The Mystery of the 9 Russian Hikers found Dead 

Bruh that one guy never been more grateful for knee and joint pains in his life...

A hike over a mountain called “Dead Mountain” can only go so well.

That tenth guy was literally saved by his lack of joint care. Yoga kills, people.

Well that was a mistake watching this before going to sleep

Yuri Yudin, the lone Survivor of the group, told a Reporter from the St. Petersburg Times: "You know, if I had a chance to ask god just one question it would be: What really happened to my friends that night?"

This is a scenario where the last one alive might think to his or herself; “Man, they’re never going figure out the way we died.”

I don't understand how they could still find footprints and tracks after almost a month of snowfall, especially if it was enough to heavily cover the tent.

It is clear that something caused the hikers to panic - so much so that they weren't even thinking straight. Fear is the strongest emotion. But what could cause such fear, clearly something the hikers didn't understand at that moment - maybe something was approaching the tent, they knew.

The creepy thing is that every theory that has been proposed is always missing something.

The dude with joint pain that went home must've felt survivor's guilt. That's crazy to think about

The two things that always weirded me out was one of the hiker's last journal entries saying "we now know that snowmen exist" and the fact that some of their body parts were missing like one hiker's tongue

A Yeti murdered them all and stole their clothes and shoes to give to his Yeti family.

The guy who abandoned the expedition was named Yuri yudin. He died in 2013.

Honestly, the weirdest part for me is the fact that the tent was so small

I think lemino’s theory was the closest. His theory states that the stove they brought with them was leaking gas in the tent, so one of the campers cut vents in the tent. It got out of control so the ran. This also explains the burn marks and why they ran away to quickly with only what they could grab. The tree where some bodies were found also has a small amount of burn sticks, this explains why the branches from a tree were missing but only to a certain height and why they would stop under a tree, the two body’s found their likely gave up the few clothes they had to protect the other hikers, witch explains why other hikers had more clothes. The radiation could have been caused by 2 of the hikers working with radiation, witch might have spread from their work clothes to their other clothes. Realistically though no one theory can be proven beyond shadow if a doubt.

Failed to mention that the group was convinced they were being stalked by a yeti written in found journals.

I agree with a theory made by lemmino. The furnace in the tent caught fire, so they decided to head down to the forest for shelter. The least dressed started a fire, while dyatlov and 2 others decided to head back to the camp for more supplies. All three died on the way over/back. With lack of supplies the least dressed froze to death. The remaining three went farther into the forest for more shelter, but caused a mini-avalanche making them fall into a ravine, rendering them paralyzed/ unconscious, where they froze to death. The radiation was because they all worked in some kind of factory that worked with radioactive materials.

Everybody: We are all about to die. Dyatlov: “not great not terrible.”

The lesson of this and Chernobyl: Don't interact with someone named Dyatlov.

Since it was called dead mountain, perhaps ghost stories circulated around that particular area. They could've heard strange sounds panicked, and fled. It's happened before.

there were actually a couple guys that went on that hike who worked at a nuclear plant so that was manly the reason why they checked for radiation

The snow started speaking Finnish so they ran.

During this whole video I was more scared than those animated horror stories

I think the "got hit by a small avalanche while sleeping" theory makes the most sense. It explains the badly damaged condition of the tent. It explains the blunt force trauma. It explains why the tent was cut open from the inside (the tent's entrance was blocked by snow so they cut through the only place they could). It explains why they were not wearing clothes (the avalanche made their clothes wet/frozen and unusable.) It also explains why they ran so far away from the camp towards the tree line (they wanted to escape a potential 2nd avalanche.) Their footprints were still visible because they ran out of the tent after the avalanche happened and a 2nd avalanche never came.

Imagine being able to go back in time to find out what happened to them

The weirdly small tent and radioactive clothing always weird me out. That and the missing facial features on only one of the hikers. So many strange thinks happening at once lead me to this conclusion: It's Soviet Russia. Don't question it and you'll sleep better.

The one guy with joint problems never got so lucky by having joint problems.

Why did I watch this at night

If this video was made with real images it would be lot scarier...

This was a fantastic video! Very well made. I’m a long time subscriber and I always get excited when I see a new video in my feed. I honestly can’t describe how satisfied I was after watching this. Keep being awesome!

The animation reminds me of South Park.

A mystery that will never be solved

The animation is getting greatly better but that also makes it scary sometimes.

History Mystery: What caused the deaths of these 9 Russian hikers in 1959? Why did they all leave the tent? We investigate some possible explanations. Let us know your favorite theory below! *We say hitchhiking twice, ignore that :)

00:30 Hitchhiking?? Or just hiking? I'm almost positive they weren't HITCHhiking

why do I have a strange feeling that the hikers died after arguing with each other and split into three groups while trying to sabotage each other using items they have packed for the trip

I heard this great theory about Dyatlov Pass from LEMMINO's video. He believes their homemade stove caught fire, which would explain some of the burns on the bodies. They panicked from the smoke and cut a hole in the tent to escape. In order to survive in the middle of a storm, they headed to the woods where some of them tried to start a fire while others searched for help or supplies. Due to exposure they all died eventually in different places, either falling off a ravine, next to a river or next to the fire they tried to make. Check out his video.

Lucky that the 10th guy turned back

2:40 A small correction: Mansi is it's own distinct language, not a dialect. It has around 940 speakers and it belongs to the Uralic language family.

One thing ive learned is most of the time the Military offers there service its because they want intel of the area with the help of people who live there without making it obvious that they have another agenda besides helping

My favourite theory, although it's almost certainly incorrect, is that it was a Yeti. One of the women had wrote in her diary the night before about something following them. The last thing written in the diary was "The snowmen are real".

Only 2 of the nine had radioactive marks on them. Both worked in nuclear power plants and were around it constantly. The dose of radioactivity on their clothes were very low. I bet you money thats where it came from.

The locals called the place Dead Mountain and barely went up there as there was no wildlife to hunt. Radiation was found on the clothes of several victims and the military shut the mountain off after the incident. These people were taken out by their own government for stumbling across something they should not have seen.

Oh wow, the guy with the joint pain had a blessing in disguise. What a crazy story. Rest In Peace to all nine members.

*non-Russian investigator:* "Looks like the cold got them." *Russian investigator:* "The _cold_ killed Russians? _laughs in Russian_ "

3:25 In cases of extreme hypothermia, people have been known to take off their clothing while in a manic state, feeling incredibly warm.

Russia opened a new investigation into the incident in 2019, and the conclusions were presented in July 2020: the investigation concluded that the cause of death was hypothermia due to a combination of an avalanche, forcing the group to leave their camp, combined with low visibility. Andrey Kuryakov, deputy head of the regional prosecutor's office, stated: “It was a heroic struggle. There was no panic. But they had no chance to save themselves under the circumstances.”[1]

lemmino's theory: the embers inside the tent's makeshift stove started a fire inside the tent. due to the smoke and fire, the hikers cut open the tent from the inside in a panic (also explains why they were improperly dressed), some of them were burned. they then proceed to go to the woods to gather resources and rebuild the camp. one member climbed a tree to try to spot the location of the camp. some time later they froze to death while some of the others were killed by avalanche, as they were found under 3 meters of snow and suffered car-crash like injuries - fractured skull, ribs and internal bleeding.

If anyone is interested in a good book that delves very deep into this mystery, I recommend “Dead Mountain” by Donnie Eichner. This mystery has fascinated me since I first heard of it back in 2015. I got the book and was not let down. It gives you journal entries from the hikers, as well as an account from Yuri Yudin, the hiker that turned back. The author went to Russia and retraced their steps. Again, really good book if you’re interested in this mystery.

As a Russian myself and knowing how the CCCP was, I personally would never rule out the parachute bombs theory. It would explain the radiation on the clothing, and possibly the high impact wounds, although the latter could also being explained by the collapsing snow shelter/ravine cave in idea. That would also explain why the ravine group's bodies were buried under so much snow and yet the forest group's footprints were still visible.

"The conclusion that the tent was cut from the inside may not have been correct".

Someone had been following them and ripped open the tent from the outside and they fled. One group fell down the ravine, the others froze.

they were clearly attacked by a russian yeti. It's a yeti but russian

Simple history: It could've been a russian military cover- Me: Yetis

The scary thing about this is, that they just left the tent without shoes, jackets, etc. knowing they would probably freeze to death....but still they decided to run away from the tent, meaning that there had to be something extremely dangerous up there.

The leader of the group recalled all of the hikers corpses had a deep brown tan also another group of hikers 90kilometers 50m South of the incident reported seeing strange orange spheres in the sky to the north on the night of the incident Similar spheres were observed in Ivdel and adjacent areas continually during the period from February to March 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military). However, these sightings were not noted in the initial investigation in 1959, and these various independent witnesses only came forward years later.

The soviet government certainly covered up some things. Not all of them would fit in one tent.

How come no one has made a horror movie about this? Just go with the scariest theory as an explanation and make a movie out of it Edit: Guys read the replies before you make a reply yourself, I've already been told about the movie Devil's Pass no need to keep mentioning its name to me

The moments of silence at the end are a really nice touch. Thank you.

They've found evidence it was due to a comparably small avalanche, they had until recently underestimated the topography of the area due to the amount of snow always on it, the angle of the hill is steep enough and with the snow fall/the fact they slightly dug out the area of snow to put the tent had probably lead to the smaller than normal avalanche. Although smaller, it still would have hit with enough force to kill them. Read an article about it a few days ago, can always look for it for more detail than I remembered here

Funny, I recently read an article on this. Apparently they’ve reopened the case.

This is obviously the work of the falmer. Damn snow elves.

who's here after watching Stephanie's video and is a little confused on if they rushed out the tent or walked out the tent

If I remember correctly, some hypothermia victims feel too warm near the end of their lives and take their clothes off.

The guy with unhuman wounds may have been the one in the tree and he fell down explaining the wounds that resemble some car crash wounds

I read somewhere that perpetual cold had taken over the camp site. It was so cold, they went somewhat mad and took their clothes off to keep warm. Research how you die with hypothermia. It’s very fascinating.

The infrasound theory is the best one to go on for me. The science actually DOES make sense if you look into it. The wounds on the one group were from falling into the riverhead and the eyes and lips were plucked out by predetor birds.

The Dyatlov Pass incident always gives me chills! It's so strange and very tragic.

obviously it was an army of Yeti's who killed them.

I think there was probably a Military Base near the mountain and they were testing the weapons, so which means that the fire was probably a weapon rocket. The second thing is somebody had found the bodies before the volunteers, they moved the bodies because it is still a top secret.

LEMMiNO: I think the biggest mystery is how it's been able to remain a mystery given the abundance of information

After watching the video a few times and reading the comments for other theories I have created my own conclusion. In the middle of the night a large explosion awakened the group. Panicked they stumbled out of their tent and ran. Since there were 9 of them and only one small opening some might have cut the tent in order to escape faster. They ran out into the night, running a large distance. Disoriented and not being able to see in the dark of night they could not locate their tent and soon realized that they would freeze to death if they did not find shelter, so they chose instead to head towards the edge of the forest. There a member of the group climbed the tree to see if they could spot the tent. Meanwhile the others below feebly tried to build a fire. This is when they split up, they knew if they stayed where they were, they would die. 2 of the group members went with the leader to try and return to the tent to bring back supplies or to find the path and return for the other 6. Those 3 died along the way back to the tent. Back at the makeshift campsite the other, now 4, hikers realized that the 3 that left were not going to return. They striped the 2 dead of their clothes and started heading deeper into the forest until they found the ravine. They built a makeshift snow shelter, which a short time later collapsed on top of them burying them under the snow. The woman’s face slowly decomposed over 3 months from the running water, that either had bacteria or small fish. The large explosion? A military test of a weapon that had radioactive elements in it. This seems like the soundest plausible reason to me. It would explain the radioactive materials found on the bodies, the distance from the tent traveled, and the cause of death and mysterious injurys from the corpses. I realize that there might be a few holes in my theory. I wish we could have known the spacing between footsteps to indicate whether they had been running for a long time or not. How much radiation was found on them? What position were the corpses were in? The smallest details can provide a lot of information. TL:DR Panic, Confusion, Survival, Dead. Edit: After more thinking, it’s possible that they knew how to travel back to their tent using their own footprints, so they instead stayed away from the tent out of fear of another explosion, using the tree to look for the previous blast/ any new ones / any missiles in the air. After deciding it was safe enough is when the 3 tried to travel back. This would also explain why they went almost a mile away, to avoid another blast. Edit2: It seems more likely that there were multiple small blasts instead of one large one. That would explain why they waited so long to return to their tent. Edit3: After reading more comments and thinking about it more, it is possible that the last 4 hikers didn't die under the impact of collapsing snow. It might have been possible that they fell in. At first I didn't think that it was possible because they would have had to all walk side by side and fall in at the same time, which is highly unlikely. It is possible that the first one fell, or stepped on the edge of the ravine causing a miniature avalanche that caused the other three to fall in, causing high pressure impacts and covering them in snow.

Having read up on the case and seen the injuries from autopsies its actually very obviously murder and sadly violent torture. Bodies with u-shaped bruises that resemble the butt of a rifle, broken ribs, cracked skulls, signs of strangulation, evidence of eyes removed while still alive, 3rd degree burns, no tongue but the frozen mouth found closed, a camp fire that was purposely put out not burnt out, a tent that was made useless by cutting it, a strange photo of someone following them, and most obvious of all absolutely nobody would walk an hour from the tent in bed clothes unless armed men forced them to do it. To escape an avalanche that never even happened? or they all went crazy?.. seriously? If you look at their backgrounds, most likely at least one hiker was working as a nuclear agent giving up secrets to another side in a place that was comfortably remote (two hikers were recent nuke reactor employees, and all this was during the cold war with espionage at its highest). Why else would there be radioactivity detected in the middle of nowhere. They were followed, searched for something important, and each tortured for information and then killed - whether by the russians, americans, or germans isn't known, but that's why it was covered up by the govt and all became a 'mystery'. Interesting that one of the hikers was left with a pencil and notebook in his hand - probably the killers leaving a warning message to the other side, but it got washed away. It was a terrible cold war incident, not to be made fun of.

Recent investigations may have solved the mystery, due in part to the technology used in Frozen. The investigation revealed that it may have been a rare but deadly, small avalanche that occurred and buried the camp. The impact of the falling snow and ice would have resulted in the various broken bones due to the practice of sleeping a rigid surface such as skis. The tents were cut open from the inside as a way for the hikers to escape the now buried camp, the reason that they weren't completely dressed can be put down to the same reason. As for why the scattered layout of the remains, why certain extremities were missing and the radiation found on the corpses is also simple. First of all the scattered remains are due to the less injured members of the party lasting longer in the elements than their injured compatriots, secondly why some of them were missing their tongue and or eyes is because it took weeks to find the remains and in those weeks scavenging animals (wolves) would have eaten the eyes and tongue as they would have been an easily available meal and lastly the radiation found on the bodies is due to the type of lantern they used wasn't toxically radioactive but it was radioactive enough that it would have been noticeable enough on measuring equipment and in tests.

welp, im going to sleep well tonight.

The radioactive cloths would more likely been from a lamp they used. The burner for a lamp during that time had radioactive material. It was common in that area.

I can see a good movie about this mystery

In general, after the incident, so many diverse versions of what happened appeared that it seems that Dyatlov's tour group did not have a chance at all to survive. Following these versions, a UFO is constantly flying over Mount Otorten, nuclear, chemical, bacteriological weapons are being tested, convicts are constantly fleeing in the vicinity, and Death Squads are running after them, angry bears, evil shamans, ancient gods, agents of foreign intelligence services roam near the mountain, and , of course, from such movement avalanches descend there all the time - even in summer, when there is no snow.

I do not believe the hikers would have taken off all of their clothes except for shorts while they were sleeping in the tent. The tent was still very cold so this also makes me question why they were dressed this way .. what a mystery .

They realized they left their juul charger down the hill. So they ran to get it and got clapped by a Russian nicotine Yeti.

Someone farted inside the tent!

The parts of this that bother me are the disfigured face, the tear in the tent, and the radiation. It just doesn’t make sense

next time you go hiking with friends and one of them says I'm in pain, you can just go on without me, what do you do ?

There's so few history RU-vid channels with good narrators. If only most content creators would realize that narrating is an entirely different talent that they don't necessarily possess. Love this channel

There was a flying roach in the tent

I do not know what happened that night. But there is something I know for sure: They were not alone.

I live in the mountains, infrasound is the best possibility because I often get panic attacks just because of the sounds

I'd be so pissed if I died mysteriously, horrible.

My great grandpa had cancer, and committed suicide by taking a bottle of whiskey and wandered into the woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the winter. Anyone who knows how the UP in Michigan is, it's very very cold. He was found in nothing but his underwear. They said it was hypothermia, and a symptom of that is you start to "feel" hot and take your clothes off.

They were testing air mines. Most likely accidentally they were collateral damage from the shockwave. Probably blow some into the river and internally injured the others where they died from hypothermia in the end.

also the pacing of the foot prints indicate that they werent panicking or fleeing but walking a normal pace

Must have been something really horrific for them to abandon camp.

1:06 Video says: They set off on a hitchhiking expedition. The people say: "Man I sure hope there are cars going the same direction as this expedition so we can hitchhike".

A very strange story. We will probably never realy know what actualy happend

They have actually found the concluding theory they had a kind of stove with them and it caught fire then they opened a hole in the tent to let the smoke get out but unfortunately when the fire was out their tent was already smoked so they went down the mountain for help but as scared and cold as they were...accidents happened and the woman with missing eyes it was proven in the later reports that she was only missing part of her tongue like she bit it off. I mean that's just what I know from say more official sources still great video keep it up!

It seems to me that someone cut and enormous fart in the tent which also explains the hole.

I bet one of the ripped a tremendous fart that forced them all to escape

Some people believe that the deaths of the hikers was the result of a Yeti attack after they trespassed into it’s territory. They say that the Yeti attacked the camp and killed some of the hikers, these were the hikers that were found with strange injuries and parts of their bodies missing, the rest of them we able to escape from the creature, but later froze to death due to not wearing proper clothing.

The one hiker who left probably be thinking: Damn I’m glad for that pain.

Question. How long do footprints last when it snows for a month? Not knowing I find it very odd that the footprints stayed under snowfall for so long.