# In the spirit of Halloween - The Dyatlov Pass Incident **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637 "2008-10-26T15:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/1 "2008-10-26T15:57:58Z")
As Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, is fast approaching, and as I won’t be able to celebrate in the proper style (or at all, really), I decided to make myself feel better by starting a thread about one of my favorite real-life creepy stories, The [Dyatlov Pass](http://www.sptimes.ru/story/25093)[Incident](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_pass_accident). I realize that the most obvious explanation is probably the true one, that these people simply found themselves victims of hypothermia and exposure, but still, there’s enought mysterious details to the story to give me a thrill. Evidence of traumatic death ? Radioactivity in the clothing? _A missing tounge_!? Creepy! Enjoy… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/2 "2008-10-26T17:31:36Z")
Interesting. I suspect Vodka was a contributing factor. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/3 "2008-10-26T18:12:45Z")
This is really intriguing. The Wikipedia article suggests the victims were blinded, which explains their disorganized behavior. What I want to know is, why radioactivity on the clothes? What about the victims themselves? Did they show any signs of radioactive poisoning? I’m thinking this had to do with a military testing accident, but it’s so odd that there were no signs of an explosion. And the orange spheres… bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/4 "2008-10-26T18:35:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Interesting. I suspect Vodka was a contributing factor. Radioactive vodka, maybe? But actually, probably not a bad guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/5 "2008-10-26T18:45:45Z")
Cracked has a good list of “creepy-sounding stuff with perfectly normal explanations” - evidently the radiation was in none of the reports made at the time. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/6 "2008-10-26T18:46:57Z")
Should we give Shaggy and Scooby a ring? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/7 "2008-10-26T18:50:38Z")
Is that the same Ekaterinburg where the Nicholas II and his family were killed? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/8 "2008-10-27T01:44:23Z")
They P O ed the wrong people? ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/9 "2008-10-27T04:14:13Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > evidently the radiation was in none of the reports made at the time. Could you point me toward the website with that info? I’m quite intersted in this incident, obviously, but I’ve not been able to find a site that either had or reliably referenced the original reports. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-spirit-of-halloween-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/469637/10 "2008-10-27T15:34:56Z")
Well, it’s a humor site, but generally it has its head screwed on in the right direction. I didn’t look at any links, but there might be something worthwhile in them, or you could always e-mail the author and ask. > **[6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)](https://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html)** > > The world is a magical place, full of mysteries science may never understand. It's also full of bullshit that people just make up to draw attention to themselves. > At the heart of pretty much every "paranormal" phenomenon you find some lonely,...