Six hikers went into the Siberian mountains. Only one came back.

In 1993, a group of young adventurers vanished in the Khamar-Daban range—and what rescuers found looked like a scene from a horror movie: bodies twisted and bloodied, faces frozen in panic, and a mystery that still defies science. Was it a Soviet experiment gone wrong? A toxic fog? Or did they awaken something ancient in the mountains?

We’re tracing the echoes of one of the world’s most chilling unsolved mysteries—the Khamar-Daban Incident.

Book mentioned:

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

One by One by Freida McFadden 

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New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! 

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Edited by Jaimi Ryan and produced by Emma Leventer and Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo!

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