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Our world is full of events that are difficult or impossible to explain and to understand. Some of these are covered in snow and waiting to be solved. This is Records Unsolved, and today we are about to witness the horrifying story of the 9 experienced ski-hikers who never came back in February 1959. The Dyatlov Pass. 10 members of the Urals Polytechnic Institute in Yekaterinburg composed of 9 students and one sports instructor who fought in World War II began an expedition on January 23, 1959. One of the students experienced joint pain along the way, and turned back. The rest of the team led by Igor Dyatlov, a 23-year-old engineering student, continued the expedition. The remaining ski-hikers are composed of 7 men and 2 women. On February 1, 1959 they made a camp on the snowy slopes of Kholat Syakhl which is interpreted as “Dead Mountain”. According to the entries on the diaries, and camera records of the ski-hikers retrieved by the rescue team that arrived a few weeks after the incident, that night they had ate dinner, and got ready for bed as usual.But when the rescuers examine the campsite they find that something went horribly wrong. February 26, 1959, a few weeks after the hikers' abandoned tent, which had been torn open from the inside, was discovered by rescuers. The group had left footprints all around the area, some of which were barefoot, some were in a single shoe, and all of which extended to the edge of a neighboring wood. The next day, the bodies of the first two ski-hikers were found without shoes and merely dressed in underpants. Over the next few months, as the snow slowly melts within the area, the rescue team saw more disturbing sights. The other seven ski-hikers were found scattered around the mountain’s slope in the most baffling state of undress. Some of the bodies had third-degree burns, another had blunt force wounds indicating a vicious attack, one had been vomiting blood, one was missing a tongue, others had eyes missing and some of their clothes was discovered to be radioactive. At the time, a criminal investigation attributed their demise to an “unknown natural force” and the Soviet Bureaucracy kept the case silent. The lack of information about the case, gave birth to a number of conspiracy theories including KGB intervention, drug overdose, UFO, gravity anomalies, and the Russian Yeti. A documentary filmmaker recently proposed a notion regarding the ominous but genuine phenomena known as "infrasound”. According to this theory, the wind and topography interact to produce a hum that is barely audible but can still cause strong feelings of nauseousness, panic, dread, chills, nervousness, an increased heart rate, and breathing problems. In 2019, Russian authorities reexamined the case around the Dyatlov Pass incident because of the renewed media interest. They concluded that an avalanche was primarily responsible for the death of the nine ski-hikers. Nevertheless, a detailed explanation of how an avalanche may have happened without any traces of its occurrence being left behind. This caused the answer, which seemed to be given from a government that has a history of its lack of transparency to continue to raise questions. The only thing that hasn't changed is that whatever happened entailed an overpowering and probably "inhuman force." If you want more unanswered mysteries, check out the other videos here on Records Unsolved.