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Many of the voices you hear duringthis season of Bigfoot Classified are performed by
Ukrainian actors and actresses as a deliberateeffort to support their talent and contribution to
the entertainment industry. We recognize thatthe Dialog Past incident, a real life
tragedy, occurred in Russia. Thedecision to cast Ukrainian actors and actresses is
intended to provide them with support andrecognition for their contributions while adding an authentic
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field to this season of Bigfoot Classified. We acknowledge the significance of the Dialog
Past incident and extend our condolences tothe victims and their families. Bigfoot Classified
contains content that is graphic in nature, and listener discretion is advised. Bigfoot
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hours of research have been done regardingthese stories, and if you have a
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Classified dot com. This is bigfootclassifying. The diet Off Past tragedy is
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the story of a group of Russianhikers who mysteriously perished in nineteen fifty nine
while on a cross country skiing trip. The story of the non faded hikers
has ever since become cemented worldwide asone of the biggest mysteries of all time.
There have been many explanations for whatoccurred, but none have been able
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to account for all the peculiar facts. We're investigating the conspiracy surrounding the nineteen
fifty nine incident, raging from theabsurd to the plausible. This is part
three of the diet Law Pass Incident. Ten Russian hikers set off from the
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town of Vision a two week excursionto the Ottourton Mountain on January twenty seventh,
nineteen fifty nine. The journey theywere taking had been rated as a
Category three route, which is themost challenging and dangerous. Only one hiker,
Uriyuden, who turned around after thesecond day owing to health concerns,
finished the trail. A search partywas dispatched to investigate after the others didn't
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show up. After a few weeksand after days of searching and a full
scale investigation all the way up tothe Kremlin. Their tent was finally discovered
to be set up on the sideof a mountain known as Colletsiaki. The
tent had been internally cut open.The tent included their stuff, including their
shoes, but none of the hikersthemselves. Nine sets of tracks, either
barefoot or only wearing socks, werediscovered outside, leading down to a stand
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of trees that was located one pointfive kilometers away, close to the infamous
cedar tree that we discussed last time. The bodies of some of the hikers
were found near the ashes of alittle fire. Yuri Dorshchenko and Georgi Krivenshenkov
were discovered dead and just wearing theirunderpants. Between the tree line and the
tent, three further dead were discovered. It was assumed that they had been
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attempting to get back to camp.These first five hikers autopsies all concluded that
they had died from hypothermia. However, when the final four hikers bodies were
uncovered, it sparked a conspiracy thatstill hunts the world. Years later,
the final four hikers were found twohundred forty six feet farther into the woods
in a ravine. Three of themhad died from severe wounds. One had
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sustained significant head trauma, while theother two had experienced severe chest trauma.
There were no exterior wounds, butforensic experts claimed the force needed to cause
that level of damage was converle tobeing hit by a car. According to
the official assessment, they had perisheddue to a compelling natural force. The
investigation was swiftly concluded by Russian authorities, who noted the cause of death was
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an unknown compelling force which the hikerswere unable to overcome. Since that fateful
evening, a variety of theories havebeen put forth to explain what happened to
the hikers at the Dietle of Pass, including those involving a serial killer,
avalanches, animal attacks, secret weapons, a military cover up, gravity anomalies,
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a fire in the tent, killersnowmen, UFOs, and temporary insanity
brought on by drug use or infrasound. So what took place that evening?
Why did the group pack up soquickly and depart their tent without returning for
their gear, Why were only certainhikers injured, and how did they become
hurt well to day were diving intothe theories and explanations surrounding the dietle of
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Pass incident. In Part two,we briefly covered the suspicions laid upon the
Mansi people, a local ethnic groupof predominantly hunters whose settlement was around one
hundred kilometers from the location to thearea diet Love and his team were passing.
Although Demanci people were not considered suspectsby the official investigators, some conspiracies
scented the animatic tragedy on them.A local man named Anatoly Steppitchkin stated on
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national television in twenty nineteen that hehad obtained a confession from Emancie tribesman who
claimed that his people were responsible forthe hiker's deaths. Steppachkin alleged that the
unknown tribesman said, tourists looted ourholy place. When Shamans found out about
it, they called for hunters totrack them down. When the members of
the diet Love group went to bed, Shamans went to the tent and bewitched
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the hikers. After some time,they were all dead. If they did
us wrong, we answered with evilreligious motives for the basis for suspicion against
Emancie native. Some even recalled analleged incident from the nineteen thirty in which
a female geologist entered sacred territory belongingto the tribe. She was then bound
and dropped into the lake. However, there are no sources, evidence,
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or anything to back this up.It's merely speculation. Suspicion was easily leveled
at the Manci. They belonged toa hunter gatherer culture that was never a
part of modern society. Even thoughthey lived under Russian dominion for more than
four hundred years, they managed tomaintain their way of life, traditions,
and, most importantly, religion.The second phase of the anti religious campaign
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was initiated in the Soviet Union byNikita Krushchev, who was in power at
the time. Anyone who practiced orshowed an interest in religion of any kind
was mocked and subject to prejudice.Thus, in these perplexing and peculiar circumstance
they paid Imanci were at first thoughtto be simple pickings for a scapegoat.
In fact, a few hunters weremade suspects in the felony probe into the
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Dietle of past incident. Native Americanswere very close to the dietle Of incident
because they weren't hiding the fact thatthey were camped up nearby. Brilliant scientists
were murdered by fundamentalists from a backwardreligion. This story was too good to
be Soviet propaganda, but the sidehe ran into a brick wall and crumbled.
The official investigation quashed any rumors ofManzie involvement, stating the investigation did
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not establish the presence of any otherindividuals in the vicinity aside from the members
of the diet Of group. Additionally, it was discovered that the Manzi tribe,
who lived eighty one hundred kilometers ofa and were amicable toward the Russians,
hosted and helped travelers. The officialreport concluding the investigation said that the
area of where the party perished wasdeemed unfit for wintertime hunting and reindeer herding.
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The second theory briefly covered last timewas the fireballs witnessed by their rescue
searchers. Boris Sischev, a searchteam member responsible for finding the deceased hikers
remaining bodies, was interviewed by journalistsin twenty nineteen Boris Cischev, claimed that
the search team saw an unexpected occurrencethey described as a fireball near the crossing.
We observed a fireball floating in thesky. Although it resembled the lunar
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disc, it wasn't the moon.The size of this fireball was larger.
It flowed away from us after leavingthe crossing. We didn't see any intense
glowing. It simply vanished over thehorizon. After that, we were all
confused, Sichu said, and hewasn't the only witness who came forward.
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Valentine Yakimenko, another volunteer searching forthe Jattle of group, described the fireball
as it happened early in the morningwhile it was still dark. Victor mister
Rakov, who stood guard that night, left the tent and saw a large
glowing sphere in the sky. Hewoke everyone up. We watched this orb
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or a disk for about twenty minutesuntil it didn't disappear behind the mountain.
We saw it in the southeast directionfrom our tent. It was moving in
the northern direction. This event freakedeveryone out. We were sure that this
event was somehow involved in the depthof the Jattle group. Theorists contend that
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these fireballs could have killed the hikersby directing an unknown amount of energy at
them. Curiously, former Soviet publicprosecutor and lead investigator of the diet Of
incident Lev Ivanov is one of themost prominent proponents of this theory. Lev
Ivanov claimed that during his investigation E. N. E. P. Maslinikov
had both seen that the tops ofthe forest pine trees were burned in an
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interview with the local journalist in theearly nineteen ninety fireballs aren't the only thing
left believes caused the group to flee. He also alleges that Ivanov was coursed
into removing any mention of the unidentifiedflying objects or other weird happenings by ap
Kiraylankov, a member of the SovietCongress, and his advisor af Ashtakin.
This contained testimonials and drawings made byManzi hunters of flying spheres. True,
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there was a surge in curiosity inthe unknown in the Soviet Union, Ivanov
may have conducted this interview to earnsome money. According to skeptics. We
must, however, point out thatKerrylanko developed an obsession with your force.
He submitted a number of requests foraccess to the KGB archives beginning in the
early nineteen sixty It is unquestionably remarkablethat a political person in the USSR showed
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such interest in this topic, eventhough he don't know what was discovered in
the documents. Since UFOs were consideredpseudo scientific or religious phenomena, official science
did not research them. Any interestin the subject was obviously outlawed in the
atheist Soviet Union, especially among themembers of the National Legislature. Surprisingly,
lev Ivanov wrote in an article titledthe Enema of the Fireballs published in nineteen
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ninety that, under pressure from colleagueshigher up than him, he withdrew several
crucial documents from the case in thespring of nineteen fifty nine that revealed the
true cause of the accident, fireballsor a UFO. A few young pine
trees at the border of the forestshowed burn marks when E. P.
Maslnikov and I studied the site inMay, but those markings lacked a concentric
form or any other pattern. Noepicenter was present. This proved once more
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that hot beams of a powerful butunidentified energy, at least to us for
acting selectively and aiming their firepower atparticular things. In this case, people
notably Kerry Island Call later claimed tohave received letters from the KGB chairman regarding
sightings of unidentified flying objects. It'snot a coincidence that UFOs were reported by
these hikers in the Ural mountains inthe place of the dead. Don't go
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there and so on. Upologist PhilippineBrogno said on History Channel's controversial Ancient Aliens
show. I believe that many UFOSEsightings come in here from a parallel reality,
and they come from portals. Thisarea may be a hot portal.
The orbs themselves could have been alife form. The orbs themselves could have
been extraterrestrial probes. Bill Burns,another TV upologist, said it could have
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been inadvertent the orbs improbing the areaof where the humans were created collateral damage.
Maybe they didn't mean to harm humanbeings. Maybe it wasn't an attack
as much as the power of theorbs, the energy was so intense.
The humans were prematurely aged era didand suffer all kinds of lethal biological symptoms.
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Extraterrestrials aren't the only humanoid creature oftheorize to have been involved in the
hiker's deaths. The most outlandish theoryto date was put up in a Discovery
Channel documentary titled Russian Yetti The KillerLives, which vied in June twenty fourteen.
The following is from the press releaseannouncing the premiere of the program.
When American explorer Mikeliky revisits the riddleof the Diet Love Pass tragedy fifty five
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years later, but he finds isabsolutely terrifying. Following the trail of evidence,
Mike finds proof that the hikers werenot alone a photograph taken by one
of the hikers a day before theydied that suggests that they encounter the Yetti.
The Vials of Siberia and the UralMountains to the west are said to
be home to yet like creatures,but as everywhere else these so called Harry
hominids have reportedly been observed, noone has come forward with concrete proof of
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their existence. The Diet Love Passincident, according to the show's host,
Mike Liki, confirms they are real. I knew this was not the result
of an avalanche as soon as Idiscovered one of the students was missing a
tongue like. He added, somethingtore out this woman's tongue naturally like.
He concluded that only a yet hecould have been, not something. He
provided more proof in the form ofa purported image of the Yeti taken by
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a member of the dietal of expedition. The image is a black and white
picture of an area covered in snow. Around ten feet away from the camera
stands a large human like creature,which the Discovery Channel used as absolute evidence
of a Yeti. However, thisshow was met with criticism that it displayed
high confirmation bias and levels of overexaggeration. However, in twenty nineteen, a
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Russian publication released an article penned bya renowned, unnamed doctor who stated that
he believed a big creature was likelyto blame for two of the group's injuries.
The doctor proposed that the rib injuriessuffered by two of the dead hikers
were caused by a large creature squeezingtheir chest in a way similar to an
adult unintentionally hurting a child by embracingthem too tightly. However, the alleged
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famous doctor chose not to share hisname out of fear of humiliation. With
the paper stating the famous doctor requestednot to disclose his name because he was
afraid of being mocked. Another infamoustheory behind the fate of the Hikers a
Diet Love Pass, is that allnine who met their deaths were secretly undercore
KGB spies. At the time ofthe Diet Love Pass incident in nineteen fifty
nine, the Cold War between theSoviet Union and the United States was at
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its peak. In the Soviet Union, paranoia over ever presence by games,
and pervasive secrecy surrounded every aspect oflife. According to a group of writers
who go by the pen name Alexeiracketin the CIA, the KGB and Soviet
counterintelligence were all involved in the tragicoccurrence. This theory supposed that the Hikers
were undercover KGB agents on a counterintelligencemission to thwart a foreign spy operation in
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the USSR. The counterintelligence mission wascarried out under the pretense of a mountaineering
expedition. The theory is that oneof the Hikers might have been a spy
who intended to utilize the legitimate expeditionto give up sensitive information to foreign intelligence.
Suspicions were raised against the oldest hikerSiemensaltariyev, who was last to join
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the group and at age thirty eight. Concerns were raises as to why he
was included on the expedition. Krivenshenkovwas also suspected too, having previously worked
at a Soviet nuclear facility, hewould be an ideal asset to the Western
Spies. Despite how absurd it mightseem, there is some merit to this
theory. At the scene of thedisaster, three different pieces of clothing were
determined to be radioactive on the bodiesof the murdered hikers. The official report
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leaves room for interpretation, stating thatthe clothes were contaminated as radioactive dust fell
from the atmosphere, or the clotheswere susceptible to contamination when in contact with
radioactive substances. The two hikers,Georgi Krivenshenko and Rustum Slabedin, were employed
in the city of Cheliabinsk forty wereweapons great plutonium was manufactured during the Cold
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War. According to proponents of thespy games theory, this would establish the
basis for a putative intelligence related operationor crime that led to the murders of
nine persons in an elaborate cover upby the KGB, while also explaining the
contamination of some of the garments discoveredat the scene of the disaster. Yuri
Kansovich, who strongly backed this theory, told mainstream Russian Who's outlet task that
it turned out that there were twoKGB officers in the diet of group.
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Quite possibly they were carrying out amission to provide support for a technology induced
experiment. The tourists were carrying alarge batch of photo equipment, which was
completely a typical of highly complex expeditionsthat require maximally alleviating their load. Konsovich
claims that the tourist group was giveninstructions to arrive at Ottorton Mountain also known
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as the Mountain of the Dead inthe local Mansi language at his specific hour.
In light of this, the dietleof hikers deliberately began the ascent after
lunch, storing food and heading outwith little supplies. Most likely, the
tourists reached their intended destination and waitedfor a technology injuist moment which they were
apparently expected to capture with photos,but it went off in an unplanned and
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extraordinary way, which was possibly thecause of the death of the group's members.
They of course courageously held on tothe last and didn't run away or
panic. According to Kansovich, thefact that only four of the ten rolls
of film from all the cameras havesurvived and it is unknown what happened to
the other six, supports the theorythat the organization had connections to the kigib.
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He says, one film captures thetrace of a technology induced phenomenon,
a glowing ball. Besides, eachmember of the jutle Of group kept a
diary, but only three or fourof them have survived. All these factors
confirmed times with the KJB they werenot simply hikers. They had been sent
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to the mountain pass on a specialmission. This can be confirmed by authorized
idea held by the group's head.We have already submitted it to be printed,
but we are planning a presentation forit at the beginning of the new
academic year. The almanac will consistof two volumes and will separately feature a
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photo album and have a total ofone thousand pages. This publication will help
to push aside all unnecessary or outlandishversions, such as a mystical scenario or
an abominable snowman's attack. Whatever tieswith the KGB Kansovich believed he had uncovered
were never brought to light. Butthis leads us into our last and now
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most accepted theory, which causes manyto believe the mystery of the dietle of
Past incident is now solved. Anew explanation of what killed the group was
put forth by Danny Ikar, afilmmaker who was researching the Dietle of Pass
event with the help of modern scienceand the help of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. According to his hypothesis, a repetitive wind event probably created an
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infrasound phenomenon that led to unpredictable behaviorin the unfortunate campers. Small tornado spin
off the sides of the mountain stormand strong wind strike it, creating audible
roars and an unsettling infrasound sensation.Infrasound is made up a very low frequency
audible sound waves that, despite therebeing no audible sound, activate the hair
cells in the inner ear and communicatewith the brain. Panic, difficulty breathing,
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and dread result from this. Theymight have fled their tent and perished
outside as a result of this dreadfulfeeling and the tornado's thundering roar tones lower
than twenty herts, which is consideredthe lower limit of the human auditory range,
but some people can hear tones aslow as ten herds make up low
frequency sounds. However, there areenvironmental elements like sound pressure that can help
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humans detect infra sound is it thoughtthat the effects may still be felt as
body vibrations even if infra sound leveltones cannot be heard. Animals like elephants
also employ infrasound as a means oflong distance communication or as a defensive tool.
Infrasund has been discussed extensively. Ithas been linked to practically everything from
being weaponry to reckless driving. Acomposer and engineer who worked on the project,
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Sarah Anglis, said it was amazingto be able to analyze the evidence.
Yuri Kansovich, a man who hadbeen present at the funerals of five
of the group, claimed that eachbody had developed a deep brown tan.
The most bizarre discovery, however,may have been made during a forensic investigation
of the hyko's clothing, which frequentlyhad significant amounts of radioactive contamination. Could
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this have been brought on by thestart of an infrasound episode. In twenty
twenty one, an avalanche was proposedas one of the most likely reasons for
the group's unusual deaths. The authorsof the new study contend that this wasn't
your typical avalanche. It was aslab avalanche, in which is sizeable solid
block of snow separates from a deposit. The group claims that this could explain
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all of the aforementioned peculiarities. JohanGom, this studies principal author adds we
use date on snow friction and localgeography to illustrate that a small slab avalanche
might occur on a mild slope,leaving little evidence behind. We demonstrate that
the impact of a snow slab canresult in injuries similar to those reported with
the use of computer simulations. Ofcourse, there is also a delay between
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the teams cutting through the and theevent's activation. The major subject of our
article is that previous researchers have beenunable to explain how an avalanche might have
been started in the middle of thenight in the absence of any snowfall that
evening to account for it. Thefresh theory had to be developed. The
researchers concluded that the catabatic wind wasa solution believed to search downhill this some
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power. This type of airflow isknown to gradually deposit additional snow uphill from
the tent. The length of timeit may take for a snow slab avalanche
to break off following a cut inthe slope with the aid of cathamatic winds
was one of the dynamics that theresearchers studied. They discovered that between seven
and a half and thirteen and ahalf hours following the cut, the prerequisite
for the avalanche release might be fulfilled. According to research quthor Alexander Puzzern,
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nothing would have happened if they hadn'tmade a cut in the slope. That
was the initial catalyst, but itwasn't sufficient on its own. The snow
may have been drifted by the cathopaticwind, allowing an additional burden to gradually
accumulate. The snow slab could havebeen released at some point if crack developed
and spread. The researchers then rana simulation of the possible harm that the
snow slab could do to a person'sbody upon impact a block of snow with
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the volume of point five cubic metersand the density of four hundred kilograms per
cubic meter might have produced injuries consistentwith what was observed at such speed.
They discovered the simulated snow slab hadthe chief the velocity of around two meter
per second. By the moment ofimpact, the victims would have appeared to
have been trapped between the tumbling slaband the compacted snow beneath the tent.
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Despite how intriguing the study is,the researchers make no claims that the issue
has been fully resolved. After all, there are still unanswered questions like why
are the victim's bodies discovered so faraway from the tent If they were slain
or injured in it. The othergroup members may have left before they avalanche
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struck and helped their injured friends getto safety. The researchers also speculate that
they might not have been killed inthe hint, but rather in a different
snow slab fall in the ravine wherethe remains were discovered on April twenty seventh,
twenty and thirteen. You're a Unionpassed away at the age of seventy
five. Union had isolated himself inan apartment just before he passed away,
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telling friends and acquaintances that he wasworking on a book about the dial Off
Pass. So what I will leaveyou with today are some of the last
words written by the dial Off Passincidents sole survivor, You're a Union and
his insight into what he believed reallyhappened. This is my attempt at finding
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out what happened to my friends thatfaithful night. It would have to take
more than a snowstorm to take outnine experienced trekkers. This is everything,
every piece of evidence, every singlephenomenon. No one knows what really happened.
Not even the authorities have given usan answer that would explain everything.
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The government said it was an avalanche. It did fit in with some evidence
and the causes of deaths, butleft so much more unanswered. It didn't
justify how the footprints of all ninepeople were of those walking at a normal
days. If there was an avalanchethat was severe enough for them to cut
the tent and everyone was in apanicked hurry, why would they walk instead
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of running. In addition to this, the location of the incident showed no
obvious signs of an avalanche, andsince the incident, over a hundred expeditions
were held to the region and noneof them reported an avalanche. The tent
had not collapsed in a horizontal direction, but from the side, and thus
it definitely wasn't an avalanche from thetop that crushed it. Most importantly,
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I have complete faith in the intelligenceof Eager Gatlev and comrade Solitaryov. They
were two of the smartest mountain hikersin the country, and they would never
camp in the path of a probableavalanche. The people saw the inconsistencies as
well. Several articles and books werewritten on our tragedy. Each person had
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a say in it, and unfortunatelythe death of my friends was now being
treated as a tool for entertainment.I had to bear through this for the
sake of justice, and I stillbear through it to this day. Some
people believe that it was the peacefulManzi tribe which killed my friends, while
others say it was the mystical monster. YETI I am not naive enough to
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pay any heed to these theories,for if they are true, justice is
almost impossible to attain the most scientificallyaccurate answer someone could come up with was
katabatic winds. These occur on rareoccasions and are extremely violent. There was
a similar case in Sweden where eighthikers died and one was severely injured because
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of these winds. Both of theseplaces are geographically similar, and it makes
sense that the same fate was bestowedon my friends. However, none of
it explains one major detail. Noneof these theories reveal why there was a
good amount of radioactivity around the entirecampsite. Russia in the sixties was a
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place devoid of a just system.Corruption was at its peak, and the
government's priority was always to save facea mid tragedy rather than go for the
cold heart truth. In the ColdWar era, the truth was the one
thing that no one cared about,and every man stood with the Soviet Union.
You can't switch sides after you havepledged your undying allegiance to your country.
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My compatriots were caught in the crosshairof something much larger than them,
and I don't know how to bringthem to justice. It has been fifty
years and my country keeps failing myloved one. Even today, there are
people who plead to the government forthe truth I have given up, but
those people haven't. I can explainthe radioactivity. I know what happened.
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I might be taking this to mydeath bed, for it's a dangerous thing
to say, but I blame theRussian government for the deaths of my friends.
There were apparent uf false sightings aroundthat region, which the police didn't
talk about. Some people spoke ofthe parachute minds, and that's what I
believe. I believe that it wasa military exercise that killed my friends and
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that the government is responsible. Icould go public with this, but like
everything in Russia, the government doesn'tchange. It cares more about its authority.
An ego doesn't care about Ludmila Dubininaor eager Dyatlov. Yuri Darshenka is
just another name for them. However, if they admit to their fallacies,
their power would recede, not bya lot, but surely their ancestors would
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be uneasy. I have to moveon without the comfort of the truth.
I have to move on without talkingto my comrades, families and shedding a
tear of closure with them. Everytime someone talks about the jattle of pass
case, my name would gleam likethe sore thumb it is, and maybe
they would even blame me for thisdirty operation that the government did. If
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someone is reading this, I wantyou to know that I uri you Femi
Witch Junion, the sole survivor ofthe Jattle of Pass tragedy, have lived
years of speculation and misery. I'mnot sure if I can anymore. My
life has been too long and toogenerous for me. All I have ever
wanted to achieve was the answer tothe tragedy that defined my life, and
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I won't get it. I shouldhave been there with all of them.
I can't apologize enough for not doingso. Dear Luda, I should have
been there with you. Step Int