New Evidence In The Dyatlov Pass Mystery

a couple of years ago I did a video on four mysterious deaths and disappearances which no list of mysterious deaths and disappearances would be complete without talking about the DIY past incident so yes I have talked about this before but of course that was just a few minutes out of a much larger video so I wasn't really able to get across all the details in just that small amount of time plus there has actually been some research in the last year that may actually tie this mystery up with a bow most of it anyway so I'm not going to waste any more time on an intro here it's the DIY pass incident it's one of the weirdest internet mysteries in the whole world and it might actually be solved let's talk about it [Music] on January 27 1959 seven men and women went on a hiking and skiing trip in the Euro mountains of Russia their plan was to hike from the city of Vijay to the top of a mountain called otorton it was going to cover 306 kilometers over 14 days let me stop for just a second and acknowledge something like I always hear people talking about the di love pass incident I never hear people talk about how dangerous and ambitious this trip was they're going to be hiking camping and skiing for two straight weeks over nearly 200 miles of mountains in Russia in January I think it's safe to say there were plenty of opportunities for things to go wrong the group consisted of graduates and students from Euro polytechnical Institute and all of them were experienced hikers and skiers uh which I mean they would have to be to try to attempt a trip like that in fact that's kind of one of the things people point to is the fact that there was such experienced hikers that kind of makes this whole thing a lot weirder now to be fair there were some really weird circumstances around this particular Expedition okay so they left on January 27th um there was a 10th member of the group his name was Yuri yuden he actually was a little bit sick at the start and he decided to drop out probably smart move in this part so diatloaf told Ruden that he would send a telegram to their Sports Club when they returned to DJ so this was supposed to happen by February 12th but he told you that it could possibly take longer so February 12th comes and goes nobody really thinks anything of it but then more and more days pass relatives started to get concerned and started to demand for a rescue mission the first volunteer rescue group set out on February 20th and after that the Army and police got involved and the hiking group was finally located on February 26th this is where things start to get weird let's start with the abandoned tent it was half torn covered in snow and all the hikers belongings were still in it including their shoes even stranger it looked like it had been cut from the inside Footprints were found and they followed these Footprints out to nearby Woods where the bodies of doroshenko and criminal were found beside the remnants of a fire also they were only wearing their underwear a nearby tree had broken branches up to about five meters high that suggested maybe they climbed the tree to maybe look around for something so they investigated the tree and actually found traces of human skin on the bark so that kind of supported that theory Searchers found the yachtlov and komagorova's bodies the next day between the tent and the woods slobin's body was then found on March 5th all three look like they were trying to return to their tent and like the others they were found in only their underwear medical examiners ruled hypothermia as the cause of death while the fact that they were found half naked is strange there is a logical explanation you probably know where I'm going with this it's called paradoxical undressing and it's something that actually happens a lot in cases of hypothermia yes it's really important fortunate thing where as the nerves get damaged and the Brain kind of starts to shut down it creates this sensation of like overwhelming heat they feel like they're burning up so they strip off all their clothes which of course just makes them freeze even faster so the Searchers found the rest of the bodies over the next couple of months but then yeah more Mysteries came up it took the Searchers longer to find the other members of the group because they were in a ravine covered in snow it was 76 meters away from the tree that I talked about earlier and it was kind of close to what they found to be an improvised shelter these members were dressed better than the others but they had fatal injuries like chest fractures and skull damage and famously one of them was missing her tongue one doctor I described the internal injuries that he found is something kind of similar to what you see in a car crash but they couldn't find any external wounds that would also correlate with that and the weirdest thing of all and this has led to tons of speculation some of their clothes were radioactive like more so than one would expect the government's official statement at the time was that the outlov committed a series of mistakes and the group just died from overwhelming Natural Forces some of these Mysteries do have logical answers but the strange jumble of evidence has caused a lot of wild speculation about what happened to these guys like why did they abandon their tent cutting themselves out instead of just unzipping it why did they have internal injuries with no external ones and what's with the radioactive clothes so there are a few theories about what happened to them that have been floating around for quite a bit let's go ahead and talk about those for a second now one theory is that they were actually attacked by an indigenous group that was local to the area called the Mansi or mancy I don't know how it's pronounced but the monsai I'll go with that they're known to be fairly peaceful and there were no signs of any attack anywhere around the campsite some suggested they were attacked by wild animals like maybe wolves or a bear or something like that but again investigators found no proof anywhere around that this was the case some people even suggested that they took psychedelic mushrooms and it led to them being disoriented and whatnot again there's no proof of that and then of course there are people who think that they were were attacked by a yeti or aliens were involved in some way because of course some people think that now to be fake ports in the area from other hikers that were around at the time that said that they saw some orange Globs in the sky Globs apparently about the same time that the hikers are missing but they were also apparently doing parachute mind tests the the Soviet military was in that area at the time so that's probably most likely what that was in fact sometimes these sorts of Mines are known to cause internal injuries but not external injuries so maybe to that same end some people have suggested that maybe a weird kind of infrasound may have led to their deaths there's apparently a win phenomenon known as a Carmen Vortex Street um that makes a pretty terrifying sound so the theory is that some winds blowing through the past could have maybe worked as they hit the size of a mountain and created a small series of tornadoes with a deafening noise around them under some certain conditions the noise can be subtle and produce infrasound which is the vibration in the air frequency so low that human ears can't hear it but Studies have shown that infrasound can affect humans with things like you know sleep loss shortness of breath and extreme dread so the idea being that some weird natural condition created this horrifying noise that scared them out of their tent but as always the most plausible explanation is probably the most boring one that they were caught in an avalanche now this has been disputed by a lot of people over time because the area that they were in was not very steep plus their diary said that the snow was really thin at the time so there's reason to believe that that might not have been the case but the study that was done this year that I was referring to at the beginning of this video suggests that maybe it could have been a certain type of avalanche called a slab Avalanche okay so there are two main types of avalanches loose snow and slab and they behave very differently so all Avalanches have massive potential energy because you got a whole lot of snow a whole lot of mass up at a high altitude and that's what gives you potential energy for example if a small Avalanche contains a thousand kilograms of snow its force is 9810 Newtons loose snow Avalanches often start on a small area and then expand as they move and they're caused by the snow getting deposited at a steeper angle than the snow's natural angle of repose slab Avalanches are different and actually way more dangerous with slab Avalanches instead of a little bit of snow slowly accumulating and spreading out an entire layer of snow slides away all at once basically the force of gravity overcomes the bond between the snow layers and they just separate this massive amount of snow falling all at once packs a giant Wallop and it doesn't take a lot to trigger them sometimes it's the wind sometimes it's the victim themselves but it was a slab Avalanche theory that was proposed by two scientists based in Switzerland Island in a study published in communication Earth and environment in 2021 the scientists and questioner Johann Gom and Alexander fuserin and what they did was they scoured the Soviet archives about the incident and then they apply computer Avalanche simulations to it there are some basic questions that they wanted to answer like why weren't there obvious signs of an avalanche when the search team arrived 26 days later whether the slope angle above the tent was steep enough for an avalanche whether the skull and thorax injuries were typical for Avalanche victims and whether or not the hikers made a cut in the slope for the tent so that last one has actually been a bit of a debate for a while because that is a common thing that campers do in the snow they cut out a little space in the snow bank and then use that snow bank as a barrier Against the Wind so the theory is that the campers did that when they set up their tent and it may have triggered a slab Avalanche that then just fell on top of them the big question is why didn't that Avalanche get triggered immediately when they made that cut you know it seemed to like just sit there for several hours before it fell on them why would it do that so their Theory suggests that there might have been a deeply seated weak snow layer that might have been just strong and enough to support the weight above it at first but then over time these strong catabatic winds in the area kind of slowly accumulated snow over the hours eventually causing that weak layer to give way so they applied their computer models to this to see if that was actually a possibility and what they found was that with slowly accumulating snow that Avalanche could have waited between seven and a half and 13 and a half hours after they made that cut as the researchers wrote in their study quote Dynamic Avalanche simulation suggests that even a relatively small slab could have led to a severe but non-lethal thorax and skull injuries as reported by the postmortem examination yeah they found that pitching a 10 on a slope of even around 30 degrees can be dangerous there have been some objections to this Theory some of these objections include that there wasn't any snow cover on the slope that there wasn't any wind on the night of the incident and that the slope is just too flat and The Avalanches don't really occur in that area although they did find two Russian scientists that confirmed that there was snow on the slope and that the wind was present that day and that night of the incident now for the objection about how flat the slope is the researchers helped organizers who are producing a documentary called the diatlov mystery two Expeditions in the area were completed in March and September 2021. the winter Expedition had snow cover so they weren't able to see the terrain's topography but the summer session was clear and this time they were able to use a drone to do a high-res 3D digital model of the terrain what they found was that there were steps in the terrain with inclinations exceeding 28 degrees and a few places where it did exceed 30 degrees and the slopes weren't just local they were everywhere pretty much anywhere in that area where you pitched a tent you would likely to be under a slope of that kind so to test the theory that Avalanches don't occur in that area they organized another expedition to see for themselves it didn't go very well though they set out on snowmobiles but they hit some nasty weather and by nasty weather I mean like wind was gusting so hard it was blowing them over kind of nasty weather but when they did finally get there they found evidence of not just one slab Avalanche but two in fact since that study's publication there have actually been several documented slab avalanches in that area and one of the mountain guides reported that one of the slab Avalanches was in visible after less than an hour of snowing so yeah when they arrive three weeks after the event and said that there were no signs of an avalanche apparently that doesn't really mean anything as the researchers wrote in such severe weather conditions the past cannot be easily accessed by hikers while traces of small slab Avalanches disappear within a few hours so it is very possible that it was just a basic slab Avalanche that took out the diatlov group now as for some of the other Mysteries like the fact that one of the bodies was missing a tongue um that's actually not that unusual with bodies found in nature yeah when scavengers find a body they tend to focus on the mouth and the eyes because um while they're holes like why spend energy tearing a hole through the Flesh of an animal when there's a perfectly good hole right there one with a big Loosely connected muscle just hanging out inside of it it's just an easy meal for a scavenger so there's nothing really weird about that another part of the mystery is that their clothes were slightly radioactive which I mentioned earlier um that's LED some to believe that maybe they were killed by some kind of nuclear test but the amount of radiation on their clothes was way too little to be harmful and way too little to be from a nuclear test of any kind my guess and this is just my guess is that maybe they were using some old equipment that had glow-in-the-dark paint on them I know old school clocks used to use paint that had radium in it I did a whole video on the radium girls which is insane but yeah I imagine they probably had some equipment that had some glow-in-the-dark paint on it so you could see it at night you know and then when it got impacted by a massive Avalanche that may have broken or fractured and then just kind of like scattered that paint on their clothes the only other bit of woo-woo was that like I said some people reported seeing orange lights in the sky but most people speculate that they were some kind of Minds that were going off in some military tests which to be fair those might have been the thing that set off those Avalanches I think mostly the Avalanche Theory wasn't really considered for a long time because people didn't think there was enough of a slope and it's just not something that you see on areas that flat and plus like I said these were extremely experienced hikers and campers they were experienced enough to know what was a dangerous slope and what was safe but maybe in this instance there was a bit of a I don't know optical illusion that made it look flatter than it actually was they may have been a little bit off due to exhaustion from this long trip and whatnot combine that with a hidden layer of weak snow and some unfortunate winds and well there you go now the researchers are quick to point out that they haven't completely solved the case there's no way to definitively prove that this is what happened but they did show that it's plausible and in my experience with these types of cases It's usually the most mundane answer that's the most likely I know I'm a huge bus kill but I actually like finding answers like that you know when you think there's a big Fantastical mystery and then you find out it's just like oh the guy tripped or something kind of just shows how random life can be and to me that's the most interesting thing of all for the record um I wouldn't say that it's that random for a group of hikers on a two-week track through the Russian Mountains in January getting hit by an avalanche in fact I'd call it pretty darn inevitable in the long run all the same um rest in peace comrades now if you'll excuse me I gotta do something downstairs because tonight is the night 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Published: Mon Oct 10 2022