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Welcome to Paranormality Magazine. Each week, Paranormality Magazine explores all forty een subjects,
from phantoms to UFOs and every cryptidcreature in between. Each week you're
treated to a collection of well researchedand investigated stories, interviews and reports on

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cutting edge paranormal projects and topics theyknow you crave, and here in the
podcast, I share stories from themagazine to give you just a taste of
what you receive in every issue.I'm Darren Marler, and this is Paranormality
Magazine. The following is an articlefrom Paranormality Magazine in the May twenty twenty

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four issue. It's an Unknown CompellingForce hunter Natural Insight into the tragic Daalov
Pass incident of nineteen fifty nine,written by Jersty Beth. We're going camping
ten of us and it's a greatbunch of people. I have all the
warm clothes I need, so don'tworry about me. A letter from hiker
Zanita Komagarova, as cited in BBCNews's Mystery of diotlif Pass twenty nineteen.

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It was a particularly dreadfully cold dayin February and I was sprawled on the
living room couch, watching TV undera weighted blanket and a snoozing cat in
typical Wisconsin winter fashion. We'd experienceda rare but impressive according to weather dot
gov storm system, which dumped overa foot of snow in the span of

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forty eight hours, followed by anF two tornado within the same week.
Seasonal depression was in full force,and mother Nature was not immune. She
was confused, and she was ticked. It felt like the pandemic all over
again. Existing in a bubble ofquote safer at home quote while the winds

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howled and the patio creaked with theever growing weight of snow. There was
truly nothing else to do but hunkereddown and binge some provocative paranormal television.
So I accepted my fate. Iwatched a series sharing legends of evil places
throughout the world, places cursed,places forgotten by history, places like Russia's

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Ural mountains. Here, the indigenousMancy people reported fireballs in the sky and
colorful orbs winking in and out amongthe barren landscape. Here, geologists discovered
microscopic coiled springs made of modern tungsten, a rare metal nanotechnology used in missiles
yet buried under thousands of years ofsoil. Otherwise known as Russia's Area fifty

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one, the Ural Mountains are asixteen hundred mile range of ancient, rugged
terrain stretching from the tip of theArctic Ocean to what is now modern day
Kazakhstan. Mountaineers, geologists, andarchaeologists alike have been drawn to this area
for hundreds of years in search ofadventure, gold, and other precious minerals.

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The vast area of Siberia is asweird as it is wild, with
one particularly inhospitable area known as thecryptic don't go there by legends of the
Mansi tribe. Mount O'torden is alsoknown through other loose native translations as Mountain
of the Dead and even Mountain withSwirling Winds by other researchers. Those who

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are willing to hike such a treacherouspassage must at least be Grade three certified
hikers because of its rough and oftenhazardous terrain. In nineteen fifty nine,
a strong willed group of experienced hikersfrom what was then the Ural Polytechnic Institute
in Yakatarenburg, Soviet Union, wasdetermined to make it to the top of
the ominous mountain. The group often ranged from college age to mid thirties,

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eight men and two women, veteransand athletes, a mix of trades
including radio engineering, power economics,and nuclear physics. One of the hikers,
Uri Union, was forced to turnback early on in the trip due
to a psiatic and arthritis flare up. His comrades bid him a cheerful farewell
and continued their journey up the mountainpass. Their final days would be documented

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on five cameras and various journals scatteredamong their frozen, battered corpses. Yuri
would later have the grim task ofhelping identify the bodies of his friends and
their belongings. Like a drawn outspring. Thaw I slowly became obsessed with
this notable cold case. Over thenext several weeks. Additional documentaries were watched,

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library books were loaned, YouTube wasscoured. Turns out, lots of
people are per played and obsessed withthis case, and everybody has opinions ranging
from Soviet conspiracies, alien attacks,energy vortices, and abominable snowmen. Everybody
came to the same conclusion, nobodytruly knows what happened to the hikers.

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In fact, all the evidence pointsto the notion that the hikers may have
not even known what happened to themselves. Now one must remember, when gazing
upon those old black and white photographs, that the world at that time wasn't
Trees were green, skies were blue, and people's cheeks were rosy. But
up there on the Mountain of theDead, the world of cold war Soviet

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Union, it was a barren worldwhere nine hikers treked their way through februaries
well below freezing temperatures, wind gustsfiring arctic sleet that felt like razors to
exposed skin, into a black andwhite world of skeletal trees, gray skies,
and the vicious kiss of frost biteto exposed cheeks. Even in black

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and white photos, we can stillimagine the wavy yellow hair, stoic jawline,
and childlike smile of lead mountaineer IgorYatlav, for whom the infamous passage
was later named. He saw anunexplored and challenging world of potential in those
ancient mountains, and no one doubtedhis ability to lead with passion and utmost
precaution for the dangerous expedition ahead.Yet he would be found three weeks later,

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clutching a handful of frantically broken branchesfrozen into the earth. His hair
would no longer be yellow, butwhite. His mother would only be able
to identify him from the gap betweenhis front teeth. Indeed, Mount or
Todin was cursed. On the tenthday of the trip, February first,
bad weather and rapidly dwindling sunlight forcedthe group to set up camp on the

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eastern slope of the mountain, eventhough they were not far from the summit.
What occurred next would baffle the worldfor the next sixty plus years.
I wonder what waits us in thistrip while what we encounter everyone's falling asleep
and behind the window eural taiga isspread in all directions. A diary entry

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of Sanata Kolmagarova January twenty three,nineteen fifty nine. A partially collapsed tent
buried under several feet of snow wasdiscovered two weeks after the group was expected
back from their expedition. The militarysearch and rescue party had made the discovery
on the eastern slope of Holichall Mountainat a height of one thousand, seventy
nine meters. An ice pick layat the entrance of the tent, along

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with a still working flashlight and partof a fur jacket. When members of
the search party peered inside the tent, they discovered blankets, rucksacks and boots
lined up neatly side by side,and additional skis aligned horizontally for added support
and insulation. BBC News journalist LucyAsh noted in her twenty nineteen article Mystery

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of the Dyatlov Pass that there wasalso a route map, official papers,
money, and a flask of alcol. Next to that was a plate full
of sallow white pork fat, aSlavic delicacy. Knives, axes, and
other tools were also present. It'sas if the hikers simply vanished in the
middle of setting up their supplies andbreakfast for the next day. Upon further

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investigation of the abandoned tent, authoritieswere quick to notice the back had been
deliberately cut open with a knife.Later in the forensic investigation, a professional
tailor inspected the tent and confirmed ithad been a deliberate slash made with a
knife in three places from the inside. Something caused the hikers to abandon their
tent, their only tent, evidentlyin a fit of terror or panic.

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As authorities continued to investigate, theycame across a distinct set of footprints,
leaving the area of the tent downthe slope into an area of scattered trees
and a ravine roughly half a mileaway. The group had not fled to
their cash site elsewhere on the mountainpass, but directly in to a forest.
The tracks appeared orderly and indicative ofa single thile structured line of descent,

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a stark contrast to the obvious panicas evidenced by the three slashes in
the tent. The tracks also indicatedseveral members of the party were not wearing
shoes. There was clearly a threatof exceptional danger for the extremely experienced group
of hikers to abandon their tent andnot even take any sort of protection or

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even proper footwear. The mystery wasabout to deepen and take an even more
perplexing turn. The first body wasYuri d'orshenko, at the edge of the
forest, partially covered in snow.The charred remains of a small fire pit
were also present. He was wearingonly a short sleeved t shirt and swimming
trunks, wool socks, and noshoes. His clothes are brutally shredded and

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pieces have been torn off. Helay atop a pile of branches and was
covered in scrapes and bruises. Strangely, he was also found with burns on
the right side of his head andto the left side of his foot.
There was a grayish fluid near hismouth that in forensic science is indicative of
a strong force to the chest.Yurikribanoshenko was found near Dorshenko in similar torn

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attire, notably a long sleeved shirtin one sock, also covered in cuts
and scratches, and had sustained thirddegree burns to his legs and hands.
His eyes and lips were missing.He too was covered in cuts and scratches
and blood. The investigators began totake a closer look at the men's immediate

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surroundings. A nearby cedar tree helda major clue. Broken branches up to
sixteen feet into the canopy. Dorshenkomust have climbed the cedar tree, cutting
and snapping down branches for firewood ashe went, and then had fallen,
perhaps into the fire pit or ontothe frozen ground below breaking asternum Or did

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they both climb the tree fleeing fromsomething and then fall into the fire pit
from exhaustion, Yet the coroner wouldrule both of their deaths as hypothermia.
Another keyn eyed investigator recognized that allthe branches torn from the cedar tree were
all facing the same direction. Notonly were they terrified and freezing men desperately

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scrambling for branches to create a fire, but it seemed as though they were
clearing a visual path directly back tothe tent, as if they were watching
something, keeping an eye on something, waiting for something to happen again.
What was even more puzzling was theliver mortis, a pooling of blood post
mortem identified on the front of thefrozen bodies. This would indicate the men

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died while laying on their stomachs ina prone position, perhaps having fallen from
the tree, and then later afterdeath had settled in, were flipped back
over and rested on their backs,almost purposely and respectfully. The investigators and
surge parties were hopeful that meant thatthe other hikers may still be alive somewhere.
After checking on their seized friends,a chunk of Krivenishenko's own knuckle would

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later be found in his mouth,the grizzly remains of a scream that was
swept away by the mountain of swirlingwinds. It would be two more months
before the remaining hikers' bodies would befound. Weather so far is smiling at
us. It's only negative eight degreescelsius outside. After dinner, we sit
for a long time around the campfireand sang heartfelt songs. Then we resume

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our discussions, mostly about love groupDiarie entry January twenty eighth, nineteen fifty
nine. Elsewhere on the earls aroundMount or Torden, another group of brave
hikers were passing through and would laternote on February first, nineteen fifty nine,
they saw a strange phenomenon in theevening to the north, the extremely

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bright light of some walcket. Thelight was so bright that even those hikers
who were preparing to sleep in tentswent out to look at it. What
sounded like thunder also came from thearea where the light was seen. This
date and time frame is significant asit is the same time the Datlov hikers
had disappeared. A Soviet hiker namedVladislav Carolyn and his comrades witnessed a strange

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celestial phenomenon on the night of Februaryseventeenth. I rushed out of my sleeping
bag and tent without boots, justin socks, stood on branches and saw
a large light spot and it alsogrew bigger. He recalled similar light orb
sidings occurred on March seventeenth by meteorologists, soldiers, and other hikers in the

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area. The Diatlov search party evenwitnessed what they deemed energy bundles unexplained by
modern science on March thirty first.Could the Soviet military have been conducting clandestine
weapons testing in the area that frightenedthe hikers out of their tents in the
middle of the night, or couldthere have been something as simple as a
freak snowstorm. The effect of kataboticwinds and a phenomenon known as the Kerman

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vortex street had been known to createsmall but ructive Arctic tornadoes in the region,
and tornadoes have been known to createorbs and would have also been described
as eerie giant puffballs inside of afunnel cloud. Tornadoes and kabatic winds can
create a terrifying noise, a shrillwhistle, a sound both beautiful and terrifying,

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noted researcher and mountaineer Donnie Eiker inhis twenty thirteen book Dead Mountain,
The Untold True Story of the DaotlovPass Incident. Perhaps this noise and or
the naturally occurring light orbs could havecaused the hikers to become fearful and disoriented
and flee their tent without their bootsand head toward what they thought was a
safe distance from the phenomenon. Ikerreflected on his time hiking the Datlav Pass

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in twenty eleven, saying, inthe winter in the northern euro mountains there
can be strong winds and sometimes whirlwinds. Various sounds arise in the mountains,
terrifying and the foreign. You getscared when you're there, and those who
haven't heard anything like that can becomefrightened from seasonal allergies to achy joints when
a storm is brewing. Whether anatmospheric phenomena can certainly have a profound internal

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effect on the human body. Theextremely high intensities of compressed air swirling through
an Arctic mountain storm can create lowfrequency sound waves which people cannot explicitly hear
but they can feel. This isknown as infrasound. In fact, it
wasn't until nineteen sixty, a yearafter the Diatlov Pass incident, their researchers

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accidentally discovered the effects of infrasound onthe human body, including feelings of nausea,
earaches, mild irritation and disorientation,and shaking equipment via an unseen force
in laboratory settings. With research intothe properties and effects of infrasound only having
been funded since the early two thousands, the nineteen sixties scientists repeated in prolonged

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exposure to infrasound resulting in severe illnesswould have been baffling to them, a
set of circumstances that seem to pointto phenomena beyond their understanding. Some of
the investigators suggested that an avalanche hadoccurred rather than gale force Arctic winds partially
burying the hikers in their tent,and they cut themselves free because they couldn't

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breathe. The area of Deoliv Passwas categorized as a Category two avalanche risk
zone according to the Russian Federation NaturalHazard's Handbook of the time. Meaning there
was one avalanche per every half mileevery ten years, January and February being
the most active and dangerous months.While there are few official records of avalanches

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occurring in the specific area of theeuro Mountains where our hikers met their fate,
the irregular topography of the mountain,combined with the location of the hiker's
tent, combined with the snowfall inducedby incredibly strong catabatic winds could have led
to such an avalanche, creating severeyet non fatal injuries to the hikers,
who later died of hypothermia, butothers, including avalanche experts at the time

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time, discredit this idea. Evenone of the radiograms from the lead investigator
asked why were things left in thetent if people were swept away by wind?
The hypothetical avalanche was in a locationthat was not appropriately steep enough for
an avalanche to theoretically occur. Swissgeotechnical engineering researchers Alexander Pusren and Johann Guam

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conducted their own research on the Diatlavincident and the mechanisms of what are known
as slab avalanches, saying something unexpectedhappened after midnight that caused expedition members to
cut the tent from the inside andescape towards a forest more than one kilometer
away without appropriate clothes. Under extremelycold temperatures and in the presence of strong
hetabatic winds induced by the passing ofan Arctic cold front, it makes it

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more difficult to trace avalanche signs,especially twenty six days after the incident.
Given the extremely low temperatures and strongcatabatic winds, it is unlikely that anyone
would have climbed above the tent duringthe night, disturbing the wheel layer,
and the absence of significant snowfall,the only way to accumulate additional load is
through wind transport. In late Januarytwenty twenty two, professional mountaineers o Leg

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Deminnenko and Dmitri Borsov attempted to visitDyotlov Pass on snowmobiles. Like the ill
fated hike sixty three years previous,the mountaineer's six hundred pound vehicles were overturned
by wind gusts on several occasions.The weather quickly deteriorated, as it had
when Diatlov's group attempted to hike thesummit. Once visibility briefly improved, the

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mountaineers discover traces of what are knownas slab avalanches. Slab avalanches can occur
when a layer of snow positioned ontop of a weaker layer gets dislodged by
a relatively small trigger like the pitchingof a tent, and dislodge a chain
of potentially fatal events like Pou's redand guam. Found in their research,

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these types of avalanches can dissolve undercertain conditions, like additional snowfall, leaving
virtually no sign of them ever havingoccurred. Did the Diolov hikers encounter a
once in a lifetime Arctic storm andinsurmountable force of nature that produced deadly vortex
of atmospheric, infrasonic, and geomagneticenergies scaring them out of their only means

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of protection were the balls of lightand peels of thunder witnessed by other hikers
in the area around that same time, the eerie byproduct of the storm that
ultimately killed the hikers. At themoment, we're sitting and singing songs,
guys play the guitar restum plays alongwith the mandolin catches your heart. This
is the last place of civilization,and it is rare that we meet people

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like that. Diary entry of Ludvillado Benina, January twenty seventh, nineteen
fifty nine. The group's leader,Igor Dyatlov, was found shortly after Dorshenko
and Krevidoshekno. He was surrounded bybranches at a thicket roughly one thousand feet
away from the cedar tree, faceup latching a birch branch, his face,
ankles, and knuckles covered in bruisesand scratches. His watch had stopped

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at five point thirty one am.While he sustained no internal injuries, he
was not wearing any footwear except twomismatched socks. The coroner ruled he too,
had died of hypothermia. Approximately onethousand feet away further from the cedar
tree was the body of Zeneta Kolmogorovain the fetal position, her nose broken

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and bruises throughout her body. Shewas better dressed with two hats a long
undershirt, but still no shoes andsleeves were torn off. It appears she'd
been trying to scramble uphill toward thetent. Hers would be the first death
labeled as hypothermia due to a violentaccident. By the following week, on
March fifth, authorities had uncovered thebadly mutilated body of rustamslobanin midway between where

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Dyatlav and Kolomagarova had been found,appearing as if he too had been frantically
trying to reach the tent. Hisremains, however, told a more gruesome
and puzzling story. He was lyingface down in the snow, His face
was deeply discolored, and he hadsustained a blunt force to the back of
the head. Forensics had found encrustedsnow around his mouth and nose, which

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indicate he was still breathing for sometime after he had fallen. He was
wearing two long shirts, two pairsof pants, two pairs of socks,
and one boot. Curiously, hedid not have any injuries to his hands,
indicating perhaps he had sustained a blowto the head and then fell unconscious,
face first into the snow. Nothingwas making sense to the investigators.

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They had multiple bodies in various stagesfrom frozen decomposition, in various stages of
dress and undress, with injuries thatdid not fit the typical pattern of those
fallen by avalanches or hypothermia. Thecauses of death were vague, and the
circumstances even more mysterious. Was thisan accident, a homicide, or something
else? Entirely inconclusive autopsies were done, hasty funerals had rumors spreading as top

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officials began to resign from the case. Nobody had any idea what bizarre calamity
had been following in the community's belovedhikers. Nobody could understand how the hiker's
bodies could be so mutilated while thenearby snow and trees remained untouched. The
culprit became known as a selective andunknown compelling force, and the spring thaw

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could not come quickly enough. DIARHYEAis written in the cold on the GO
Group diary entry January thirty, nineteenfifty nine. There's been extensive research done
on the correlation between balls of lightin the sky or unidentified aerial phenomenon and
geo seismic slash geomagnetic activity. Forthe last two decades, Russian scientist doctor

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Alexei Dimitriev has studied naturally occurring vortexphenomena, which includes ball lightning, natural
self luminous objects, and even instancesof poltergeist activity and other glowing forms that
are associated with earthquakes and volcanoes.He believes that tornadoes, whether on the
ground or in the mountains, cantransform gravitation and spin forest vortices into electromagnetic

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energy, which can take the formof photons and other spherical light orbs in
the immediate area of the event.Such atmospheric and geoseismic chaos could explain the
orbs and balls of light witnessed bynot only the Mansi tribes four thousands of
years and by search parties throughout theinvestigation, but the strange celestial phenomenon witnessed
by the Kirollin party on the samenight the Diolov party met their fate.

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Tornadoes and other severe weather systems arealso more likely to form over areas with
geological faults, and it's no coincidence, but the area of the Diatlov Pass
falls directly on the main Euralian faultline. Mountaineer and rider Danny Eiker knows
the repetitive wind events of the UralMountains well, having traversed the Indyallav Pass

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in twenty eleven, saying it wouldbe difficult to come up with a more
ideal confluence of weather and landscape tocreate vortices. These would have been screaming
right outside the hiker's tents, creatingan intense discomfort and fear that they couldn't
begin to understand. Feeling vibrations inthe ground and a roar that seems to
pass from west to east like theroar of a freight train, their chest

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cavities begin to vibrate from the infrasound created by the stronger vortex now passing.
Perhaps the storm in and of itselfdid not kill the hikers. If
it had, there would be environmentalevidence of such a storm. Yet the
forest and the cedar tree remained unscathedby the power of nature. Perhaps the

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light orbs, the byproduct of thestorm, are what killed the hikers.
Up to this point, it's knownthat the Ural Mountains are indeed a hotbed
of UAP and UFO like activity,as evidenced by the stories of the Mansi
tribe, the evidence of futuristic technologiesburied with than the earth, and the
admittance under oath by several search partylocals of orange spheres over the sky,

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destructive and electrically charged vortices screaming downa mountain at sub zero temperatures would certainly
be a sight to befell. It'sone thing to witness light orbs or Arctic
tornadoes in the mountains from afar,It's another thing to put your body in
the center of it. The discoveryof the remaining bodies would flip this entire
investigation upside down. We've been lookingfor a place, then we were turned

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about two hundred meters back. Charmingplace, dead wood, high pines.
In short, everything you need fora good night group Diarie entry all would
perish within twenty four hours January thirty, nineteen fifty nine. By May,
the snow had begun to melt,exposing new clues to areas that had been
previously buried. A Mancy native andhis dog found several pieces of shredded and

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cut clothing abandoned in the snow,roughly two hundred feet from the cedar tree.
This included an inside out vest,a pair of trousers, a wool
sweater, and a torn trouser leg. A nearby creek bed had begun to
melt and was mostly slush, bringingforth more abandoned clothing. The other half
of the trousers and what was lateridentified as Ludamila Dubanina's sweater. Investigators found

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her on a small ledge of thecreek bed, as if she were trying
to climb it. Her face hadlargely decomposed from resting in the creek for
nearly four months. Her teeth andcheek bones exposed from the water flowing into
her mouth. Her tongue and hypoglossalmuscles of her mouth were noted as missing
per the medical examiner, and bloodin her stomach suggested she'd been alive when

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this gruesome injury occurred. She hadsustained ten broken ribs, crushed like eggshells
with bones embedded in her heart,causing massive thoracic hemorrhage. Dubanina's death would
be the only death ruled as somethingbesides hypothermia. She had been wearing two
sweaters and two shirts belonging to Yurikrivetachekno, with two socks on one foot and

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the other foot wrapped in a tornsweater. The nature of her injuries was
consistent with the crushing internal injuries ofthat of a bomb shock wave. The
remaining hiker's bodies were recovered together inthe creek bed Semyon. Solitariov appeared better
dressed, wearing three pairs of pants, two hats, two jackets, a
scarf in boots. His camera wasaround his neck, a notepad and pen

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in his hand. Strangely, oneof the investigators indicated he's written nothing on
the notepad and stuffed it in hisown pocket. It was never formally filed
into evidence. Curiously, it seemedhe had fled the tent in the middle
of the night with his camera aroundhis neck. Further inspection of its film
concluded it was damaged by water,but other investigators think Zolitariov was trying to

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photograph something bright against the midnight skybefore he perished. His eyes held no
clues. They had decomposed long ago. While Zolotriov was most prepared to face
the frigid wilderness, he'd suffered theworst injuries of the hikers found so far.
His massive internal injuries included several brokenribs on its right side, and

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his skull was exposed from a deepgash on the back of his head.
He had been crippled and crushed bya high amount of pressure. Notes one
report forensics compared his injuries to thatof someone whose chest, like Yuridorshenko's,
was crushed during a car accident.Yet there was no skin bruising a hematoma
to mirror the broken bones beneath,which is highly unusual, if not impossible.

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It was as if he too internallycombusted and sustained severe hemorrhaging from a
large force while still alive. AlexanderKolovitov was found behind Zultaryov and a fetal
embrace, presumably trying to protect theZultryov's body or stay warm. His jacket
and pants were ripped and sustained burnmarks. His face had largely decomposed,

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but it was evident that both hisnose and his neck had been broken,
and there was a gash behind hisright ear. Like his friends before him,
his death too was ruled hypothermia.A final body lay in the creek
bed, and it was that ofNikolai Thibau Brygnol. He was better dressed,
wearing two pairs of boots and severallayers of clothes. He too sustained

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shocking and disturbing injuries from a powerfulforce that could not have been caused by
a human. The dome of hisskull had been crushed, and he succumbed
to a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Investigatorsand forensic experts concluded that this violent of
an injury could not have occurred simplyby falling into the rocky creek bed from
a standing height. Like the injuriesof his comrades, it would be classified

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as the effect of a large forcethat had killed him in under three hours.
Investigators were beginning to consider the possibilitythat this was not an avalanche or
a sudden snowstorm. These were notthe sort of injuries of those who succumbed
to an avalanche. Moreover, whywould Solitariov and Kolmogorova from earlier still have

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two hats on if they were sweptup in a snowstorm. There was another
puzzling finding on the remains of thefinal four hikers. Not only did their
clothing contain traces of radioactive particles,but their clothing wasn't even theirs to begin
with. Koulovitov's trousers and one ofthe shirts Ludmila Dobnina was wearing were later
found to belong to Yurikrivitachenko. Theslight positive radioactive result identified by medical examiners

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could be explained by environmental contamination,argues Danny Aiker. In his twenty thirteen
research. He argued that it's possiblethat nuclear tests over eight hundred miles away
have made their way to the northernUrals through atmosphere and water. Other researchers
into the case noted that both Kolovatavand Krivitachenko had previously worked in nuclear facilities

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to the doomed expedition, arguing thatthe hiker's clothing was nowhere near an abnormal
range of radiation levels, but thatstill doesn't explain why their clothes had been
swamped. Dinners in the tent niceand warm, can't imagine such comfort on
the ridge with howling wind outside,hundreds of kilometers away from human settlements.

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Diary entry of Igor Yotlav, whowould die within twelve hours of this century
January thirty one, nineteen fifty nine. Avalanches, light orbs, catabolic odyses
infrasonic explosive waves, Soviet conspiracies.Sixty plus years following the usual circumstances surrounding
these nine hikers' deaths, we arestill at a loss for what may have

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caused such catastrophic, unusual and variedinjuries of all who perished less than a
half a mile from one another.What I'm able to infer from the research
I've done creates the following theoretical timeline. One Semyon Solitariov and Roostom Slobanin have
been standing outside of the tent atthe time the primary source or force of

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terror caused them to alert their fellowhikers. Solitariov and Slobanin were better dressed
in their own clothing and may havebeen outside the tent taking a leak,
as evidenced by small traces of urinefound near the side of the tent.
Two, the remaining seven flee thetent, some cutting through the back with
a knife which curiously has never beenfound, and everybody makes a bee line

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for the tree line for shelter andmeans to make a fire until the primary
source or force of terror subsides.Three. Everyone possibly began stripping and breaking
branches from the cedar trees to createa fire and keep an eye on the
tent from a distance. For reasonsunknown, perhaps they feared that the primary
source or force of terror would strikeagain. From here, the exact timeline

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gets fuzzy. A. At somepoint, Ludmila Dobinina, Nikolaia, the
Bawbrignol, Semyon's Olutaryov and Alexander Kolovitovtravel further into the ravine, where they
dig out a small den and laydown branches. It's not clear if they
did this during a point I'll describein a moment after this moment, or
perhaps initially after running into the forest. Perhaps they got separated from the rest

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of the group for reasons unknown.Now about that point, sometime in this
Uridorshenko and Yurikribnoshenko are killed fell outof a tree tot a losing strength possibly
or fell victim to a secondary sourceor force a terror, and they landed
on or near their campfire. It'sclear they died in agony, as they

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both displayed self inflicted injuries that areconsistent with someone freezing or burning to death,
biting, hand scratching, or beatingyourself, but also had crush injuries
that didn't fit the typical patterns offalling from a tree. See. At
some point either during or after thescenario three B I just described, Igor
Dyatlov, Sanata Komogorova, and Rustamslobaninall attempt to head back to the tent,

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but are separated due to weather orsnowblindness, darkness, disorientation. After
the above scenarios, Ludmila do Banina, Nikolai Tho Beau, Brignol, Semyon
Solitariov, and Alexander Kolovatov unclear ifsome or all of this group return to
the cedar tree or fire pit areaand frantically strip off clothing from Doroshenko and

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Krivenashenko. Do Banina donning Krivenashenko's jacketfor added warmth, Kolovatov donning Doroshenko's burned
jacket. They lay the bodies oftheir fallen stripped comrades side by side out
of respect. Next it apcurs.They then returned to the den and laid
some of Doroshenko and Krivenoshenko's radioactive clothingon top of the branches in the den.

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It's not clear why they would notjust put these clothes on, as
they knew they were actively freezing todeath. Perhaps they were going to use
the additional clothing as means to makea fire. Next, Igor Diallov,
Sanata Komogorova and rushed and Slobanen,still facing the direction of the tent,
are ultimately killed by a violent force, perhaps that secondary source or force of

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terror which also killed Doroshenko and ChrisVanishenko. Then Ludmila Dobnina, Nikolaith,
the Belbrignol, Semyon Solitariov and AlexanderKolovatov die in a creek bed only a
few feet from their den. Whywould they leave their den, which had
spare clothing and branches for a fire. Had they attempted to check on Igor

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or Zeneta or rust them only tosuccumb to the same secondary force or force
of terror. If I could askGod just one question, it would be
what really happened to my friends thatnight? You're a udon sole survivor of
the Diatlov Pass incident. The Mountainof the Dead had wrapped its icy,

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gnarled hand around nine determined and fiercelypassionate hikers who refused to leave any of
their comrades behind. By three am, only the waning crescent moon bore s
isilent witness to their final terrifying moments. Rumors would circulate for the next sixty
five years, ranging from natural causeof death to criminal and every paranormal category

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in between. Even though the circumstancesare mysterious, one thing is concrete among
all the evidence. All of thehikers fought tooth and nailed to the very
end. They died scared and theydied cold, but they did not die
alone. I can't help but wonderhow this event would have unfolded in modern

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times. That Dyotlav group would havetheir own social media presence, would have
crowdfunded for their expedition, would havelive streamed every moment of their journey on
a selfie stick and late night hashtags. Their families and friends could be with
them in their journey, their exactlocation noted by GPS coordinates. Perhaps in
twenty twenty four it would not havebeen characterized as a group led by Igor

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Dyatlov. Perhaps it would have beennamed for one of the two females instead.
Medically, examiners and investigators did thebest they could with the information,
knowledge, and technology available to themat the time. One can only theorize
how the technology and forensic investigations ofmodern times might have led to different hypotheses
on the hiker's brutal journey into themountains. The nineteen fifty nine Diallive Pass

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incident is one of the most puzzlingand conspiracy laden mysteries in Soviet history.
I found myself consumed by a similarunknown force when researching this topic throughout the
months of February and March of twentytwenty four, during a time of strange
weather in my own neck of theNorthern Hemisphere. I would classify this case
as one which is preternatural, anod to parapsychologist doctor Berry Taff as a

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process which is unknown to us nowbut will eventually be understood, as opposed
to supernatural, whereby the phenomenon liesbeyond the scope of human understanding. Altogether,
you're a Udon. The tenth hikerof the group, who had to
turn back for health reasons, liveda solitary life and passed away in twenty
thirteen. He'd given several interviews abouthis experience and his theories on what may

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have happened to his friends. Hewas of the belief that they succumbed to
a Soviet weapons testing cover up untilthe day he died, suggesting they had
run into a place where they shouldn'thave gone. They accidentally turned out to
be witnesses and were poisoned, hesaid in one of his final interviews featured
on Dyotlovpass dot com. It wasan elemental force of the enemy that they
were afraid of, not hurricanes.These guys were adequate in any situation,

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he said. After Yudon's death,friends clearing his apartment noted it was covered
in old newspaper clippings and unfinished manuscriptssurrounding the Dyotlov Pass incident. It was
the den of an old man caughtup by an unknown, compelling force that
we only now understand as reclusive remorse. His ashes were buried next to the

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remains of his friends in Mihailov's Goocemetery. Thanks for listening to Paranormality Magazine.
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