcast show “Mysterious Universe”? If not than I think you really should listen to it. All about aliens, conspiracies, and general x-files stuff. Plus, the host is a great Australian fella with a killer accent. And his name is awesome. Benjamin Grundy! :D

  • J-Tan
    March 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/paradoxical-undressing/

  • Scotchdrnkr
    March 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    I vote for the missle theory.
    There were probably some missiles launched that went off course. Hit the mountain above the camp and caused a landslide. Thus causing the skiers to panic and leave camp with whatever they had on at the time. The injuries probably came from the landslide. And if there was radiation levels in their clothes it may have come from the snow where the missiles impacted and slid down covering the skiers with the radiation particles.

  • TheBigMIck
    March 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    OK, but what about the one with the missing tongue? Everything else can be explained with an avalanche, but why was the one missing her tongue?

  • andy cochrane
    March 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    i love stories like this- true or not, they inspire imagination, and that is in some ways more important than most anything. thank you for finding this, alex.

  • Tim Giachetti
    March 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    I dunno about the tongue. Tongue sandwiches like granpa used to make?

  • CheeseDuck
    March 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    OMG BRIGHT EXPLODING SPHERE MONSTERS!

  • Carl Huber
    March 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    She could’ve bit off her tongue during a traumatic shaking from a landslide hit. People say “missing tongue” when even half an inch is missing.

    Really interesting story!

  • Tonya
    March 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    Wow…this is weird. Thanks for posting.
    But if you click on the link it takes you to that article, right? Well in the first picture it shows the four skiers. The one on the ground in it, Zina Kolmogorova, looks a lot like Kiera Knightley. Did anyone else notice that?

  • ted
    March 4th, 2008 at 3:23 am

    Nine skiers “was” trapped?

  • anonymous
    March 5th, 2008 at 1:22 am

    scavenger animals often eat the tongue first — it’s soft, accessible and pure protein. people find dead deer and other animals in the woods with no tongues…little field mice can eat those very easily down to a clean nub.

  • Alex
    March 5th, 2008 at 1:48 am

    Ah, fixed - thanks for pointing out the error, ted.

  • ???? ?????????
    May 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    It would be interesting to know if there were conspicuous military demotions near the time this occurred. Could anyone else but military have killed these people in such a manner? So they had to try and cover it up with UFO speculation. It was a sloppy murder, I imagine there were some very displeased military commanders as a result.

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