So we got an interesting one. These boys have never heard of it, but apparently it’s in the top tops, you know, top 100, top 50 ever. And it’s more of a mysterious situation, like a mystery, dead bodies, murder. We bleed into that niche. So it’s called the Dyatlov Pass incident, and this is something that happened a long time ago, about 60 years ago. We upgraded our research because we have live photography and photos going on right here.

So this is a place, like a city or what? Yeah, it’s pretty much in the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. So in the Soviet Union, being in the fifties, these people look Soviet. They look like comrades, comrades, snow comrades. Very Soviet. So the Dyatlov Pass incident remains one of the most enduring and perplexing mysteries of the 20th century. In 1959, nine experienced hikers led by Igor Dyatlov embarked on an expedition of the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union, only to meet a tragic and inexplicable end. The bizarre circumstances surrounding their deaths have sparked numerous theories, conspiracy theories, and investigations. No explanation has been found.

So on January 23rd 1959, Igor Dyatlov and his group set out on what was intended to be a challenging but routine skiing expedition into a mountain in the northern Ural region. I love to be the guy that would be like, hear me out, we’re going to go hiking and it’s going to be great. Also keep in mind it’s 1959, you don’t have a lot to do. There’s no TikTok scrolling. This looks like the middle of nowhere, some log cabin.

So we have some great photographs, and just to give you a little teaser here, these photographs were found on their remains. They’re all like happy, like loving it. So these are the photographs taken between one and three days before they died. It’s kind of an eerie, like final happiness. They’re hugging, no big deal. They’re all speaking Russian.

So the group comprised eight men and two women, and they were all experienced hikers from the Ural Polytechnic Institute. One hiker, Yuri Yudin, turned back because he had a sciatica flare-up. So there’s one of these people who lived because he had sciatica and he just couldn’t make it. And that would be me, seriously. Once you hit over 40, sciatica all day. So just a few days into their journey he was like, I’m out. So that left nine.

They had planned to send a message back to their sports club about three weeks after taking off. So when the club didn’t hear from them by February 20th, a search party was sent out. On February 26th 1959, the searchers discovered the group’s abandoned and badly damaged tent. Here it is, that is the tent. An avalanche hit that thing. That literally looks like an asteroid hit that tent.

Now here’s the wild part. The tent had been cut open from the inside. And most of the hikers’ belongings, including shoes and clothing, were left behind. So it’s like it collapsed and you’re trying to escape. Then they found footprints leaving the tent, eight footprints. Did they find a body in the tent though? Nobody’s in the tent. So eight footprints leading away from it. The footprints in the snow indicated that they fled the tent barefoot. No shoes. Now keep in mind the temperature was around minus ten. It gets like 60 here and I’m freezing.

So over the next few weeks the search party found five of the bodies, and they were spread out over the snow in various states of dress, including some of them with no pants on. The first two bodies were those of Yuri and Yuri. They were found a mile away. That’s how far they got. They were in their underwear, and they were next to a burned-out fire pit. So they were trying to survive. The first Yuri had burns on his body, and a piece of his flesh that was in his mouth had been bitten off by his own hand.

It gets crazy. So basically there was a piece of his flesh in his mouth that he had bitten off. How do they know he bit it off? Because it’s missing from his hand and it’s in his mouth. So then the bodies of another Igor and Zinaida were found at a different distance from the tent, suggesting they were trying to return to it. All five of those students appeared to have died from hypothermia, which caused erratic behavior and paradoxical undressing of their clothes. That’s the thing I’ve heard, that it causes this weird hysteria and you’ll go, oh I’m hot, I’m burning up, take my clothes off. So now that’s five bodies of the nine.

So months later, after some of the snow melted, investigators discovered the bodies of the remaining four. They had even more crazy injuries, including fractured skulls, twisted necks, half of them had missing eyes. Dubinina had her tongue removed. No way. The initial medical examination revealed that Luda and Dubinina and the others had major chest fractures, so they were bludgeoned. And Nikolai had a fatal skull injury. Dubinina’s tongue and parts of her lips were missing. And these are the photos from the investigators. The eyes are gone, like out the socket. You think it’s cannibalism? It’s really dark.

So the initial investigation into the deaths couldn’t determine that a crime took place. The initial investigation said it was a force of nature. Well, it’s also like we’re talking Soviet Union investigation, so whatever. So these other 15 or 20 photos that you’re looking at, they found their journals and their cameras. I would love to know what those journals say. And the last photographs and entries show that the group was in good spirits and capturing their journeys in the final days.

This photo sparked the theory of the Yeti. So basically what we’re looking at is this photo, it was found on their camera on their bodies. It’s like a silhouette. It looks like a guy, but pretty human-sized. Who knows the distance though. It doesn’t look like fur. Maybe it’s a very hungry man. It could have been one of them. But it also could have been a Yeti. But I thought yetis were white. Homie looks like he’s wearing a shirt, that looks like a jacket. You can tell the difference from the torso to the legs, looks like a dude wearing regular clothes. The Yeti was just minding his own business, drinking some High Noon. So in short that is the story. Now we have a lot to go over.

So I’m going to go over a couple of the theories from the families and from other people who were nearby. The family of Nikolai, who was one of the victims who had severe head trauma, long believed that the hikers encountered something extraordinary. They continued to be skeptical of what happened. A lot of people say, oh it’s an avalanche, that’s what I mean, you look at the tent, that looks like an avalanche. So they go, okay, well then how were they found a mile away with severe trauma without an animal wound? So that family continues to this day to say that something weird is going on. All they say is some sort of special circumstance.

So who found the second batch of bodies was an indigenous people called the Mansi. A lot of people suspected that the Mansi did it. The theory was that the hikers trespassed on sacred land. However, there’s no evidence or signs of struggle or human conflict, and the Mansi were cleared of suspicion. No signs of struggle besides the skull crushing and the tongue missing.

A couple other weird things to add to this. Two of the bodies were found with large amounts of radiation. This is getting weird. Now some counter that some of them worked at a nuclear power plant earlier in radiation environments. But you wouldn’t still have a large amount on your clothing. It’s called half-life, and you take a shower, water washes away radiation, and you’re in the snow. Additionally, Igor Dyatlov, who was the party leader, was meticulous and careful. He knew what he was doing, this was not like us.

The tenth hiker was named Semyon, and he was the oldest member of the group, and he joined the expedition at the last minute. He was a World War II vet and he was not a student at the institute. His presence led to various theories about who he was connected to in regards to the military. They like, keep an eye on him, he’s like, oh I just love hiking, trust me, trust me. So you look at the photos and they’re happy, they’re doing well. See the photo of them on this one, supposedly that was the day of. That looks like a storm, that does not look like a happy environment, like they made a mistake, we should not be doing this, but let’s get through it.

So here are some of the top theories. One is the avalanche. One of the earliest and most accepted theories is that an avalanche forced the hikers to flee their tent. So then they flee a mile away and then they go crazy. But eight out of nine, the one guy went home with sciatica. Or you carry him out, maybe he got hurt. The panic-stricken group, inadequately dressed for the extreme cold, succumbed to hypothermia. Wait, one thing I just thought of, even when you’re in your tent, you’re not sleeping without pants. And you’re not sleeping with socks off. How are you going to be barefoot? But the only explanation to that would be the hypothermia, you get delirious.

So I watched a couple documentaries on this, and the theory of the avalanche, here’s the problem with it. It’s not like they camped on a major slope, the base of a mountain. The slope was about 22 degrees. So how is 22 degrees going to fall on top? So the theory of the avalanche is, you ever see a square slab and it just kind of sheds off? It’s like a slab of ice and snow that sheds off a mountain. So it’s like a weird baby avalanche essentially. Is it possible there could have been really heavy snow throughout the night? But you see the slope right there, that doesn’t look like an avalanche area.

So here’s the theory. There’s nine of you in that tent, or one or two tents. That’s a small tent for nine. That’s a ski. So let’s say there’s nine of us, two girls and seven guys, tight little tent. Dibs on next to the girls, they’re warmer. Take your pants off, I have hypothermia, I need your breast, the breasts are the warmest, it’s science. So then this sheet avalanche falls, comes down on you, smashes. So then what do you do? Everybody run, we scramble, and then we go a mile away. That’s what I don’t get, why would you go a mile away? I’d be like, dig out all of our stuff, my shoes, my skis. You would not start traveling without shoes. I wouldn’t walk in the snow with no shoes on.

What if they were trapped in there for a while though? They’re buried and hours later they finally get out and they’re all crazy. So the idea is that the sleet came down, hit people hard, there were a couple injuries, and then they were like, let’s get out of here, go build a fire. They scrambled away a mile away. Maybe they were trying to get all the way down the slope to flat land in the woods. But then how did they all die and lose their eyeballs and bite your hand off? The only thing I can think of is you’re shivering so much that you’re like, I need to feel anything.

Now the girl who had missing eyeballs was found face down in a riverbed. The theory behind why her eyeballs were missing is the water. How long was she there? Remember, the indigenous people found them a month later. That’s a while. But would water just slowly take your eyeballs out? Water made the Grand Canyon, so I’m sure it can take your eyeballs out. They can take rock away.

So another theory is katabatic wind. Which is another natural explanation involving katabatic winds, which are sudden powerful winds that forcefully drive people to abandon their existing shelter. These winds create panic causing the group to scatter. The theory is supported by the location’s geographical susceptibility. If the winds are ripping I’m like, we’re not going anywhere. That’s the equivalent of saying we get a little hurricane around here and you’re like, I’m running away without my shoes, naked in the streets. If the winds are so bad why would you leave?

Another theory is something called infrasound. So say we’re in a tent and we’re all cozied up, and then all of a sudden in the middle of the night, it’s negative ten, and you hear these insane wind whips, and you’re like, let’s run out of the tent. This sounds like a psychiatrist put this together. Essentially you get crazy. Would it cause you to walk out in negative ten? Because everybody’s freaking out. Would it make you so crazy that you can’t even think through, like, put your shoes on? If you look at this picture, the girl’s shoes are legit tied on with trash bag, they ain’t taking that off.

Other theory is military testing, because you have the two people who had radiation. The region was known for secretive Soviet military activities. Some speculate that parachute mines or other weapons testing were happening in the area, and they could have startled the hikers and caused injuries consistent with an explosion, where you had the impact on their bodies. That also would make sense, if a bomb goes off and messes the tent up, I can see people just dipping. Now remember the indigenous tribe, the locals in the area, they have gone on record saying they saw orbs in the sky around this time. No concrete evidence of military involvement was found. Declassified documents and testimonies have not provided those links. But this is where the UFO thing came in, the orbs in the sky, strange mutilations.

So back to the military testing. Remember this is 1959, well after World War II, 14 years after, and right before the Cuban Missile Crisis. So nuclear weapons were a thing. Supposedly the radioactivity of this could be explained by nuclear testing. But it was only on two people that they detected this. Because if there was any sort of radioactive material in the area, everyone would be exposed. So it’s more likened to where they worked at the factory. Because the way radiation works, what makes something radioactive means it’s actively decaying, the atoms are breaking apart and the particles are flying off. So that’s radioactivity, it’s actual particles.

So if I died and you were like, oh let’s check out his shirt, how would they know there’s radioactivity on it? The Geiger counter. And they would see that it was still happening. But it goes everywhere, it’s non-discriminant. It’s not like, oh I only attack one dude. It hits everything within a radius, everything’s getting touched. It doesn’t care, it’s everywhere. Which makes everything so much stranger, because it was only two people with radiation. And even if they worked in the factory, it would not be on them, especially at least a month later, and they said a high amount. And water washes off radiation. It’d be very minute levels especially after a month in the snow.

Another theory, animals. I can see an animal for the eyeballs for sure, not the crushed skull. But there’s no slices, no other evidence. If you saw a bear kill somebody you would know, because it’s going to bite your head off. Some say it was a wolverine that attacked the group, at least one or two of them, and prompted them to flee their initial campsite. A real wolverine, we think about comic books, but a wolverine is like a really pissed off badger, like a hyena. So the crushed skull and the crushed rib, the mouth and the tongue, maybe it’s a combo of mines and they were running and then the animals took care of them. Maybe the explosives caused the trauma and then the animals.

So the biggest thing that counters the animal theory, remember the original investigators found eight footprints, but they didn’t find any animal tracks. They didn’t find any claw marks. And animals aren’t meticulous, they don’t have a broom behind them. So to be honest, animal seems unlikely, but not the least likely.

So a more sensational theory is that of the UFO or the Yeti. We have two things. One is the indigenous tribe said they saw lights, the orbs, so that’s the paranormal side. Then one of the last photos in the cameras found on the deceased. It could be a dude who took a poop, but it’s weird that the face is super black. That’s why ski masks exist, this is the whole purpose. But most of them or all of them were found without clothes, and this guy is fully clothed. Maybe this was before. I love how Bigfoot and Yeti are in every story. New York City 1950, somehow Yeti is in the Soviet Union in 1959, in Atlanta in 88. He took a steamboat across to go to Russia.

So in 2019 the Russian government reopened the investigation into the Dyatlov Pass, and they concluded that an avalanche was the most likely cause. It does seem legit, but it doesn’t explain anything other than the tent. The only thing is the tent. The lack of definitive evidence means the Dyatlov Pass incident continues to be a topic of speculation and study. Actually, the avalanche would explain some of the other things, but how do they lose their eyes and their tongue? The tongue doesn’t make any sense. The eyes could have been the river.

Let’s say they’re trapped for a long time, they’re freezing. Obviously if you’re being crushed by snow you’re not going to be able to put your pants on. Let’s say it takes hours, you’re sleeping, it’s strange they’d not be wearing pants when they’re sleeping. So then you get this, you’re trapped for like an hour or two, you’re freezing, you finally get out, and then I can see the hypothermia hysteria taking place. I guess that could make sense, the avalanche is possible. But you would not smash any of those, look at that photo. You’re cold, we don’t know what it’s like in 1959.

So what’s crazy about the story is that none of this was released because of the Soviet Union. There’s no information sharing, we didn’t even know until the nineties. That’s what makes me think it’s like Soviet, the government’s like, that’s just weird. So they’re experienced hikers. Say there’s an avalanche, they’re in the tent, they have an avalanche, go a mile away, take your clothes off, and then they make a fire, there’s evidence of a fire, and then they die, and then they bite their hands off. Like what the heck, I don’t get it. Anyways, that’s why it’s continued to persist for 60 years.

So this is one theory. They come, they battle out, they throw like a plutonium rocket at two of the dudes, they’re fighting, killing, bite your own hand off. That guy was by himself, that one was already dead. That would explain the crushed chest, could possibly even explain the eyes, maybe they stabbed the eyes or the tongue too. I feel like it takes a human touch to cut a tongue out. You don’t mess with that. I don’t think an animal could be like, I just want the tongue. There would be signs of some other stabbing. If I stabbed your eyes out there’d be bleeding, well I would kill you.

Can you imagine being that guy who got the sciatica and went home? Everybody was mutilated. He’s like, I’m never going to the doctor again, I believe whatever the government said. The really gross one is that photo in the top right next to Igor. The body’s melted. You can see the eye socket, what’s wrong on this homie’s face right here, that looks like the eye’s falling out.

So here’s what we’re going to do. Start from the beginning, they go on their hike, what happens? They go on their hike, they’re experienced, they get to a point where it’s nighttime, they’re sleeping. I firmly believe there’s some sort of avalanche. I think one homie went out to take a poop. Or they cut their way out, one guy maybe died in the tent and during the avalanche his body suffocated. So they got to carry him out, footsteps, that also explains the lack of clothing because they’re frantic. They get out, they get to a point where they can build the fire, they’re trying to survive, but then they get the hypothermia.

But at some point they’ve run into the indigenous tribe, who are like, what are you doing on my land, stand your ground, this is not your hood, this is not America, this is all in Russian. And then at that point they fight it out, scuffle. But there’s no signs of stabbing, there would be. They’re not just using clubs, or everybody would have their head crushed. It’s confusing. At the same time I was kind of buying the UFO thing honestly. I think the UFO is the only explanation for the radiation, that’s the only one.

This is the greatest photo we’ve ever seen. Of all the Yeti photos, that’s in the top 10. If anything that is a photo of one of the tribe members, hipster Yeti, and they happen to capture it. The tribe member goes back, gets all his homies, get the squad, they get the snowmobiles, let’s get these fools. I don’t really get the whole tongue, and I don’t get the radiation thing, the radiation is the biggest, I can’t piece it together.

Sean, start from the beginning. They go on a hike, they’re all happy, killing it, look at those two guys vibing. That’s day one. So I think it does seem like there was some sort of avalanche event, whether it be heavy snowstorm or avalanche, snow on their tent, a lot too, the tent is crushed by snow. I think maybe a couple of them get injuries, that explains a couple of the traumas, maybe the head or the chest trauma. They drag homie out, one of the homies is down for the count, that’s why there’s only eight footsteps. I still don’t know why you would sleep shoeless or pantsless, but maybe that’s what they do in Russia.

And then I think hypothermia kind of sets in, maybe they take their pants off. I think they start a fire. Maybe one homie is like, mm this looks like a burger, eats his hand off. And then I can’t explain the radiation, I just really can’t get behind it. I can make a good case for everything, unless it was inaccurate and there was no radiation, it just got reported. Think about back in the fifties, maybe they got it wrong, it was inaccurate, a detail that got passed on. Maybe it was low but not enough to call it. They said high levels. I feel like the government added that radiation in there just to mess everybody up. Back then there was this whole cold war nuclear thing, they didn’t really know what they were doing with nuclear weapons.

So do we know if there were shoes found in the tent? They left them there. So all the shoes were there. I was going to say maybe they lost their shoes afterwards, but no, they left them there, and you do not leave your tent without shoes. I would go back, I would dig the tent out. Some of them were barefoot and some had socks on. The point was the tracks were not with boots. That’s the thing, why don’t you dig the tent out? It would take us 10 minutes to dig this out. But keep in mind this was days or a month later, we don’t know how much it melted.

My point is, even if there wasn’t much, why would you walk a mile without shoes instead of digging out your shoes, or walk a mile and build a fire? Why go build a fire a mile away, build a fire right there. Three weeks, a lot could happen, enough to melt, enough to go from minus ten to a hot summery melty day. Avalanche hits and it’s like spring, like magic? No, something ain’t right about this.

Okay so what do you got? These are experienced hikers, they know what they’re doing, they’ve been on multiple things. In 1959 they got skis, they know what they’re doing. You ready? I believe this is a soap opera situation. Meaning there was some sort of love triangle, and an avalanche, mix those together. The little cliques went wild and went crazy on each other, they mutilated each other. But there’s only two girls, exactly. Two dudes, two girls, scarcity. There’s a limited number of holes my friend. So not a triangle but like an octagon, love octagon.

I don’t know how else to explain it, because I don’t believe the psychosis would go so far that they would cut out their own eyes. They look happy, they cut out somebody’s tongue and their eyeballs. Unless it was the water, maybe the eyeball girl died and then somebody’s like, I got to eat, starving, let me go after her eyeballs, the soft meat. I’ve tried eyeball before, cow eyeball. It tasted like eyeball. A little taco stand in Mexico, eyeball tacos, I swear to God. I also tried brains, that was not that bad, the tongue and the brains they get all day long.

Can we talk about the Yeti photo? What’s the percentage, like one percent, not even. We’re going to post it, we’re going to do a poll, because homie’s wearing a jacket, he’s clearly wearing pants and a jacket, the best photo we’ve had of yetis because it’s a dude. The shirt is a different color, it doesn’t even look like fur, homie’s dressed. Not a Yeti, 100 percent, I won’t even give you one percent, he’s wearing coveralls, zero.

So that’s the conclusion we’ve come to, that it was a love affair. Wait, we did not come to that. One of them ejaculated plutonium, the guy honestly was a love affair gone wrong. No, aliens, it was definitely aliens. Love affair, aliens conspiring with the Russian government. All right, that’s what we got. Dyatlov Pass everybody, let us know what you think. We went over almost every theory. You guys didn’t like the testing idea, huh? I thought maybe the explosive test was possible, but it doesn’t explain, there’s no evidence, zero. Do a little poll, let us know what you think.