Welcome to another edition of Time Sucks Short Sucks. I'm Dan Cummins and today we will be exploring a strange and disturbing Russian mystery.

On the morning of Thursday, August 5, 1993, in the Russian Republic of Burayatia, a hiking trip into the Kibar-Dibond Mountains of southern

Siberia that began near the shore of Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest, largest freshwater lake on Earth went terribly,

terribly wrong.

According to the most common depiction of events, the account most often portrayed on a number

of conspiratorial and or paranormal

podcasts and YouTube channels,

while descending down from a Translyator peak

at approximately 7,861 feet above sea level,

one of seven

seven Kazakhs, 23-year-old Alexander Christian, a young man bringing up the

rear of the group, started to abruptly scream.

As his fellow hikers turned to face him they watched in horror as he

began to bleed from his eyes, from his ears, bloody foam bubbled up and out of his mouth.

It was as if something inside of him was being torn apart.

He then fell to the ground, began to vitally shake and convuls.

The group's leader, 41-year-old Ludmila Corovina, now rushed to his aid.

And just after making it to his now unconscious and dying body,

she started to scream out in pain herself.

And then she also began to bleed from her ears, from her eyes, and froth at the mouth.

She, too, now fell and began to convulse, collapsing atop

Christians now limp dead body. 24-year-old Tatiana Philippenko fell next,

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