Unsolved Mysteries... what are the creepiest unsolved cases you've heard of

[Leasy]

That's the most interesting one to me too, but I think the explanation is pretty normal.

The whole crew was in a tent when they heard an avalanche, or thought they heard an avalanche. They thought the tent was going to get swept away and bugged out - someone sliced the side open (probably one of those old-school multiple-zipper openings that was too complicated to mess with or got stuck in the emergency) and they just beat it from their tent as fast as they could.

That explains the condition of the tent, the clothing they were wearing, and the footprints leading from the tent.

Unfortunately, the avalanche didn't get the tent, but DID take out four of the crew, knocking them into the ravine where they died. The one girl was face-down in the stream at the bottom of the ravine - her soaked-up face got waterlogged and decomposed differently than the rest of the body.

That explains the injuries and the location of the four bodies with injuries. It also explains the missing parts of her face.

The other five avoided the avalanche, but now were hundreds of yards from the tent, in the dark, in a storm, in -20F weather, without proper clothing. You can't live long in that. Some of them tried to build a fire, but it wasn't enough or the storm put it out. The others tried to make it back to the tent, but died on the way.

That explains the five who died of hypothermia, the position of their bodies, the broken branches, and the one with burns on his hands.


I think that's easily the most likely explanation.

Possible explanation #2: Same as above, but no avalanche, they were just freaked out by something else and left the tent in a hurry. Could have been a strange noise, group hysteria, delusions due to hypothermia, anything. The four in the ravine fell in there while running from the tent and sustained injuries from the fall. Everything else explained the same way.

Possible explanation #3: Military test shyt. Bombs started going off, the group freaked out, some got hit by ordinance and died, others died in the cold. Soviet military covered up additional details that would have pointed to that explanation.


If you've ever seen people acting crazy due to hypothermia, and you've ever seen animal bodies partly decomposed in the water, then a lot of the weirdest details don't seem quite as weird any more.

This doesnt explain the radiaition and color of their skin on the dead bodies

 

[Ol’Otis]

I was watching something on the science channel and from what i recall, the bushes under bridge have berries or something that smell really good to dogs, so they go and jump over the bridge without realizing it's 50 feet or whatever to the ground.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This doesnt explain the radiaition and color of their skin on the dead bodies

I already addressed the radiation. It's only considered significant by people reading the case second-hand, because it was trace amounts on clothing that obviously couldn't have been directly related to their deaths.

And the skin discoloration was even less relevant. The only place I saw that mentioned was by a 12-year-old at the funerals who didn't understand that that's what happens to White people when they get left out for a few weeks.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

That's the most interesting one to me too, but I think the explanation is pretty normal.

The whole crew was in a tent when they heard an avalanche, or thought they heard an avalanche. They thought the tent was going to get swept away and bugged out - someone sliced the side open (probably one of those old-school multiple-zipper openings that was too complicated to mess with or got stuck in the emergency) and they just beat it from their tent as fast as they could.

That explains the condition of the tent, the clothing they were wearing, and the footprints leading from the tent.

Unfortunately, the avalanche didn't get the tent, but DID take out four of the crew, knocking them into the ravine where they died. The one girl was face-down in the stream at the bottom of the ravine - her soaked-up face got waterlogged and decomposed differently than the rest of the body.

That explains the injuries and the location of the four bodies with injuries. It also explains the missing parts of her face.

The other five avoided the avalanche, but now were hundreds of yards from the tent, in the dark, in a storm, in -20F weather, without proper clothing. You can't live long in that. Some of them tried to build a fire, but it wasn't enough or the storm put it out. The others tried to make it back to the tent, but died on the way.

That explains the five who died of hypothermia, the position of their bodies, the broken branches, and the one with burns on his hands.


I think that's easily the most likely explanation.

Possible explanation #2: Same as above, but no avalanche, they were just freaked out by something else and left the tent in a hurry. Could have been a strange noise, group hysteria, delusions due to hypothermia, anything. The four in the ravine fell in there while running from the tent and sustained injuries from the fall. Everything else explained the same way.

Possible explanation #3: Military test shyt. Bombs started going off, the group freaked out, some got hit by ordinance and died, others died in the cold. Soviet military covered up additional details that would have pointed to that explanation.


If you've ever seen people acting crazy due to hypothermia, and you've ever seen animal bodies partly decomposed in the water, then a lot of the weirdest details don't seem quite as weird any more.

Makes sense..
I haven't read this in a while..didn't one of them have injuries that were like the equivalent of a car going forty tho?

 

[Motife43]

A good reddit thread with various cases I came across today: What are some of the creepiest Wikipedia pages that you know of? : AskReddit

 

[Nomad1]

D. B. Cooper is a good one

D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CoochieMane]

Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

just a dyslexic nikka trying to write a suicide note.

 

[Ol’Otis]

just a dyslexic nikka trying to write a suicide note.

sounds logical

 

[Ol’Otis]

just a dyslexic nikka trying to write a suicide note.

but its also the case of how he got there

 

[KushSkywalker]

I read somewhere that the unfamiliar people you see in ur dreams are actually dead and their spirit is standing over u watching u as you sleep

 

[Ol’Otis]

 

[ZoeGod]

The man from Taured story has me.
Mothman
Superstitous mountains

 

[Ol’Otis]

The Smiling Man

 

[Champagne Kudo]

I read somewhere that the unfamiliar people you see in ur dreams are actually dead and their spirit is standing over u watching u as you sleep

.

fukk SLEEP

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The stuff he's throwing out is diversionary.

You do know that the avalanche theory is not accepted as a reasonable explanation right?

Motherfukka actually said I was trying to be diversionary..... damn yall internet cats some lames....

Avalanche[edit]
The theory that an avalanche caused the hikers' deaths, while initially popular, has since been questioned. Evidence contradicting the avalanche theory includes:[15][16]

• The location of the incident did not have any obvious signs of an avalanche having taken place. An avalanche would have left certain patterns and debris distributed over a wide area. The bodies found within ten days of the event were covered with a very shallow layer of snow and, had there been an avalanche of sufficient strength to sweep away the second party, these bodies would have been swept away as well; this would have caused more serious and different injuries in the process and would have damaged the tree line.
• Over a hundred expeditions to the region were held since the incident, and none of them ever reported conditions that might create an avalanche. A study of the area using up-to-date terrain-related physics revealed that the location was entirely unlikely for such an avalanche to have occurred. The "dangerous conditions" found in another nearby area (which had significantly steeper slopes and cornices) were observed in April and May when the snowfalls of winter were melting. During February, when the incident occurred, there were no such conditions.
• An analysis of the terrain, the slope and the incline indicates that even if there could have been a very specific avalanche that circumvents the other criticisms, its trajectory would have bypassed the tent. It had collapsed laterally but not horizontally.
• Dyatlov was an experienced skier and the much older Alexander Zolotarev was studying for his Masters Certificate in ski instruction and mountain hiking. Neither of these two men would have been likely to camp anywhere in the path of a possible avalanche.

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Searchers said that the area had no signs of an avalanche having taken place. Modern terrain related physics has revealed that the location of the incident is NOT conducive to the formation of snow build up that would cause an avalanche. Since the incident there have been more than 100 expeditions into the area and NONE of them have ever reported conditions condusive to creating an avalanche. Further, the first bodies were found within 10 days of the event and those bodies were only covered by a shallow layer of blown snow that came down from the moutain above via winds. The tent has not been impacted with any form of snow flow of a strength that would have knocked over the tent poles. It had collapsed laterally not horizontally. An avalanche would have left snow flow patterns and other debris distributed over a wide area. None of this was found at the scene of the camp.

An avalanche that could sweep 4 people beyond the tree line some 1.5 kilometers from the tent and into a deep ravine would have had to have had tremendous power. If this had been the case then injuries on the bodies would have been far more serious and different. Also, such an avalanche would have damaged the tree line at the point of impact. None of this was found to be the case in this tragedy. Further, an analysis of the terrain, the slope, and the incline in the area where the camp was indicates that even if there was an epoch avalanche it trajectory would have bypassed the tent and camp. The leader of the group, Dyatlov, and another one of the men, Zolotarev, were both experienced skiers. Neither of these two men would have ever allowed a camp to be set up in a place where they thought an avalanche might happen!