>>1284First heard about this on episode #535 of the Dead Rabbit Radio podcast, and the host mentioned that there is a large paper mill in the area that did pollute the water supply.
The segment covering the Hamar-Daban tragedy begins at 16:15:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=53A5SNjJMz0>>1303Not seen any mention of a slab avalanche, or any other sort of avalanche, regarding this incident. The search and rescue team should have been able to see evidence of any form of avalanche on the surroundings and their bodies.
>>1313Think infrasound has also been proposed for the Dyatlov pass incident. It appears that infrasound causes a sense of fear and sea sickness in humans, making them feel like something eerie and supernatural is going on. It has been proposed as an explanation for ghosts.
<<One study has suggested that infrasound may cause feelings of awe or fear in humans. It has also been suggested that since it is not consciously perceived, it may make people feel vaguely that odd or supernatural events are taking place.[38]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#Human_reactionsIn this case the people were quite young - perhaps younger individuals are more easily affected by infrasound? Some people might be less affected by infrasound than others, and that could explain why Valentina survived. If they were poisoned it would be far stranger that she didn't suffer the same fate, and that they all suffered the effects seemingly at once so suddenly.
If they experienced the negative affects associated with infrasound, that could account for Valentina's reluctance to talk about what happened, even years later. She may have had a genuine and overwhelming sensation of something eerie and supernatural happening, and seeing the awful reaction of the other hikers would have intensified this so much more; bleeding from the nose, foaming at the mouth, losing balance, screaming, &c.
In her statement Valentina says that one of the other hikers bit her when she tried to help and get them away - if they suffered the effects of infrasound they might have been terrified and thought something or someone was out to get them.
There are some interesting details www.dyatlovpass.com about this incident. One referring to some Kazakh forum discussing the incident:
<"After some time, two girls fall at once, they start rolling, tearing their clothes, grabbing their throats, the symptoms are the same, the boy is falling behind them. The girl and the guy are left, they decide to leave the most necessary things in backpacks and run down. The girl leaned over her backpack while she laid out, lifts her head, the last guy with the same symptoms rolls on the ground. The girl ran down. The night was spent under a stone, on the edge with a forest zone, the trees were falling nearby, like matches. In the morning she rose back".This is the only time I have encountered any mention of trees falling like matches
There is also another bit that is interesting and contradicts the video of the search and rescue team:
<The scene was terrible, rescuers recall. Almost all of the victims were dressed in thin leotards, and three were barefoot. What happened on the plateau? Why, while freezing, the participants of the expedition took off their shoes? These questions remained unanswered. An autopsy was carried out in Ulan-Ude, which showed that all six died from hypothermia.In the video the victims are all seen wearing their warm jackets and full clothing - did the search and rescue team cover them up before shooting the video? Possibly to make it easier to carry/transport them? Did Valentina, the only survivor, put the clothes back on them before she left them? If they were dressed in the clothes seen in the video, how could have they died from hypothermia?
Buryatia Dyatlov Pass: https://archive.ph/EmtHQ /
https://web.archive.org/web/20201231213614/https://dyatlovpass.com/hamar-daban