A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for the Dyatlov Incident
nationalgeographic.com
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Some take-aways that I remember:
* They had a self-made, wood-fired oven in the tent, which had already burned one of the hikers a couple of days before (documented in a picture) and could have malfunctioned, leading to the burn marks and them having to abandon the tent (including slashing it open)
* Radioactivity: Both hikers that had traces worked previously in a nuclear facility.
* Missing organs: Exactly what you would expect from scavenging animals.
* Missing clothes: Exactly what is expected when dying from hypothermia.
* Bodily injuries: Suspected avalanche.
* Glowing orange spheres: Possibly space debris, a meteor or nuclear testing. In any case, no immediate connection to the accident.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI (conclusion from 12:42)
edit: formatting
> There were no drugs present and the only alcohol was a small flask of medicinal alcohol, found intact at the scene. The group had even sworn off cigarettes for the expedition.
Still no explanation about the "numerous unexplained observations. While hypothermia was determined to be the main cause of death, four hikers had severe thorax or skull injuries, two were found with missing eyes and one without tongue; some were almost naked and barefoot, traces of radioactivity were found on some of their clothes, and signs of glowing orange spheres floating in the sky were reported that night"
So the only unusual part would be the radioactivity, strange lights, and what triggered the avalanche. Which could all be explained by some classified military test.
The other points are all obvious - nature taking its course. Scavengers (probably mainly birds) will eat the soft parts first.
As another commenter pointed out, the YT channel Lemmino made an excellent video with research based on the primary sources, and the conclusion is, unsurprisingly, not aliens. When all the facts are considered, the whole incident is probably only still considered mysterious because it makes a better story.
These are circumstances commonly attributed to aliens or cuppracabra attacking cattle. However it's very common in roadkill when you start to look for it. It's pretty mundane, though I understand some people will find it startling the first time they see or hear of it.
> The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone.
> The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage
the bone-breaker
Appropriate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...
For example, two explanations: 1. There was an avalanche and birds ate the soft tissue 2. There was an avalanche, birds ate the soft tissue, and Mars was in retrograde
Occam's razor tells you the first explanation is more likely to be correct. It does not tell you 4 or 5 natural events occurring can't be the best explanation if there isn't a more parsimonious alternative explanation.
H0 assumes that:
- there's intelligent life out there
- that life is close enough to visit Earth
- it's interested in us enough to secretly do weird things to us
- but for some reason hides from our governments/scientists
- and manages to avoid them
- but for some reason regular people can sometimes catch it
- but never on a cellphone
- it came to that particular place and did these particular things
H1 only assumes a lot of things we already know exist and can happen (like hypothermia and scavengers) - happened at once.
The site was created by web designer and mountain hiker Teodora Hadjiyska [1].
I and two friends made exactly that mistake too.. the only difference is that we didn't leave the tent, we just observed how, instead of being shielded from the wind, we got more and more buried! After two days we dug out and moved away. We were young then. A mistake we never repeated. A small slightly sloping snow wall no higher than two or three inches works, a higher wall looks like it would work better.. big mistake.
In any case, it has little to do with the incident, since herd of reindeer might have been spooked by something other than a rocket, or they might have just been wandering the usual road for no reason. The theory as a whole may be wrong, but the important fact is that there are even several scientific versions. This should put those who talk with a serious face about Yeti and UFOs in their place.
I should read the paper more carefully. I'm going off what I remember from Dead Mountain by Eichar.
IIRC, an avalanche as an explanation was rejected.
The conclusion was something like a harmonic wind incident. This caused the hikers to be highly uncomfortable and disoriented, so they left the tent and later died in the confusion.
So, here we usually link the previous submission if it has a lot of upvotes or comments. But in this had one upvote and one comment (and the URL is wrong?), that is clearly too few.
As always, there are exceptions, when the previous post has a very good comment. I like to link to the comment and perhaps copy a small part.
There was one report of increased radiation but that claim is dubious at best