Bigfoot Aliens KGB? Dyatlov Pass Explained -- and Solved

[Music]. when the helicopter rescue team arrived. at the outlet pass in february 1959 the. nine missing hikers had been dead for. weeks the more the investigators tried. to piece together what happened the more. the story didn't seem to add up their. tent had been cut open from the inside. and abandoned but there was no sign of a. struggle. over a half mile away two victims were. almost completely naked though. temperatures were 30 below zero that. night other bodies were found even.

farther away two had fractured skulls. two more had major chest injuries one. was missing his eyes and another was. missing her tongue. and reports show that two of the hikers. had been exposed to unusually high. amounts of radiation soviet. investigators listed the cause of death. as a compelling natural force and closed. the case a few weeks later the diatlov. pass incident has been a mystery for. over 60 years and theories include a. military cover-up a kgb operation gone.

wrong a bigfoot attack and of course. aliens now one researcher believes he. knows what happened that night. others are not so sure. let's find out why. [Music]. in the winter of 1959 nine russian. adventurers were on a 200-mile. cross-country hiking expedition making. their way through the siberian. wilderness this was difficult terrain. but the seven men and two women were. young fit and highly experienced skiers.

and mountain climbers they were led by. 23 year old igor diatlov a promising. student studying engineering at the euro. polytechnic institute a few others in. the group were classmates of his at upi. now before he left the otloff told his. friends back home that he would send. them a telegram as soon as the team. returned well that letter was never sent. and none of the group was ever seen. alive again the hikers documented. everything they kept journals and they. took tons of pictures they took selfies. tons of them now sure there was lots of.

snow and frigid temperatures but. everyone was in good spirits and things. seemed to be going predictably until. february 1st that day the group was. making its way through the outlet pass. though back then it didn't have a name. and as they tried to push through they. were hit with high winds and snow the. decreasing visibility pushed the group. off course and they accidentally ended. up on the side of a mountain called. collatziaco by the region's indigenous. people cola cuculats collatiaco right we. got a translation.

dead mountain oh boy this is a photo of. the group in deep snow with almost zero. visibility digging out a platform for. their tent. this is the last photo of them alive the. final entry in the group's diary reads. it is difficult to imagine such a. comfort on the ridge with shrill howling. wind hundreds of kilometers away from. human settlements and then. nothing. during their journey members of the. group sent postcards and letters to. family and friends informing them of.

their progress but weeks had gone by. without a single word so people began to. worry on february 26th almost a month. later a search party was finally able to. locate the campsite and when they did it. was obvious something had gone terribly. wrong. the tent where the entire group slept. was discovered under a thin layer of. snow it had been cut open from the. inside but there was no sign of a. struggle food clothes gear were still. neatly stacked inside the tent a meal.

had been set up but the food was. untouched and there were no bodies. the next day nine sets of footprints. were found leading down the mountain. into the woods the tracks were evenly. spaced and they weren't deep and this. told investigators that the group was. moving calmly and orderly they weren't. scrambling they weren't running and they. weren't fighting. but the tracks were odd they weren't. made with boots the tracks were made by. people wearing socks or barefoot in. sub-zero temperatures. searchers then came across a cedar tree.

where they found the remains of a. campfire and near the fire buried in the. snow were the first two victims of the. outlook pass. durashenko and kravanashenko they were. almost naked wearing only underwear. though temperatures were 30 degrees. below zero that night pravana shanko had. blackened fingers and third-degree burns. on his shins and feet and for some. reason in his mouth was a chunk of flesh. that he had bitten off his right hand. the tree limbs above the fire were.

broken over five meters above the ground. and pieces of flesh were found in the. tree bark and scraps of clothing were. found in the branches now why would they. climb a tree was visibility so poor that. they were looking for a way back to the. tent were they gathering wood for the. fire or were they trying to get away. from something. rescuers expanded the search area and. about 200 feet away they found three. more bodies including igor diatlov they. were positioned as if they were running. away from the tree trying to get back to.

the tent investigators said all of them. had died of hypothermia as they had no. damage except for superficial injuries. and what would be caused by exposure to. cold but this doesn't explain why. duroshenko who was found under the tree. had skin that was brownish purple or why. he had gray foam and gray liquid coming. out of his mouth. it didn't explain the burns the flayed. limbs or why someone would bite off a. chunk of their own hand the second set. of bodies was also confusing one of them. had multiple skull fractures consistent.

with falling and tumbling over and over. again but there were no bloody rocks or. stumps or any evidence anywhere that a. fall had occurred the only explanation. at this point that despite being highly. experienced at outdoor winter survival. they had suddenly fled into the dark and. the cold without adequate preparation. and were frantically trying to make do. before succumbing to the elements that's. only five what well it's only five out. of nine hikers did they finally had a. four they did but not until months later. and when those bodies were discovered.

the story gets. even stranger. [Music]. four bodies were still missing for. months but in may when the snow began to. melt a local hunter found a makeshift. snow den in the woods about 250 feet. from the cedar tree a deep hole was cut. in the snow and the floor was made of. branches pieces of clothing were found. scattered around the den black sweat. pants with the right leg cut off the. left half of a woman's sweater another. search team arrived and they uncovered.

the four remaining victims lying. together in at least 10 feet of snow. autopsy reports say that these people. died not of exposure but of massive. injuries and at this point criminal. investigators were brought in to. determine if there was foul play three. of the bodies had severe injuries. crushed body cavities broken ribs and. internal hemorrhaging one had a skull. fracture so severe the foul play was. eliminated because no human could. generate the kind of force to create. this level of damage instead the. injuries were consistent with being in a.

car crash or near the explosion of a. bomb. but no soft tissue damage was found and. no external injuries a careful inventory. of clothing recovered showed that some. of the victims were wearing clothes. taken or cut off the bodies of the. others that died before them yeah. village well that's what they originally. thought but an avalanche would have. flattened the whole campsite but if you. look at the photos of the tent the. searchers found you can see that the. skis and ski poles are still upright. there was no damage to the tree line and.

there was no debris and people who died. of avalanches usually asphyxiate but. post-mortem analysis shows no sign of. this they either died from injuries or. died of cold but either way when they. died they were still breathing the. locals say that the outlet pass doesn't. get avalanches none were reported before. the incident and none have been reported. since and what's even more strange is. two of the hikers eyes were missing and. one of them was missing her tongue. avalanches don't do that they don't.

and maybe the strangest detail of all. two of the hikers clothing had. significant levels of radiation they. were radioactive yep now despite all the. strange evidence the case went nowhere. due to what was called an absence of a. guilty party the investigation was. closed a few weeks later the final. conclusion was that the cause of death. was an unknown compelling force which. the hikers were unable to overcome and. that was it that was it but the victims. families weren't satisfied so they. started demanding answers from the.

soviet government how did the soviets. respond well all files journals and. photographs were classified the area was. made off limits and all evidence. collected was destroyed of course but. there's no shortage of theories about. what happened. can we we can. theories about what happened at the dial. of pass there are some good ones i'll. cover a few but i'll link to the full. list in the description the first theory. is. be patient sorry sorry go go ahead. remember that a lot of the hikers were.

students at the euro polytechnic. institute or connected with upi in some. way. well upi was constantly turning out. recruits for nuclear research and the. soviet military oh i like where this is. going first theory the kgb connection. alexei ratikin wrote a book called the. outlook pass where he claimed that three. of the hikers were kgb agents on a. mission to uncover a secret cell of cia. operatives during the cold war a. favorite soviet tactic was to plant. radioactive material in places it didn't.

belong just to set the americans on. fruitless searches now ratikin says that. two or three of the hikers were hired by. the kgb to deliver radioactive tainted. clothing to cia agents and the oldest. member of the group at age 37 semyon. zolotaryov joined the group at the last. minute he was a combat veteran with. years of military service who eventually. went to work for the nkvd or the soviet. secret police and before transferring to. the physics department at upi he worked.

in moscow at a top secret scientific. facility known as p.o box 3394 and yuri. krivanashenko worked at p.o box 404. 10 where a massive nuclear accident. occurred in 1957. alexi radican is. convinced that this group was not. gathered by accident the histories of at. least three of the hikers show a lot of. kgb connection the true objective of. their mission unknown to the other. members was to deliver radioactive. samples to a group of agents of the cia. and take pictures of the spies at the.

beginning of the journey all the hikers. had cameras and journals we saw them but. when kolevotov's body was discovered his. journal and camera were missing and he. was one of the suspected spies. now theory number two like who's this. guy. [Music]. in 2014 the discovery channel released a. documentary called russian yeti the. killer lives and they used the diatlov. incident to make their case that the. hikers had disturbed the natural habitat.

of a yeti and they used this photo as. evidence that the doc went on to say. that the yeti was the reason the bodies. were missing eyes and a tongue now this. photo has been authenticated it's. absolutely real but it doesn't look much. like a bigfoot to me and that. documentary was. well it was garbage so next theory. aliens. ball lightning close enough this theory. says that the reason for the tent being. cut from the inside was not to escape. but to set up a camera on a makeshift. tripod the otlef himself had.

experimented with telescopes and was. interested in space flight and astronomy. the local nancy people had reported. seeing glowing golden orbs in the sky. that same night and another hiking group. camping 50 kilometers away also reported. orange floating orbs in the exact same. place at the exact same time there even. recovered photos from one of the cameras. that shows some type of lights in the. sky lev ivanov the lead investigator of. the incident said i suspected at the. time and am almost sure now that these.

bright flying spheres had a direct. connection to the group's death he also. reported that the treetops in the area. were burned above a certain height in. 1990 after ivanov retired he published. an article claiming that the soviet. government forced him to abandon this. theory and they removed everything from. the report that mentioned ufos orbs or. anything unusual he insisted the deaths. were due to heat rays or balls of fire. associated with orbs yes. another scientific theory is that a rare.

weather event generated infrasound that. caused the hikers to suddenly become. disoriented and anxious donnie eicher. who spent five years researching the. incident and actually visited the site. believes that a wind phenomenon called a. carmen vortex street could have produced. a terrifying powerful sound which has. proven to induce irrational fear in. humans we have a video about this on the. channel i'll link below a nice plug now. if hit with infrasound the group might. have fled the tent and fallen victim to.

the cold before they realized what was. happening now those are just a few of. the theories that have been circulating. for years some say a weapons test went. wrong others say the military killed the. group and staged the scene carbon. monoxide poisoning is another theory or. a bad mushroom trip though toxicology. reports discount those. reports theories you believe the reports. nobody has been able to come up with a. definitive answer that is until this. year two scientists think they've solved. the mystery of the outlook pass and they. use the movie frozen to prove their.

theory did you just say they use frozen. yeah the disney movie that's right let. it go. let it go. [Music]. that one yeah that that one no this i. got it here. though the avalanche theory has been. mostly dismissed a new theory has been. proposed that the hikers were hit by a. very specific and rare kind of avalanche. johann gome a scientist who studies snow. phenomena was watching the movie frozen.

that disney had created very realistic. snow movement so he worked with studio. animators to develop a model that shows. how the group could have been hit by. what's called a delayed slab avalanche. this kind of avalanche occurs when you. affect the warm wet snow at the bottom. of a slope this causes the entire face. of snow to eventually move at once now.

think about when you have two books. stacked on top of each other you could. tilt them and they'll stick together. until you reach a certain angle. top book slides now an avalanche only. requires a 20 degree slope to trigger it. now the otlov camp was built at 23. degrees gom believes that when they cut. into the snow to build their tent it. started a countdown they initiated a. chain reaction of micro disturbances. that took a few hours to propagate. trapped under the slab the group might. have panicked and cut their way out the.

injuries sustained by some of the group. would have been consistent with another. slab hitting them at full force yeah but. what about all the you know. well gom says we say that this is. possible that such a slab avalanche. would have injured them the way they. were. everything that happened after the. avalanche is out of the scope of our. paper. though it wasn't snowing that night the. hikers did have journal entries about. howling winds these were most likely. katabatic winds and katabatic winds fall.

down a slope and quickly gain speed due. to gravity and the winds are hurricane. force and they were absolutely detected. by local weather stations that night so. the hikers cut their camp into the snow. which disturbed the slab then katabatic. winds started blowing snow on top of the. slab above the tent and over the course. of hours the weight of the snow above. camp reached critical mass causing the. entire slab to fall now using the disney. snow animation it was shown that just a. small avalanche maybe five by five. meters would have been enough to cover.

the camp but not enough snow that the. rescue team would have noticed. especially since they didn't arrive on. scene for 26 more days so given this new. information can we piece together what. happened to diatlov and his friends that. night. i think we can. [Music]. kgb ufos orbs of light these are fun. theories but i think this is what. happened the slab avalanche hits. covering them in a few feet of snow the. nine campers cut their way out of the. tent.

what. why leave all this stuff in the tent and. then go out in the cold in his stevies. well it was discovered that they had a. second stash of supplies in the forest. so they escaped the avalanche knowing. they have backup supplies they retreat. to the trees and start a fire the young. trees at the bottom of the slope were. icy and wet so they climbed the cedar in. search of dry wood but with temperatures. 30 below zero they had very little time. to save themselves the two most poorly. dressed were probably the first to go. the burn skin probably from being.

desperately close to the fire and with. hypothermia setting in they were losing. sensation and didn't realize they were. being burned kravenoshenko losing. feeling and probably becoming delirious. bites his hand to test for sensation and. he dies within an hour seven survivors. cut the clothes away from their friends. and dress themselves in whatever they. can scavenge from the bodies three of. the group including diatlov try to make. it back to the tent but the steep. incline and loose snow make it a. difficult task they soon freeze to death. in the struggle uphill the remaining.

four decide to build a snow shelter for. the night they find deep snow in a. ravine a couple hundred feet away but. their bad luck continues and they pick a. spot near a fast running stream that. never freezes the stream cuts away the. snow above their shelter causing the. roof to collapse they're thrown onto the. rocky stream bed and buried under 10 or. 15 feet of snow now in general snow. weighs about 20 pounds per cubic foot a. little over a pound per inch of depth a. section of snow that's 20 feet by 20.

feet with a depth of 10 feet that weighs. between 85 000 and 100 000 pounds that's. 50 tons falling on you so it's like. being crushed under a tank so your. injuries would be severe. the missing eyes and tongue probably. caused by scavenging animals or just by. three months of decomposition near. running water what about the radiation. right the lanterns they used which were. found at the site contain small amounts. of thorium which is radioactive and. remember at least two of the hikers.

worked at a nuclear facility and helped. with cleanup after an accident that was. almost as bad as chernobyl so. in retrospect the nine campers made only. one mistake the placement of the tent. everything else was by the book they. conducted an orderly evacuation to stay. for ground they took shelter in the. woods started a fire and dug out a snow. cave the textbook wrong decision in an. avalanche is to stay put unfortunately. that wrong decision might have saved. their lives. [Music].

now today diatlov pass is a popular. tourist destination people come from all. over the world to follow the group's. footsteps and see where the tent once. stood. people say prayers at the stream and. leave flowers under the cedar tree where. its broken branches are still visible. and just before the team embarked on. their adventure kravenoshenko wrote a. poem addressing the entire group here's.

wishing you camps pitched on mount zafar. routes to hike over range is untamed. packs that as ever rest lightly on your. backs. and whether that smiles upon your quest. and let your footprints trace winding. tracks across the map. of russia. it's been over 60 years since the. outlook and eight of his courageous. friends died on dead mountain but i'm. sure they'd be proud to know that not. only did they leave their footprints on. the map of russia but on the map of the. entire world. [Music].

thank you so much for hanging out with. me today my name is aj that's hecklefish. this has been the y-files if you had fun. or learned anything today do me a favor. and like subscribe comment and share. those little favors really help out the. channel until next time be safe be kind. and know that you are appreciated. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music].

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