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I now, the world is rather familiar with the infamous fates of the nine hikers who died in the northern rural mountains in 1959.

It's a genuinely disturbing, compelling mystery, one that has been picked up and run with through paranormal, historical and true crime podcasts alike.

But would it surprise you to know that the ill-fated group led by Igor Dyatlov weren't the only ones to suffer such a strange, horrific, mysterious demise on the slopes of a Russian mountain?

Unfortunately, tragically, they weren't.

A mystery is odd and frightening as the Dyatlov pass incident. One could argue should only come around once, not in a lifetime, not in a century, once.

Yet, just 14 years later, a similar occurrence happened. 20 years after that, another happened.

Now these other incidents weren't exactly the same as the Dyatlov incident. They happened in their own way with their own mysterious circumstances.

But like Dyatlov, we're left standing alone in the cold winds of uncertainty, hurling questions at the unseen force of inexplicability, with only silence, gaining to answer back.

The two events in question happened in opposite corners of the country, and out of 17 hikers who left home for a challenging but spirited trek in the wilderness, only one came back alive.

Ten met their fate near the Shivare River on the Kula Peninsula in northwestern Russia, and six met theirs on the Hamar-Dabon mountain range in southern Siberia.

And the one survivor, part of the Hamar-Dabon group, told of a harrowing ordeal that again left more questions than answers.

Official reports downplay the deaths as mere consequences of hypothermia, but the puzzle pieces don't quite add up to the same picture.

And many have questioned their validity and the validity of the survivor's recount.

From catapatic winds to cursed land and everything in between as explanations, you're going to want to put an extra log on the fire and zip tight as we take a look at these other Dyatlovs on this episode of blurry photos.

Hello and welcome to blurry photos, I'm your host, David Flora.

I've got a good two-parter here for you, and as a heads up, I'll be ending this one without the usual pomp and shirkim stands, so it'll eventually flow directly into the next part.

So let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who reached out to me with kind words in my grief. It's incredibly kind of you and I appreciate it everyone.

For those I didn't get a chance to thank directly, thank you to John, Daniel and Lulu, Marie, Tim, Herbert and Will for reaching out.

And thank you to Nancy as well and Nancy, I tried responding to you, but I'm wondering if the email address had a typo.

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