A resident of Verkhoturye, in the past an avid hunter Anatoly Stepochkin, gave a unique testimony to the Sverdlovsk police in the case of the death of Igor Dyatlov's tourist group in 1959, capable of shedding light on one of the most mysterious mysteries of the 20th century, makataka.ru reports.
Perhaps, in the case of the mysterious death of the Dyatlov group in 1959, they will put an end to it. At least, this could be facilitated by a new version put forward by one of the residents of Verkhoturye. Alexander Stepochkin, a 72-year-old hunter, came to the attention of law enforcement officers when, while unraveling the case of armed extortion, they found the trail of the owner of the old TOZ-34 rifle, which appeared in the materials. As it turned out, Stepochkin was not the only owner of the weapon.
He also told the police some details that may soon help reveal the secret of the death of Igor Dyatlov's tourist group. According to Stepochkin, in 1981 he exchanged a gun with an old Khant, who, by his own admission, took part in the massacre of tourists. The Khanty are the local people of Verkhoturye, who considered themselves "masters" of the surrounding territory and jealously guarded the pass from outsiders as a sacred place. When the students, led by Igor Dyatlov, laid the route here, they accidentally stumbled upon a cave where the Khanty made sacrifices. There were stacked gold, platinum, furs - all this, as a representative of the indigenous people told Stepochkin, was seized by the uninvited guests. But the Dyatlov group could not go far - the Khanty tracked them down and decided to kill them. “We made a hole in the tent at night,and the shamans launched some kind of dope there. And the hunters and I surrounded it all, and when they got sick there, they began to jump out of these tents. We caught them all and killed them all there,”Stepochkin told the Sverdlovsk policemen the revelations of a participant in the massacre of Dyatlov's group. This version is supported by the remarks of law enforcement officers: in the Dyatlov case there are indications that representatives of one of the shamanic clans refused to look for the group.that representatives of one of the shamanic clans refused to seek the group.that representatives of one of the shamanic clans refused to seek the group.
In addition, these Khanty were confused in their testimonies and could not explain where they were. But still, this story has inconsistencies. So, it is not clear where the looted sacred objects went? After all, nothing was found with the dead students. In addition, their acquaintances talked about the high moral principles of tourists: they would not just covet the good of others. An interesting detail about the "sacred place". Presumably, the tourists came across the Ushminskaya cave, which was really revered among the Khanty. Archaeologists have found and are finding religious objects and animal remains there. But in order to go down there, you need special equipment, which, of course, the Dyatlov group did not have. It is also doubtful that the peaceful Khanty will attack tourists. Perhaps even Dyatlov's group accidentally stumbled upon the cave, but it is unlikely that they would have taken whatwhich belongs to the local people (given how attentive they were to the cultural values of the indigenous peoples, the students even learned the local language).
Experts assumed that the murder of Dyatlov's group was ritual - the nature of the injuries of one of the students spoke in favor of this, some of them had disfigured faces, cut out parts of bodies, etc. But there is no official explanation for these strange details. Previously, there was already a version about the attack of residents on tourists. When in 1959 nine people with signs of violent death were found at the pass, the shamans were questioned, but they all refused to testify. True, the investigators were embarrassed that the tourists were found far apart from each other. It turns out that they were not killed in the tent. In the meantime, the main version remains that on the night of February 1–2, 1959, an avalanche came down in the Ural Mountains, which covered the tent and killed several people. The rest, in the dark and in the cold, scattered across the territory and died from frostbite and animal attacks. Nevertheless, the official conclusion says that the death of the Dyatlov group was due to the impact of "a spontaneous force, which people were not able to overcome." So the version told by the hunter must pass the test and get a chance to exist.
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