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Feb. 2, 1959- The Dyatlov Pass Incident. Creepy stuff.

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TheJollyCorner

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So this morning, while browsing around through Wikipedia (found myself at a page for Unusual Deaths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths), I came across a really eerie story about the deaths of 9 ski-hikers in the Ural Mountains.

It was the evening of February 2nd, 1959- and it was came to be known as The Dyatlov Pass Incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

from wiki:
The mysterious circumstances and subsequent investigations of the hikers' deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation - though this was likely added at a later date, since no reference is made to it in contemporary documentation and only in later documents. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter. The causes of the accident remain unclear.
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The physical damage to some of the skiers is most interesting, especially the chest/rib damage to Lyudmila Dubinina and Alexander Zolotarev:

A medical examination found no injuries which might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia. One person had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.

An examination of the four bodies which were found in May changed the picture. Three of them had fatal injuries; the body of Thibeaux-Brignolle had major skull damage, and both Dubunina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. The force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high, with one expert comparing it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure. One woman was found to be missing her tongue. There had initially been some speculation that the indigenous Mansi people may have attacked and murdered the group, for encroaching upon their lands, but investigation indicated that the nature of their deaths did not support this thesis; the hikers' footprints alone were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle.
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So could this just been a typical case of dementia/cabin fever? The group were all experienced and they hadn't even been on their journey for very long before this happened. Maybe some kind of Russian yeti that was able to cover its tracks? Extra-terrestrial activity?
Some certainly think so:

Another group of hikers (about 50 kilometers south of the accident) reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the night sky to the north (likely in the direction of Kholat Syakhl) at the same date as the accident happened. Similar "spheres" were observed in Ivdel and adjacent areas continually during the period of February to March 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military).
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Perhaps Dyatlov and his crew were exposed to some kind of Russian Military chemical that had fast-working effects, driving them all mad?

One of the hikers, Yuri Yudin (had to leave the expedition before the night of Feb.2 due to health issues), said this: "If I had a chance to ask God just one question, it would be, 'What really happened to my friends that night?"

Evidently a member of the original search team and friend of Dyatlov, Yuri Kuntsevitch, has formed a foundation to convince the Russian government to re-open the investigation. It has yet to come to pass.

The wikipedia link has a lot more information, as well as some really interesting reference links.
You can even view a photo gallery of pictures recovered from the victims, the search team, and others here: http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32891

Freaky stuff. @_@
 
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Darklord

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Real life X-files are freaky shit.

as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure.
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Timber

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as much as 'i want to believe' the more colourful (orange, lol) explanations, i'm pretty damn convinced it was just an avalanche.

its such a fascinating story though. im a skeptic by nature but i love reading about these kind of creepy unexplained things

edit: as for the radiation, if i remember correctly there's no actual source for these forensic analyses, or at least something about them was shady. if there was indeed radiation detected on their bodies, it may well have come from their gas lamps.
 
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bengraven

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They were buried by an avalanche, panicked and ripped their way out and walked a ways away, dying from their wounds and eventually fell to the ground and passed.

both Dubunina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. The force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high, with one expert comparing it to the force of a car crash
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Proof.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
damn never heard about this one

On the morning of July 15, 1974, Chubbuck confused co-workers by claiming that she had to read a newscast to open her program, Suncoast Digest, something she had never done before. That morning's talk show guest waited across the studio while she sat at the news anchor's desk. Her news copy actually contained a speculative report of her impending suicide, wherein she conjectured she would be declared dead eleven hours later. She placed a .38 revolver in her bag of puppets and put it beneath her desk.

During the first eight minutes of her program, Chubbuck covered three national news stories and then a local restaurant shooting from the day before. The restaurant was the Beef and Bottle Restaurant at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport on U.S. 41. The filmreel of the restaurant shooting had jammed and would not run, so Chubbuck shrugged it off and said:

"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide."

She drew the revolver and shot herself behind her right ear. Chubbuck fell forward violently and the technical director faded slowly to black. Camerawoman Jean Reed later recalled that she thought it had been an elaborate prank, and that it was not until she saw Chubbuck's twitching body that she realized it was genuine.

The station quickly ran a standard public service announcement and then a movie. Some television viewers called the police, while others called the station to inquire if the shooting was faked.

After the shooting, news director Mike Simmons found that the papers from which Chubbuck had been reading her newscast contained a complete script of her program, including not only the shooting, but also a third-person account to be read by whatever staff member took over the broadcast after the incident. He said that her script called for her condition to be listed as "critical."

Chubbuck was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, as her script had predicted; there, she was pronounced dead 14 hours later. Upon receiving the news, a WXLT staffer released the information to other stations using Chubbuck's script.

For a time, WXLT aired reruns of the TV series Gentle Ben in place of Chubbuck's program.[3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck
 
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argon

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While on the subject of creepy deaths...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

The Byford Dolphin is a semi-submersible Norwegian oil exploration rig converted from a diving rig. It floats in the North Sea to find and drill crude oil deposits. Built on the “Aker H-3” design, the rig is operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred. Olsen Energy subsidiary. It is able to maneuver with its own engines (to counter drift and ocean currents), but for long-distance relocation it must be moved by specialist tugboats.

As a drilling rig, the Byford Dolphin is near the top of its class. It is equipped with advanced drilling equipment and has to meet very high levels of certification under Norwegian law. However, the rig has suffered some serious accidents, most notably an explosive decompression accident in 1983 known as the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident that killed five workers and badly injured one.

At 4:00 a.m. on 5 November 1983, four divers were in a decompression chamber system attached to a diving bell on the rig, being assisted by two dive tenders. One diver was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the chamber was explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to one in a fraction of a second. Five of the men were killed; the other was severely injured.

...

Diver D4 was shot out through the small jammed hatch door opening, and was ripped apart. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined that D4, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient, violently exploded due to the rapid and massive expansion of internal gases. All of his thoracic and abdominal organs, and even his thoracic spine were ejected, as were all of his limbs. Simultaneously, his remains were expelled through the narrow trunk opening left by the jammed chamber door, less than 60 centimeters (24 inches) in diameter. Fragments of his body were found scattered about the rig. One part was even found lying on the rig’s derrick, 10 meters (30 feet) directly above the chambers. His death was most likely instantaneous and painless.
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itsinmyveins

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Man, I was reading this thread with all its creepy stories and suddenly the tab with Colbert Report in it (streamed and which I paused like an hour ago) started playing. Kinda freaked me out there for a second, because I only heard it through my speakers all of a sudden since the tab wasn't up or anything.
 
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djtiesto

is beloved, despite what anyone might say
How about this:

Lighting wipes out whole soccer team in the Congo

All 11 members of a football team were killed by a bolt of lightning which left the other team unhurt, a Congolese newspaper has reported.

Thirty other people received burns at the match in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kinshasa daily newspaper L'Avenir said local opinion - known to believe in charms and spells - was divided over whether someone had cursed the team.

The two sides were drawing 1-1 in the match in eastern Kasai Province when the lightning struck the visiting team.

"The athletes from [the home team] Basanga curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed," the paper said.

There was no official confirmation of the report - a rebel war affects much of the east of the country.
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Yaweee

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

LOL at the page title, and how accurately it befits what happened.

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150.
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Also...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood
 
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Servbot #42

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Thanks to the OP i decided to look around for more info on Wikipedia about strange disappearances and the Valentich Disappearance caught my eye.

The Frederick Valentich Disappearance is an event that occurred on October 21, 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.

Prior to his disappearance, Valentich reported via radio that he had encountered an unidentified craft that flew at high speed dangerously close to his Cessna, and later hovered over his aircraft. The case attracted significant press attention and became part of UFO lore.

No trace of Valentich or his aircraft was ever found, and a Department of Transport investigation concluded that the reason for the disappearance could not be determined.
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On October 21, 1978, Valentich, a pilot with a Class Four instrument rating and 150 hours flight experience [5], filed a flight plan from Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne, to King Island, Tasmania. Visibility was good and winds were light. [5] He was flying a Cessna 182-L, with a cruising speed of around 256 km/h (160 mph).

Valentich departed Moorabbin at 18:19 hrs local time and contacted the Melbourne Flight Service Unit to inform them of his presence. He reported reaching Cape Otway at 19:00 hrs; records do not indicate that he reported anything out of the ordinary before reaching Otway[5].

At 19:06 hrs, Valentich contacted Melbourne Flight Service Officer Steve Robey and requested information on other aircraft at his altitude (below 5000 ft, 1524 m); he was told that there was no known traffic at that level. Valentich then reported that he could see a large unknown aircraft which appeared to be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He was unable to confirm its type, but said that it had passed about 1000 ft (305 m) overhead and that it was moving at high speed. Valentich then reported that the aircraft was approaching him from the east and voiced the opinion that the other pilot might be purposefully toying with him.[5]

At 19:09 hrs Robey asked Valentich to confirm his altitude and that he was unable to identify the aircraft. Valentich confirmed his height and began to describe the aircraft, saying that it was "long", but that it was traveling too fast for him to describe it in more detail. Valentich stopped transmitting for about 30 seconds, during which time Robey asked for an estimate of the aircraft's size. Valentich then came back saying that the aircraft was "orbiting" above him and that it had a shiny metal surface and a green light on it. This was followed by 28 seconds of silence before Valentich reported that the aircraft had vanished. There was then a further 25-second break in communications, after which Valentich returned and wondered if he was being tailed by a military aircraft.[5]

Robey attempted to gather more information about the unidentified aircraft and its location; Valentich reported that it was now approaching from the southwest. 29 seconds later, at 19:12:09 Valentich reported that he was experiencing engine problems and was going to proceed to King Island. There was brief silence then he came back to say "it is hovering and it's not an aircraft". [5] This was followed by 17 seconds of unidentified noise, described as being "metallic, scraping sounds"[6], then all contact was lost.
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creepy stuff.
 
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ElectricBlue187

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The story of Maura Murray has always been interesting to me

She was seen walking at the scene of an automobile accident by multiple people and then she disappeared off the face of the earth

That and the very strange circumstances surrounding her disappearance, like, asking her profs for time off, a strange call to her boyfriend from the red cross of a girl crying
 
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BlueTsunami

there is joy in sucking dick
Gexecuter said:
Thanks to the OP i decided to look around for more info on Wikipedia about strange disappearances and the Valentich Disappearance caught my eye.





creepy stuff.
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That's spooky. Stuff like that, real audio describing a UFO and then actually disappearing with no sign at all. You could say he was hallucinating but then the engine troubles? Makes you wonder.
 
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perryfarrell

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.[1] (0:14 UT, 7:02 a.m. local solar time[2]) on June 30, 1908 (June 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time).[2]
Although the cause is the subject of some debate, the explosion was most likely to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 miles) above Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates for the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.[3]
Although the meteor or comet burst in the air rather than directly hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact. Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons[4] to as high as 30 megatons[5] of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely[5]—roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion set off in late February 1954, about 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and about one third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
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viciouskillersquirrel

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This stuff is pretty interesting to read.

DOO13ER said:
What about the whole missing tongue thing?
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The avalanche could have been very sudden and she may have bitten it off herself, especially if she had been licking her lips/teeth at the time of the avalanche. In the ensuing confusion/possibly concussed state, she may have spit it out.

It's horrible, but it's definitely within the realm of possibility.
 
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Yaweee

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I loved Unsolved Mysteries growing up, and this thread is reviving that love. I've spent most of the workday looking at wikipedia and other websites about stories like this (while running simulations, so it's not like I'm getting nothing done).

Missing children stories are disturbing, and not-so-mysterious (almost always perverts, parents, or nature), but adult disappearances? Fascinating stuff.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Yaweee said:
I loved Unsolved Mysteries growing up, and this thread is reviving that love. I've spent most of the workday looking at wikipedia and other websites about stories like this (while running simulations, so it's not like I'm getting nothing done).

Missing children stories are disturbing, and not-so-mysterious (almost always perverts, parents, or nature), but adult disappearances? Fascinating stuff.
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hahah i was just about to post about how they need to bring it back to scare the shit out of whole new generations of kids
 
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Dead Man

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A real oldie, but still a mystery: Roanoke Colony

The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony. Between 1585 and 1587, several groups attempted to establish a colony, but either abandoned the settlement or disappeared. The final group of colonists disappeared after three years elapsed without supplies from England during the time when England was at war with Spain, leading to the continuing mystery known as "The Lost Colony". The most likely explanation is that they were assimilated into one of the local indigenous tribes.
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Dead Man

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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Yeah, I'm thinking they were either killed off by Indian tribes or they mostly starved and the rest joined up with them.
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Yeah, really those are the only 2 likely explanations. Still must have been weird coming back 3 years later and everyone was gone.
 
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DrForester

Kills Photobucket
TheJollyCorner said:
So this morning, while browsing around through Wikipedia (found myself at a page for Unusual Deaths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths), I came across a really eerie story about the deaths of 9 ski-hikers in the Ural Mountains.

It was the evening of February 2nd, 1959- and it was came to be known as The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
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TheJollyCorner said:
It was the evening of February 2nd, 1959- and it was came to be known as The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
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TheJollyCorner said:
It was the evening of February 2nd, 1959
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TheJollyCorner said:
February 2nd
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djgmby


MYSTERY SOLVED!
 
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MattKeil

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DOO13ER said:
What about the whole missing tongue thing?
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The bodies were recovered many days after their deaths. The soft meat of the tongue (which often sticks out of the mouth after decomposition sets in) is one of the first things scavenging animals would have eaten.
 
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