The Dyatlov Pass Incident (Part 1) - Dungeons & Dragons Come To Life

Episode Bio

January 27th, 1959 - 10 hikers, lead by the experienced outdoorsman, Igor Dyatlov, stare into the white abyss that was Sverdlovsk Oblast, otherwise known as “the gateway to Siberia”. After travelling by bus and train through the Ural Mountains, the final trek of their journey, reaching Otorten Mountain, was finally upon them. What they had worked so hard for was closer than ever. They packed up their supplies and departed the small village of Vizhay, the last official outpost and means of communication with the outside world, for the next two weeks. However, little did anyone know, that would be the last means of communication not for two weeks, but forever, for the hikers would experience unimaginable, overmastering terror, ultimately leading them to their deaths on February 2nd, 1959. Almost a month later, their tent site was finally discovered by search groups, eventually leading them to their bodies, their vessels of flesh, to be found… in very odd circumstances. To this day, the case remains unsolved, and the infamous mountain pass was named Dyatlov’s Pass in honor of, Igor Dyatlov.

Explanations range from ordinary to extraordinary; avalanche, windstorm, murder, bear attack, escaped prisoner, Infrasound, tiny tornadoes, death by nuclear waste, a secret government testing facility, radiation, mythical artic dwarves, Yeti, UFO’s… just about anything you can think of.