# Cases and true stories that just creep you out

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-and-true-stories-that-just-creep-you-out/971573/5 "2022-09-14T19:55:45Z")

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The Dyatlov Pass incident is pretty creepy (though as with all cases like this the likely explanation rather [mundane](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-may-have-finally-unraveled-mystery-dyatlov-pass-incident-180976886/)):

> **[Dyatlov Pass incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)**
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> The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, transl. "Death of the Dyatlov Group") was an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, in uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent...

The random unexplained radio stations repeating gibberish are also fairly creepy:

> **[The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run)**
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> “MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.

And finally the various mummified bog bodies found in Europe, in and of itself not creepy, except almost all of them have been murdered in various gruesome ways:

> **[Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/)**
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> High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses

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