Alien Lore No. 232 - The Dyatlov Pass incident

By Jack Brummet
Alien Lore and Paranormal Editor


The Dyatlov Pass incident  is one of the creepiest and spookiest stories of the 20th century.  What happened there has been ascribed to Sasquatches/Yeti/Abominable Snowmen, covered up government "experiments," and, of course, The Greys.

Let's start with the facts (of which there are few, since there were no survivors and there are many clues that the Soviets may have suppressed some/most of the facts and findings).


High in the Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959, nine murders [probably] occurred. Of course, if the perpetrator(s) happened to be bears or another animal, it wasn't murder at all but another unfortunate man vs, beast encounter.  The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl, or, Холат Сяхл.  The pass, where the bodies were found has since been renamed Dyatlov Pass, or, Перевал Дятлова, after the leader Igor Dyatlov.  Nine skier/hikers were found dead on the pass.  The best the Soviet investigators came up with was that "a compelling unknown force" caused the deaths. 


Contemporary Investigators on the scene believed that the hikers tore or cut open their tent from inside and escaped barefoot (they left their boots behind) into the night temperature of just above 0 degrees Fahrenheit.  It appeared to the investigators as if they were trying to escape something inside the tent. The bodies showed no signs of struggle (e.g., no defense wounds), but two victims had fractured skulls, and two had broken ribs and massive internal injuries more consistent with a car accident than an encounter with humans or animals.  One of the hikers tongues had been removed.  The hiker's clothing was later tested, and was found to be radioactive.



Only the hikers footprints were found--there was no sign of any other humans or animals.  

Like all classic 20^th Century mysteries involving groups of missing persons or enigmatic deaths, there is a group of UFOlogists convinced that UFOs or The Greys had something to do with the slaughter.

Lev Ivanov, the lead Soviet investigator, collected a report from a group of hikers suggesting that something extraterrestrial might have resulted in the Dyatlov Team’s murders.  The hikers camped in an area 32-miles south of Kholat-Syakhl that night, and saw a series of “strange orange spheres” in the northern sky.  For the next month and a half, other residents in the region reported similar objects in the night skies. 

Ivanov himself actually believed that these spheres might have a link with the deaths. In a 1990 interview, Ivanov claimed that he was ordered to close the case and classify the findings as secret.

Officials were worried that reports of UFOs in the area by multiple eyewitnesses — including people in the  military and weather service — could result in some unnecessary speculation, or panic.  Ivanov told a newspaper reporter "I suspected at the time, and am almost sure now, that these bright flying spheres had a direct connection to the group’s death.”

One thing not mentioned in this video is that a note was found near the campsite that said "from now on we know there are snowmen."

A photo gallery, including the search party photos, can be found here.

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