TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8
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