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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
13 reviews
jreads's review
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Gore
hellalibrary's review
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
This was absolutely FASCINATING!
I had never heard of the Dyatlov Incident, but it was mentioned in a book I was reading last year, and I love me a good true crime story!
Let me start off by saying - this actually scared the shit out of me. I do A LOT of true crime - tv, movies, books, podcasts, but nothing has chilled me as much as this story. I had nightmares. Seriously.
In 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the Russian Ural Mountains. That’s not all - there were A LOT of eerie aspects to the event - unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open their tent and fled in a panic - with no shoes on! - and a creepy photograph taken by one of the hikers.
Eichar goes deep into his research to find out what really happened on that mountain by reading the hikers’ own journals and photographs, interviews, and government records.
Through his research, he is able to piece together the days and hours leading up to the hikers’ deaths and perhaps has finally solved this mystery from long ago.
I had never heard of the Dyatlov Incident, but it was mentioned in a book I was reading last year, and I love me a good true crime story!
Let me start off by saying - this actually scared the shit out of me. I do A LOT of true crime - tv, movies, books, podcasts, but nothing has chilled me as much as this story. I had nightmares. Seriously.
In 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the Russian Ural Mountains. That’s not all - there were A LOT of eerie aspects to the event - unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open their tent and fled in a panic - with no shoes on! - and a creepy photograph taken by one of the hikers.
Eichar goes deep into his research to find out what really happened on that mountain by reading the hikers’ own journals and photographs, interviews, and government records.
Through his research, he is able to piece together the days and hours leading up to the hikers’ deaths and perhaps has finally solved this mystery from long ago.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
matttruss's review
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.0
This was my "creepy" book for October, something I always try to fit in during the month. This wasn't so much a scary story as just weird, unexplained and ultimately, quite sad. These were just kids up there in the Ural Mountains and the fact that their family and friends never got any answers and were met with resistance from the government over their funerals and the investigation of their deaths is incredibly sad. The author did a great job covering and systematically breaking down each theory while poking holes in them. Eichar does come up with a very intriguing theory and collaborates it with some experts in this area. This is something that investigators of the time wouldn't have had an explanation for and probably why we were left with an "unknown compelling force" for so long. The theoretical scenario that Eichar laid out seems the most plausible theory and I hope it provides someone, somewhere some of the answers they were looking for. These hikers died as true friends and truly great hikers, doing whatever they could to save their friends.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
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