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the beam of light came out from behind

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his mouth the light that was radiating

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out zoomed back into the center we

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immediately thought that it was a UFO

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sometimes when you go looking for a

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monster you might just find one true

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paranormal experiences from real people

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you from that a show about the unknown

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in our relationship to it find it now

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wherever you listen to podcasts

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imagine being trapped on top of a

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mountain in below freezing temperatures

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no food to eat no shelter for warmth no

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help on the way and you are now facing

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the cold hard truth that death is right

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around the frigid corner it is truly the

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stuff of nightmares

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when you are nestled in your warm bed

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with the cover strong snugly over your

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body but imagine even worse the thought

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that while trapped in this nightmare

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scenario your eventual death would never

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truly be solved your legacy would be

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frozen in a block of both tragedy in

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complete mystery a mystery that was all

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too real for a group of Russian

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Mountaineers who hiked the Ural

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Mountains in 1959 prompting one of the

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most gruesome and tragic discoveries in

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the last half-century

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this is somewhere in the skies the

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it was January 25th when 23 year old

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Igor Dyatlov assembled the crew that

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consisted of three engineers and seventh

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students these members were yuri

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doroshenko yad mila to be nina yuri

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krivonishenko alexander Koloff Toth

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cinavia kolmogorova roosts them Zia

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Bowden Nikolai Brignole Asst simian

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Alexeevich and Yuri Yudin the students

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highly athletic skiers from the Ural

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Polytechnic Institute set off on a

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training expedition preparing themselves

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for an even more ambitious trip to the

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Arctic regions in the coming months as

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days passed the group make modest

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headway but it soon became clear that

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they deviated West in the wrong

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direction for quite some time due to

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worsening weather conditions and

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decreasing visibility it was on February

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1st that one of the team members Yuri

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Yudin decided to stay behind in the

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nearby settlement of visi due to illness

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little did you didn't know but his

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decision would ultimately spare his life

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the rest of the team set up camp on a

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nearby mountain called Cholet saigo or

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better known to the indigenous Monsey

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tribe mountain of the Dead the decision

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to set up camp here has remained

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questionable for some time many

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wondering why they hadn't hiked about a

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mile more to a slightly warmer and less

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dangerous open space at the face of the

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mountain in 2008 in an interview with

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the st. Petersburg Times Yudin himself

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would defend the decision by dad loved

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that's day of matka postulating that he

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probably did not want to lose the

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distance they covered before

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DLF decided to practice camping on the

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mountain slope

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either way the decision to set up in

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this forested area would prove

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disastrous as the days trickled by and

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no one including Yudin had heard

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anything from the team as more and more

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time passed the families of the members

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became increasingly concerned a few days

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off course was typical for such

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expeditions but when more than a week

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slipped by were not a single telegram or

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distress call

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family members demanded a search and

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rescue operation by the uro Polytechnic

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Institute be put into action when they

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fail to produce any results on the

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ground local military helicopters were

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sent out to search for the team it

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wasn't until February 26 that the first

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helicopter pilot would spot something on

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the ground near the campsite in the

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forest what the first set of

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investigators found was puzzling the

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campsite boasted a large tent that the

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entire team presumably shared in the

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tent appeared to have been cut apart

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Polytechnic Institute McCauley shavon

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accompanied the investigators he would

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later explain what he first witnessed

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when they approached the campsite we

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discovered that the tent was half torn

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down and covered with snow it was empty

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and all the group's belongings and shoes

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had been left behind

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this observation continued with

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investigators noting at least eight sets

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of footprints leading from the tent all

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the way to the treeline

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two other pairs of footprints completely

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barefoot were followed to a large pine

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tree some 1500 feet away from the tent

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under the tree sheriffin saw the remains

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of a fire but what he saw next sealed

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the fate of at least two of the members

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there in the snow were the bodies of

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carvanha shankha and yuri doroshenko

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both naked except for their underwear

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investigators would also note that the

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pine tree had fragments of both men's

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skin about 15 feet or so up in the

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branches postulated that they tried to

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climb the tree to no avail what exactly

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were they attempting to escape from with

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no trace of animal prints anywhere their

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lack of clothes and the fact that they'd

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had time to start a fire under the tree

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made the investigators even more puzzled

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and these were only the beginning of

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never-ending questions as the

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investigators uncovered more and more

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gruesome evidence of the remaining team

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members about a thousand feet from this

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scene lay another gruesome sight in the

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wintry terrain lay the body of the out

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love himself one hand clung firmly to a

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nearby tree while the other hand frozen

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with ice was wrapped around his head

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in a protective manner could he have

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been trying to stop whatever it was that

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Kevon Shenko and doroshenko were

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possibly trying to take refuge from

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Rustom Slobodan face doe with a large

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gash in the side of his head

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furthest from the others was the body of

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coal maguro traces of blood were found

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around her body yet no signs of struggle

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were apparent the five deaths were all

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eventually attributed to hypothermia but

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it wouldn't be until two months later

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when the terrain thought out that the

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remaining members were to be found

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he was now May fourth about two hundred

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and fifty feet away from the campsite in

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a half-frozen ravine the bodies of

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zolotarev

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Nicholas briga no cold votive and

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Davinia were discovered all four had

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suffered severe internal injuries

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though no outward trauma bruises or even

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tissue damage seemed to be apparent

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local doctors were quoted as saying that

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the internal damage was equal to the

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effect of a car crash perhaps the most

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disturbing was that of dubinina who was

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found with her head tilted severely back

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and her mouth gaping wide her tongue

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ripped completely out and missing things

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only spiraled further into obscurity

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after that all four seemed to have

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swapped various items of clothing with

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one another including items from the two

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men found mostly naked under the tree

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where the fire had been set up as if

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things weren't strange enough further

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investigation would conclude that most

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of the deceased were found with heavy

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amounts of trace radiation on their

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clothes several family members at

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funerals of the deceased would

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eventually claim that the bodies of the

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dead for a rather odd orange color the

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hair of the Dead had also lost its

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pigmentation turning a dull gray color

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too many questions circled the mountain

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in the aftermath of the almost

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unimaginable discovery of the dead it

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was quite clear that something truly

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tragic had occurred and as the families

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began to grieve the investigators tried

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desperately to string a timeline

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together in terms of just what may have

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happened on the mountain that fateful

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day some hope of doing so came in the

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form of several rolls of film and

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Diaries that were found in the damaged

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tent the photos developed from the rolls

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of film revealed that the expedition

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members had indeed set up their campsite

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on February 2nd at approximately 5:00

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p.m. the first photo showed the members

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looking very happy and healthy taking

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into consideration the digestion of food

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and several team members bodies

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investigators were able to conclude that

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they'd eaten a meal sometime around 7

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p.m. that night and most likely went to

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sleep some hours later because of this

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apparent meal forensic pathologists were

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able to estimate that whatever had led

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to their deaths happened between 9 p.m.

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and midnight leading into February 3rd

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because of the knowledge that the

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experienced team possessed whatever

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happened that night must have sent them

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into a complete frenzy fearing their

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lives were in great danger while they

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all fled in several directions

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it was also presumed that they all met

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under the tree where krivonishenko and

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doroshenko had been found perhaps they'd

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all started the fire together and the

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two attempted to climb the tree to look

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for help

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eventually failing this would lead the

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others to seek other paths for possible

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rescue from whatever seemed to be the

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catalyst of these tragic events with

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Dyatlov missing at this point the others

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had possibly began a track back towards

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the tent

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this is when they fell into the ravine

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and were unable to get out the events of

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February 2nd would lead officials to

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close off this pass from any other

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outdoorsman fearing that whatever

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occurred that night could possibly

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happen again

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it remained closed for almost three

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years afterwards the case was

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suspiciously closed by investigators and

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any documents pertaining to the events

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were shipped off to a Soviet agency that

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is yet to be uncovered to this day no

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Declassified files have ever been

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released on what happened on the

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mountain but that didn't stop civilians

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from coming up with their own theories

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as to what may have sent the team into a

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panic and caused their untimely deaths

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one theory was that while wandering the

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certain area at the day prior the skiers

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had unintentionally run into the

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indigenous Monsey tribesmen who in their

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Siberian native ways didn't react too

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kindly to the visitors trespassing of

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the territory they took matters into

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their own hands and attacked the skiers

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a brutal game of hunter or pray colonel

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but investigators were quick to dispel

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the rumors stating that no trauma from

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humans caused the deaths of the skiers

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and their leader one private

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investigator who spoke to former

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servicemen in the area said the hikers

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could have been killed after being

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mistaken for escaped prisoners from

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local gulag prison camps or

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alternatively that they were killed in a

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clean-up operation after a series of

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military exercises Siberia at the time

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of the tragedy was still a land of the

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gulag many political prisoners were

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released in 1953 through 1956 but

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criminals were still behind bars

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many small concentration camps were

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dispersed all over the region

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the closest was a lock situated just a

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few miles from the site of the tragedy

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although it's true that there were no

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escapes around the time of the tragedy

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it doesn't mean that it never happened

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before history knows many examples when

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prisoners would escape and go into

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hiding for years and even decades at a

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time they could have easily missed the

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death of sullen in 1953 and subsequent

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amnesty to all political prisoners young

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hikers could be taken for unwanted

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witnesses and subsequently killed if you

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take into consideration that many of the

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political prisoners came straight from

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the Front's of world war 2 it is

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plausible that these people knew how to

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kill and were open to the idea

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furthermore Yuri Yudin discovered a

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piece of clothing that did not belong to

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any of the members of the group known as

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a AB Maquis this piece of clothing is a

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wide piece of fabric that's wrapped

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around feet and legs to keep warm they

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have both a distinct shape and are made

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from a very specific material they were

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widely used among the soldiers in the

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40s and later among the prisoners of

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Stalin's concentration camps there's

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another theory that several of the

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skiers were actually KGB agents semion

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Zola Turiaf alexander kolevatov and yuri

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krivonishenko have been theorized to be

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agents on a mission to uncover a cell of

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CIA operatives they were to deliver

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radioactive samples and then take

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photographs of the Americans but

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something went wrong and the CIA agents

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killed the group sounds a little

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fantastic but first but in a state of

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fear and paranoia this was the only way

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to spy on the Soviet Union according to

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this theory two or more members of the

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Dyatlov group were hired by the KGB to

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deliver fake proof of radioactive

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clothes the rest of the group was

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probably unaware of the real purpose of

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their journey in fact it was some

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strange details about the skiers

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themselves that gave rise to a Cold War

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spy story scenario Zola taraf a 37 year

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old bachelor an instructor at a

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different tour base had joined the group

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at the very last minute he was a veteran

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with years of combat experience archives

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of the Ural Polytechnic Institute

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revealed a remarkable detail about

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Alexander kalfa Tov before transferring

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to the physics technical department at

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the UPI he worked in Moscow as a

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laboratory assistant in a top-secret

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scientific facility in unnamed Atomic

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Institute known as P o box number three

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three nine four and yuri krivonishenko

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worked in a most notorious p.o box the

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plant

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miok where a massive nuclear disaster

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second in severity only to Chernobyl

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occurred in 1957 the background of all

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three and they're coming together for

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this trip seemed to be more than just

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sheer coincidence the true objective of

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the ski Trek on the notes to the other

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seven members was to deliver radioactive

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samples to a group of agents of the CIA

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and to take pictures of the spies this

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was all disguised as a normal hiking

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trip but when the meeting went south for

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some reason the Americans realized that

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the trio was playing a double game a

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conflict ensued a fight torture and the

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brutal massacre of the entire group led

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to the gruesome findings of the entire

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a bit more on the prosaic side let's say

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here is another theory could this all

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have just been a very unfortunate

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accident due to an avalanche while the

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area was not prone to avalanches it

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isn't out of the realm of possibility

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although the hikers Diaries report a

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fairly thin snow cover however small

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avalanches could still prove to be

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highly dangerous a portion of the upper

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layer of snow could simply shift and

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roll over the hikers as a slab of thick

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snow this could damage the tent and

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create havoc among the hikers who were

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suddenly trapped underneath several feet

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of snow it would certainly explain why

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the tent was cut from the inside further

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retreat would be necessary if the hikers

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were worried a second avalanche could

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strike again according to the supporters

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of the Avalanche Theory the DLF group

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tried to make their way back to the

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river and instead made a fatal mistake

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by descending into a valley of the lava

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river after four weeks the snow that was

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rushed down the slope of the mountain

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was simply blown off by the strong winds

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that were common in this region this

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would erase all signs of a natural

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disaster however this theory does have

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its gaps from what we can tell from the

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footprints left by the group everyone

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seemed to dissent with relative ease

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it's highly unlikely that three people

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with broken ribs and flail chests would

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be transportable at all in here we see

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several badly damaged men and a woman

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walk without problems or even help from

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any of the members of the group secondly

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these men and women were experienced and

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well trained they knew that chances of

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freezing to death is more likely than

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getting killed by an avalanche

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although the removal of the damaged tent

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from an exposed mountainside was out of

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the question they had to retrieve all

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their warm clothes and footwear in 2013

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a book was published by author Donnie

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Iker titled Dead Mountain the untold

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true story of the Dyatlov pass incident

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he brought forth a new scientific theory

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for the incident proposing that the

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skiers may have been driven to hysteria

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by infrasound waves caused by a weather

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phenomenon known as a Karman vortex

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street

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the lead investigator Lev Ivanov his

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final conclusion was an unknown

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compelling force so that was the only

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case that he ever had that was unsolved

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and what I learned is that he actually

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was pretty damn close considering he

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didn't have the technology in the

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science and the conclusion that I came

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up with with the scientists at NOAA

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completely caught me off guard and I

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could have only arrived at this

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conclusion with modern science a Karman

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vortex street is an oscillating pattern

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that emerges when a fluid or gas or in

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this case wind flows around a suitably

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shaped object in this case a

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topographical feature the mountain when

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they occur on such a large scale this

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wind pattern can theoretically generate

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very low-frequency sound waves that have

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been blamed for harmful physiological

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00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:08,600
and psychological symptoms in human

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beings according to a 2001 review of the

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medical literature by the National

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Institute of Environmental Health

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Sciences such symptoms range from

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annoyance to fatigue to nausea

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Iker the author of this book argues that

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just such a phenomenon may have occurred

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under extremely high wind conditions on

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the night of the incident

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the resulting bombardment of the skiers

457
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by infrasound waves induced severe panic

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and caused them to flee to safety out of

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the tent and meet their deaths we now

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move to some of the more sensational and

461
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paranormal ask theories on what may have

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happened that night in the first is UFOs

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Lev Ivanov the lead Soviet investigator

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on the case interviewed a group of

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nearby hikers who were in the area when

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the incident supposedly occurred a

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respectable thirty two miles away the

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hikers reported a cluster of strange

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orange spheres in the sky this was also

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reported by other witnesses in the area

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for the next few months after the event

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Ivanov in his later years admitted that

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he himself believed that the orange

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spheres in the sky may have been the

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cause of the Dyatlov team's demise or at

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least had something to do with it

477
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speculating that one of the skiers may

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have witnessed the UFOs panicked and

479
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sent the others into a similar frenzy

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many also theorized that a possible UFO

481
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could have caused the orange color to

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the skin found on the bodies the grey

483
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hair and even the trace radiation found

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on their clothes but others theorized on

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what those UFOs might have actually been

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the campsite was in a vast proximity of

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the Belleek nur cosmodrome a Soviet

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nuclear missile testing ground r7

489
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:10,010
intercontinental missile launches were

490
00:24:15,690 --> 00:24:13,610
done often here could one such highly

491
00:24:18,910 --> 00:24:15,700
secretive test have occurred that day

492
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causing the UFO sightings and the panic

493
00:24:23,740 --> 00:24:22,040
of the skiers could it also explain the

494
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radiation found on the clothes and

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bodies some speculate that the skiers

496
00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:29,030
could have come into contact with high

497
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:32,180
traces of radiation or had even drank

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some contaminated snow in the area

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either way

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00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:40,100
the UFO Theory remains accompanied by a

501
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:43,930
juxtaposing theory of the cryptid kind

502
00:24:50,020 --> 00:24:46,730
while many areas boast their own version

503
00:24:52,570 --> 00:24:50,030
of a hominid like creature Siberia

504
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:52,580
reigns as one of the most popular with

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its own Siberian Yeti known as the Ulmer

506
00:25:01,180 --> 00:24:59,420
in 1925 a Russian military expedition

507
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:01,190
reported being attacked by a Yeti in

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00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:04,370
eastern Siberia in 1945 another unit of

509
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:06,290
Soviet soldiers claimed to have had a

510
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:08,210
violent encounter with a Yeti in a cave

511
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and in 1953 a group of hunters shooting

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caribou narrowly escaped with their

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lives when they were charged by an angry

514
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Yeti almost a Mongolian word are

515
00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:21,620
typically described as human-like

516
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bipedal animals between five and six

517
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feet and a half tall their bodies

518
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covered with reddish brown hair with

519
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anthropomorphic facial features

520
00:25:36,150 --> 00:25:33,620
including a pronounced brow Ridge flat

521
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nose in a weak chin many

522
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:37,880
cryptozoologists believe there is a

523
00:25:42,580 --> 00:25:40,370
similarity between these descriptions in

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modern reconstructions of how

525
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Neanderthals might have appeared perhaps

526
00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:48,680
in Alma had infiltrated their tent and

527
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:50,860
sent them running for their lives

528
00:25:56,170 --> 00:25:53,570
this theory holds very little weight

529
00:25:58,180 --> 00:25:56,180
however as no clear footprints other

530
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than those of the deceased had been

531
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:00,760
found anywhere in to the scene of deaths

532
00:26:06,490 --> 00:26:03,410
but one very interesting and

533
00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:06,500
controversial piece of evidence couldn't

534
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:08,390
keep this theory completely out of the

535
00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:12,050
realm of possibility supposedly a piece

536
00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:14,270
of paper near the campsite was found

537
00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:18,670
that simply read from now on we know

538
00:26:26,890 --> 00:26:23,870
there are snowmen along with this piece

539
00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:26,900
of paper was a developed photo from one

540
00:26:31,830 --> 00:26:29,240
of the skiers cameras that shows a

541
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hulking figure off in the distance

542
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:35,240
though bathed in shadow it eerily

543
00:26:41,170 --> 00:26:37,610
resembles that of a large hominid

544
00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:41,180
tracking to the snow however the source

545
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:42,710
of this photo has never

546
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:44,930
then confirmed as authentically coming

547
00:26:50,590 --> 00:26:47,530
from the film of that of the skiers

548
00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:50,600
other various theories have been brought

549
00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:53,150
forth involving top-secret government

550
00:26:58,540 --> 00:26:56,240
projects being tested in the area this

551
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can't be completely ruled out as many

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investigators have eluded that teams

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were sent in to investigate

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long before the campsite was said to

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have originally been discovered with the

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grisly scenes of death an extra pair of

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skis and even fabric from military like

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uniforms had been found near the

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campsite as mentioned before but just

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like the other theories before these

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none of this can be irrefutably proven

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once again leaving us to spin our

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imaginations into overdrive in terms of

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a possible answer to this tragedy and

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even with ongoing investigations of what

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may have happened that night continue we

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may truly never know what happened

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perhaps we should first and foremost

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keep this word in mind tragedy besides

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the memories of friends and family a

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rusted plaque and memorial stone remain

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the only physical remembrance of those

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who lost their lives that day it is

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truly a horrific set of events that

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caused the deaths of those on the day at

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La Paz perhaps it could best be summed

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up by the late Yuri Yudin the only

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member who dodged the terrible fate that

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night in the same 2008 interview he took

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pardon he stated the following if I had

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a chance to ask God just one question

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yet would be what really happened to my

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friends that night

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somewhere in the skies is produced by

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Third Kind productions in association

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with the entertainment one podcast