Post by Sephiroth on Jan 11, 2015 22:28:10 GMT -5
The "Why haven't we found Bigfoot" thread got me thinking about this one today. As someone with a fondness for cryptozoology, the paranormal, and unsolved mysteries, this one ranks as a particular favorite-and surprisingly little known in the US. Goes like this:
A group of Russian skiers went missing while on a hiking trip in Siberia in 1959. Their bodies were eventually found, but there were a number of peculiar details that have baffled investigators to this day. To start with, their campsite was found first, their tent torn open-but from the inside out, and surrounded by footprints, some of which were barefoot, indicating that something had panicked these hikers so badly that they actually ripped their way out of their own tent and ran out into a Siberian snowstorm in the middle of the night half dressed. The bodies of two of the hikers were found not far from the wrecked camp at the bottom of a tree. They were naked, and the tree they were found under was found to have blood and skin on it, indicating they had tried to climb it, perhaps still afraid of whatever had driven them out of the tent. The remaining bodies were found in a ravine several hundred feet further away. Several of them had suffered massive internal injuries-a corner later compared one victim's injuries to a car crash. The bodies allegedly were also found to be emitting a higher level of radiation than normal, and families of some of the victims even insist that their flesh had an unusual orange color when they were observed at the funerals.
Theories about what happened to these unfortunate campers are, sufficed to say, pretty far reaching. Some have suggested it was an attack by aliens, some a Soviet military weapon test gone wrong, and some have suggested they ran afoul of a Siberian abominable snowman (so that's where Bigfoot went!). To this day no full explanation for what happened has been uncovered. Sleep tight kiddies.
A group of Russian skiers went missing while on a hiking trip in Siberia in 1959. Their bodies were eventually found, but there were a number of peculiar details that have baffled investigators to this day. To start with, their campsite was found first, their tent torn open-but from the inside out, and surrounded by footprints, some of which were barefoot, indicating that something had panicked these hikers so badly that they actually ripped their way out of their own tent and ran out into a Siberian snowstorm in the middle of the night half dressed. The bodies of two of the hikers were found not far from the wrecked camp at the bottom of a tree. They were naked, and the tree they were found under was found to have blood and skin on it, indicating they had tried to climb it, perhaps still afraid of whatever had driven them out of the tent. The remaining bodies were found in a ravine several hundred feet further away. Several of them had suffered massive internal injuries-a corner later compared one victim's injuries to a car crash. The bodies allegedly were also found to be emitting a higher level of radiation than normal, and families of some of the victims even insist that their flesh had an unusual orange color when they were observed at the funerals.
Theories about what happened to these unfortunate campers are, sufficed to say, pretty far reaching. Some have suggested it was an attack by aliens, some a Soviet military weapon test gone wrong, and some have suggested they ran afoul of a Siberian abominable snowman (so that's where Bigfoot went!). To this day no full explanation for what happened has been uncovered. Sleep tight kiddies.