Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Another bizarre and gruesome unsolved one is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

The murder of Junko Furuta was solved but is horrifying!

This is actually revolting!! Could you imagine being this poor girl in that situation? 44 days they done this to her! It's just sick :mad:

this one always gets me!

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--Kaiser-- wrote: »

The theory is not that there was an avalanche, the theory is that they thought there was an avalanche, which explains why they would run from their tent not fully dressed.

BTW, 'compelling unknown force' sounds ominous, but in reality it's an incorrect translation of force majeure, a legal phrase meaning unavoidable accident or event such as a hurricane (for example).

The fear of avalanche is a reasonable theory but has some problems.

Would the skiers really be fooled by a jet flying overhead? Once they reached the trees would they not have realized that there had been no avalanche and immediately return to their tents? How could three people sustain such crippling injuries by falling into a shallow ravine? Also a study of the photographs indicates that there was actually a very, very small chance of an avalanche.

More than 100 expeditions to the region have been held since the event took place and none of them have ever reported conditions that might create an avalanche in this location

Dyatlov was an experienced skier and the much older Alexander Zolotarev was studying for his Masters Certificate in ski instruction and mountain hiking. Neither of these two men would have been foolish enough to allow the camp to be established anywhere in the path of a possible avalanche.

I think the biggest clue is in the actions of the Soviet authorities.

Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident.

The matter was classified by the Russian government until 1993.

"The original chief investigator Ivanov also revealed that he had been ordered by senior regional officials to close the case and classify the findings as secret. The authorities had been worried by reports from many eyewitnesses, including the weather service and the military, that “bright flying spheres” had been spotted in the area in February and March 1959, with a notable concentration of accounts dating from 17 February. “I suspected at the time and am almost sure now that these bright flying spheres had a direct connection to the group’s death,” Ivanov told Leninsky Put, a small Kazakh newspaper. "

"The files contained testimony from another group of adventurers, geography students, who had been camping about 50km (30 miles) south of the skiers on the same night. The leader of the group said they had seen strange orange spheres, or “balls of fire”, floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl on the night the students died. Another wrote that they saw “a shining circular body fly over the village from the south-west to the north-east. The shining disc was practically the size of a full moon, a blue-white light surrounded by a blue halo. The halo brightly flashed like the flashes of distant lightning. When the body disappeared behind the horizon, the sky lit up in that place for a few more minutes.”

"Two years before the students disappeared, the Soviet Union had sent the first satellite into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; two years after their deaths, in 1961, Yuri Gagarin would fly from Baikonur to become the first man in space in 1961. Could the Russ­ian space program have any bearing on the mystery?"

"Yury Kuntsevich the 10th member of the fateful expedition and its only sur­vivor says he led a group to the area in 2007, where they found a “cemetery” of scrap metal that suggested the military had conducted experiments there at some time. “We can’t say what kind of military technology was tested, but the catastrophe of 1959 was man-made,” he believes. "

"Last year, six members of the original search party and 31 independent experts gathered in Yekaterinburg for a conference organized by Ural State Technical University, the Dyatlov Foundation and several nongovernmental organizations. They concluded that the military had been carrying out tests in the area and had inadvertently caused the deaths. But “we still lack documents and ask the Defense Ministry, the Russian Space Agency and the FSB to provide us with them to obtain a full picture,” the partic­ipants said in a statement."

OS119 wrote: »

Soviet Union developed a weapon that remotely destroyed people, blinded others, ripped branches off trees, ripped out tongues, and threw half a dozen people a mile.

Who has said this, the only guess I've read is that it was possible a missile test which could explain them leaving their tent in a hurry with little clothes, the injuries could be explained by falls etc.

Who said anything about destroyed people, ripped out tongues, and threw half a dozen people a mile by a missile test?

The mystery of why at exactly the same time as I was reading Killer Pigeon's post in the Most Retarded Things thread about it getting to 100,000 views, the guy on the South Park episode on TV congratulated Stan and Kyle on getting past 100,000 points on Guitar Hero.....

Just a coincidence of course, but I always seem to get really strange coincidences like that in streaks.

enfant terrible wrote: »

Who has said this, the only guess I've read is that it was possible a missile test which could explain them leaving their tent in a hurry with little clothes, the injuries could be explained by falls etc.

you really believe that in 1959 people would not have recognised a night time rocket firing?

do you believe they had been living in a cave in the upper Amazon for the previous 10 years?

even if they had been surprised by a relatively nearby rocket launch (and i'm given to understand the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Red Army didn't put adverts in Pravda), they would have gone outside, said 'ooohhh, a rocket launch, how cool. fcuk me its cold, get back in the tent and lets have a brew'.

they would not have run into forests and bitten their tongues off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion_incident

Hacking before the internet was around. video is just weird, and they still dont know who was responsible 24 years later.