Ep. #97 - What If You Never Came Home? Pt. 2 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In 1959, nine ski hikers and friends entered the Ural mountains, and never came home. What followed was a months long investigation with little conclusion, as to what happened to the group of hikers. Skiers. Skikers? Hiers?

Through some "unknown compelling force" (as the official explanation would finally say), the nine friends left their tent in below zero temperatures, half-clothed, and proceeded to die of various causes, including crushing of bones, exposure, and removal of body parts. How and why they did what they did, is the topic of today's episode of The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Toiletless, Struggle Bus City, Our Bodies Yell Swear Words, There's a Yeti In My Tent, and a whole lot more.

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0:00.0	All right, so let me tell you guys about my shithole.
0:07.0	Guys, Ryan doesn't have a toilet.
0:08.7	Yeah.
0:09.4	And we just talked about that for a handful of minutes.
0:12.0	Today's not our collective day, apparently.
0:14.5	You know, it's raining.
0:17.8	We, in almost 100 episodes, we have not had a recording malfunction i mean if you count the
0:24.3	patreon it's like at least 150 at this point go up probably closer to two i don't know it's got to be
0:31.1	closer to 200 at this point for the first time in at least 150 episodes i just didn't record
0:36.5	my own audio for the first three minutes.
0:38.2	So we're here doing it again with you.
0:39.8	Yeah.
0:40.3	And me complaining about my shithole was me yelling at Spencer about the fact that I've been toiletless for 48 hours.
0:48.5	Homeownership is a motherfucker sometime, ain't it?
0:50.4	And I had to, I had to text Spencer at noon today and go, hey, bro, what are you doing?
0:56.3	Spencer and I live close to each other.
0:58.2	I said, are you home?
0:59.4	And he's like, yeah.
1:00.4	And I said, can I use your bathroom?
1:03.7	Which is like a weird question to ask someone if you haven't been friends for a decade.
1:08.1	Sure.
1:09.0	Or if you don't live like a mile away from each other.
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