The Dyatlov Pass Incident with Blair Braverman
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week, Sarah tries to solve the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, in which nine experienced ski hikers fled their shelter and ran into the frigid night for reasons unknown. Digressions include yetis, snowmobiles, and Rachel Monroe. Sarah miraculous does not sing Rilo Kiley’s “Portions for Foxes.”
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Links:
https://www.blairbraverman.com/
https://twitter.com/blairbraverman
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass
https://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00393-x?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_PRODUCT&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100094349&CJEVENT=89eb6401bf5311ec83a802f70a82b824
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/russia-dyatlov-pass-conspiracy-theory/605863/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/russia-dyatlov-pass-conspiracy-theory/605863/
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| 0:00.0 | You can't read a victim impact statement to a turtle, or like you can, but they won't know what you're saying. |
| 0:05.3 | You cannot make a turtle regret. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello! |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Your Wrong About. |
| 0:23.7 | Today, we are talking about the Diatlov Pass incident, |
| 0:27.4 | which if you have wasted any of the last 20 years of your life on the Internet, |
| 0:32.2 | you may have heard quite a lot about. |
| 0:34.2 | It's a mysterious event where the culprit could be aliens, |
| 0:41.2 | but it's not aliens, or is it aliens? |
| 0:44.4 | This is a story that I have been intrigued by ever since I was a young cracked.com reader. |
| 0:50.4 | And in recent years, we have had some new advances in our ability to understand |
| 0:55.4 | what happened and why a group of experienced outdoors people died very mysteriously. |
| 1:03.2 | So I brought my favorite outdoors person to talk about it, my friend Blair. |
| 1:08.0 | Blair is a writer, she is a long-distance dog sledder, |
| 1:11.0 | and she has completed some of the toughest dog sled races in the world. |
| 1:15.2 | She's been a survivalist on the TV show, Naked and Afraid, |
| 1:19.0 | and she's the author of three books, including her first novel, Small Game, |
| 1:23.7 | which is about a survival reality show, Gone Wrong. |
| 1:27.3 | It's out this fall, it's available for pre-order, it's pretty fucking great. |
| 1:32.5 | If you enjoy this episode and if you want to read more, and why wouldn't you, |
| 1:37.0 | there are some links in the show notes to some of the fantastic articles that I use to research this episode, |
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