Mr Ballen uncovers the truth of the missing hikers… #hiking #hikers #navyseal #seal #hardtimes #mystery #conspiracy #conspiracytiktok #fyp #podcast #interview

There's a really famous mystery called the Dyatlov Pass, and it's about these hikers in the 50s, these nine really experienced hikers who are going for their, what's called their level three mountaineering test, which sounds sort of like run of the mill, but in fact, in Soviet Russia in the 1950s, this was like master mountaineer. Nobody had level three. This is like the top. If you did this, you're like the best climbers in the country, if not potentially the world. So this is a big deal. And the way you pass your level three is you, and the people taking it with you, there was nine of them, you have to map out this route through this really rugged part of whatever mountain you're gonna use. They use the Ural Mountains, so big snow-swept, like huge icy mountains, and you map out this course that like checks the boxes of difficulty, and you're effectively timed. You have to start on a particular day and time, and they have people set up along the way, the scheduled checkpoints, if you will, where you have to not only navigate the course, but by reaching these checkpoints at certain times, you demonstrate you can do it efficiently. It would take all your skills to do it. And so they brought cameras with them, this group. This is, again, 1952, I think it was. And so there's these young nine hikers who were like so excited to do this test. No one's stressed. They're so pumped. They set off on this journey. They didn't make it to whatever second checkpoint or whatever it was, and there was a protocol for the people who were sort of sponsoring this test that were part of the checkpoints that knew this. They knew what was going on, where if they missed a checkpoint, there's like this big search that goes out to make sure they're okay, even though there's some expectation that they might not make a checkpoint by like a day, because it's a difficult test. But the protocol is like really extreme. As soon as they go missing, it's like the army gets involved, and they go and follow the route to find the hikers. They follow the trail that they're supposed to be on. This is, again, there's no trees. It's just like the tundra. It's like ice and snow and mountains. And they come across this mountain off in the distance, and they see on the windswept side of the mountain, basically halfway up, are these tents that are just these like canvas tents. You barely see them, but they're situated right in the middle of the slope. So they see these tents. They're in the wrong spot. They go up to the tents, and the hikers aren't there. They're not in there. There's pictures of this too. The tents inside had stacks of clothing, neatly folded and placed in the corners, like as if they hadn't, they left their clothes behind. And the tents themselves were cut open like with a knife, but somehow they deduced that they had been cut open, but from the inside. So presumably one or multiple of the mountaineers chose to cut open these tents in like negative 50 degree weather. And then there were all these prints in the snow that led down the mountain. And some of the prints were bare feet. Some had one shoe and one barefoot. And it's all nine of the hikers. They spotted these prints. And they follow the prints down the hill or the mountains, a big space. And they find this little crops of trees. There's only a few areas in the Ural Mountains in this part of the Ural Mountains that have trees. There's this little group of trees. And when they get to the trees, they find three of the hikers. And they're all deceased. And there's one who's basically almost naked, wrapped up on the ground. There's pictures of this. There's one who I believe was draped over one of the branches up in one of the trees. And then another one that was also on the ground as well. And there's these deep scratch marks in the tree, like gouges on the tree as if some animal had been scratching at this tree. And all three of these hikers are deceased. And it looks like exposure. But they're not really wearing the right clothing or they're missing pieces of clothing, but they're all deceased. There's more footprints that lead away from those three about a mile kind of back in the direction the search party had come from. And there's this big snow drift that created sort of like a snow cave underneath it. And the footprints lead into the snow cave where the other six hikers were. And they're all deceased as well, except in there, the hikers had seemingly exchanged clothing. Some of their clothes had traced levels of radiation. And some of them had parts of their face removed, it looked like, lips, nose, ears. It almost looked like surgical precision removal. They're all deceased. And one of the injuries, there was a person in there who their chest had basically been caved in. And it was deduced that the impact it would have taken, there's no lacerations, just their chest was caved in. The impact would have been equivalent to like a speeding car smashing into you at full speed. But there's no sign of anything that could have done this damage. And so they're all deceased. And so the Soviet government, they launch an investigation. And during this investigation, they discover that there was a huge military exercise, a Russian military exercise taking place in the Ural Mountains who had no idea about these hikers. They have no clue that the level three mountaineering test is going on. It's not even on their radar. And they're 15, 20 miles away. And one of their senior commanders, on the same night that it's believed the hikers all died and whatever happened to them happened, he began noticing all these strange lights in the sky over the Ural Mountains going up and down and moving all around to the point where he actually thought it was another country, a foreign country. Are they invading us? And he literally thought it was like an invasion of Russia. And he sent out messages to say, hey, what's happening over there? Having no idea that he was pointed into the one spot where these hikers were. So during this investigation, they discover that families are clamoring for information about their lost loved ones. Nobody has any idea what's going on. And suddenly, the Soviet government says, oh, we're going to shut this investigation down. All we know is that the nine hikers who died died from an unknown, unnatural force, sealed.