Frozen Silence: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

Nine experienced hikers fled their tent in the middle of a freezing night. Some were barefoot. Some were found with crushed skulls and missing eyes. None survived.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record examines the haunting mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, a 1959 Soviet expedition gone fatally wrong in the Ural Mountains. Soviet investigators closed the case quickly, claiming a “compelling natural force” was to blame. But the autopsy reports, strange injuries, and contradictory records suggest otherwise.

Was it a weapons test? A military cover-up? A panic triggered by something no one expected to encounter?

Decades later, the files were partially unsealed — but the story remains fractured, like the frozen trail those nine hikers left behind.