Crater Found Near Site of Dyatlov Pass Incident?

A researcher in Russia believes that he has discovered a critical clue  to the Dyatlov Pass mystery. The infamous 1959 incident saw nine hikers  perish in the Ural Mountains under suspicious circumstances that have  never been fully explained. In the ensuing years, numerous theories have  been offered, ranging from the prosaic, such as an avalanche, to the  fantastic, including suggestions of a Yeti attack. One explanation which  has garnered a fair amount of support among conspiratorial researchers  is that the group inadvertently fell victim to a clandestine Russian  weapons test. 

This theory appears to be bolstered by what is being heralded as a new  discovery near the site of the incident. Longtime Dyatlov Pass  investigator Valentin Degterev reportedly claims to have found evidence, by way of Google Earth,  of an impact crater measuring nearly 100 feet in diameter and less than  two miles from where the hikers met their doom. Based on historical  reports that the clothes of some of the dead tested positive for  radioactivity, the researcher speculates that their untimely end was due  to a mishap involving a nuclear rocket.

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