Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident events

The Dyatlov group

The deserted camp

The mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident theories

UFO attack

Secret weapons tests

The avalanche

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened in the night and there are no survivors and no eyewitnesses, so the incident still is one of the greatest mysteries.

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Dyatlov Pass incident facts

The Dyatlov group

The group led by Igor Dyatlov was formed for a ski trek across the northern Urals. The group consisted of eight men and two women, most of them were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute: Igor Dyatlov, 23 Zinaida Kolmogorova, 22 Ludmila Dubinina, 21 Alexander Kolevatov, 25 Ruste...

The deserted camp

Since Dyatlov was suppose to send a telegram to their sport club as soon as the group would return to Vizhai, so after February 12 relatives of the travellers demanded a search and rescue operation in the pass. On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned and badly damaged tent on Kholat Sy...

The mystery

The investigators gathered the informations that would suggest that a simple avalanche would be the simplest explanation. Although the later autopsies of the bodies revealed some puzzling evidence: - six of the people died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries (Thibeaux-Brignolles had major sk...

Dyatlov Pass incident theories

The avalanche

Basic explanation for the incident is avalanche. The weather was poor, it was snowing, there was strong wind. Facts that are supporting the theory: - this would explain why they were running away from the tent in panic, but it doesn’t explain why would they cut the tent from within, ...

Secret weapons tests

The secret weapons tests theory is based on assumption that some unknown kind of weapon would cause the wounds and make the rest of the group runaway. Facts that are supporting the theory: - the radioactive contamination is strange fact. /lista Facts that oppose the theory:...

UFO attack

Since all the logical explanations failed the theory of UFO attack have started. Facts that are supporting the theory: - this would explain why they were running away from the tent in panic, but it doesn’t explain why would they cut the tent from within, - the group of witnesses al...