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Don’t Go There

The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

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Nine wholesome university students mountaineering in the Urals go missing, and are later uncovered from the snows of a bleak forest's edge in the Siberian Taiga, in a series of grisly discoveries. Why were the climbers wearing no boots? Why were stout branches of the forest pines singed to a height of 30 feet? What were the mysterious markings in the bark of nearby trees? What was so-called "overwhelming force" that was capable of breaking eight ribs in a single blow without bruises? Why had the KGB infiltrated all the search parties and attended the funerals? Why were the clothes were tested for radiation?

The savage events of February 1, 1959, which took nine lives and left a trail of smashed and semi-naked bodies across the slopes of Mount Ortoten, have confounded every credible explanation. Wild and convincing theories abound. All of them are flawed by the facts. Was it sex? Was it hypothermia? Was it robbers?

In the first reportage to be published in the English language, the Moscow Times's meticulous coverage presented the existing versions that have proliferated over 50 years, carefully sifting each idea, from mad guesses by superstitious nuts to reasoned findings of the official investigation.

©2015 Svetlana Oss (P)2021 Tantor Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons True Crime
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Thorough and very enjoyable listen. A very comprehensive look at this mystery. I definitely recommend!

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The phoney Russian accents are unnecessary and distracting. The constant and compulsive conversion of km to mile and Celsius to Fahrenheit disrupts the flow of narration to the point where I lost track of the meaning of the sentence. As for the story. The author ridicules and discredits almost all theories and conclusions drawn so far to explain the mystery. She does a decent job at listing facts, but they’re presented in a chaotic fashion, citing so many names that it’s hard to keep track. She shows a clear bias towards facts she thinks are relevant whilst dismissing others. She completely bypasses the fact (described in her own book earlier!) that multiple people witnessed a fireball in sky at the time of the tragedy, for several minutes (so it can’t have been a meteor). The fact that the clothing of the bodies were covered in so much radiation the state ordered the immediate burial of the bodies in metal coffins. That, even though apparently it was the indigenous people to blame, no other hiker or tourist or local eve had any issue with them in that area before or since. But possibly the weakest of her arguments is assuming how the KGB would have handled an incident like this. Lady. I grew up in the USSR. The majority of the KGB’s methods are still not public and unlikely to ever become so. Also we are in 1959. Stalin is freshly dead and his whole system of terror, spearheaded by the KGB are in turmoil. Utter shambles that should never have seen print. It insults common sense.

Lists the known facts then ignores them

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