The Dyatlov Pass Incident

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

how did they die?

Would love to hear you guys give your theories on this mystery. It’s intrigued me for the whole 3 years since I found out about it.

It’s some real creepy s~~~!!! Seeing as Blade is posting some cool s~~~ about who built the pyramids, I thought id post another mystery topic. Cheers! DYD.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Curious thing-I’ve spoken to a quite a few Russian dudes in person, older than me, who have never heard of this mystery. I was quite surprised. I thought it was a big well known thing in Russia.

[Writing Desk RavenParticipant 460]

If you’ll allow the superstitious spiritualist in me a moment of your time:

I’m of the mind that a good portion of ancient civilizations had good reason to fear the unknown. Things that we dismiss as superstition or ignorance I think had real, life-or-death, cost of blood implications before humans became a force of nature in their own right.

I’ve got as much information to defend this as there is information to debunk it, but the short version is that modern science seems to be consistently proving ancient, albeit poetic and otherwise baseless, assumptions about humans, animals, diseases, etc.

Scientifically explaining certain phenomona is great in terms of the pursuit of knowledge, but there’s a creeping danger in our postmodern belief that knowledge can supplant power. It’s exceedingly foolish to think that understanding how previously inexplicable things work either robs it of wonder or helps you understand it’s significance.

For example, it’s entirely possible that a repetitive wind event, generating sounds below the threshold of human hearing, drove the campers into a panic. This, in turn, exposed them to lethal atmospheric conditions and, from the wounds sustained, into the path of a local predatory fauna that likely sought to defend itself, as humans are not common visitors to the Dyatlov Pass or surrounding range.

It sounds all neat and clinical when you line it out like that, right?

Unless you were a hiker and your experience was waking up to the sensation of walking through a field of corpses and when you decided it was better to cut your way out of the tent than carve yourself out of your skin, you ran headfirst into a local leshii, roaring through its bone mask for your trespass and rending your friend’s eyes and tongue clean out of her skull.

Both explanations could be true. But “oh, derp, wind event” even being remotely true (I think that’s the newest theory proposed?) and the latter being total nonsense still doesn’t capture the terror of being miles away from help when nature, for all our hubris of “knowing” about it, does what it always does in a one-on-one against humans: wins.

"Almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little dark prison we are all born in... The danger is that of coming to love the prison." ~ C.S. Lewis

[Anonymous 54]

Lead poisoning from food containers.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Writing Desk Raven wrote:

If you’ll allow the superstitious spiritualist in me a moment of your time:

I’m of the mind that a good portion of ancient civilizations had good reason to fear the unknown. Things that we dismiss as superstition or ignorance I think had real, life-or-death, cost of blood implications before humans became a force of nature in their own right.

I’ve got as much information to defend this as there is information to debunk it, but the short version is that modern science seems to be consistently proving ancient, albeit poetic and otherwise baseless, assumptions about humans, animals, diseases, etc.

Scientifically explaining certain phenomona is great in terms of the pursuit of knowledge, but there’s a creeping danger in our postmodern belief that knowledge can supplant power. It’s exceedingly foolish to think that understanding how previously inexplicable things work either robs it of wonder or helps you understand it’s significance.

For example, it’s entirely possible that a repetitive wind event, generating sounds below the threshold of human hearing, drove the campers into a panic. This, in turn, exposed them to lethal atmospheric conditions and, from the wounds sustained, into the path of a local predatory fauna that likely sought to defend itself, as humans are not common visitors to the Dyatlov Pass or surrounding range.

It sounds all neat and clinical when you line it out like that, right?

Unless you were a hiker and your experience was waking up to the sensation of walking through a field of corpses and when you decided it was better to cut your way out of the tent than carve yourself out of your skin, you ran headfirst into a local leshii, roaring through its bone mask for your trespass and rending your friend’s eyes and tongue clean out of her skull.

Both explanations could be true. But “oh, derp, wind event” even being remotely true (I think that’s the newest theory proposed?) and the latter being total nonsense still doesn’t capture the terror of being miles away from help when nature, for all our hubris of “knowing” about it, does what it always does in a one-on-one against humans: wins.

They were really young as well. I don’t consider a bunch of 23 year olds to be professional hikers at all, but what do i know. To me, they were just kids. That dude that felt ill and returned home, what a lucky bastard! Little did he know all his buddies would wind up dead! That would haunt me for the rest of my days!

This is why camping creeps me out. I’ve seen and heard some weird s~~~ in my time, camping in Malaysia and UK. Camping to me seems exciting but scary at the same time. I’d definitely carry a gun with me if possible.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Anonymous wrote:

Lead poisoning from food containers.

Nice theory. Would that cause people to go loopy and do crazy s~~~? I don’t think they found any lead poisoning in the autopsies though. They did however have traces of radiation.

[Anonymous 54]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

Old Sage wrote:

Lead poisoning from food containers.

Nice theory. Would that cause people to go loopy and do crazy s~~~? I don’t think they found any lead poisoning in the autopsies though. They did however have traces of radiation.

Hell I dont know.it was a wild guees! Hajha.

The evedence suggest mental confusuin. The ones sitting by unburned fire would, yet fteeze to death.One in a panic, cuts their way out of the tent. These facts oppose them selfves. All walked away from tent together. Did prints in snow show running or walking? Hhmmm…One felt sick, and left.

What would cause mental confusion, that they all had in common.Food and water.Poison of some form.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

It sure is weird!

[Anonymous 54]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

It sure is weird!

I enjoy trying to figure things out.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Anonymous wrote:

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

It sure is weird!

I enjoy trying to figure things out.

Me too.

[Anonymous 54]

What I cant figure out, is why I used to think women were so f~~~ing important! Still a great mystery to me! Hahah

[Anonymous 54]

Hahahhahahaha!!!!

The creature from the deep lagoon!!!!

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Hahahahahahaa

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

F~~~ me dead she is revolting. She should be the poster child for why men choose to MGTOW.

Hideous.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

Δεν υπάρχει τίποτε αδύνατο γι’ αυτόν που θα προσπαθήσει. - Μέγας Αλέξανδρος

[Anonymous 5]

Could I make a request ? I’m very interested in this mystery about this video game myth called polybius it was supposedly a game that came out in 1981 in some suburbs in Portland Oregon . It had bad effects on people like seizures and subliminal messages in it.some people thought that it was a part of the Cia mk ultra program . I’ve been studying it for three years no one has come forth and either proved or disproved it.

[sidecarParticipant 35862]

There’s no real mystery here. We may not know the specifics of how things went down at the Dyatlov Pass in 1959, who went nuts first, that sort of thing, but there’s no mystery why.

People do some really weird s~~~ when they’re dying of hypothermia. The brain comes up with all sorts of strange ideas when it’s shutting down from cold. Put a bunch of freezing to death people together and their weirdness amplifies off each other.

I’ve experienced a mild case of this myself, but had enough sense (or luck) to realize what was happening while it was still mild and get the f~~~ down off the mountain.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

They were in a nice warm tent and only experienced hypothermia once they all ran out for some unknown reason. Thats the real mystery. Why did they leave the tent? Someone s~~~ themselves? Hehe.

[sidecarParticipant 35862]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

They were in a nice warm tent

No. They weren’t.

Have you seen the photos of the Dyatlov Pass Incident aftermath? That was a s~~~ty s~~~ty tent, and poorly erected, especially for windy conditions. From the pictures it looks like they even set it up with the doorways into the likely direction of the wind, turning it into more of a wind tunnel than a shelter.

And besides, they likely started freezing long before they ever even decided to put up their utterly inadequate tent. From writing found at the site, it’s fairly clear they started suffering hypothermia soon after the weather turned bad. When you’re that cold and energy depleted, it’s really hard to warm back up even if you have adequate clothing and shelter, which they did not. This led to increasingly bad decisions culminating in the idiotic plan to tent up in the open in the middle of a blizzard using inadequate equipment when just a thousand yards down slope were trees for shelter from the wind and a fire.

One member of the group made the right decision to turn back when the weather turned bad. He lived.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

sidecar wrote:

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

They were in a nice warm tent

No. They weren’t.

Have you seen the photos of the Dyatlov Pass Incident aftermath? That was a s~~~ty s~~~ty tent, and poorly erected, especially for windy conditions. From the pictures it looks like they even set it up with the doorways into the likely direction of the wind, turning it into more of a wind tunnel than a shelter.

And besides, they likely started freezing long before they ever even decided to put up their utterly inadequate tent. From writing found at the site, it’s fairly clear they started suffering hypothermia soon after the weather turned bad. When you’re that cold and energy depleted, it’s really hard to warm back up even if you have adequate clothing and shelter, which they did not. This led to increasingly bad decisions culminating in the idiotic plan to tent up in the open in the middle of a blizzard using inadequate equipment when just a thousand yards down slope were trees for shelter from the wind and a fire.

One member of the group made the right decision to turn back when the weather turned bad. He lived.

Yeh you’re right sidecar. Now i think about it that tent was wank. Many sources say they were ‘expert hikers’ but the aftermath of their demise says otherwise. I mean, who the f~~~ goes hiking in blizzards in sub zero temperatures with the added threat of the Soviet cold war right on their doorstep?

I do feel really sorry for them though. They were just kids, and the pics of their corpses are macabre and unsettling.

I think that dude turned back because he was ill. But I reckon he made it up as he knew better than to go on haha.

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