http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
What are you views on what happened? Personally, I believe that some military operation went terribly wrong, and it was a cover-up; but how could nuclear testing remove a tongue and produce blunt force trauma that doesn't show signs of exterior damage? And why did everybody die in groups close to each other?
This is quite interesting.
Full Version: Dyatlov Pass Incident
http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-fam...-solutions.html
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So there's six things that freak people out about this one:
1. The no-tongued woman
2. A mysterious orange tan on the dead bodies
3. The ripped tents
4. The hikers' lack of clothing
5. The crushing damage done to three of the hikers
6. The traces of radioactivity
The big fact that gets lost in the re-telling of this story is that the bodies weren't found until weeks later. It's not like somebody turned their back, then five minutes later all their friends were dead and half naked.
That makes the missing tongue a lot easier to explain. As disturbing as it may be, the first thing a scavenging animal is going to go for is probably the soft tissue of an open mouth, especially if it still smelled like the burrito the hiker just ate. Laying out in the sun surrounded by white snow for days also accounts for the weird tan.
The trauma and the destroyed tent points to an avalanche. Their state of undress can be explained by paradoxical undressing, a known behavior of hypothermia victims when their brains start to freeze and malfunction. In other words, it's the kind of behavior you'd expect from a group of injured avalanche victims wandering around in the middle of the night in the freezing cold.
What about the radioactivity? Or stranger details that turn up in some accounts, like orange lights in the sky? Well, there's the fact that none of that stuff turns up in the original documents from the incident, and appears to have been added later by people who just can't resist making things spookier than they are.
It's those later accounts that have stuck in the public memory, because so many of the original reports were destroyed (this was the Cold War-era Soviet Union, which treated casserole recipes as state secrets).
So none of the details on their own prove anything other than a tragic hiking accident. The conspiracy-loving public widely reject this, too busy lighting their torches and getting their pitchforks to go hunt down an, "unknown compelling force."
1. The no-tongued woman
2. A mysterious orange tan on the dead bodies
3. The ripped tents
4. The hikers' lack of clothing
5. The crushing damage done to three of the hikers
6. The traces of radioactivity
The big fact that gets lost in the re-telling of this story is that the bodies weren't found until weeks later. It's not like somebody turned their back, then five minutes later all their friends were dead and half naked.
That makes the missing tongue a lot easier to explain. As disturbing as it may be, the first thing a scavenging animal is going to go for is probably the soft tissue of an open mouth, especially if it still smelled like the burrito the hiker just ate. Laying out in the sun surrounded by white snow for days also accounts for the weird tan.
The trauma and the destroyed tent points to an avalanche. Their state of undress can be explained by paradoxical undressing, a known behavior of hypothermia victims when their brains start to freeze and malfunction. In other words, it's the kind of behavior you'd expect from a group of injured avalanche victims wandering around in the middle of the night in the freezing cold.
What about the radioactivity? Or stranger details that turn up in some accounts, like orange lights in the sky? Well, there's the fact that none of that stuff turns up in the original documents from the incident, and appears to have been added later by people who just can't resist making things spookier than they are.
It's those later accounts that have stuck in the public memory, because so many of the original reports were destroyed (this was the Cold War-era Soviet Union, which treated casserole recipes as state secrets).
So none of the details on their own prove anything other than a tragic hiking accident. The conspiracy-loving public widely reject this, too busy lighting their torches and getting their pitchforks to go hunt down an, "unknown compelling force."
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Cracked hits a homer again 
Yeah...that makes more sense though, really.
Yeah...that makes more sense though, really.
But guys; explain the gray hair WITH the tan?
QUOTE (Click This @ Sep 26 2009, 11:03 PM) 
But guys; explain the gray hair WITH the tan?
Sun bleaching.
Common sense plz
QUOTE (William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Act 1/Scene 4)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Maybe someday we will find out what took place out there. But as for now, with no sufficient evidence to come to a conclusion, we can only ponder of the deaths that these people faced.
QUOTE (Demon Jelly @ Sep 26 2009, 11:45 PM)
QUOTE (Click This @ Sep 26 2009, 11:03 PM)
But guys; explain the gray hair WITH the tan?
Sun bleaching.
Common sense plz
Yes, like everybody would know what happens when the sun bleaches your body.
Would the sun have time to bleach your hair before the snow completely covers you, though?
QUOTE (Click This @ Sep 27 2009, 02:25 PM)
QUOTE (Demon Jelly @ Sep 26 2009, 11:45 PM)
QUOTE (Click This @ Sep 26 2009, 11:03 PM)
But guys; explain the gray hair WITH the tan?
Sun bleaching.
Common sense plz
Yes, like everybody would know what happens when the sun bleaches your body.
Would the sun have time to bleach your hair before the snow completely covers you, though?
Fully possible. The snow's reflection would probably amplify the intensity of the light.
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