006: The Mountain of Madness
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
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🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mysteries are a rarity in our world. What used to be unexplainable is now quickly answered by the modern marvels of technology and science. So when a new mystery appears, we drive ourselves crazy searching for an explanation, haunted by what we can't explain.
One modern mystery is reasoning behind the strange events that took place on a Siberian mountain in 1959, in which a group of experienced hikers were found dead in bizarre circumstances. Since the day of the discovery, many have been tormented by one simple question: What happened on Dyatlov Pass?
Was it a Yeti, an avalanche, a top secret military test gone horribly wrong that killed the group? Or was it something simply incomprehensible to modern listeners– an ill-fated encounter with goddesses and myths of old?
Episode Highlights:
- Dyatlov Pass Incident: Ski Tourists in Siberia
- The search begins
- First disturbing discoveries
- Nine sets of footprints in the snow
- Charred and frozen bodies
- Conflicting and confusing evidence
- Timeline of events: What went wrong?
- Theories and speculations
- Spheres of light in ancient lands
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the |
| 0:16.8 | supernatural, between history and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:26.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:32.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is |
| 0:38.2 | Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:44.0 | Episode six, the Mountain of Madness. |
| 0:47.0 | Though increasingly rare, there are still mysteries in this world, things that we can't explain. |
| 1:01.3 | They haunt us, challenge us, and despite our every effort, continue to defy us. |
| 1:08.8 | We like answers, and in that sense, this story will be frustrating because it has no answers to give. |
| 1:17.0 | It will only leave you with questions, and behind those questions lurks something unknowable and terrifying, waiting for us to venture too close. On January 28, 1959, under the leadership of college student Igor Diatlov, a group of mostly young people |
| 1:37.8 | gathered their equipment and prepared to leave an abandoned geologist camp in the Siberian-Fredlowsk-O-Blast province in the northern |
| 1:46.3 | Ural mountains of the Soviet Union to continue on the next leg of their journey. |
| 1:52.0 | They were what was referred to in the Soviet Union at that time as ski |
| 1:55.8 | tourist. Ski tourism was a rugged outdoor activity that involved long treks over |
| 2:01.9 | difficult terrain |
| 2:03.2 | deep into the snowy Siberian wilderness. |
| 2:06.2 | It required a significant degree of survival skills |
| 2:10.0 | and tested the tourist's ability to endure the harsh climate and navigate their way across the landscape. |
| 2:17.0 | There were 10 of them, 8 men and 2 women. |
| 2:21.0 | They were students at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in |
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