Unexplained Mysteries

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The new film from director Renny Harlin, The Dyatlov Pass Incident, is getting its UK premiere at Frightfest this weekend, ahead of its DVD and Blu-ray release in the UK next week. The movie is based on a real life disaster from 1959, where nine Russian hikers were discovered, dead, in the Ural Mountains. Their mysterious deaths were never explained, but there were no shortage of theories.

Dyatlov Pass Incident

In temperatures of minus 24! And mystery became horror when an inspection of the tent showed its front flaps still buttoned tightly together but huge knife slashes down the sides — through which the occupants apparently fled. Inside was like the Mary Celeste, with everything intact — warm clothes, waterproof jackets, blankets and sweaters that would have been essential to survive in the Siberian weather; plus cameras, diaries and cooking utensils, all apparently abandoned in a moment of madness.

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The Dyatlov Pass incident generally refers to the mysterious deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат-Сяхыл, a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов). The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation.