Dyatlov Pass Incident

The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event in which nine Soviet hikers were attacked by Mutants in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959. It was a major slip-up by the Zamrazharka laboratory team, which was subsequently covered up by the Soviet administration.
==History==
===Quiet before the storm===
In 1959, an experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by the 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Each member of the group was highly experienced in trekking, and knew what to do in dangerous situations - unfortunately, their years of experiences did not prepare them for what was coming to get them this time.
===The encounter===
thumb|250px|One of the last photos taken by the Dyatlov group taken the same day the incident took placeThroughout their hike, the hikers have constantly felt the uncanny feeling of being watched, as if something was watching them from the snowy Siberian pines. There was rustling in the woods. When the morning came, Dyatlov came face to face with a terrifying sight - through the tent's opening, a face was poking out. The best description of the head? Inhuman. The hikers screamed and cut open the tent with their knives, but the moment they stepped outside, they saw that they were definetly not alone - there were creatures all around them, striding towards their tent. Monkey-men knuckle-walked through the snow towards them, hairless dogs followed them, and behind them all, there was a four-armed being, emitting what sounded like a distorted whale song.
The hikers, still naked - as they slept and dreamt pleasant dreams just seconds ago in a warm tent - started to run; yelling for help. The predators ran after them, the monkey-men easily catching up to them and bludgeoning them with their clawed fists, the deformed dogs bit at their ankles, and the four-armed behemoth starting to stride in their direction. The mutants have already mutilated four hikers and started feasting on them, when Dyatlov started a small fire to use as a weapon against them; it didn't do a thing. Even when he climbed a tree, he was not safe - the humanzees climbed up with ease behind him.
The surviving hikers managed to escape the creatures with bruises, but met an even more gruesome fate - having no warm clothing, and being almost entirely naked, they froze to death in the sub-zero temperatures. The entire hiking group was dead; frozen, buried, mangled.
===Cover-up===
On 20 February, the travelers' relatives demanded a rescue operation, and the head of the institute sent the first rescue groups, consisting of volunteer students and teachers. Knowing what exactly they might've encountered, the Soviet Army became involved, with planes and helicopters ordered to join the operation.
On 26 February, the searchers found the group's abandoned and badly damaged tent on Kholat Syakhl. The campsite baffled the search party. Finding all the dead bodies took more than two months, with the final bodies being found on 4 May under four meters of snow in a ravine 75 meters further into the woods.
The Soviet Government knew the truth behind this tragedy - Vladimir Demikhov's and Lev Surov's Zamrazharka mutant-making facility was only several miles away from the hiking group's tent - some of the facility's mutants broke out of it, and killed the hikers. Not wanting the public to know about just what kind of creatures they're developing, the Red Army stated that the hikers were killed by a "compelling natural force", and the inquest officially ceased in May 1959 as a result of a so-called absence of a guilty party. The files from the investigation were sent straight to Demikhov's Zamrazharka - the two doctors were mighty pleased with just what kind of damage the monsters they were developing could create.
It wasn't however until 1991 when the Soviet Union could at last unleash them upon NATO forces during the Third World War.
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World, E5M5 Inhuman (First appearance, mentioned) 
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