The Dyatlov Pass Incident: A Chilling Mystery

Nine hikers were found barely clothed and mutilated in the freezing Russian Ural Mountains — the truth of what happened to them remains unknown.

In late January of 1959, ten hikers set out on a challenging trek through Russia’s remote Ural Mountains, led by 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov. Despite his young age, Dyatlov was highly regarded for his mountaineering and outdoor survival expertise and he’d already led several successful hiking expeditions.

One group member named Yuri Yudin (22) turned back the following day due to an injury, but the remaining nine trudged into the snowy abyss. The group was scheduled to return home on February 12th, but alarms were raised when they did not arrive, prompting a rescue team to set out in search of them on February 20th.

Tragically, the search did not result in finding any survivors; instead, the hikers’ bodies were discovered in very bizarre and chilling circumstances. The group’s tent was found abandoned and cut open from the inside, as though they had been spooked by someone or something and fled in a desperate panic.