Russia's Most Haunting Mystery 

I’m a child of a Russian immigrant. I’ve never heard someone mispronounce Russian like that before. It’s honestly incredible.

You know when eaten by a fucking yeti isn’t the craziest theory you know this is some fucked shit

14:37 that was definitely a flare bruh 💀 they was asking for help

As an educated individual, everyone has been wrong , I wrote my desertation on this in my senior year at the university of Narnia. What actually happened was aliens came , experimented on them. Then the yetis fought the aliens off but accidentally hurt the humans. Then the government sent a small nuke to finish the job to leave no witnesses of the event.

I cannot believe he went from the best horror animator on this site to the best commentary channel on this site. Papa, you are a legend. Keep it up

I did a paper my freshman year of college on the dyatlov pass incident and the most logical theory was a small avalanche (the size of a minivan) hit the hikers tent while they were sleeping atop their beds which were on top of their skis which made the beds very uneven which resulted in injuries as if people weren’t wearing seatbelts during an extensive car crash which caused the extensive injuries. The radiation found on the hikers bodies and clothes was from the thorium which was used back in 50’s for lighting lanterns that the hikers were using. With the hikers missing their tongues and eyes that was due to animals scavenging their body parts after they had died. I’m not saying that this is what happened but that is the most logical explanation I could find while doing my paper.

Papa Meat, Wendigoon and Oompy are on a short list of creators I genuinely get excited about when they upload

The SkiFree yeti at 7:45 is a serious throwback I literally spit out my juice

The youtuber Lemmino did a video on this a while back but his video has recently been age restricted so i'll give a brief description of his theory which i believe is the most realistic and probable i've ever heard. The Tent: So, Dyatlov had custom made a chimney for the tent that can be seen in the groups photos and in a photo a few days before the accident Dyatlov can be seen in a burnt jacket suggesting that maybe the custom oven could malfunction. On the day of the accident, Lemmino posits that while the group was preparing dinner and getting ready for bed, somehow the oven broke and spewed hot smoke into the tent. Catching the group off guard, first someone tries to poke holes into the side of the tent to let the smoke out. When that doesn't work they slash an exit as no one could locate the zipper at the front of the tent in the smoke. When they get outside, barely clothed and choking. The carbon monoxide poisoning from the smoke does two things. 1, they believe the tent which is still spewing smoke was on fire and they could not get their belongings. 2, They believed that they were closer to the forest than they actually were. The Bodies: The group made their way down the mountain barely clothed. When they reached the tree line, they set out to make a campfire by climbing the nearby tree for twigs. Slobodin falls, cutting himself on the way down and fracturing his skull. Slobodin is still able to walk and so they decide to exchange clothes so that the three most healthy people there can head back to the tent. While on their way back, the three trigger a minor avalanche that sends them over a small gully and onto the rocks below. All of them attain massive injuries likened to a car crash. Now the missing eyes and tongue of these three have been vastly misrepresented as being ripped out or something like that but in the official autopsy it states that these were not present in the bodies due to decomposition. After all, they were the last to be found and the snow had started to melt around them. So back at the campfire, after a certain amount of time had passed since the first expedition to the tent, they passed around the remaining clothes to three more who individually tried to hike there. They may have originally left as a group and got separated in the snow, but the result is the same. All of them failed and the last two of them slowly died around the campfire. The radiation present on the bodies and clothes is not unexplainable as the clothes are believed to have belonged to Krivonishchenko and Dyatlov, who worked at nuclear facilities. The bodies may have been exposed to this radiation as the night progressed because clothes were passed around among the group.

So basically this is the explanation the 2019 investigation came up with, and it's the most reasonable explanation so far: They basically looked at the photos and found out the campsite was a different place than thought (it wasn't actually ever mapped). It was in a much steeper area and the skiers had dug at a right angle into the steep bank of snow to cover from the violent winds (60mph -30c) from that night (found from records dating back to that day). This would normally have been a good idea but digging into the embankment made the structure weak and as the snow storm continued, the weight of the snow would collapse on them, which would explain some of the blunt trauma as well as them cutting the tent from the inside to get out.. They assumed it was an avalance and photo evidence and ground sign/tracking experts claimed they walked calmly away as to not disturb anything (another avalance). They figured the best cover would be among the trees. They gathered at the cedar tree and started a fire, and one of them climbed up the tree to find dry branches, where that person must have cut themselves and ripped their clothing (which was found on the tree).. The wind was too strong and the fire couldn't warm them, the burn on the arm and face on the two found by the tree could be from trying to keep the fire going as well as falling onto the fire after death. These two in particular were found without clothes.. likely taken by the survivors in an attempt to stay warm. At this point they probably figured out it wasn't an avalance, 3 of the survivors tries to retrieve equipment at the tent, however in a storm and in the pitch blackness of night in the middle of literally nowhere, it would have been too dark and they froze to death. the remaining 4 tried to build a snow shelter to get warm, however they were digging right on top of a moving stream which doesn't freeze and as they were digging the whole thing collapsed + the several feet of snow above them, crushing them (this explains why they were found so deep as well as their broken ribs, injuries to their sternums, heart ventricles, head. The girl is even photographed face down in the moving riverbed which would have worn away at her face, which was also noted to have major facial trauma after the autoposy).. then as the snow melted scavengers got to them (they were found several months after the others) the irradiated clothes were because of the work they had done on radioactive stuff

20:17 Love how there's a snip bit of the unblurred image Pretty gruesome honestly

Honestly wasn't expecting this type of content on this channel. I've heard this story many times and did some study on it myself, but I like your presentation style.

i went down this rabbit hole after watching devils pass. From what i remember, it was suggested that some of the bodies were stripped by the last surviving hikers in an attempt to stay warm. Some of the damaged to the bodies could have been environmental or caused by wildlife, moreso for the bodies discovered months after the rest. The avalanche theory makes the most sense to me if the tent was cut from the inside, but even that is disputed.

The ones crushed were thought to have made a snow den that then collapsed on top of them. The ones missing their eyes and tongue were submerged in running water, allowing bacteria to consume those parts. Burns came from the fire they built to stay warm, but they were so delusional they didn’t notice they were so close they were burning. The cloth and skin on the trees came from someone trying to rip branches down for the fire - either climbing up or jumping in a panic and catching on it. They all would’ve gotten separated in the blizzard in whatever panic they were in.

More of this!! More movie and food reviews too! Thoroughly enjoying the content, senior meat. 👍🏽

Papa this was an awesome video ive seen multiple vids of this case and you mentioned some details that i havent heard of before like the misterious guy nobody knew in the group

I think this was an avalanche. There’s another hiker story that happened near lake Baikal in Siberia back in 1993 though that is even more nuts. Six hikers were normal one second then one by one they started bleeding from their noses, eyes, and mouths and bashed their heads against rocks. Only one girl survived. They still have no idea what happened. Edit: It’s called the Khamar Daban incident for anyone who’s interested

I think the editor missed out the blurring parts for the bodies half way through 😅

I am happy you took a break to focus on content that feels more rewarding !! I love your videos

Your editing is so original and a lot funnier than most other CCs, keep it up brother.

It's always nice to see an American cover Russian stuff. The language can be tough for non-natives, so props to you for not entirely giving up on pronouncing these names, Hunter. And it looks like Chelyabinsk earned its "cursed city" status in Russia long before today; now we know where a significant amount of its radioactive contamination and pollution originally came from.

WHERE IS THE LEFT RIGHT GAME PART 2 PAPA MEAT! I NEED SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO AT WORK

Okay seriously I LOVE YOUR EDITOR! The part where he used Abe’s “INANAH” from Abe’s odyssey was just too damn funny and witty as shit. Every episode is such a little treat.❤

7:44 Shoutout to editor for putting in the old school yeti from ski game.

Yeah! hiking, Cold War, and papa meat! This day just keeps getting better!

I remember listening to a podcast talking about this years ago while I was camping! I was lying down in my tent in the middle of the night with my headphones, listening to this mystery. Very excited to hear Papa Meat talking about this!

I've heard this story many times, but you made it still zing💥 RIP to these people

I just wanted to say I super appreciate the slig sound clips.

The government tested some kind of small warhead in the mountain, which is why they were so weird this left radiation behind. The warhead caused a small avalanche, that caused the people to tumble, bite their tongues, fracture their skulls, break bones, bite hands. Some of them, survived and to stay warm they took clothes from the deceased to stay warm. People missing eyes were scavenged by animals. They couldn't see in a storm, and slowly froze to death/died from their injuries, some of them removed their clothes in a phenomenon called "paradoxical undressing." In which you feel hot, because you are freezing to death, and remove your clothing.

USSR using indigenous land to test weapons makes the most sense. It probably happened at night and they got dressed in a hurry, that’s why the clothes mixup. The fireball the natives saw goes with the theory as well.

Please do a series on weird stories akin to this! Creepy, informative, listing theories from serious to crazy, docu-ish style, and funny. It's so hard to find that docu style vid with some humour that works. Reminds me of The Why Files and I've wanted more vids like this.

interesting thing to note that i've noticed with many cases of likely hypothermia: near the end of your fate you will take off all your clothes in fear and delusion. your body starts to feel like it's on fire and too hot, so they remove their clothes. it's very common in cases like this i've seen alot

Ah yes an avalanche, which leaves footprints untouched.

Duuude i was so hoping you would talk about this story I KNEW U WOULD!!

This story is absolutely perplexing and althoughi have already heard the story I freaking loooove hearing Papa Meats take on it!!

Loving the new deep dive content keep up the great work

I really recommend Lemmino’s video on this subject! His theory is the most likely I’ve seen, and it’s a good watch as always.

I've watched three different channels cover this story so I was gonna skip until you started with details the others left out. Then you made it very interesting and added the picture too. Great job, Papa M! 👏🏻👏🏻 I'm so excited by how much content you're producing lately!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

The effort and production values that go into Papa's videos are insanely good. I love this channel.

Climax is such a good movie. The terror is so grounded and they get you to feel like the characters so often w the confusion etc

the editing is so on point

How are you pumping these out so fast?! Papas out of control

I like how in your videos like these, you react to real mysteries or facts found in history and you tell us them in ur own comedic style. Feels nice coming from your videos laughing but also actually learning something. I feel like I was able to watch reacting content yet still feel like I didn’t completely waste my time on RU-vid because I learned something new as well.

PAPA MEAT , Seriously check out the town of portlock. It's a super weird town nobody really ever talks about

Khamar-Daban tragedy happened in Russia a decade later and similarly weird, Russian hikers, one survivor, mysterious deaths. Would love to see this covered as well

I don’t want to be so morbid but the artist renditions and Peter griffin overlaid on the images took me out

The latest season of True Detective borrows heavily from this case. I had no idea until you started getting into it and the parallels were made apparent. Thanks Papa! Great vidya!

I'm glad you point out that there was no avalanche evidence. I see many people who just conclude that and end their videos. Other RU-vidrs who dive deeper into this topic dismiss it. I think everyone wants to say it was natural, because that's the safest explanation that doesn't require people to think about more uncomfortable/unconventional topics.

6:29 Hearing Oddworld sounds, sounds i haven't heard in like 10 years just brought back a ton of memories

I’m pretty sure this is solved and there was a stove at the front of the tent that smoked them out so they had to cut themselves out, then they were stuck without a shelter or most of their equipment

Dude, the animations during the videos. I appreciate them

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It’s the clothes swapping that perplexes me since the fireball could explain the burning and if they fell from the mountain could explain some injuries but wtf is up with the clothes that makes it look like there was a third party involved

2:31 “Ooral polytechnic” “Yikitereenburg” Idk how these words are supposed to be pronounced in Russian but even by English standards this is incredible

Great video! My favorite part was the tiny oddworld sound clip.

These are my favorite types of video on this channel! Would love to see one on the Mary Celeste

20:18 it shows the body (warning)

20:17 split second gore my dude. 🤦‍♂️

I love that papa meat uses sounds from the oddworld games, I would really love to see him play it or make content about the dark lore of the game

So glad to learn more about the Gyattlov Pass incident!

At 2:18 it shows her dead body 😭

I never understood why this case is such a mystery, they were caught in a blizzard and a fire started within the tent because of the stove, the radiation is explained because alot of the members of the group worked with nuclear material.

Yeah,, that case was truly mysterious with so many theories and how they closed it. Each Hiker's death was weird and the damages that each one had a physical human could not do. I can't imagine what they went through

7:42 Best OG reference of video games played by people growing up in the 90s without internet.

Editor stepped up his game on this one. Great job!

I’m a child of a Russian immigrant. I’ve never heard someone from America absolutely nail every single one of these words. The pronunciation was flawless. Even the accent was spot on. Very impressive.

In a frozen waste, with no clothes? Forcing their way out of a tent? Sounds lot like hypothermia, since right before you pass, you feel like you're on fire and people often go nuts and rip their clothes off/ cut their way out of tents. As for the burns? * shrug* maybe they felll into a fire, weird wounds? My guess is Animals, birds eat eyes, and a bear could have found a frozen corpse and crushed them just stepping over it

Sir. Thank you for all of your uploads... They come out more than once a week, and I KNOW how much work goes into that! It means a lot to me that most hard days I have? I am stoked to come home and see a new upload. It changes my mood every time. Thanks for all the work you and your crew put in!!! It's the best content on youtube!

Love your style, keep rocking it!

The key to the pronunciation of any foreign names, is imagine the most racist depiction of someone from there, and pronounce it like they would.

My theory has always been that their little fire stove in the tent caught fire or was smoking way too much. They had a fire stove in a little fabric tent. Smoke inhalation and trying to just get out. The soft tissue eaten could just be animals. A lot of birds will eat soft tissue and leave everything else. Maybe a mixture of CO2 poisoning and the weather or even mountain sickness caused the craziness after escaping the tent. As far as the bizarre injuries, maybe snow or ice falling from trees. The radiation was from two of the team that worked in a plant, and their handling of radiation at the time was horrific. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Would love to see you review more things like this

Tier 1 stuff here bubba. Tier 1🎉

Hey Papa Meat, I gotta be honest. I usually enjoy your content. I think you’re fun and hilarious. However, the bit where you said we could view the uncovered photos from the scene by paying for them… that seems like profiting off someone’s death and thats not right. I think you need to address this, I respect you as a creator but that was not appropriate.

You make some great videos when it comes to spooky or unexplainable phenomenons. Have you ever heard of the Skin walker Ranch in Utah? It's very wicked stuff where livestock have been found mauled but no signs of any other creatures. Some say it's a demon almost like the wendigo, but the location is completely restricted to outside visitors

There is actually a 2013 horror film titled "Devil's Pass", which takes the entire concept of this case and turns it into a modern day found footage film about a group of researchers trying to figure out what happened to Dyatlov's group, it has an interesting take.

epic vid! when that new creep cast comin out tho. I need to know what happens in the second part of left right game

I hope you do a video now on the Yuba county 5, aka the american dyatlov pass and how similar both events play out

Please do a review of The Stuff. Love your content

Love these creepy vids! You should do like most disturbing films or an iceberg! Lol I know they're played out but if done right they're really entertaining!

Very good video. You should look into the hinterkaifeck farm murders

Something about re watching the mystery I watched on lemmino's channel after all these years beings me joy.

Great storytelling, editing, commentary and story in general. I was at the edge of my seat the entire time. Fucking superb!!!

I love how consistent the uploads are and just how quality they are. The views show too, glad Papa has the support of his offspring!

I know they are completely unrelated, but I’m seeing a lot of parallels in this and the latest season of True Detective. Wonder if there was any inspiration from this. Great video Papa!

these videos papa are what the absolute FUCK i’m talking about. 🤝🏼 when i’m come on youtube this is the exact genre of shit i look for. and you end up mixing humor into it just sets it above probably most every else on here in my opinion. if ya ever doubt urself just fuckin chill and look at all this great shit you’ve done are you fucking kidding me? it almost makes me mad how good it is because it’s so fucking good i want to scream that it’s just you who provides content like this. anyway. love you

I thought that this took place in deep Siberia, close to Lake Baikal. The Ural mountains are ancient mountains like the Appalachian mountains, but up to the 70s both had real winters. Out near Lake Baikal, the soviets had land masses where people were not allowed to visit.

Katabatic wind lines up pretty good. Along with falls and ensuing effects of hypothermia.

This story reminds me an awful lot of the “Yuka county 5” I think that was the name. Yuka 5 had a whole lot of crazy details

Al uses Flat wounds and ampeg SVTs Not to mention he uses an orange rockerverb or mesa dual rect for extra distortion in a split channel

Pls keep bring me crazy info I crave it!

Crazy awesome video as always

Love all these new videos, there are lots of fun, always make me laugh.

20:15 the pic gets unblurred for a second here. Yeah, don’t look up the pics.

I don't normally watch your content Mr meat but this is bloody brilliant 😂

Appreciate the Slig " 'ere boy!" reference from Oddworld 😂

Climax is NOT HOW DRUGS WORK AT ALL most portrayals in media do not show actual trips or what they’re like it’s hilarious

Other strange things, many of the broken bones and blunt force internal damages came with no indication of external damage. Meaning unless it was done by sudden atmospheric overpressure, the cause of the injuries were not caused by a external force or object. With many of the broken bones, there was no bruising, bleeding or any other damage to the flesh adjacent to the injuries. What I find creepy though is, why did they cut the tent instead of using the door? Some survived seemingly hours even attempting to build a shelter and fire. So something made them so afraid to basically choose a slow and painful death sentence in the cold as the better option than returning to their camp just a few hundred meters away, probably somewhat in view for some.

Papa!!!! did you hear the sad news about Akira Toriyama, he sadly passed away from a blood clot in his brain, he was only 68💔😫🕊️

Fire happened in the tent, people were forced to flee tent without their jackets and clothes...they froze...animals ate the corpses...