Cold Case in the 5/17/21 New Yorker
For those who get or have access to The New Yorker, there's a vivid account of a bizarre incident in 1959 about a ski trip by some Russian young people (students from a technical school.
The piece is by Douglas Preston {page 24 ff.]
I've seen airings about the episode on Travel and other paranormally inclined stations.
It's a horrible story with Yeti-like and, more importantly perhaps, UFO references but that's only a small conjectural part of a fascinating account and mystery of the demise of the whole ski party (nine persons in all).
Preston presents the story spectacularly, in a grand fictive-like rendering but the tale is true and truly worth a read.
RR
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Sunday, May 23, 2021
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The Dyatlov Pass incident. A story that's been around in weird-tales circles for a long while. Lots of hype and woo factor thanks to some questionable evidence provided by the Soviets, and the cable TV episode was heavy into that. Spooky at first glance, but I thought that had been toned down with a more rational take as of late. A good author can make the case for both, and that's what this article sounds like.
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Ron, at Sunday, May 23, 2021
The details, Ron, do not add up to any rational explanation, as I see it.
It's an incident almost as enigmatic as the UFO (or Nessie and Bigfoot) mystery.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Sunday, May 23, 2021
I just read the article online and refreshed my memory. I thought the explanation for the causal and subsequent events made sense, but then I don't have the scientific acumen to question it. It seems more logical than a lot of explanations that have been offered in the other fields you mention, though there are still a lot of Russians, especially family members, who don't buy into it. I wonder what I'm missing.
BTW, there was a really awful movie about the subject that showed up on cable (maybe the SyFy Channel?) a few years back, with an even more horrific (fictional) ending. That and the Travel Channel show could skew the thinking of anyone not familiar with the actual details of the event. As you suggest, the article itself is a good read, and a better bet toward learning about the mystery than what's offered by either of the TV shows.
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Ron, at Sunday, May 23, 2021
The medical details are what makes me think something odder than what's been proposed as an explanation offers, Ron.
Missing eyeballs, fractures to the skull that go into the brain, a cut out tongue.
It's a spectacularly weird event. (And that "yeti photograph" is equally weird.)
Preston's succinct account is refreshing.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Sunday, May 23, 2021
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