Lets talk about the Dyatlov Pass incident

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**Disciple of Fate**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
They Are FBI agents, why would they help the Ruskies?

ALIENS! They transcend our petty national rivalries, the truth is out there!

**KTG17**

Xenomancers wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
It doesn't make sense that there was any kind of coverup. Because anybody with a motive to cover up would have made effort to hide the bodies, yet no effort at all was made.

Heres what I was thinking.

Unknown Killers killed everyone in the group.
Local peoples found the bodies - called the police.
People in the town started talking - local police release some information.
State police (party police) show up - take over the investigation.
The group that was killed is well known - the people are asking questions.
Party mantra is Soviet is best - Only vile capitalist pigs have mass murders - we can't release that to the public.

The public already knows they are dead though - they know they suffered injuries - they know they weren't wearing all their clothing. So what do they do? They muck up the details and play dumb? Ehhh...we can't really figure it out - maybe they heard an avalanche and fell off a cliff or something? Key is - it couldn't have been murder because we found no tracks.

ehhh - terrible cover up I agree but terrible cover ups do happen.

Actually, it was one of the hikers who had to turn back early who notified the authorities when they didn't call in at some point. Took a couple of weeks I think, but that's how people began to suspect something went wrong.

Gotta think how lucky that one guy was who was forced to turn back. :|

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There were reports of a flash in the sky by others in the area too. Not sure if that would set off a panic to cut your way out of a tent as opposed to going out the front, unless everyone was trying to leave at once and someone cut his own way out.

Some cool diagrams on google, if you search on it.

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I guess if they found the footprints leaving the tent, they would have seen bear prints too. So I guess there goes that theory.

**Necros**

What if they were drop bears? Drop bears leave no foot prints

**kronk**

Necros wrote:
What if they were drop bears? Drop bears leave no foot prints

Are you suggesting drop bears migrated to northern Russia with the intent of killing 9 hikers in 1959?

I can see cats being that vindictive, but not drop bears. Hmm...

**Freakazoitt**

Something prevented them from running to the store by the river Auspia. Four people tried to set up a new camp in the snow, but died from the injuries received simultaneously. Three (with Dyatlov) for some reason tried to go back to the tent. But they went one by one. Two stayed at the fire (to give a guide when the three come back? But they did not fear that the bonfire would draw attention to what they were from)

Necros wrote:What if they were drop bears? Drop bears leave no foot prints

**Freakazoitt**

Latest (and most banal) version

Short story: heavily injured by snow crust that brought down the tent, tried to help injured ones, exhausted, frozed, died.