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The strange Deaths of the 9 hikers of Dyatlov pass

This is one of the weirdest cases out there.

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.
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 a crushed ribs and one woman had crushed ribs and a missing tongue.
Oddly, these four bodies that were found later were wearing the clothes of the previous bodies two months earlier. Even more bizarrely, when these clothes were tested, they were found to be radioactive. In fact, there were reportedly traces of radiation all around the campsite.

The radiation becomes even more puzzling when combined with the fact that there was no outward trauma to the bodies. There 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.
Let's get to the theories:

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.
There is something about the clothes, 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 is out by Ryan.

Bret: * laughing* no-whaaat? How?? How is avalanche out?
Ryan: how does avalanche cause radioactive forces and how does and avalanche rip someone's tongue out?
Bret: you didn't say her tongue was completely gone, you said her tongue was cut off.
Ryan: it says missing tongue
Bret: there're some translation things going on here from Russian to English, in just saying.

Another theory is that a Soviet test missile cause 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 that wasn'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. It's brought 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 a 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.

This next theory is completely bananas, some suspect that the group was actually attacked by a yeti.
Bret: alright, next
Ryan: (wheeze)

This theory even commanded two hours of a discovery channel special called Russian Yeti: the killer lives, in 2014. However, there was no evidence of a yeti and furthermore, can't imagine a yeti taking the time to cover its tracks.

This brings to the final and most popular theory. And maybe some of people saw coming, it's aliens. 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. Maybe it's safe to assume that if they're out there, aliens have gotten pretty good at covering their tracks.

Regardless, in the end, authorities supposedly determined that the deaths were caused by a unknown compelling force.

The case will remain

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