Last week, we analyzed the mysterious deaths and injuries of nine hikers, young adults from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, hoping to take a fun yet relaxing hike together to earn their grade three hiking certification.

Maggie and I hope that you joined us then to listen to their story.

If you didn't, we urge you to listen to episode two of our

podcast and then meet us back here for episode three. If you recall from last week, the group of

friends began the trip with smiles, group hugs, and song, yet they left the mountain, not only

dead, but with mysterious injuries, broken ribs, odd burns, cracked

skulls, missing eyes, and a missing tongue. We know that the members of the group are dead,

and we even can tell when by the contents of their stomach.

But the disparity of injuries and the contradictory evidence leaves us with one question still.

How?

One of the reasons so many conspiracy theories abound is due to a few central reasons, including Maggie, Sasha.

The one.

I know his question.

Yeah.

Giving a false name.

The appearance of the bodies at the funeral, which we'll talk about a little bit later, the

way the Russian government attempted to control the funeral, the well-known fact that the original lead investigator connected the events

that transpired to potential extraterrestrial activity. The knowledge that other hiking groups in the

area reported strange orbs in the sky the night the Dyatlock team met their fate, the tent being

ripped open from the inside, a makeshift tripod set up inside the

tent to capture pictures of something, and the fact that the Dyatlov Pass was promptly shut down

for nearly four years after the incident. Today, we're going to jump into the fanciful and the logical,

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