The Khamar-Daban Mountain Deaths

Bedtime Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In August 1993, a group of kayakers from Ukraine travelled to Irkutsk in Southern Siberia. Whilst enjoying the river and scenery south of Lake Baikal, they came across something haunting: a 17-year-old girl, covered in blood and mumbling incoherently about a tragedy that had befallen her and her friends. Her name was Valentina Utochenko, and the terror she survived still baffles experts, who refer to the event simply as the Khamar-Daban Mountain Deaths. MUSIC Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	In August 1993, a group of kayakers from Ukraine travelled to Air Cusk in southern Siberia.
0:39.1	Whilst enjoying the river and scenery south of Lake Baikal, they came across something haunting,
0:44.7	a 17-year-old girl covered in blood and mumbling incoherently about a tragedy that had befallen her and her friends.
0:53.0	Her name was Voluntina Yutyshenka, and the terror
0:56.2	she survived still baffles experts, who referred to the event simply as the Hamar-de-ban
1:01.7	mountain deaths. The
1:13.6	The More than any other landscape, mountains seem to hold hidden threats beyond our comprehension.
1:47.0	This is especially true in Siberia, a 5 million square mile expanse encompassing frozen tundra, deep forests and dozens of mountain ranges.
1:59.0	In its southern reaches lies an area few outside Russia have ever heard of,
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