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Tonight, an infamous Cold War cold came.
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Nine hikers found mutilated on a remote
mountain slope.
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Their injuries and the facts don't seem
to add up.
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You can't help but wonder who would be
capable of doing that.
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It looks like a murder scene from a
super graphic horror movie.
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Now we uncover the top theories
surrounding a place that's been called
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area 51 There's a number of people in
Russia who believe that yeti is the
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culprit in this case This looks and
feels a lot like a cover -up
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Can new evidence finally bring us closer
to the truth?
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The bodies all appear withered, and some
of them have third -degree burns on
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them, which is a sign of radiation
poisoning.
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What really happened at Russia's
notorious Dyatlov Bath?
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The Soviet Union, 1959.
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As the Cold War between the U .S. and
USSR intensifies, so do conspiracy
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theories about covert experiments,
secret weapons, and spies.
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And on February 26, high up in Siberia's
Ural Mountains, something equally
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nefarious will be discovered.
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On that day, three cross -country skiers
spot a solitary tent.
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Partially collapsed by snow.
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What was unusual was the entrance was
fastened closed, but the outside had
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slashed open.
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They looked inside and they found nobody
was there.
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But they did find some footprints
leading down the hill.
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When they get to the end of that trail,
they make a horrible discovery.
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They find corpses in the snow.
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Warning. The images you are about to see
are disturbing.
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Close your eyes and try to picture this
scene.
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Imagine you're going through the snow.
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You come across these bodies.
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It looks like a murder scene from a
super graphic horror movie.
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It just keeps getting worse and worse.
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The first thing the investigators found
were two members of the team lying
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underneath a cedar tree.
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And neither of them were wearing winter
clothes. They were just in their
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underwear.
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One has burns on his head and foot.
There's lots of cuts and bruises on his
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body. He has some dried blood on his
face and also strange grey foam
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is found on his cheek.
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It looks like this could be foul play.
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The second body has similar cuts and
bruises.
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He's missing the tip of his nose and his
knuckles are bruised and swollen.
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It's a very strange scene.
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Several yards away, another body.
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This third body is found lying face up
in the snow. He's hugging a branch.
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He also has cuts and bruises on his
knuckles and dried blood on his face.
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And he's facing back towards the tent,
suggesting he's trying to make a
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desperate attempt to return.
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So naturally, the skiers rush to report
this and a bigger search party is put
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together.
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And this bigger search party starts
combing the area to try to find clues as
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what happened to these three men.
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But before they can figure that out,
several more bodies turn up.
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Next, they discover a young woman.
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She has a lot of bruises on her face and
her hair is in disarray.
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She has this...
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Long red bruise on the side of her
torso. And on top of that, her fists are
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clenched. So it looks like maybe there
was some sort of scuffle, some sort of
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fight that might have went down.
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You also have to remember, this is
Siberia. You've got freezing
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You've got blinding snow.
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So all this work that the search party
is trying to do to locate all of this
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evidence make the work very, very slow
and very, very difficult to perform.
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After a week.
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A fifth corpse is found further up the
slope.
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It's another young male victim, and this
one has a fractured skull.
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Perhaps more evidence that there was
some violent altercation.
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What's interesting about this victim is
he had one sock on one foot and a felt
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boot on the other, suggesting something
took him by surprise.
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Six weeks later, as the snow starts to
melt, the mystery deepens.
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Members of the Mansi, a local indigenous
tribe, approach the police and lead
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them to a makeshift snow shelter, 250
feet from where the first two bodies
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found.
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These searchers, they start to dig below
the surface, and they find this snow
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dent with these branches all lined up
next to each other, forming some type of
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floor. Additionally, they're also
finding some torn pieces of clothing.
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There's a pair of sweatpants.
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with the right leg just cut off
completely. Likewise, there's also only
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half of a woman's sweater.
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So there's more and more evidence that's
starting to build that something
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violent may have happened here.
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Investigators excavate around the snow
shelter, revealing four more victims,
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bringing the death toll to nine.
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These four bodies are lying somewhat...
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closely together in the bed of a rocky
stream at the bottom of a ravine. It
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looks like a dumping ground.
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It looks like just someone or something
may have dropped them there.
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Compared to the other victims, these
bodies have even more ghastly injuries.
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One corpse is a male victim with a
severely twisted neck.
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Another young female has a crushed rib
cage, and it's such a brutal injury that
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her ribs actually punctured her heart.
And horrifically, her eyes and tongue
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missing.
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Another young male has a massive
fracture to the side of his skull that
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have almost certainly knocked him
unconscious.
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It looks more and more like the injuries
are from brutal beatings from some
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heavy, blunt object.
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Investigators soon identify the dead.
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as members of an expedition sponsored by
the Ural Polytechnic University.
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They were reported missing after failing
to complete their trip.
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Once you know who these victims are,
it's even more tragic.
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These students were among the best and
the brightest from the Ural Polytechnic
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University.
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They were very experienced mountaineers
and well -respected members of the
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sports club of the Ural Polytechnic
Institute.
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The group's leader is 23 -year -old
engineering student Igor Dyatlov.
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The tragedy bears his name.
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The Dyatlov Pass is named in memory of
Igor Dyatlov.
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He designed this expedition to be as
challenging as possible, so they could
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get certified as Grade 3 outboardmen.
This was the highest category in the
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Soviet Union at the time.
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In January, the group leaves their home
of Yekaterinburg.
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and travels to the village of Vijay.
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From Vijay, they go off -grid and head
off into the wilderness.
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They have a compass and all the gear
they think they need, but they don't
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any radio communication equipment with
them.
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The trip was supposed to cover 200 miles
over 16 days, but they only make it
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halfway.
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What frustrates friends and family of
these hikers the most is that they say
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that... They are way too smart and way
too experienced to have ended up
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accidentally freezing to death in the
outdoors.
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The lead investigator in the case, Lev
Ivanov, says he knows the cause of
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There are signs of a struggle at the
scene, and no one can ignore the bruises
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and cuts to the face and the body and
the missing pieces of flesh.
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But who could be capable of such a
violent crime here?
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The potential suspect list is incredibly
short.
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The mountain where the tent was
abandoned, it's called Height 1079, is a
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uninhabited area and it borders the
Siberian wilderness.
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Almost nobody lives there.
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Almost.
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Except for the fact that this region is
home to many of Stalin's...
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infamous gulags.
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Stalin built lots of gulags.
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You don't know what a gulag is. It's
this insane labor camp where political
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prisoners were sent. They were forced to
do hours upon hours of manual labor.
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This is where you have some of the most
hardened criminals in the Soviet Union
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residing. So investigators are thinking,
maybe,
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One of these prisoners got out and
encountered those nine hikers.
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Especially when they learned that the
Ivdel Gulag is only a few miles from the
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site of the attack.
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Police check with the Ivdel Gulag to see
if there are any prisoners that are
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missing, but no, they're all accounted
for.
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They also doubt any escaped prisoners
might have done this, because no
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provisions or belongings were stolen
from the tent.
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So the escapee theory doesn't go
anywhere.
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So investigators start to ask, okay, it
seems like it's a very personal crime.
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So they start to wonder, could this have
been connected with anyone that was
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affiliated with that group?
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And one name hops up.
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The name, Yuri Yudin, a tenth hiker with
the group and the sole survivor.
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Is it possible that members of the
Dyatlov expedition...
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were killed by one of their own?
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It's a mystery that's gripped the world.
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Nine Russian hikers, dead in a remote
mountain pass.
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Police are certain it's murder.
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And among their top suspects is fellow
hiker Yuri Yudin.
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So Yuri Yudin is a fourth -year
engineering student who was part of that
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group of hikers. In fact, he's the tenth
member of that group.
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But apparently, Yudin left early, and
instead of ending up dead,
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he's now the sole survivor.
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Therefore, we can assume one of two
things.
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Either Yudin is incredibly lucky, or
he's the killer.
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When Communist Party officials question
Uden, he tells them he backed out of the
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trek long before the murders.
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Uden claims to investigators that his
back started to hurt when he was making
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his way up the mountains, which caused
him to quit the expedition.
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He says that he left the group on
January 28th at 11 .45 a .m. at a
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known as the Second Northern. And when
he leaves, the rest of his group are all
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still very much alive, very much
breathing.
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But as investigators are questioning
Uden, they start to notice he becomes a
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more panicked, a bit more nervous.
They're certainly skeptical.
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Still unsure of Uden's story,
investigators ask him to help analyze
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scene. And this has to be traumatic for
him. Think about it. He was supposed to
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be on that expedition with them, but
because of his bad back, he ends up
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back, and now he's the only one alive of
all of his friends.
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So when he gets to that crime scene, he
acts with genuine shock and surprise.
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Yuri notes there's something the police
couldn't have, that some of the clothes
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found on the bodies of those in the
ravine belonged to some of the other
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students.
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It's another bizarre detail in a case
full of them.
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The clothing is sent to a laboratory for
analysis.
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While they await results...
investigators try to verify Yudin's
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Yudin's story of a bad back checks out.
Yudin was in his native village of
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Emelyashevka with his family on February
1st and February 2nd, the same date
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that investigators calculate as the time
of death.
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If Yudin's not the killer, who else
could be?
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The only other known group of people in
the area are the Mansi.
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The Mansi have helped with the
investigation.
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They're the ones that pointed the
investigators to the four bodies in the
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ravine.
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Despite that, Lev Ivanov starts looking
into the group.
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So Ivanov thinks that the Mansi are
upset that a group of outsiders set up
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on Height 1079, also known as Kola
Shackle, which roughly translates to
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Dead Mountain.
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The explorers are violating sacred Monsi
territory.
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And even more sacrilegious, there are
two women in the group.
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And for the Monsi, women are forbidden
to even step foot on sacred land, let
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alone look at it. Maybe that's why the
eyes are removed from a couple of
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corpses.
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Ivanov interrogates multiple tribe
members.
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While they deny involvement, they offer
a new detail.
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Several people tell the same crazy
sounding story that the manse saw lights
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the sky or burning fireballs in the sky
on the very night that the hikers died.
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Police recovered a camera from the
campsite and the last photo on this
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had an image they didn't understand.
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It looks like flares or streaks in the
night sky. It's hard to tell but could
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this corroborate the lights in the sky
that were supposedly seen that night?
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There are no timestamps on the photo,
and if this is the last thing the hikers
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photographed, you can't help but wonder
if this has something to do with the
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incident.
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Without a confession or any evidence
that points to the Mansi, Ivanov has no
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proof.
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So that's where things remain for a
while, at a standstill.
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No new evidence and no new suspects,
nothing to explain what happened to the
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nine hikers.
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Until several weeks later.
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when laboratory results come back.
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And just when you thought it was done,
here's a new chance to find some new
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leads and to keep investigators moving
forward.
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The analysis of the ripped clothing that
was found in the ravine comes back and
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it reveals an incredible new clue.
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The analysis shows there's some
unusually high levels of radioactivity
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of the items.
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But how could clothes from alleged
murder victims be radioactive?
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The answer could turn the course of the
investigation in an entirely new
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direction.
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But that's not what happens. Instead of
following this new lead and getting to
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the bottom of the mystery, authorities
go ahead and do the exact opposite.
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On May 28, 1959, three months into this
investigation and after finding this new
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evidence, Lev Ivanov abruptly closes the
case.
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unsolved. The Soviet government steals
off the entire area known as the Dyatlov
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Pass and prohibits anyone from going
there.
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Ivanov's report marks a change.
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He now states that all nine deaths were
caused by an unknown elemental force
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which they were unable to overcome.
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But while Lev Ivanov seems to want this
to be the final word, it won't be.
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When nine hikers die under mysterious
circumstances during the Dyatlov
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expedition, the public is eager to find
out why.
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But lead investigator Lev Ivanov
abruptly closes the case after three
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Just as he receives shocking evidence,
the victim's clothing shows
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radioactivity. This is a crazy detail
that definitely deserves some digging.
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So as soon as a case like this is shut
down, people immediately think that it's
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a cover -up.
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The question is, why?
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The USSR wants to be the dominant
superpower.
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So they're doing a lot of covert things
at this time. They're doing research
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experiments. They're doing military
experiments. They have spy operations
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on.
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Government cover -ups are happening
every day.
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The Soviet population understands that
there are secret tests, but also they
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accept the rule of the government that
this is secrecy they cannot know about.
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I mean, it's not hard for people to put
two and two together. You've got the
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Dyatlov death and now the appearance of
unusually high levels of radiation on
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some of the clothes.
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People are starting to think that this
is linked to the military.
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that the cadavers have an unnaturally
orange appearance.
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The bodies all appear withered, and some
of them have third -degree burns on
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them, which is a sign of radiation
poisoning.
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The family of group leader Igor Dyatlov
say they are certain the military was
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somehow involved.
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But exactly what are they covering up?
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Don't forget, the Monsi said that they
saw fireballs in the sky that night.
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So one idea is that it's a case of a
weapons test that goes wrong. The rocket
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fails to go into orbit and lands really
close to where the Dyatlov hikers are
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camped out for the night, and it sends
shockwaves, which frightens them and has
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them running out of the tent.
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There are different hypotheses.
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Some think that it was the Soviet
government through its military that
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them because they witnessed something
that they were not supposed to.
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To have a witness.
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And there's one other little detail that
seems to prop up this cover -up theory.
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It's presumed that one of the hikers was
actually a KGB spy, and his name was
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Semyon Zolotaryov.
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Zolotaryov is the only person on the
expedition who is not a student.
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In fact, he's 38 years old, and
mysteriously added to the group by
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officials at the last minute.
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A lot of things about Zolotarev are a
bit unusual.
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For one, he's single, which is kind of
weird in Russia at this time.
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Additionally, he's got all these very
cryptic tattoos on his body.
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And at the start of the journey, this
older gentleman tells the students to
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him by a fake name, Sasha.
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We do know that Simon Zolotarev is not
who he pretends to be.
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There's too much in his biography.
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that is not consistent even when he
talks about his service in world war ii
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mixes up dates when he served in one
unit or another and in my opinion having
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studied this case he was a top -notch
kgb operator so the theory is that the
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kgb is spying on the russian military to
see what is going on in these mountains
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and unfortunately these hikers
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Just got caught in the middle of an
interagency conflict.
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So Zolotaryov, he found out to be a spy
agent on behalf of the KGB.
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So the group, although innocent, are
killed because of him.
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When Zolotaryov's body is recovered, the
film in his camera has been destroyed
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by water damage.
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His motivation and his potential KGB
ties remain a mystery.
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Whether the KGB was connected to the
case or not, we don't know. But the idea
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the military being involved in the whole
mess is very much popular and one
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of the top hypotheses in this Dudlow
Pass incident.
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Even the university, the Ural
Polytechnic Institute, which sponsored
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thinks this is what happened.
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And in 1990, another familiar voice
joins the chorus claiming a cover -up.
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Communist Party officials were
incredibly worried that these reports
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out to foreign nations.
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And on top of that, Ivanov believes that
it's these secret tests that ultimately
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leads to the death of these hikers.
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Seoul survivor Yuri Yudin also believes
the government was involved and revealed
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a key piece of evidence before his death
in 2013.
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Yudin says that when he was... helping
the investigators with the inventory of
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the items left by the hikers. Things
didn't add up. He found things that did
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belong to anyone, like a military cloth,
a pair of glasses, also an extra pair
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of keys.
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And his good feeling was that this was
staged.
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Even Boris Yeltsin thinks authorities
are hiding something.
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When he's made president of Russia after
the fall of the USSR in 1991, he
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promises to investigate the Dyatlov Pass
incident.
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He was very much interested in the case
as well because he was himself a
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graduate of the same institution, Euro
Polytechnic, and because people appealed
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to him.
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He uses all of his political power to
try to find information, things that
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happened in 1959 that can shed light on
this event.
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Now, the closest missile launch site to
the Dyatlov Pass is actually located in
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Kazakhstan, and it's called the Baikonur
Cosmodrome.
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Yeltsin's investigators dig into the
records of Baikonur to see if there were
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any missile launches in 1959 during that
window of the hikers' death.
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He assured people that there were no
rockets during the day when the hikers
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perished.
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It's tough to know if he actually did
look into this, but if what he's saying
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true... There were no missile tests that
happened in the area during that time.
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Whatever Yeltsin's involvement with the
case was, it didn't bring us any closer
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to finding the truth.
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Yeltsin's findings seem to end the cover
-up theory, but they don't stop the
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public from asking questions.
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And a shocking new one is about to
emerge.
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Berlin Wall in 1989, the Dyatlov Pass
case files are finally made public,
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amateur investigators a fresh chance to
solve the mystery.
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Digging deep into the evidence, they
find an intriguing photo taken by one of
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the hikers, and it leads to a shocking
new theory and a surprising suspect.
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There is a number of people in Russia
who believe that Yeti, or Снежный
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in Russian, is the culprit in this case.
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In one of the photographs found at the
site, there is a very unusual creature
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that was depicted in the photograph, and
it's very interesting.
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This was the last frame of the
photographs Nikolai Thibault took at the
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And I don't think he had enough time to
think what he photographed, but it's
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there, historical evidence.
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What you see in the picture is a
humanoid -like being.
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It's big, it's about 10 feet, it's
hulking, much like the Yetis or snowmen.
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And it looks like it's looking at the
group, observing them.
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There were so many stories.
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coming from different parts of the
Soviet Union. And this photograph could
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definitely serve as a proof that the
Yeti is out there.
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The Yetis are huge beings, about 10 feet
in size. People are afraid of them
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because they could crush with their arms
and legs a human being and do it very
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quickly.
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Even the Dyatlov students themselves
make reference to a Yeti prior to their
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trip.
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Before they hike into the mountains, the
students, the hikers, publish a
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satirical newspaper, and they write a
headline that reads, Science. In recent
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years, there has been a heated debate
about the existence of the Yeti.
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Latest evidence indicates that the Yeti
lives in the northern Urals, near Mount
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Otorten.
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It's quite possible that while they
wanted to...
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express themselves and show no fear by
placing jokes in that newspaper they
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that something was out there and it
could be it could be yeti
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supporters of the yeti theory also point
to photos
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of the bodies that show what appears to
be abject terror with
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clenched fists ready for a fight of
course seeing a horrible
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Like a Yeti.
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By their attempt, that would have
frightened them.
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But that's not the only creature that
could get such a reaction.
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We have to account for many predators
that live in the area that could have
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attacked the hikers.
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And among them are bears, wild dogs,
wolverines, even
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the Siberian tiger.
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But the most likely culprit in the
animal attack theory is a brown bear.
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The autopsy report listed fractured
skulls, broken chest, scratches and
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and even missing flesh.
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A brown bear would be capable of doing
this.
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But the problem with the brown bear
theory is that they were in hibernation
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around this time.
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That's all the more reason if a bear
wakes up early and is hungry, it would
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out. Nine campers that just happened to
be in that area.
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After decades of public speculation
about animal attacks, homicide, cover
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and much more, in 2019, public
fascination with the Dyatlov case
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authorities to finally reopen the file.
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A young prosecutor, Andrei Kuryakov,
takes the lead.
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Andrei Kuryakov sits down with a list of
75 theories.
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Thanks to the growing public interest,
this case has just gone bigger and
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bigger.
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Not sure if the Yeti has made the list,
but Kuryakov certainly has his work cut
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out for him, but it seems he's up for
the task.
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As Kuryakov starts researching, he
notices a detail that leads to a new
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It turns out that the weather on the 1st
of February in 1959 is pretty extreme
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for that mountain.
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With winds up to 65 miles an hour and
temperatures down to 30 degrees.
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And this has Kuryakov thinking, could it
be an avalanche?
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Andrei Kuryakov organizes a 2020
expedition to the Dyatlov Pass to test
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theory.
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And he's about to find one key piece of
evidence.
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that the original investigation got
wrong.
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Sixty years after the Dyatlov tragedy,
prosecutor Andrei Kuryakov returns to
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crime scene with new technology, hoping
to prove the killer was an avalanche.
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They use photogrammetry to really
pinpoint the location of the tent.
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And then they take photos of the current
landscape and compare them with the old
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ones, and they notice a huge discrepancy
of what they originally investigated.
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The location where the tent was pitched
in 1959 is actually several hundred feet
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away from where they originally thought
it was pitched.
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The location of the tent is the number
one factor in determining if an
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took place, and it looks like the
original investigation might have made a
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mistake.
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The risk of an avalanche depends on the
degree of incline. On average, it takes
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a 30 -degree incline to trigger one.
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Using the old incorrect data,
investigators prior to 2019 thought that
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above the tent was about 15 degrees. So
they've ruled out the avalanche theory
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this entire time.
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The newly calculated location has a much
steeper slope of around 28 degrees.
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It's still not 30 degrees, and avalanche
still may not be possible.
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But with the right weather conditions,
it's much more likely.
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When they analyze the weather
conditions, they find that there's a
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phenomena here called katabatic winds.
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Katabatic winds travel at hurricane
speeds.
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In effect, they act as a huge snowplow.
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These winds can take tons and tons of
snow.
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And it's very likely that these winds
could have deposited huge amounts of
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above the hiker's tent.
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And that's when they become even more
confident in their avalanche theory.
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They think that this mountain is a death
trap just waiting to spring.
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Once the weather expedition is complete,
Andrei Kuryakov presents his findings
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to the public.
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Kirikov theorises that at some time
after the tent was set up around 7pm, a
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windstorm kicks off into high gear.
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Sometime between 1 .30 and 5 .30am, a
small avalanche is triggered above the
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tent where they had cut into the slope.
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That new snow up above is too heavy and
it crashes down onto the tent.
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After that initial snow dump... The
hikers, fearing more to come, cut their
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way out of the tent and run to a rocky
ridge 150 feet away.
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At the time, standard avalanche
protocol, the idea of being able to find
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place behind a high rocky ridge that
would redirect the snow away from them.
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But here, Kuryakov's theory takes an
interesting twist.
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He doesn't actually think a bigger
avalanche ever hit.
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He thinks that they hurried out of the
tent, but it never came.
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And the problem is that the hikers got
disorientated, and they couldn't find
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their way back to the tent.
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So the investigator tests his theory. He
blindfolds a man and a woman, makes
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them walk 90 feet away from the tent,
and then challenges them to find their
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back, and they can't.
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And what about their strange lack of
clothing?
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Cherykov thinks that some of them were
partially undressed when they fled the
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tent. But he thinks the others may have
suffered from a phenomena called
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paradoxical undressing.
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This is where people in their final
stages of hypothermia feel as if they're
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burning hot, which leads them to take
their clothes off.
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According to Kuryakov, sometime between
4 .30 and 7 .30 a .m., the hikers freeze
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to death.
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The two young men found in their
underwear under the cedar tree died
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The other members of the group cut the
clothes off of their dead friends in a
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last -ditch effort to survive.
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At some point, the group splits up, and
three of them, Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, and
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Solobodan, head back towards the tent.
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Sadly, they freeze to death before
making it back.
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But what about the final four?
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And this is where the theory gets really
weird. You can never believe this group
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had such bad luck.
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The last four dig down a snow shelter.
It's basically a snow chamber where they
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can hide from the elements and share
body heat.
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But the one spot they decide to dig in
is above a stream through a hollowed
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icy tunnel.
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They dig down and the tunnel collapses.
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They fall into the icy stream and are
buried under 15 feet of snow.
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As he concludes the press conference,
Kuryakov declares that the Dyatlov Pass
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mystery is finally solved.
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The Russians are outraged at Kuryakov
and loudly reject his theory.
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The families of the dead are especially
critical of him.
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Let's be clear, the public hates the
avalanche theory.
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It doesn't account for so many key facts
and details of the case.
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People were making fun of it.
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and disregarded it because they know
this is another set of cover -up.
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The Dyatlov Pass incident has spawned
many theories over the years.
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But in a case full of strange details
and unusual twists, none have fully
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aligned with the facts.
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You can say maybe it's a bear attack,
but...
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The bears are hibernating.
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You say it's an avalanche.
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But what about their clothes, testing
positive for radiation?
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What about the Mansi tribe's testimony
of fireballs in the sky?
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What about Semyon Zolotaryov, the
possible KGB agent that was planted
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hikers?
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There are just so many details to
account for, and there isn't just one
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that makes total sense.
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But... What if there is?
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So theory after theory after theory
comes out. And after a while, people
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stop looking at all the evidence one
piece at a time. And they just say to
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themselves, what if it's not just one
thing? What if all of these theories are
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partially right?
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So in other words, it's an avalanche and
it's a murder and it's a cover up.
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And it's an animal attack, all in one.
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If you start with the fireballs reported
by MUN during that time, it could be
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part of a nuclear experiment. We don't
understand, maybe a new type of nuclear
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weapon, that the KGB, of course, did not
want to leak out to its enemies in the
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West, and they covered it up.
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Apart from the other students, the poor
students did not know they were heading
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into the special testing area.
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This could explain the radioactivity
that was found in their clothing.
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The nuclear test may also explain the
avalanche.
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Those nuclear weapons emit shockwaves.
Those shockwaves are the catalyst for
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avalanche to collapse on the tent, and
it could have caused those blunt force
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injuries on their own.
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So in the span of an instant, the
explosion startles the hikers. It starts
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avalanche. It showers them in radiation.
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The shockwaves hit them with the force
of a speeding truck, which causes
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injuries, and it causes them to rush and
escape down the side of a mountain.
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From there, the cover -up.
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If any of the hikers would have
survived, the military would have taken
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them because they didn't want
eyewitnesses to something that is a top
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And even if they were dead, the lead
investigator, Lev Ivanov, was forced to
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close short the investigation so nothing
is leaked out.
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And finally, the animal attack theory,
of course, accounts for injuries that
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hikers have sustained because the
animals had access to the bodies for a
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of time, and they did what animals do.
They ate into the hikers' cadavers.
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What if it's a combination of all of
these things that could have happened to
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these nine hikers?
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That's what the Soviet authorities are
trying to cover up.
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No matter how the hikers died, if there
was a cover -up, their blood is on
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the hands of the Soviet government.
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The Dyatlov Pass incident is the
greatest mystery and
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unsolved case in Russia, but the
government doesn't make any more effort
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to solve it.
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So this is all up to us now, amateur
researchers and investigators from all
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over the world to uncover what really
happened.
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In 2020, the Dyatlov Group Memorial
Foundation published a letter in support
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the all -in -one theory for the families
of the students killed on the mountain
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that night.
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That small vindication will have to
suffice for now.
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Because when it comes to the truth of
this mystery, the secrets are buried
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incredibly deep.
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I'm Lawrence Fishburne.
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Thank you for watching History's
Greatest Mysteries.
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