The Dyatlov Pass Incident
This is the story about 9 ski hiker
deaths that happened in the northern Ural Mountains in Russia on the night of
February 2, 1959. This incident happened on the east shoulder of Kholat
Syakhl Mountain (meaning Mountain of the Dead). Specifically, it was in a
pass known as Dyatlov Pass. This pass was named after the group’s leader,
Igor Dyatlov. The Dyatlov Pass incident occurred during the rule of the Soviets
over Russia and although there were no eyewitnesses or survivors to what
actually happened the Soviet army did investigate the incident and locate the
bodies of the 9 hikers. Soviet investigators at the time determined only
that a “compelling unknown force” had caused their deaths. For 3 years
after the incident, 1959-62, the Soviets forbid access to the area to skiers
and hikers.
When Soviet investigators went looking
for the hikers who failed to return on schedule they first found the hiker’s
tent that was apparently cut open in the back with a knife. The hikers
appeared to have fled through the hole without their shoes, some wearing only
socks and others barefoot in the heavy snow. The investigators found all
9 bodies at the edge of the snow covered forest. The corpses showed no
signs of struggle, however, two of them had fractured skulls, two had broken
ribs, and one of the hikers was missing her tongue. According to
investigators 4 of the victims’ clothing had substantial levels of radiation
detected on them.
The
ski group had come together for a ski trek across the northern Urals. It
consisted of Igor Dyatlov, who was the leader, and 8 men along with 2
women. Most of them were students or graduates of the Ural Polytechnical
Institute (now Ural State Technical University). The goal of the trek was
to reach Mt Otorten (which means “Don’t go there” in the native tongue).
The route was considered difficult. All of these people were experienced
skiers and hikers. Originally the group started out with 10 members but
one had to return to the village the day after they started their trek
because he became sick. His name was Yuri Yudin. So that left 9
members.
Weather conditions during the hike became
worse. Snowstorms decreased visibility and they apparently lost their
direction and deviated to the west. When they apparently realized their
mistake the group decided to just stop and set up camp on the slope of the
mountain for the night. Not much else is known except that the group did
not return to the village as scheduled and relatives began demanding a search
and rescue operation to find them. The Soviets launched one to locate the
missing hikers. However, this search and rescue operation was not started
until February 20. Later both police and the army became involved in the
search with planes and helicopters.
Searchers found the abandoned camp on
February 26 on Kholat Syakhl. The tent was badly damaged and someone had
cut open the tent from the back with a knife. A chain of footprints was
seen leading down towards the edge of nearby woods on the opposite side of the
pass. However, after 500 meters they were covered with fresh snow.
At the forest edge under a large cedar tree the searchers found the remains of
a fire and the first 2 bodies of the hikers. Both had no shoes and both
were dressed only in their underwear. Between the cedar and the camp they
found 3 more dead bodies of the hikers. The body poses (they were frozen)
of these 3 seemed to suggest that they were attempting to return to camp when
they died. Each of these 3 was found separately at distances of 300, 480,
and 630 meters from the cedar tree. It took searchers more than two
months to locate the bodies of the other 4 hikers. Those 4 were finally
found on May 4 buried under 4 meters of snow in a ravine in a stream valley
further in the woods from the cedar tree.
Diaries and cameras were found at the
camp but they produced little information about what happened to these
people. There is one photo taken of the group setting up camp the evening
of February 2, 1959 and everything looks normal.
There was a legal inquest into the deaths
of the 9 hikers after the first 5 bodies were discovered. Autopsies found
no injuries that might have led to their deaths and conclude that they all died
of hypothermia. One of the people had a small crack in his skull but it
was thought not to be a fatal wound. When the 4 bodies of the remaining
hikers were found in May the entire picture changed. Three of them had
fatal injuries! The body of one had major skull damage and two others had
major chest fractures. Doctors concluded that the force needed to cause
such damage would have had to been extremely high. One of the
investigating doctors, Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny, compared the injuries to a car
wreck victim. Oddly, the bodies had no external wounds and it appeared as
though the bodies had been crippled by a high level of pressure! One of the
women was missing her tongue as well.
Initially there was some speculation that
perhaps people from the native Mansi tribe might have attacked the group and
murdered them because the group had encroached on their lands. However,
an investigation determined that the nature of their deaths did not support
this thesis. For one thing only the footprints of the hikers were visible
and not any from anyone else. Also, there were no signs of hand-to-hand
combat or struggle.
On the night of February 2, 1959 in the
Urals the temperature was around minus 25 degrees with blowing snow.
Oddly, however, the hikers were dressed only partially. Some of them hand
only one shoe on while others had no shoes or wore only socks. Some of
the bodies were found wrapped in snips of ripped clothes which appeared too had
been cut from those who were already dead. It must be noted that up to
25% of hypothermia deaths are associated with Paradoxical Undressing which
typically occurs during moderate to severe hypothermia as a person becomes
disoriented, confused, and combative. People in this condition may start
removing their clothing unawares which, in turn, increases the rate of heat
loss and hypothermia.
Journalists who reported on the Inquest
into the deaths at the time reported that 6 of the group’s members died of
hypothermia and 3 of fatal injuries. It was also reported that there were
no signs of other people nearby or in the surrounding area. They also
reported that the ten had been ripped or cut open from within in the rear of
the tent.
Investigators determined that the group
had died 6-8 hours after eating their last meal. All members of the group
left the camp on foot. Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny stated that none of the
injuries on the bodies could have been caused by another human being, “because
the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been
damaged.” Forensic radiation tests revealed high doses of radioactive
contamination on the clothing of a few of the victims. The final conclusion
by investigators was that the group had all died due to some “compelling
unknown force.” The Inquest adjourned and investigative files were sent
to a secret archives. Photocopies of the case became available only
in the 1990s with some part missing.
Some researchers claim that the facts
surrounding this case were either missed or ignored by investigators. For
instance, they claim that after the funerals that relatives of the deceased
said that the skin of the victims had a strange brown tan. One of the
former investigating officials in a private interview said that his dosimeter
had shown high radiation levels in the Pass but that the source of the
radioactive contamination was never found. Further, on the night of
February 2 another group of hikers who were 50 kilometers away from the
incident reported that they had seen strange orange spheres in the night sky to
the north in the direction of the pass where the hikers were camping.
Similar reports of such spheres were also observed in Ivdel, a nearby village,
and adjacent areas almost continuously from February to March 1959. These
came from various witnesses including the meteorology service and the Soviet
military! Also, some reports suggested that there was a lot of scrap
metal in the area where the hikers died. This led to speculation that the
Soviet military had utilized the area for secret tests and might have engaged
in a cover-up regarding how the hikers died.
In 1967, Russian writer and journalist
Yuri Yarovoi published a novel entitled “of the highest rank of complexity”
which he based on this incident. He had actually been involved in the
search for the group and the Inquest. He had also acted as the
investigations official photographer. Details of the incident were kept
secret by the Soviets as usual. Yarovoi avoided revealing anything beyond
the official position and well known facts. Yarovoi died in 1980 and all
of his archives, photos, dairies, and manuscripts became “lost.” How
convenient!
Another Soviet journalist, named Anatoly
Guschin, also looked into the incident and wrote a book entitled “The price of
state secrets in nine lives.” He concentrated on speculation that these
people were the victims of a secret Soviet weapon experiment. A former
police officer named Lev Ivanov who led the Inquest in 1959 published an
article in 1990 and admitted that the investigative team had seen “flying
spheres” themselves! Invanov believed in a paranormal explanation for the
group’s deaths involving UFOs.
A regional TV documentary file was
produced about this incident in 2000 called “The Mystery of Dyatlov
Pass.” There is also a book by the same name. The book, written by
Anna Matveyeva, contains large portions of quotes from the official case
including diaries of the victims and interviews with investigators and
searchers. In September of 2011 the History Channel television show
“Ancient Aliens” featured a segment on the incident as well.
Matveyeva’s book is a fictional narrative
but it remains the largest source of documentary materials ever made public
about the case. Pages from the case files and other documentaries have
published photocopies and transcripts on the web from the case files as
well. Finally, the Dyatlov Foundation was established with the help of
the Ural State Technical University and its aim is to convince Russian
officials to reopen the case and investigate it further. They also
maintain a Dyatlov Museum in honor of the dead hikers.
The
Avalanche Theory
Skeptoid, hosted and produced by Brian
Dunning, features a story on the web about this incident. They report
that some of the victims were wearing each other’s clothing and none of the
victims had any visible external signs of trauma. Also, they report that
some of the victims may have been blind and that witnesses in the area on the
night of February 2, 1959 had reported seeing orange spheres in the night
sky. Also, they report that the bodies of the victims had orange skin and
gray hair. The “Ancient Aliens” series also reported this.
As Skeptoid states, this incident
happened in the middle of the Cold War and there are few details other than
what has been stated herein. Journalist attempting to publish the facts
about the case had their writings censored or confiscated by Soviet authorities
who liked to keep big secrets. Likewise, official records either went
missing or were classified by the Soviets. Skeptoid points out that many
of the theories surrounding this case revolve around Soviet military testing in
this region on the night of February 2. These theories allege that the
Soviets were testing some sort of secret weapon that drove the group
insane. Others think UFOs were responsible for the group’s deaths.
After Soviet authorities concluded their investigation into this case
everything was classified as TOP SECRET.
Dunning says of the case, “I found some
translated articles from Russian media and some western articles, and although
the case offers some compelling mysteries, it also offers an elephant in the
room.” And that elephant in the room according to Dunning? The possibility
of AVALANCHES being the killer! Dunning says he found that the area where
the death took place is “hardly the type of place you’d expect
avalanches.” Dunning found a Russian tourism brochure about the region
and it DOES warn of avalanche dangers on the slopes steeper than 15 feet!
According to the investigators reports at the time the slope right above the
groups campsite was 22-23 feet high. And further up it goes from 25 to 30
feet. That’s steep! Dunning says the reports say snow at the camp
was 2 meters deep. He thinks avalanches are a plausible factor in the
death of the hikers.
Dunning goes on to address the
radioactivity of some of the hikers clothing and in the area. He points
out the fact that the mantles used in camping lanterns contain Thorium which is
known to emit alpha particle radiation! These mantles are the little
fabric bags that are used as wicks in camping lanterns. They are, as
Dunning says, fragile and can easily turn to dust upon touching them and that
radioactive dust can get on you and your clothing when you replace them in the lanterns.
BTW they need replacing rather regularly. Thorium gas mantles were
invented in 1891 and were made in many countries. Coleman is the best
known maker of these mantles in the US and they just phased them out in the
1990s. Dunning says he found a blog post signed by Igor and the guy said
he was Russian and attended the same college as the hikers did. Igor
stated that thorium gas mantles were not available in the Soviet Union in
1959. That’s not so according to Dunning. He says he found a
Russian WW2 later on eBay that was fueled by kerosene and they used thorium gas
mantles even during the war.
Dunning
speculates that the hikers set up camp in an area with potential avalanche
dangers. Sometime during the night a loud noise from a nearby avalanche
or a jet aircraft or maybe even a military ordnance convinced 5 of the hikers
that an avalanche was coming their way so they cut open the tent wearing
whatever they had on while they’d been asleep and ran off. Dunning
speculates that one of them fell and struck his head on a rock and they became
lost in the dark due to blowing snow and poor visibility. Or, he says,
they simply found themselves stranded with their injured friend and built a
fire under the cedar tree. Dunning speculates that they quickly got hypothermia
and “probably shouted themselves hoarse for their friends.” If they
escaped only in the underwear what did they start a fire with? Just asking’. :)
Dunning speculates further that two of
the hikers most likely lost consciousness and the others made a choice of
desperation to take what little clothing they had from their two unconscious
friends and try to make it back to camp. He says one made in 300 meters,
another made it as far as 480 meters, and the third made it a full 630 meters
before all five were dead from hypothermia. Meanwhile, he speculates, the
4 hikers still back at the camp had not panicked and ran away like the other
5. The 4 at camp got dressed, gathered some provisions, and began
searching for their 5 panicking friends in the blowing snow. Dunning
speculates they searched for hours during the night until at some point they
found themselves caught up in a real avalanche! He says during the
ensuing panic one of them likely received a fatal skull fracture, one got 12
broken ribs, and one bit her tongue off. Dunning says these are “all
perfectly plausible injuries during such a traumatic death.” He says
their bodies remained buried until the spring thaw, in May, and this is typical
of many avalanche victims. He says what the hiker’s relatives saw, the
strange brown tan or orange skin of the victims, at the funeral was a combination
of 5 days of winter sunburn and the mortician’s attempt to cover up frostbite
along with a full month of exposure to the elements. And as for the reported
gray hair of the victims? Dunning says “who knows what hair would have
looked like after all that exposure and who knows what kind of treatment done
by the mortician.” He notes not all of the people attending the funerals
reported the victims all had gray hair BTW. Dunning also says that if
their hair had been turned gray by UFOs he certain the Soviets would have dyed
it back to their natural colors before the funerals. As Dunning says,
“Their bodies had been exposed outdoors for weeks. Of course they looked
terrible.” I agree!
So what about the radiation? It
could have come from the mantles of the camping lamps OR it could have been in
the area for a long time and caused by the Soviets and their beloved weapons
testing in the area back in 1959. The amount and type of radiation found
on the clothing was never revealed. And as for the UFOs? Dunning
says people around the world report UFOs every day and with no real significant
happenings like what happened to these hikers. He says it is NOT surprising
that people in the area that night say UFOs. What did they have to do
with the Dyatlov Party? Dunning says it’s a statistically insignificant
correlation and there is no reason to believe that UFOs killed these
people. Dunning says he considers the UFO question “irrelevant.”
Dunning goes on to speculate as to the
victims being blinded. He says this is “pure speculation” because these
reports are based on only TWO observations. Firstly, some of the victims
were wearing the wrong clothes and, secondly, when they built their campfire
they didn’t use dry wood which was nearby the cedar tree. That does not
mean they were blinded in his estimation. He says there were 5 panicked
people, underdressed, in subzero temperatures in nearly zero visibility
darkness so it’s no wonder they didn’t find the dry wood for the fire and had
the wrong clothes on. As Dunning says they were lucky to get the fire
going at all. Dunning concludes by saying, “Summary: I’m still
looking for something in the Dyatlov Pass mystery that lacks a simple and
mundane explanation.”
Addressing some other questions and
speculations about the Dyatlov Pass incident.
After over 50 years now and the families
of the victims still suspect something strange went on the night of February 2,
1959. As I said the Dyatlov Foundation has been set up to honor the
memory of these people in Russia. The website “Aquiziam” (also called
“Curious Web” on the internet) was given a letter by the foundation’s
president, Yuri Kuntsevitch. It is a letter of gratitude for their
assistance in creating a wider awareness of what happened to these
people. As this website says not everyone involved in looking into this
tragedy is impartial and objective. Some people are using this tragedy to
perpetuate their own beliefs and ideology. The website says, “Sadly,
there are now many websites that have simply recorded the dramatic aspects of
this tragic event and over emphasized elements that are, in reality, easily
explained. We can only assume that is has been done for the purpose of
sensationalism.”
The
Infrasound Theory
Aquiziam says that rumors that the group
had a rifle are unfounded. There is a photo of someone holding a rifle
but that photo is from an earlier expedition. According to people who
were involved with the team they were NOT armed with a rifle. Further,
regarding the one victim with her tongue apparently “cut out,” they say that it
is true her tongue and parts of her mouth were missing when her body was found
2 months after the event. In reality her tongue was NOT cut out or ripped
from her mouth! It was degraded because of her decomposing body which is
very normal. The site says they know this because it was fully
acknowledged at the time in 1959 by investigators.
As for the strange orange or tan color of
the bodies reported by some at the funerals, the website says this is NOT true,
at least not of the first bodies found because those bodies were found not long
after the event. Those bodies discovered 2 months after the event DID have
an orange or tannish discoloration to them which is normal and which is often
seen by rescue teams that recover human remains that have been exposed to the
elements for such a long time. This website also says that some of the
orange color is the result of photos taken at the time that degenerated in the
images which is also true.
The Aquiziam website offers from
excellent information about this tragedy at the link below under
“sources.” Many of the answers provided there are not only in depth but
are very plausible. It notes that the final 4 hikers were found in a
ravine. That ravine was a deep one and injuries found on those 4 bodies
would be consistent with falls down into the ravine. As for the victims
hair turning a shade of gray or silver this apparently is not true as the
Coroner actually recorded that the hair of the victims was all of natural
color. This website also speaks of the radiation found on some of the
clothing of the hikers and says it may have come from the coat of one of the
victims. The radiation found was identified as isotope K-40 a very weak
contamination and very superficial one as well. It may have come from a
laboratory and not from any weapon. Don’t forget that these people were
in college where experiments are done all the time. Further, at that time
the US and USSR were testing new atomic weapons so fall out radiation from
those tests was not uncommon around the world. As for the case reports
being classified TOP SECRET this website says this claim is NOT true at all.
Regarding the skull injury of one of the
victims, named Nicolas Tribeaux-Brignollel, the Aquiziam website says information
gathered from his skull injury could go a long way in solving this
mystery. The coroner recorded that such a head injury was most likely to
have been caused by impact with a rock resulting from a fall from a height
between 6-10 feet but not higher. Higher and faster falls than this
normally break the apex or arch of the human skull with little evident trauma
at to the base of the skull. In this case, the apex of the skull was not
damaged. Further, evidence suggests this man was still alive when he
sustained the skull injury and this injury was almost certainly caused by
impact NOT pressure! The pressure required to cause such an injury by
pressure would have to have been 1-15 tons and there is no evidence of
materials that could have caused this amount of pressure in the area.
Such a skull injury could have easily been caused by an impact such as hitting
one’s head on a rock while falling. There was also no evidence at all
that the injury was caused by a concussion blast as such a blast would have
caused additional trauma to the bodies of all of the victims.
Now, recall that those victims trying to
return to the camp were buried under snow. Their bodies were buried under
the snow when found. The bodies found 2 months later in May were under 4
feet of snow in the ravine but the bodies up on the slope were only under 1-1
1/2 feet of snow. This phenomena is the result of wind and blowing snow
along with the geography of the land. Ravines and gullies will fill
quickly. Searchers who found the bodies in the ravine had to dig them out
through 4 meters of snow! Two to three months had seen the accumulation of
significant snow buildup in the ravines all over the area.
Returning to Dunning’s speculation that
these people were killed by an avalanche, many do not believe this to be the
case. Searchers said that the area had no signs of an avalanche having
taken place. Modern terrain related physics has revealed that the
location of the incident is NOT conducive to the formation of snow build up
that would cause an avalanche. Since the incident there have been more
than 100 expeditions into the area and NONE of them have ever reported conditions
conducive to creating an avalanche. Further, the first bodies were found
within 10 days of the event and those bodies were only covered by a shallow
layer of blown snow that came down from the mountain above via winds. The
tent has not been impacted with any form of snow flow of a strength that would
have knocked over the tent poles. It had collapsed laterally not
horizontally. An avalanche would have left snow flow patterns and other
debris distributed over a wide area. None of this was found at the scene
of the camp.
An avalanche that could sweep 4 people
beyond the tree line some 1.5 kilometers from the tent and into a deep ravine
would have had to have had tremendous power. If this had been the case
then injuries on the bodies would have been far more serious and
different. Also, such an avalanche would have damaged the tree line at
the point of impact. None of this was found to be the case in this
tragedy. Further, an analysis of the terrain, the slope, and the incline
in the area where the camp was indicates that even if there was an epoch
avalanche it trajectory would have bypassed the tent and camp. The leader
of the group, Dyatlov, and another one of the men, Zolotarev, were both
experienced skiers. Neither of these two men would have ever allowed
a camp to be set up in a place where they thought an avalanche might happen!
One of the most interesting questions and
answers on the Aquiziam website is the last one at the bottom of the Q&A
page. The question is whether the answer to this mystery could be an
Infrasound phenomenon! And the answer is YES!
The website says that this Infrasound
phenomenon could be the “real reason for the panic that gripped the
skiers.” They say that the Infrasound phenomenon is a probable
explanation as to what happened on that night in February 1959 and it’s
something new that people are only just now beginning to understand. So
what is this Infrasound phenomenon?
Infrasound is a sound that is lower in
frequency than 20 Hz or cycles per second which is lower than human
hearing. For humans to hear infrasound the sound pressure has to be
sufficiently high. Infrasound might then be heard by the ear but more
likely it would be felt in various parts of the body. During WW1 the
allies used infrasound to locate artillery. A large fan and duct system
can produce infrasound that can cause one’s ear drums to hurt and things in a
room to even shake. Infrasound sometimes occurs naturally during severe
weather, avalanches, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, waterfalls, calving
of icebergs, lightning, and even ocean waves. Man-made processes such as
sonic booms and explosions can also cause infrasound as can diesel engines and
wind turbines. Large scale subwoofer speakers can also cause the
phenomena. It is also known that animals such as elephants, alligators,
whales, giraffes, etc. use infrasound to communicate over distances.
Whales can use this communication of infrasound over hundreds of miles.
Some scientists believe that migrating birds may use it as a navigation
aid. Elephants use infrasound waves that travel through solid ground that
are sensed by other herds using their feet even though they are miles
apart. Animals have been known to sense infrasonic waves going through
the earth made by natural disasters using them as an early warning of the
impending disaster. For example, in the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and
tsunami, animals fled long before the disaster.
When it comes to humans and infrasound
some people might hear it and think it is a loud sound while others may not
hear it at all. Infrasound has been known to cause feelings of awe or
fear in human beings! In can make some people feel like some sort of
supernatural even is happening too. Infrasound caused by wind turbines
that effects people is known as “Wind Turbine Syndrome” that causes headaches,
dizziness, and nausea in both humans and animals near the turbines.
Some
researchers suspect that infrasound may even have a relationship to SOME ghost
sightings!
In these cases it is believed that infrasound makes the eyeballs fibrate inside your head and, thus, causes an optical illusion. The somewhat famous New Mexico Hum is believed by some to be caused by this infrasound as well as other phenomena.
In these cases it is believed that infrasound makes the eyeballs fibrate inside your head and, thus, causes an optical illusion. The somewhat famous New Mexico Hum is believed by some to be caused by this infrasound as well as other phenomena.
So, natural events can cause infrasound
and humans and animals can “hear” it with either their ears of bodies, or both,
or not at all. When things like the volcano Krakatoa blew its top the
“ringing” of the earth and atmosphere continued for hours. Wind can also
cause infrasound. Wind and storms can generate infrasound too. Some
people can hear the Jetstream winds and its thunderous pitch. The Jetstream
winds generate ultralow pitch sounds which make some people feel weak and
tired. Infrasound can be used to make strong rock walls fall flat into
tiny pieces. It can blow through windows and walls can be toppled by
infrasonic impulses.
What might sustained influences be on
humans and human behavior? In some places nomads hear mysterious desert
humming sounds fill the night and they are filled with a sense of dread.
Deep, buzzing, and threatening sounding these humming tones can produce anxiety
and fear among the nomads and have for centuries now! Infrasound may also
cause hallucinations like the ghost walls seen be nomads in the desert for
centuries and reflected in myths and folktales. Infrasound can cause
seasonal depression and anxiety in some locations, seasonal nervous exhaustion
in others, and Nero physical maladies in still other places which sometimes
result in human fatalities.
Infrasound can travel long distances
often exceeding 1000 miles with the SAME force and intensity as when they
began! They can also carry a deadly pressure. Some researchers
believe infrasound’s potential effects on human and human behavior can be
absolutely frightening. Some scholars believe they can even alter or
modify large scale social behavior in humans. It does NOT take much
acoustic power to generate infrasound that produce extreme and sustained
effects on humans and animals.
FOHN winds are dry and warm southerly
winds in the Alpine regions of Europe. Fun weather is weather of clear
skies, high visibility, and a dry atmosphere. Studies of this form of
weather reveal they can cause extreme irritability, accident prone loss of
objective judgment, slight disorientation, mild nausea, and diarrhea thanks to
the infrasound the wind and weather produces. It is a sustained and
proven FACT that sustained low intensity infrasound alters human health and
human behavior! Earthquakes, fire, floods, engines, wind, storms, and
many other natural and man-made things can produce infrasound and that
infrasound CAN and DOES effect human health and human behavior!! So, in
fact, infrasound could have literally driven the victims of the tragedy
literally insane on the night of February 2, 1959 in the Russian Ural
Mountains!
Investigator’s
Conclusions on the Dyatlov Pass Mystery
Nine people went on a trek in a snowy
region of the Urals trying to reach a goal. But they were forced to stay
the night before they got to their goal and had to set up camp on a lot near a
deep ravine. I think things most likely went normally for most of the
time and at some point during the night everything began to go chaotic.
There was blowing snow, poor visibility, a storm, winds, etc. I do not
think there was an avalanche. I do not think UFO’s attacked and killed
these people. I don’t think they had an encounter with Bigfoot (there
were no other tracks except their own). I think INFRASOUND is clearly the
answer to this mystery! And that infrasound was caused by the snow storm
and winds.
I think several of the people in the
party of 9 were affected by this infrasound and went crazy and probably had
hallucinations inside the tent. I suspect these people ripped or cut open
the tent and went running out half naked into the night and the storm while the
others got dressed and began searching for them. I think the people in
the ravine were the ones who went crazy due to the infrasound and the other 6
went looking for them. The 4 crazed ones were the ones found in the
ravine under the snow. The others were the ones who had gone looking for
their crazed friends and most likely having no clue why they went nutts.
These 6 who were searching for their crazed friends most likely succumbed to
hypothermia quickly and died. And the crazed 4 were either already dead
or dying as well at the same time. These 4 started a fire under the cedar
tree but they were so crazed that they most likely had another psychotic
episode caused by infrasound and didn’t have sense enough to stay near the
fire. Fact is, cold can KILL and it can kill rather quickly especially if
you have no sufficient clothing on and are sweating. Either this
infrasound phenomena explains the mystery or these people were drunk and/or
drugged out. There is no indication of this in the reports from the time,
however. Most likely, I think, it was the effects of this infrasound
phenomena that cause hysteria in the camp that night and that lead to the death
of all 9 people, sadly.
So you’re still wondering about the
glowing orbs seen by other hikers and campers in the area and people in the
nearby villages. What were they? UFO’s?
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t just
believe in UFOs. I know for a FACT that they are real because I’ve stood
right under one of the damned things fully conscious and sober! I’ve seen
several of them and for the time being I’ll stop there. What other
campers and villagers were reporting that night were glowing orbs which may or
may not have been UFOs. In fact, they may have been something very
natural in the region.
In some areas there are what are called
“earth lights.” These phenomena appear prior to earthquakes in some areas
of the globe. They are one example of “glowing orbs.” There is also
the case of the “foo fighters” spotted by and encountered by hundreds of allied
pilots over Europe during WW2, my uncle being one of them. Some pilots
flew right through them and nothing happened. Some planes were affected
by these phenomena and had instrument and engine trouble and others did not.
What were they? Glowing orbs! Another case in point. I’ve
heard reports of what I initially thought were people reporting fire flies
until they told me how big the things were. Obliviously, they were too
big to be fire flies. What were they? Glowing orbs! The fact
is there are all kinds of glowing orbs that have been observed by people all
over the world. UFOs? Some of them may be but NOT all of
them. Some are natural occurring phenomena IMO. I’ve even heard
reports that people have seen what appeared to be glowing orbs prior to, after,
and even during storms. Is this what the people were seeing in the Urals
on the night of February 2, 1959? Maybe.
Let me conclude by telling you a little
incident of my own I had years ago with a glowing orb. I was out in the
midst of nowhere with some people who had reported UFO to me in the night.
For about 30 minutes we sat atop a hill watching dancing lights rising into the
air and falling to the ground in the distance. Suddenly one of these
lights came closer to us and we all walked down off of the hill and into the
rocky valley below. As we were walking we saw the light shoot a smaller
light out of it. The smaller light went northward low on the horizon and
disappeared, so we thought. When we got to the edge of the valley the
little light came around a rocky corner and scared the hell out of all of us,
me included. It was a fiery orb no doubt about it!! UFO?
Probe? In this case, yes, I think that is exactly what it was and it was
clear that it was being operated by intelligence.
What happened to the Dyatlov Party was
very unfortunate and I think the best possible explanation is infrasound
phenomenon. There is no evidence to suggest anything else IMO including
an avalanche. So, as far as I’m concerned….CASE SOLVED!