Thread: It involves a mountain, a tongueless corpse, nine deaths, and radiation!

Well, I'm not too sure what to say about this. I'd hate to give the lot of you any spoilers, I think this incident speaks for itself. My theory?? Aliens.. Or Radioactive Yeti.. Anyone have a rational explanation for this event?

Dyatlov Pass incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is actually an interesting read, I hadn't heard of this incident before.
The problem here is that this happened over 50 years ago, and the complete investigation files have never been made available for an independent inquiry, so it is hard to judge how much of the original story is actually accurate.
I am somewhat of a skeptic myself, so my immediate reaction upon reading the article was that they got caught out by bad weather and simply perished from hypothermia. People do strange things when they are severely hypothermic, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if the injuries mentioned in the text are the result of the climbers fighting among themselves ( which could also explain why the tent was ripped from the inside ). A skull or chest fracture can be inflicted easily by something as simple as a piece of hard timber or wood, without needing any superhuman strength.
I am not at all certain whether the radioactive clothing is actually a fact of the case, or just something that was invented later to make this sound a bit more mysterious. Is there any physical evidence ? It was mentioned that one of the climbers fell ill and was left behind - is there a connection ?
If their clothes really were "highly radioactive", than this would have left traces on and in their bodies as well, and I find it unlikely that they would have been given a public burial by the authorities. Even if this is correct, there is nothing to say that the radioactivity is actually connected to this incident - perhaps these climbers were in contact with a source of radioactivity at some other time during their expedition, or even before.
Radioactive Yeti ? I think not...

There is another possibility...looking at the image on Wikipedia, the remains of the tent look to me like what's left after an avalanch hit it...that would also explain the injuries...just thinking
Also, they did in fact camp on an exposed mountain slope - prime avalance terrain !
The other thing that comes to mind is a nuclear weapons test - that would readily explain the radiation, injuries and the observed bright lights.

I like the avalanche idea. The thing that occurred to me initially was the possibility of some/all of the group suffering a psychotic attack due to naturally occurring neurotoxin in their food (like ergot). I am also rather suspicious about the existence or relevance of radioactivity. In those days, radium was still used in fluorescent paint so it could have come from a watch dial or some other piece of equipment.

Originally Posted by Strange

I like the avalanche idea. The thing that occurred to me initially was the possibility of some/all of the group suffering a psychotic attack due to naturally occurring neurotoxin in their food (like ergot). I am also rather suspicious about the existence or relevance of radioactivity. In those days, radium was still used in fluorescent paint so it could have come from a watch dial or some other piece of equipment.

True enough, even though that wouldn't explain why the radiation was found on all the climbers' clothes, unless they had the same watches...
Also, that still leaves the small matter of the missing tongue
I wonder if the tongue could have been eaten by a wild animal after death ?

Check out this - it's in Russian, but still very interesting :

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Note that there are no visible artifacts in these photos as you would normally expect them from radiation exposure, as in, for example, photos taken in Pripyat immediately after the Chernobyl accident. So either the radiation was weak enough not to affect the camera, it was only present at the time when whatever happened to the group took place, or the radiation story was fake altogether.

Some were found wrapped in snips of ripped clothes which seemed to be cut from those who were already dead.

do you also reach a stage, where you do this?
sounds like the only weird thing here, to me.

Originally Posted by Markus Hanke

Radioactive Yeti ? I think not...

Haha, the radioactive Yeti was just in jest. Aliens however.. Man would I love for it to have been aliens. One can only hope.

Like Strange, I too am digging your avalanche idea. The one thing that kind of bothers me about the possibility of it having been an avalanche is the tent, and that the woman who had lost her tongue was one of the four under four metres of snow - so if there was an avalanche she must have lost her tongue prior to the avalanche having occured. Plus it would have to have had been a massive avalanche to carry them that far away from the camp. Their belongings were littered all over the place in the area, how could an avalanche not carry that stuff away too?

I'm thinking an avalanche might have come into play after the incident already occured. I mean, for the avalanche to be powerful enough to break ribs and fracture skulls it would definitely have carried the tent away too, am I right? Or is this jumping to a conclusion to quickly?

This is what I'm thinking might have happened:

1) they see the strange lights, are already somewhat hypothermic and not thinking clearly. Out of fear they rip open their tent and flee to the woods for coverage from the storm, to hide.

2) the go out in search of firewood, or something like that, get lost, and then get into a fight with each other out of delirium from hypothermia and being generally annoyed with one another. One guy cuts the woman's tongue out, probably threatened to cut out her tongue or something if she didn't shut up - and then all hell broke loose.

3) the other three go out to look the missing four. They can't find them, and die making their way back to the fire. The other two die at the fire.

4) later on, weapons testing sets off a series of avalanches, and the storm is the reason their stuff was littered all over the place.

Maybe they even survived through the storm and descended into chaos throughout a span of a couple days. Maybe they were so disorientated that they figured their cache of supplies was in the wooded area they were in, and that's what the four went out to search for.

Dyatlov Pass Incident - Questions and Answers

This incident loses a lot of it's weird and mysterious circumstances after having read this.

if they're already in a hypothermia delirium, why would they make a camp fire?

Originally Posted by curious mind

if they're already in a hypothermia delirium, why would they make a camp fire?

Lol well, because they've gone insane.. Insane people don't use logic in decision making, the use crazy-person logic: "It's too damn hot to be wearing this coat, but its too cold if I take it off. BUT I can build a fire, position myself correctly, and take this coat off - the temperature will be perfect."

and i thought, you'd tried to get away from any heat source.
but they were found wearing the pieces of the already deceased. which leas to the question, which ones of them did?

I don't really know, I skimmed over that link I posted on #9, in includes a lot more information than there is on the wikipedia article. But from the information on that link, my theory is a bust: No evidence or indications that there was at any point an avalanche, the radiation was indeed inconsequential, the tonge actually decomposed - apparently, and the article hints the injuries of the four that were in the ravine probably fell and attained their injuries from that.

yea, no mentioning about, which ones were at the fire place or wore the clothing.

my guess would be though, that the ones, returning to the camp did.

Originally Posted by stander-j

Dyatlov Pass Incident - Questions and Answers

This incident loses a lot of it's weird and mysterious circumstances after having read this.

Thanks for this link...I think this pretty much clears up the remaining questions...
Rest in peace, radioactive Yeti...