Sightings - Dyatlov Pass: USSR, 1959

Episode Date: December 9, 2024

What led nine seasoned hikers to abandon their tent and run barefoot into the sub-zero wilderness, setting off one of the greatest mysteries of all time? Perhaps the answer is best left buried in the snow. Help keep Sightings free by visiting this episode's sponsor MIRACLE MADE SHEETS. Go to TryMiracle.com/sightings to receive OVER 40% off their amazing temperature regulating sheets, plus get a FREE three piece towel set with our exclusive offer code SIGHTINGS! Sightings is a REVERB and QCODE Original. Find us on instagram @sightingspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Skeptical Geckos, it's McCloud, and I have a question for you. That's right, the listener. I'm talking to you. Have you encountered something strange? Something eerie? Something supernatural? Then tell us about it. We want your stories of the strange and unexplained for upcoming listener story episodes.

That's right. I'll be bringing your stories to life right here on Sightings. So send us a message on Instagram at SightingsPod or send us an email with your story at storiesatsightingspodcast.com. Thanks and stay spooky, because I want to be freaked out. Freak me out! Do it! It's in our nature to conquer the wilderness, to stand atop an untamed peak and claim victory over the unknown. But what happens when intrepid explorers discover more than they bargained for? What happens when they learn the terrifying truth that some secrets are meant to stay hidden. Welcome to Sightings, the series that takes you inside the world's most mysterious supernatural

events. I'm MacLeod. And I'm Brian, and I have to say straight up, this is one of the most mystifying stories I've ever heard. Is it a creature story? An alien story? A conspiracy story? I'm not sure really. So gear up for a trip to the remote mountains of the former USSR, where in 1959,

nine young souls set out to conquer the wilderness. But in place of adventure, they found terror and left behind an enigmatic mystery that has baffled the world for decades. What forced them from the safety of their tent in the freezing night and led them to and left behind an enigmatic mystery that has baffled the world for decades. What forced them from the safety of their tent in the freezing night and led them to a horrifying demise? Find out on this episode of Sightings. Okay. My name is Liev Ivanov. Today is June... what is... June... today is June 14th, 1959. And I am recording this message not because I want to, but because I fear I have no other

choice. I should begin by saying I have put country and party above all else at all times. A senior criminal prosecutor from Sverdlovsk, I have acted as lead investigator for many of our region's most complex and challenging cases. For this service, no, privilege, I have been rewarded with a large family, ample prosperity, and the admiration of my esteemed comrades. And now I risk all of it with that which I am about to say. The Dyatlov case, as I've come to call it, began as many do, with a midnight phone call in the dead of winter. A party of nine university students,

seven men, two women, all but one in their 20s and all seasoned mountaineers, had failed to report back from a ski venture in the wilderness north of Evedale. Their abandoned campsite had just been discovered and I was tasked with ascertaining what unfortunate fate, if any, had befallen them. At first I suspected this would prove nothing more

than a simple missing person situation, a mix-up that would rectify itself within days, if not hours. But I'd soon learn there was nothing simple about this incident. In fact, I am now certain it shall forever stand as the most frightening case that I or anyone else in Russia will ever encounter. Oh, what have I written? Apologies, Taipo. My journey into the wilderness was long and arduous, but this part of the orales is nearly impenetrable, and it took twenty hours, two aircraft, a helicopter,

and finally a snowmobile to deliver me to my destination. A remote pass high on the slopes of a mountain called Kolotsiakou. There I was met by a young man named Paris, the head of the search team that discovered the abandoned campsite. He also happened to be a friend and classmate of the missing party's leader Igor Dyatlov. He explained that the Dyatlov party was supposed to go to a place called Mount Atorten, some 10 kilometers north of here. Naturally, I wondered how Dyatlov, an experienced mountaineer, could have led his party so far off course before seemingly vanishing into thin air. In response, Boris pointed to a splash of fabric peeking through the

snow and said, you're the investigator. You tell me. The tent, or what was left of it, had been erected in a shallow pit, dug in the snow. Though partly collapsed after days of abandonment, its contents seemed remarkably undisturbed. Inside I found blankets, rock sacks, waterproof jackets, and boots stacked in neat piles against one wall. A stove in the center was surrounded by official papers, a route map, money, flashlights, cameras and knives. Nothing seemed even a hair out of place. Then I noticed the slash across one of the tent walls.

Nearly a meter long, it appeared to have been cut from inside the tent. And outside I found frozen footprints, nine sets in all, venturing out in a single file line. I counted the only one boot mark among the prints. The rest must have worn socks or nothing at all. I asked Boris how far temperatures dipped up here. At least negative twenty, he he said on a good night Then further increasing my worry that something terrible had happened here

He explained that this place had a disturbing name in the local tongue They called it mountain of death When investigating cases, I like to think that no detail is too small. But there on that mountain it was the lack of detail that was most arresting. There wasn't a single drop of blood in or near the camp. No sign of struggle, no sign of robbery, and of course no sign of the nine missing mountaineers. But all that changed as soon as shouts echoed across the barren snow. The first bodies had been discovered.

Yurap and Yury, both twenty-one, sat huddled beneath a cedar tree a kilometer and a half from the tent. Both men were stripped to their underwear and wore nothing on their feet. Yuri, it seemed, had bitten off a piece of his own knuckle. Within an hour, three more bodies were discovered. The first was found about thirty meters from the cedar tree, and the moment Boris saw it, he knew that this was Igor Dyatlov, the leader of the expedition. He was clothed but shoeless, lying face down in the snow, hugging a birch branch.

Zinaida, who apparently had been having something of a fling with Igor, was found nearby. Her body position suggested she'd been attempting to climb the hill back toward the tent when she succumbed to the elements. And a fifth body, her stem, was found nearly buried in the snow further down the mountain. Though more cloth than the others, he had only one boot on his feet. The same boot, I presumed, that made the long print exiting the tent. As if the entire situation weren't perplexing enough, I soon noticed a stranger walking among the site with a Geiger counter, a device designed to measure radiation.

I tried to question the man, but he sped away on a snowmobile before I could stop him. I thought I caught a glimpse of a military uniform beneath his parka, but why would the military be here? And why would anyone need to check radiation levels on an isolated mountain pass in the middle of nowhere? That night, I escorted the five discovered bodies to Yvedal, where they were set to be examined. But I was surprised to find the autopsy site guarded not by police, but by the KGB. They tried at first to deny me entry, but my call to Secretary Kerienko of the Regional

Party Committee remedied that dilemma quickly. Even so, the KGB members insisted that the autopsy physician and I strip naked and rub ourselves down with alcohol to protect ourselves from what they called anomalies. The autopsy physician was a quirky fellow named Vozrozhdeny. He mumbled to himself throughout the procedure, but I was able to glean the following details. All five bodies had a severe frostbite, Rostem had a skull fracture, and Zinaida had a long red bruise on her torso. Of note, no mention was made of any signs of radioactivity in the bodies, nor did I see any actual measurements taken, which only added to the mystery of this case.

And as that night went on, things got only stranger. After returning to my room, I received a delivery of the photographs developed from the cameras found in the tent. Most of the images were benign, a mandolin, a landscape, an overexposed blur, but one photo in particular stood out to me. It was the last photo taken on one of the cameras, and it captured a wide portrait of deep, fresh snow. But just off-center of the image stood a shadowy figure, one whose looming appearance didn't

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for more than 40% off. Because while you're hiding under your sheets, they should be the cleanest sheets possible. I'm gonna drink some water. The next morning I faced a progress report with Secretary Kyryankov. I called it I dreaded because five people were dead, four were still missing, and I had no leads to speak of. Nevertheless, I reported the befuddling pattern of facts with as much clarity and efficiency

as I could muster, and Kirienko listened with an uncomfortable silence. Then, after I'd finally finished, he suggested my time might be better spent investigating the area's native Montse people. Of course, it wasn't a suggestion. It was in order. But before I could inquire further, Kirienko hung up. So, that afternoon I found myself traveling to the remote Montse village, some 20 kilometers from Kolatsyakou. During my trip, I learned that they were a quiet people, known for hunting, fishing, and herding reindeer.

The problem was, I was not the only outsider to arrive in the village that day. Apparently, three members of the secret police were arresting and torturing the Montsi men. I naturally tried to intervene, but the officers seemed intent on pinning the Dyatlov deaths on the Montsi. It was only when I threatened to report their behavior to Geryenko and by extension Khrushchev that they relented and finally left the village. In the aftermath I tended to the tortured men and tried to convince the other villagers that this had all been a tragic misunderstanding. But it was too late villagers that this had all been a tragic misunderstanding. But it was too late. Their trust had already been betrayed.

But a weathered-looking elder quietly pulled me aside. He took a moment to muster the words, but he told me that he and others witnessed something on the night the Dyatlov party allegedly fled their tent. A burning object had lit up the sky near Kolotsyakou for nearly an hour. An object that was wide at the front and narrow at the back, with a tail of bright sparks. The man also described a spate of dead animals discovered in recent days throughout the region. Dead, apparently, from no clear cause. Before he walked away, he shook his head in disbelief. These are bad omens, he said. Very bad. As I began my return to Evdell, I racked my brain to find an explanation for the strange

phenomenon in the sky that the Mansi men spoke of. But before I could ponder things further, my transport was stopped by a local officer with news that the final four bodies of the Dyatlov party had been recovered. And though I immediately asked for details, all the officer could bring himself to say was, it's best you just see them for yourself. The bodies of Nikolai, Alexander, Nildmila, and Simon had been mutilated, ravaged by some unknown but undoubtedly sinister force. Nikolai was least damaged of the group but had extensive head injuries that looked consistent

with a fall. Alexander had a bizarre inexplicable wound behind his ear and an oddly twisted neck. But Lyudmila and Simon were terrifyingly worse. Both looked crumpled and as I stepped, I realized that both were missing their eyes. Not as though they had been packed out by buzzards, mind you. But the eyes were simply gone, as if cleanly removed. It was, for lack of better word, bewildering. So I followed the bodies back to Yvedel, where Volzorodny again performed thorough autopsies. All of the bodies, of course, exhibited signs of severe trauma, and he surmised that Nicolay

and Alexander's injuries might have resulted from a fall into the ravine, but Lyudmila and Simon's injuries had left him utterly perplexed. In addition to the missing eyes, both had multiple broken ribs on both sides of their bodies. It was, he said, as if the bodies had been subjected to some kind of explosive force. But defying all explanation, there were no external markings, not even scratches on either body indicative of such an event. So if he had to reach a conclusion, was Rozhdyni said, he concluded that what had happened to these people was deeply unnatural

and it terrified him to his core. Later that night I returned to my room to find that someone had been there since my last visit. My file sat slightly out of place, my evidence boxes were ajar, and I found that two Dyatlov photographs, the one with the shadowy figure and another I could not easily identify, were suddenly missing. Hoping for any insights, I consulted my notes and discovered that the second missing photograph was the one whose importance I had clearly overlooked. Photo number 24. Image overexposed. Bright lights against dark background. Possibly sky? Further investigation revealed that the photograph was

almost certainly taken on the night the mountaineers fled their tent and met their fates. Could they have seen some kind of bright light in the sky that night that sent them running for their lives? A missile? An explosion? Or could it have been something else entirely? Whatever it was, my government was clearly taking pains to keep it hidden. So I immediately called Secretary Kiryanko and methodically laid out the additional evidence I had uncovered. I told him about the photograph of the light in the sky, the monstry report of

aerial phenomena, the inexplicable injuries among the mountaineers, and the mysterious interference by the KGB. All, I said, pointed to one dangerous conclusion, that the Dyatlov party had witnessed something, likely in the sky, that forced them from their tent and cost them their lives. After a period of silence, I expected Kiryanko to reply, but a new voice spoke up and made me nearly drop the phone handset. It was Khrushchev, the head of the Soviet Union, who thanked me for my efforts and instructed me to immediately classify all of my evidence and then give everything to a special unit that reports directly to him. Then I was to forget everything about the case. Sometimes, he said, we will never know the truth of things and must make peace with that.

He then hung up and I have not spoken with him since. It has now been a month exactly since that fateful call. As an obedient party member, I of course did as I was told, and watched. All of my evidence from the case get carted away by men I did not know. Later, the nine mountaineers of the Dyatlov party were buried in closed coffins and their families were told they died from hypothermia after fleeing their tent due to, quote, an elemental force which the tourists were unable to overcome. The newspapers reported this to mean that the mountaineers encountered an avalanche and called the entire affair an unfortunate tragedy. Lies. All of it.

Still, I am an investigator. If nothing else. So, I am compelled to investigate. I've already found more reports of strange lights in the skies and mysterious animal deaths in the mountains. Who knows what I will discover next? My journey, wherever it may take me, will undoubtedly be fraught. So I record this now in case something should happen to me. Because one way or another, this story must be told.

And this mystery must be solved. Not for me, or my party, or country. But for the nine Mountaineers who met an inexplicable and tragic fate on a cold February night. Sightings will be back just after this. Welcome back to Sightings, where we're going to dig into that bizarre and exceedingly violent story. Wow. I don't even know where to begin.

Brian, help me out. Don't look to me for answers. All I can say is that the story that was told is basically what happened in those mountains. All I did was compress the timeline and kind of dramatize the phone conversations that we had. Which is wild because there's simply so many huge neon question marks floating around in this snowy wilderness. Like, why did they leave their tent?

What killed them? Or really, what in the world actually happened that night? That's probably why. This is still one of the biggest unexplained mysteries in modern history. It's just fascinating to me. It's just question upon question upon question. Yeah. So let's unpack this, starting with these Mountaineers. They were young and active and capable, yet they seem to have made some really horrible

decisions. Right. This was supposed to be a pretty routine trip, even if it was crazy intense by, I guess, American vacation standards. They were venturing out into the middle of nowhere, but the leader, Igor Dyatlov, had done and led trips like this into the mountains, into these mountains, three times before. So, I would think rule one is don't leave your tent in a snowstorm without choosing clothes, at the very least.

Yeah, that's the big question, and seems to have been their downfall. And there's a lot of theories as to what could have happened here. Right, right, but I want to save the theories for later and just stick to the facts here just to give us a solid grounding. So tell me about this mountain, the Mountain of Death. That's the name of it, right? Big red flag right there.

Yeah. I can say with confidence that these people and I have very different ideas of what makes for a nice time in the mountains. But yeah, that's what these locals called it, Mountain of Death. And this is the place that they decided of all the mountains to camp on, this is the one that we're gonna pitch our tent on tonight. And it was off course from where they were supposed to be, right? Like, they weren't planning to... because they were heading to another mountain.

I have no idea what they were doing there. No one seems to have any idea what they were doing there. It seems to have been 10 miles away from where they were supposed to be. No, I've done a lot of hiking when I was younger, and 10 miles on a mountain is a... that's your day. Yeah. All we know is they pitched a tent, they slash it open from the inside,

and left in a single file line before dying horrible, horrible deaths. That's what gets me. I mean, if you're that panicked that you're going to slash your tent open to escape with no clothes, why would you leave the tent in an orderly line? Right, because the footprints were in a straight line. It makes no clothes. Why would you leave the tent in an orderly line? Right? Because the footprints

were in a straight line. It makes no sense. It makes zero sense. Plus the fact that they left their flashlights, their knives, everything needed to survive was left behind. And then even though they leave together, they seem to be found all over this mountain. Yeah. So they must've dispersed at some point. And like I said earlier, the only thing I did in this story was condense the timeline. And I only did that because these people were so scattered that it took literally months for the authorities to actually find the bodies, not just days like it was in the story. Oh, wow.

Yeah. So little like corpse sickles. Wow. And we haven't even started talking about the injuries yet, you know We've we've got some with no clothes dying of hypothermia. We've got others who were missing their Gosh their tongue and eyes. I mean what I'm right there with you It makes zero sense Especially since they had no scratches or marks that would be indicative of what actually happened to them.

You know, if they fell into a ravine, for instance, they weren't all scuffed up as though they'd fallen into a ravine. They were traumatized internally, but externally looked relatively normal, minus the missing eyes, of course. Yeah. You know?

But the people who were most injured were the ones found at the bottom of a ravine. Yeah. And maybe they fell and landed on snow, so they wouldn't be all scuffed up? I guess that sounds like a good idea, but the ones who were the most badly injured had symmetrical internal injuries.

Like, their ribs were broken in the same places on each side, which, I'm no doctor, but does not strike me as the kind of injury you would get when you fall into a ravine. So what did kill these people then? I mean, that's a silly question. It's the question. As we heard in the story, the Russian government initially

chalked it all up to, quote, elemental forces, whatever that means. I guess it could mean wind or snow or avalanche or weather or something. They reopened the case in 2019, apparently, and all the possible causes that they ended up evaluating were connected to extreme weather. Which, again, doesn't explain the injuries.

Icicles don't do that. It doesn't. So what might? McLeod, solve the D.I. lab pass mystery for me right now. I'm putting you on the spot. Do it. Give me some ideas. I'm putting you on the spot. Do it. Give me some ideas. I was waiting for you. Okay. Let me go get my pipe.

Okay, so they're in the mountains. It could be an avalanche that crushes them because there's a lot of crushing and that is an avalanche has enough force. It could rip, you know, rip arms off and that sort of thing. I don't know that avalanches can necessarily remove eyes and tongues, but yeah, it could be the elemental force that I suppose the Russians were talking about.

But actually, when I think about it, the tent wasn't fully buried, right? No, no, there was snow on it from just snow having fallen. Right, and they all walked out, they didn't not, they didn't crawl out or like drag themselves out because they would have been crushed while they were in the tent. Okay, so scrap it.

Well, in 2021, a couple of physicists built a model showing that a snow slab that was falling down the side of this mountain could have caused the injuries. I don't think I buy that though, because again, these were symmetrical injuries. And I don't think that, you know, snow slabs have, you know, frightening fingers to pull out eyes. So.

You know, it reminds me of Event Horizon. Oh, gosh. That old 90s. Yep, yep. But out in a mountain instead of in space. I think I'm glad you brought up Event Horizon because that's a movie all about fear and kind of the power of fear. And like, maybe it was not an avalanche itself, but the fear of an avalanche that forced these people

out of this tent. So they panicked, they ran, they got lost, and then they died horrible deaths. But it's interesting, you bring up like the people and fear in the emotional element, which is the human element, which, you know, the next logical step is it's people. That this is like a serial killer

or they killed each other. But- I will say people wise, there were a lot of Gulag prisoners who were released in this area, cause there was a lot of prisons in this area, allegedly in these mountains. So they were all released and they kind of stuck around

because they had nowhere else to go. So could it have been them or maybe someone escaped from one of these prisons and decided to slaughter all of these people and... Right, but then, like, do they not have feet? There were no other footprints. Yeah. Which leads me to cross my next idea off the list,

which is that it's some kind of creature, but creatures have feet as well. Well, it could have been a flying creature. This could have been the Russian Mothman or something like that. I don't know. Oh, yeah. No, but that's like a hawk or an eagle with the eyes being cleanly eaten out. I can see a hawk or an eagle digging people's eyes out, maybe the tongue.

I don't know. Yeah, it's a really motivated hawk or eagle then, to have killed all nine of them. Things are hard up in Siberia. Hungry hawk. In the series defense, it wasn't a hawk or an eagle, but as happened in the story, there was that blurry photo that was taken

by the hikers during their trip. That's right. You know, of a shadowy figure who was not one of the people who was with them, who this or who or what this thing was is still unknown. But then there's the question, you know, they also found radiation on these bodies. Exactly, I'm so glad you went there because that's where I was gonna go to.

The radiation, which we haven't covered, what does that do to the body? I don't know if it actually did anything to the body. I think it's just trace radiation more than background radiation. Okay. So, but then again, like if this were some kind of yeti or hawk or something like that, I don't think there's radioactive yetis rolling around in Russia.

That's the only kind of yetis that are rolling around. So I don't know if that works, you know, but as we're talking about radiation, that leads me to think, could this have been some kind of other supernatural thing, like a UFO kind of situation or something like that? How dare you bring us back to aliens? I mean, we'll continue. Why do you think it could be aliens? Well, Lev himself, the investigator who you read in the story, he seems to believe now that it was some kind of UFO incident or something like that, because he simply could not find any other explanation

20, 30 years later. Also, remember in the story, the local tribe saw fireballs in the sky, basically. There were hikers who were also in those mountains who claimed they saw something on the night that this all went down theoretically. Right. But again, I hate slapping the label, oh, it's aliens on this.

You know, I mean, what would the aliens' motive be? Exactly. And to kill everyone in different ways and some in like really horrific ways. The thing that, you know, kind of comes to mind for me is just some sort of hysteria, either due to the cold and hypothermia, because I do know that when you're experiencing hypothermia, you actually start to feel warm and strip all your clothes off. Paradoxical undressing, I think, is what it's called. Yeah.

And then like radiation, if there is strong enough radiation, I mean, I don't know, I've seen Chernobyl, that's some pretty messed up stuff like that'll melt your brain and cause you to feel hot and like you're burning from the inside out and take all your clothes off. Doesn't explain the eyes and tongue unless they did it to themselves just trying to, because they were in such horrible pain. Then the question I have is where does the radiation come from? You know?

Well, like some sort of military thing, it was like a military operation, you know, experiments with nukes or other weaponizing radiation, maybe, I don't know. And that makes total sense. I mean, this was the golden age of Soviet science and Sputnik was launched two years earlier in 1957. And this idea of some kind of military operation

or botched experiment seems to be what the families of the deceased believe. But I guess I'll say it's worth noting that there were no ballistic missiles launched from the nearby Cosmodrome at that time. There was no sign of like a blast or debris or anything like that in the area. There are theories that the hikers could have been kind of abducted by military, you know,

kind of experimented on in some capacity or exposed to something and then put back on the mountain to look like whatever. There are reports that some of the people who were involved with this in an investigative capacity had to sign NDAs so they can't express what they actually know about what happened here. Then why even have investigators? That's bonkers. But I mean, unless you're trying to cover things up. Something that wasn't in the story that implies that the government knew a lot more than they were probably letting on. So the hikers had a diary with them when they were on the hike. And Lev, the investigator, read this.

He took it back to the town and, you know, people were doing autopsies and things like that. He comes home one night, finds that someone has gone to the diary, erased a bunch of stuff and rewritten passages. Wow. That's Spook city. Yeah, it's pretty strange. And this might be the big one here.

Six days before anyone even knew they were missing, an investigation was opened. Yeah, that's suspect. That's incredibly suspect. So I don't know. What is your final, what is your gut say about this, McCloud? I think to me, it's clear that something happened here. It's just what?

Terrifying and horrendous. It strikes me as based on kind of what we know about hypothermia and just kind of the way potentially radiation affects the body. That could have driven some sort of like psychosis and panic, group psychosis that drove them out of the tent. But just the diversity and violence of the deaths and everything surrounding it bespeaks that the cause of that psychosis, whatever it was, is in somehow involving a government

cover-up that, or demons, honestly, demons in the mountains, Demons are gonna go with demons. Go with demons, all right. Yeah, it's just layer upon layer upon layer of insanity and- Yeah, I see why people still talk about this all these years later. Absolutely. But listeners, if you're sitting there talking about it and want to talk about it with us, and you happen to know the secret of what happened here or have a compelling theory, reach out to us at theories at sightingspodcast.com or hit our socials at SightingsPod.

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