10 Unsolved Mysteries That May Have Finally Been Solved

In 1959 a group of Russian hikers failed to send a telegram indicating that they had safely reached their destination after trekking through the Ural Mountains. A rescue search was then mounted to locate the missing travellers. Eventually authorities found the group's tent seemingly abandoned with all of the group's belongings still inside and a large hole cut through it.

500 metres away, the bodies of the missing people were found. Many of the nine individuals were found either barefoot or with no clothes on, and had seemingly suffered fatal fractures to the skull. A compelling natural force was listed as the reason for this peculiar happening. Whatever it was, something had forced the group to suddenly cut their way out of the tent and leave all of their personal belongings and clothes behind.

UFOs and strange wild beasts were suggested as theories, as a group of hikers only 50 kilometres away reported seeing orange spheres in the sky the same night as the incident. In recent years however, the explanation proved to be much simpler.

A team of Swiss scientists concluded that a special type of avalanche, known as a slab avalanche, was indeed common to the area now known as Dyatlov Pass. This meant that the group would've heard loud rumblings of snow down the mountain, panicked, left their tent and retreated down the mountain, only to die from hypothermia or as a result of being hit by the oncoming snow, explaining the fractures.