WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THOSE 9 HIKERS IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS?
As a young boy, I was often fascinated by supernatural mysteries that couldn't be explained. It was only recently I learned about arguably one of the strangest and mysterious events to occur in the 20th century - The Dyatlov Pass Incident. Whether supernatural or not, this story is fascinating and tragic.
On February 2nd, 1959, a group of ten hikers, young men and women, set out into the Northern Ural Mountains in the U.S.S.R. All of them were experienced trekkers and were attempting to scale Otorten Mountain, a peak that requires knowledge and skill to climb in extreme conditions. The snowfall during their trip was intense, but the hikers knew exactly how to handle the severe arctic weather. Soon after beginning their trip, Yuri Yudin, one of the 10 hikers, had to turn back because he got sick. Little did Yuri know it would be the last time he’d ever see his friends.
After several weeks, the remaining hikers did not return and eventually the Russian military was dispatched to find them. One of the first things found at the scene was a tent that seemed to be torn to shreds. Later examination determined that a knife was used to open the tent from the inside. After the searchers began to examine the surrounding area, they begun to find the bodies of the missing hikers. All nine of the bodies were found to be completely frozen solid.
What was strange about the death of the hikers were the injuries that they sustained. Several of them sustained physical trauma later found in their autopsies. The injuries ranged from unusual amounts of radiation in at least one of the bodies, blunt force trauma to the abdomens of a couple of the hikers, and the strangest of all was from one of the female hikers. Investigators discovered her tongue had been removed from her mouth and her body was missing eyes, part of its lips, as well as missing facial tissue. Further, there was other physical evidence at the scene, and accounts from people claiming to see strange things in the area at the time, which only added uncertainty to this complex and unsolved mystery.
The nine hikers were buried and their deaths were mourned, but their story did not die. The media quickly jumped onto this story and conspiracy theories began to pour in from every direction. Some of the most popular theories about the incident were attacks by a Yeti, alien abduction, and testing of secret Soviet technology.
I feel as though that there must of been a logical explanation as to why the hikers suffered these horrible deaths. I will be analyzing the facts as they are understood, the studies performed by professional investigators, and the several theories that have been made over the past almost sixty years. I will attempt to look objectively at all the evidence and theories of this case, and offer my own interpretation of what might have happened in the Ural mountains in 1959.
On February 2nd, 1959, a group of ten hikers, young men and women, set out into the Northern Ural Mountains in the U.S.S.R. All of them were experienced trekkers and were attempting to scale Otorten Mountain, a peak that requires knowledge and skill to climb in extreme conditions. The snowfall during their trip was intense, but the hikers knew exactly how to handle the severe arctic weather. Soon after beginning their trip, Yuri Yudin, one of the 10 hikers, had to turn back because he got sick. Little did Yuri know it would be the last time he’d ever see his friends.
After several weeks, the remaining hikers did not return and eventually the Russian military was dispatched to find them. One of the first things found at the scene was a tent that seemed to be torn to shreds. Later examination determined that a knife was used to open the tent from the inside. After the searchers began to examine the surrounding area, they begun to find the bodies of the missing hikers. All nine of the bodies were found to be completely frozen solid.
What was strange about the death of the hikers were the injuries that they sustained. Several of them sustained physical trauma later found in their autopsies. The injuries ranged from unusual amounts of radiation in at least one of the bodies, blunt force trauma to the abdomens of a couple of the hikers, and the strangest of all was from one of the female hikers. Investigators discovered her tongue had been removed from her mouth and her body was missing eyes, part of its lips, as well as missing facial tissue. Further, there was other physical evidence at the scene, and accounts from people claiming to see strange things in the area at the time, which only added uncertainty to this complex and unsolved mystery.
The nine hikers were buried and their deaths were mourned, but their story did not die. The media quickly jumped onto this story and conspiracy theories began to pour in from every direction. Some of the most popular theories about the incident were attacks by a Yeti, alien abduction, and testing of secret Soviet technology.
I feel as though that there must of been a logical explanation as to why the hikers suffered these horrible deaths. I will be analyzing the facts as they are understood, the studies performed by professional investigators, and the several theories that have been made over the past almost sixty years. I will attempt to look objectively at all the evidence and theories of this case, and offer my own interpretation of what might have happened in the Ural mountains in 1959.