On January 23rd, 1959, a 23 year old engineering student named Igor Dyatlov led a group of ten experienced hikers on an expedition to earn his grade 3 certification. At the time, this was the highest certification available in the Soviet Union and brought great honor to those that achieved it. On what should have been a trip of a lifetime ended in disaster when "an unusual event of unknown origin" caused all but one member of the group to perish in the harsh winter climate. The circumstances around their deaths have left people baffled as to what caused them to meet their ultimate demise. There are a lot of theories as to what happened, some plausible and some.....well let's just say they're out there. The only thing people can say about what happened with certainty is that it was Some Weird.

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