- I'm Ryan, that's Brent, let's do this. This week on BuzzFeed Unsolved
we're covering Dyatlov Pass. It's probably one of the
weirdest cases out there. - [Brent] He says that every time. - Even your precious science
won't save you today. - Mmmkay. - [Ryan] On the evening
of February 2nd, 1959, a group of nine skiers led by Igor Dyatlov died near their campsite next
to Otorten Mountain in Russia. The horrific state of the
campsite was discovered on February 26th by a rescue team. Two of the nine bodies were
found by the tree line, about a mile away from camp. And despite temperatures
dropping to negative 30 degrees Celsius, the two bodies were
curiously wearing nothing but underwear. - [Brent] Where were their clothes? - [Ryan] Oh, you'll find out. - [Brent] Okay. - [Ryan] Another three bodies
were found between the camp and the trees. One of them had a fractured
skull, however doctors at the time determined that
the cause of death for all five was hypothermia. Strangely, the remaining four
bodies of the nine original were not found until two months later. Of these four, one had a
fractured skull, one had crushed ribs, and one woman had crushed
ribs and a missing tongue. - [Brent] Whoa. - [Ryan] Oddly, these four
bodies that were found later were wearing the clothes
of the previous bodies that were found two months earlier. Even more bizarrely, when
these clothes were tested, they were found to be radioactive. - [Brent] Interesting! - [Ryan] In fact, there were
reportedly traces of radiation all around the campsite. - [Brent] Number one,
what kind of radiation? Alpha, beta, gamma? - [Ryan] What? Does it matter? It's radiation! - [Brent] Well lots of
things have radiation, like that word in itself
is not necessarily as scary as one might think. - [Ryan] The radiation
becomes even more puzzling when combined with the fact
that there was no outward trauma to the bodies. The injuries found in the
bodies were caused by a force determined to be too strong
for a human to cause. The creepiest detail,
however, is that there was no evidence of an outsider entering the tent. The tent was ripped from the inside. - [Brent] How do you
look at a tent and know? Ah, this was ripped from the inside. - [Ryan] How do you
determine any of these things they determine? - [Brent] I'm just wondering if you know. If you don't know, okay, cool, just say-- (Ryan laughs) there're facts unknown but
that's what the detectives said. - [Ryan] Anyways, let's
get to the theories now. One theory is that there was an avalanche that buried the tent. That would explain the tent
being cut from the inside and would also explain
the deaths by hypothermia. - [Brent] That doesn't
explain the clothes, though. - [Ryan] Actually, I'm
glad you mentioned that. There's an effect that's
called paradoxical undressing where disoriented hypothermia
victims remove their clothes because their bodies feel
like they're burning. This would explain the
nearly naked bodies, but this theory has no
answer for the radioactivity, nor does it have an answer
for the missing tongue. So that theory, to me, is out. - [Brent] (laughing] What? How? How is avalanche out? - [Ryan] How does avalanche
cause radioactive forces and how does an avalanche
rip someone's tongue out? - [Brent] You didn't say
her tongue was completely gone, you said her tongue was cut off. - [Ryan] It says missing tongue. - [Brent] There're some
translation things going on here from Russian to English, I'm just saying. - [Ryan] Another theory is
that a Soviet test missile caused the deaths. A doctor on the autopsy
team said an explosion could have caused some of the injuries that were bizarre. However, no evidence of
an explosion was found and no records of a missile
launch were located. Something I didn't mention
earlier was that the expedition originally had ten skiers,
but one of them left early due to an illness. A man named Yuri Yudin,
making him the lone survivor of the trip. - [Brent] Ahhh. - [Ryan] I bring this up
because Yudin helped identify items found at the site,
but there were some items that he couldn't identify. One of which was a cloth
that he claimed looked to be of military origin, as
well as skis and glasses, leading him to believe
that perhaps the military found the bodies of his friends
before the rescuers did, maybe trying to cover something up. - [Brent] We don't know
if like the person asking the question was leading
him in any way to be like, does this cloth remind
you of military cloth? You know, it does, actually. - [Ryan] Like a Making a
Murderer kind of thing? - [Brent] Yeah, exactly. - [Ryan] Also there was no
evidence of a fucking explosion near there. That's kind of hard to cover up. - [Brent] Well, not if a
missile hit the top of-- You ever see Mulan? When she does the thing-- - [Ryan] Okay, right now you're
citing a animated feature film by Disney. Onto the next one. This next theory, even I will
admit, is completely bananas. Some suspect that the
group was actually attacked by a yeti. - [Brent] Alright, next. - [Ryan] This theory
even commanded two hours of a Discover channel
special called Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives, in 2014. However, there was no evidence of a yeti and furthermore, I can't
imagine a yeti taking the time to cover its tracks. - [Brent] Either way,
everyone knows that the yeti is a peaceful creature. - [Ryan] Not according to
Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives. This brings us to our final
and most popular theory. And I imagine you saw this
one coming, but it's aliens. - [Brent] Oh God. - [Ryan] Alright, there were-- no no, hear me out here. There's actually a lot of
reasons why this makes sense. There were supposedly reports
of bright flying spheres in the area in February
and March of that year. Here's a quote from lead
investigator Lev Ivanov. Quote, I suspected at the
time, and am almost sure now, that these bright flying
spheres had a direct connection to the group's death, end quote. Even more peculiar, Ivanov
was also ordered by Soviet officials to close the case. Aliens would also perhaps
explain the radioactivity found at the site, and would also explain the inhuman trauma caused to the bodies. And as far as no evidence
being found of an outsider from the tent, I think it's
safe to assume that if they're out there, aliens have gotten
pretty good at covering their tracks. - [Brent] I don't buy is. Bright flying spheres? Missiles. - [Ryan] No! - [Brent] You're going aliens
over, oh, a possible missile. - [Ryan] I think they're
both equally plausible. Maybe that's why they ripped
the tent from the inside, maybe they saw something
they didn't wanna see and they got so scared that
they were trying to retreat and they were like fuck zippers. - [Brent] No! - [Ryan] Yes. - [Brent] How? - [Ryan] Because there's
no evidence of a fucking missile blast. - [Brent] There's no evidence
of a fucking alien ship landing on a mountain! - [Ryan] That's because we
wouldn't know what evidence of that looks like, and if there was-- (Brent laughs hysterically) What are you talking about? No, fuck you! Uh, regardless, in the
end, authorities supposedly determined that the deaths
were caused by a unknown compelling force. - [Brent] I agree. - [Ryan] And, consequently,
the case remains unsolved. - [Brent] Based off the
information in front of us I go avalanche, number one,
military coverup number two. - [Ryan] But you can't say
it's not aliens, is my point. - No, no, because it doesn't say aliens. It doesn't prove aliens. You cannot connect the two
other than you want to. - (laughing) I think it
proves a little bit, yeah, that there may be alien life out there. I think it's proof that
maybe we're not alone. But-- - Uh, no. - Yes, yes! - I don't think really
there's any conclusion that you can come with
based off these facts. - So what do you think happened then? - I don't know! There's
not enough information, that's why it's unsolved. - What would a compelling force be? You know what a compelling
force sounds like to me? Aliens. - I think your argument is not
a compelling force, though. So. - Wow, good one, man. - Thank you. - Good. I'm gonna think about that later and get a good chuckle. (chair scraping and squeaking) You gonna walk away now, is
that what you're gonna do? Don't you dare turn that camera off! (Brent and Ryan laughing)
