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we'll be dipping back into the archive for the next two weeks. This week's episode takes us back

to one Friday in January, 1959, to where a story began in the foothills of the Ural Mountains,

a story that is perhaps the most extraordinary ever featured on the show.

Some call it the Diatlov Pass incident.

You might know it as Unexplained Season 2, Episode 4,

when the snow melts.

Music It could be said that the history of life is a history of movement, a vast dance of inexorable entropic change.

From the propulsion of the stars and the planets to the vibrating of subatomic particles

and the stretching of space itself, it's useful to remember sometimes that even the most solid seeming of objects

are in one way or another in a constant kinetic state.

Be that the glass in your window, the elements of a diamond, or even the earth under our feet.

Let us then, for a moment, take one singular place and look upon it as an ageless being of

omnipotence might observe it.

You're listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean, Smith.

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