The Dyatlov Pass Incident occurred in the Ural mountains of Russia nearly 60 years ago. 9 experienced hikers were found frozen in the snow with unusual injuries and even more unusual circumstances surrounding their deaths.
A hiking group from the Ural PolyTechnical institute, lead by Igor Dyatlov, were hiking to Ortem, a category three hiking trip(the most difficult) The trip was no worry to the hikers(originally 8 men and 2 women) as they were all experienced hikers and skiers.
Before they set out on what would be the last leg of their journey one of the men, Yuri Yudin, did not feel well and had to leave early. This illness would save his life.
The group of 9 set up camp on the base of the mountain called Kholat Syakhl, also known as “Dead Mountain) in Mansi. It is unknown why they camped on the slope and not down near the forest where they would have more shelter from the elements. By the next morning all the hikers would be dead. Some of the bodies wuld not be found for 3 months.
Here is where their deaths become a mystery. It was determined they froze to death(6) or died of fatal injuries(3) however their bodoes were scattered up to 3000 meters from their tent, which had been cut open from the inside.
Yuri Krivonischenko and Yuri Doreschenko were found 2000 meters down the hill huddled together with a dead fire. Branches on the tree they were under were broken up to 5 meters high suggesting one of them climbed up the tree. They were both shoe less and only in their underwear. Between the cedar tree and the camp the bodies of Igor Dyatlov, Zinaida Kolomogorova, and Rustem Slobodin were found in positions suggesting they tried to return to the camp. All of these bodies were found February 26, 1959.
It wasn’t until May 6 that year that the last four hikers would be found dead under 4 meters of snow in a ravine 2075 meters away from the tent. Lyudmilla Dubinina had been found face down in the ravine missing her tongue, lips, and eyes. She had also sustained a major chest fracture along with Zolotaryov, though neither had bruising on their bodies or soft tissue to suggest anything causing the fracture.
Thibeaux-Brignolles had also sustained a major skull fracture.
The injuries Thibeaux-Brignolles, Zolotaryov, and Dubinina sustained that lead to their deaths were made with a force as strong as a car crash said Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny when asked.
Those who had died first had relinquished their clothing to the other as
Zolotaryov was wearing Dubinina’s faux fur coat.
The nine hikers were the only people on the mountain that night, they had all died within 6-8 hours of their last meal, and they all left the tent by their own accord. Some hikers camping on a mountain a few kilometers away reported seeing strange orange orbs in the sky that night and the last picture on Krioneschenko’s camera showed some blurry orbs. It was also reported that at the funerals for the hikers their bodies held a deep tan, an almost orange one. Ultimately their death was ruled to be caused by an unknown force and may remain a mystery forever.
Maybe it’s best no one will ever know what happened with this case; the evidence is chilling enough.
In 1959, a group of experienced Russian hikers went missing on a skiing trip. When their camp was discovered, their tents were found torn
open from the inside, and they were wearing very little clothing (in
Russia, in winter). It gets weirder. The bodies were stained orange with
massive internal injuries from a force that a doctor studying the
incident compared to that of a car crash. There were no signs of
struggle, despite victims with fractured skulls, broken ribs, and one
woman missing her tongue, eyes and other parts of her face.
As you’d imagine, all sorts of theories to the cause of the deaths
have been tried and tested over the years, but the final verdict was
that the hikers died of a “compelling natural force”. What does that
even mean? Never has something so ambiguous been so horrifying. (Source)
The Tunguska Event was an explosion that occurred in the skies above Eastern Siberia on 30 June 1908. The blast flattened around 700 square miles (2000 square kilometers) of forest. The lower end estimates for the force of the explosion are about 200 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast was probably the result of a meteor or comet exploding in the atmosphere a few miles above the Earth’s surface.
Fanciful and dubious alternative explanations for the event ranging from an impact by a small piece of antimatter to a crashed alien spaceship have been put forth.
When Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik led an expedition to the area in 1927, the damage was still evident.
The Tunguska Event has been incorporated into numerous works of science fiction. It has also served as a cautionary reminder that Earth has been and will continue to be periodically struck by large extraterrestrial objects like asteroids that have the potential to cause severe damage to both civilization and the environment, including triggering mass extinction events.
Developing the technological capability of detecting and diverting objects massive enough to cause planetary devastation is something that will, sooner or later, be necessary if global catastrophe is to be averted.
I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie
Ok but the other one is purring so hard
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) - they are still classified as Lesser Cats.
Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.
Dust, stars, and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by the Rosetta probe. (Source)
*kicks the front door in* DO YOU SEE HOW GODDAMN FUCKING COOL THIS SHIT IS
WE HAVE VIDEO. FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET. SENT BY A ROBOT.
ROSETTA PROBE YOU’RE AMAZING WE LOVE YOU
That cliff is a kilometer high. is Here’s what you’re actually looking at:
THANK YOU
i was wondering
Not only is this shit cool as hell but you gotta realize how unbelievably remarkable of a task this is and how hard it was to pull off.
Humans managed to send a tiny hunk of metal stuffed with electronics millions and millions and millions of miles away through this hostile, airless envionent to land (without breaking it!) on the equivalent of a dirty snowball shooting though outer space
That’s like shooting a bullet from LA to London and hitting a moving target that’s only one foot across, and having the bullet survive the ordeal unscathed.
Plus! We humans developed a way to videotape and transmit pictures from this snowball in space so we know what it’s like to stand the surface.
