The Oh, Welcome to 1001 heroes, legends, histories and

we're glad to have you have to have off pass incident a Cold War tragedy.

This is your host John Haggadorn

and we're glad to have you with us as we try to solve one of the last great

unsolved wilderness mysteries remaining. The unusual deaths of nine members of a

cross-country ski team comprised mostly of Russian university graduates in 1959.

An event that Russia tried to keep a secret for 30 years.

And of course, we ask why. A few notes regarding research, temperatures, minus

18 degrees Chelsea is 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Multiple conflicting reports have provided a range of temperatures for that night,

but when you average it out, it comes to somewhere between minus 10 and plus 10 Fahrenheit.

The last night was probably somewhere between these figures.

Definitely possibly sub-zero weather.

Second note, please forgive me in advance for mispronouncing any names.

I checked JETLoff before we started and I've been pronouncing that correctly, as it would be pronounced

in Russian.

Third note, always feel free to send your input to me at 1001 stories podcast at gmail.com and that includes

ideas and theories. First, as promised, some of the more accepted theories for you to review.

First, the group ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms and tripped out leaving the tent thinking they were in Shanghai. halo

the genogenic mushrooms and tripped out leaving the tent thinking they were in

shangrela. One story goes that the local Manse tribe

actually fed mushrooms to reindeer and then they let the reindeer digest them having discovered that reindeer, and then they let the reindeer digest them, having discovered that reindeer urine was hallucinogenic.

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