- Okay, I'm rolling . - My name is Holly King .
I am a psychology student at the University of Oregon.
In 2008 I saw a news report about 30 elite scientists
that had gotten together in a remote area of the Ural Mountains in Russia.
They were trying to solve a mystery that had baffled the world for almost 50 years.
It had become known as " The Dyatlov Pass Incident "
after a leader of the expedition there in 1959, named Igor Dyatlov.
They failed,
but I was riveted by the story.
So when my favorite professor, Dr. Kittles, assigned the class
a project on that very same incident, I couldn't believe it.
I mentioned it to a buddy of mine, Jensen, a film student here,
and he said that we should make a film.
So, we applied for grant, and...
We got it...!
Okay, so...
tell us what happened.
I first heard about the incident when a Russian journalist named Yuri Yarovoi,
published a fictionalized account of it in a book.
Of course, they had him killed.
And it didn't matter that he fictionalized it.
They didn't want anybody talking about Dyatlov.
And I began using the facts of the incident as a teaching exercise in psychology
because there is so much that we know about what happened at Dyatlov Pass,
so many details...
and yet, the whole thing remains shrouded in mystery.
What are some of the explanations that you tend to get?
The most common cold scientific explanation I get
is a condition called hypothermic dementia...
Hypothermic dementia.
Yeah, that is literally what everybody says.
But my favorite is...
"paradoxical undressing".
That does actually happen. All these people suffering with severe hypothermia.
They get disoriented, think that they are overheating
and then start taking off their clothes.
Come on Holly! These were nine experienced backpackers.
Yeah.
You telling me that they all got severe hypothermia...
- at the same time, on the same night? - Mm hm.
They had been out for three days already. Why then?
An avalanche is another frequent answer.
That is even stupider...
- than "paradoxical undressing". - Why?
If they could hear an avalanche,
then why did they stay away from the camp for 3 hours with no shoes?
But in truth, there are innumerable answers to the question,
most of my students would project their own fears onto it.
The Russian military?
I really expect my students to do more than come up with a believable explanation.
I want them to put themselves in the place of those people,
so that they can try to understand why the victims did what they did.
That is the answer I'm looking for.
We're going to find out the truth.
- Even though they'll never find it. - What do you mean?
There is no truth.
The first leg of our journey will take us from Eugene, Oregon to Chelyabinsk, Russia.
You're not going to use that stupid dotted red line thing
to show us travelling, right?
Wrong!
Our ultimate destination is the Kholat Syakhl,
literally translated "The Mountain of the Dead".
Seriously.
A name the Mansi tribe gave it due to many accounts of mysterious deaths
and disappearances throughout history. So...
we found ourselves an audio engineer, Denise Evers.
She was the only audio person on campus
that could handle the physical requirements.
Why are there skinny dudes in audio?
Hey! What's wrong with skinny dudes?
Oh, sorry! My bad.
And then we found two capable guides.
I'm Andy Thatcher, president of the Northwest Trail Association.
I've climbed just about every mountain worth climbing in the U.S.,
I've also hiked the AT.
- Sorry, the what? - The Appalachian Trail.
It runs from Maine to Georgia, it took me all summer.
- So you think that you can handle this? - Yeah.
Okay. What makes you want to do this, Andy?
Oh, like I said, I've climbed pretty much just about everything
worth climbing in the U.S., it's time for a new challenge.
- Are you scared? - No.
Really, it's just that, you know, we're recreating a trip in which 9 people died.
Yeah, what like 50 years ago? Come on even if it was the Abominable Snowman...
- Yeti! - He is dead and is gone by now.
- And you are...? - He is JP Hauser.
- JP. - Got it.
And you think that you're ready for this?
Friend, explain you're hiking in them later, he's ready.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I took a little time off. - A lot of time off.
"Hauser" like "Hauser Hall"?
Like the building that we're in front of, right now.
- That's the one. - Cool.
That reminds me, I got to get to Philosophy. I'll catch you kids later.
Now that we had our crew it was time to get busy.
We studied the maps, and secured our gear, we gathered our rations and supplies...
and then we trained in the local mountains.
We were all getting excited and eager to go.
- I hate these freaking snowshoes. - But you look so cool in them, Jensen.
Hey! Stay together. You're getting the hang of it!
Almost as much as I hate him.
Shit!
And now, it's January 25...
Time to go.
The search continues today for five Oregon University students
who disappeared last month in the Ural Mountains.
You may recall that 3 days ago rescue workers uncovered items that apparently
belonged to the students, including tents, backpacks and other equipment.
Our Russian correspondent,
Ivan Kudryavtsev, with Russian news channel 24, has more.
Thank you, Ivan.
The students were recreating the ill-fated journey undertaken by Igor Dyatlov
and 8 other Russian hikers 50 years ago for a documentary.
The most promising lead recovered was the students' recording equipment.
Experts reviewed the footage without releasing it to the public, but today,
a group of hackers calling themselves Conspira-Leaks gained access to the footage
and posted it on their website.
I opened the door and the darkness followed me, just like in my dream.
Hey, come on. Hey, hey, hey.
- It was a dream, just a dream... - I'm sorry.
Jensen, is not going to get us out of here!
I'm sorry...
So we've landed in Russia and the next leg of our journey takes us from Chelyabinsk
into the Ural Mountains to a town called Ivdel.
Nice tattoo, angel. Got matching wing, or just one?
- Just the one, and it hurt like hell. - Yeah, I bet.
Any others we should know about? Maybe something you want to show the camera?
In your dreams, perv. Now tell us about that phone.
Phone? Oh yeah.
It's equipped with a GPS, reversal GPS, that is. And when there's no cell signal,
the GPS down here can navigate for us anywhere in the world.
Cool!
Can I borrow it, can you give it out...? You know I didn't bring any fluid?
- You mean like this? - Hey, you talking to your camera?
I'm talking to Lucille.
You talk to her like she's a girl?
Some guys get very attached to their cameras.
Don't listen to 'em, baby, they're just jealous.
- Thank you. - Very attached...
Thank you.
Can I see that?
So what is it about all guys, that makes you guys think,
I just want to strap on a backpack and spend a week out there?
It's a test, you know? Man against the elements.
People survived for thousands of years without any of these kinds of stuff.
So rather than you need to do without, you bet your ass I do.
You're awfully confident.
Well, you got in all that, anything less than confident, you're not coming back.
Okay. What about you, JP?
I just figure we only get one go out of it, you know?
I want to try to do and see as much as possible.
I've got everything I need in that pack to survive for months...
- That pack? - Years maybe. Yeah, that pack.
How many people could say that?
Well, but we don't need to survive for that long.
- Well, you never know. - You never know.
We're spending one night in Ivdel, so we can interview a man named Peter Karov.
He was actually the tenth member of the Dyatlov group
but got sick on the first day out and had to turn back.
Not long after, he had some kind of breakdown
and he has been in this psychiatric hospital here ever since.
You are too much! Hey, hey.
Don't touch the camera!
Turn it off! No recording!
I just want to get you saying that on camera!
You must go now, please!
Come on Ivan. The Cold War's over, we're friends now.
- Why can't we interview Peter Karov? - He's dead.
- What? - Now go.
- How did he die? - Go!
- Sure friendly, huh? - Yeah.
Hey Holly, top window!
What? Is that him?
- I don't understand! - Oh! Did you see that?
Was that for us? What did it say?
- You guys saw that, right? - Yeah, what the hell...?
I know I'm starting to sound like Jensen,
but I believe that was Peter Karov we saw in that window.
And I really want to know what was on that note he showed us.
But since we can't see him, and trains don't run here,
we're trying to find a ride to a town called Vizhaj, where we'll begin our hike.
You know, I'm not sure we should have sent Jensen as American emissary.
That guy could restart the Cold War.
Okay, so these guys say that there is a local bar down this way that
we should check out, because a couple of the locals might have family in Vizhaj.
So we might be able to hitch a ride. Sounds good?
- Let's go. - A bar sounds good to me.
Aw, that's the wrong way, man!
I did not! This is the way he said we should go!
That's what I'm talking about! Jensen 1 Andy 0.
Oh look at that, you can't take your dogs inside.
Looks like you're going home alone.
- I'm sorry. - Calm down!
Hey Holly, you know why there's no drunk driving in Russia?
- No. - Ta -da!
Hey! Hey! Let's just take a picture! Come on!
- Yeah! - Yeah, I got a timer on my camera.
Only if we can do stuff on the iPhone 3.
Let's go. Okay.
- One.. - Cheese.
- Two... Three... - West Coast!
Do you speak English?
Of course.
- Something to drink? - Yes, please.
Jensen, we're looking for a ride here.
We are young attractive people in a foreign land and we would like to drink.
- Where you are going? - Vizhaj.
Now, about that drink?
Vizhaj?
What for?
We're making a documentary about the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Oh...
Then you must try this!
- What is that? - VIP, gentlemen.
- Oh, come at me shot! - It's scuzzy with me.
Oh shut up.
You're with me, so you get the special treatment.
Can I get a cigarette of mine?
Yeah! I think there's plenty around.
- Ah... the unmarked Bottle of Doom. - Thirsty bottle.
- Oh my God, do you smell that? - Yeah!
- Oh God! No! - It stinks.
- Maybe not so full... - Fill it up!
That is big!
Let's do it! Okay.
- Shall I pass them around? - Wait, wait wait!
- Hello? - He got more.
Oh God, it's gonna be messy.
- It's call is always... - Might be a mess here with me, bitch.
Can you please...?
Gentlemen, come have your shot!
Here's to success of your trip.
- Thank you. - "Na zdorovje "
What?
Well, I may not know anything about the people,
or the culture, or the history or the women
of Russia, but I did my homework on good manners.
- So... alright! - Cheers, you guys!
Oh, that's some serious shit!
What are you guys? Pussies?
What is that?
- Sa -ma- gon. - Samagon.
Ah it's some... it's like Russian moonshine.
Yes? Why serve us Samagon?
Ah, they came to try here...
- Before they left. - Who? Who out of here?
Dyatlov! They drank this before they left.
Stop it. It's not funny.
- It's not a bad omen at all, right? - No, it's just a coincidence.
I believe we will take one more round, my friend.
- Yeah. - Rack 'em up!
- You're making movie? - That's right.
- And going to Vizhaj, yes? - Yeah.
Yeah, do you know how we can get there?
I will take you.
Oh! You will? Okay.
We leave tomorrow.
Yes, that's great. Can you take all of us?
No problem.
I told you man, it'll work out.
Okay, can we get... this guy a drink?
- Okay drink. - Vodka.
Thank you very much.
No problem. I am Sergei.
See? This isn't so bad.
Who put Jensen in charge of transportation?
At least we got the ladies, bro.
- Keep dreaming. - How far is it?
This Vizhaj? About forty miles.
Forty? Great.
At least we have enough potatoes to choke donkey.
- Come on Denise, let's go! - Guys!
My eyelids are frozen shut.
It's not funny. What do I do?
- Here, hold still. - Go easy on her, Andy.
- Hold on. - Ouch.
Hold on, hold on!
There you are. There you go, girl.
- Yeah, thanks. - You okay?
It's cold out here? I suppose you got the...
- Yeah, it feels kind of cold. - Alright, let's just go!
No, man! That's not cool.
I'll give you 1000 bucks if you lick that bumper.
I'll give you a dollar if you blow JP.
Come on, guys!
Hey, you're going to love this. Turns out that Sergei is here to visit his aunt.
How exciting!
No. She says that she was part of the first rescue team at the scene at Dyatlov.
- Wait, really? - Yes.
I can ask if she'll speak to you, if you want.
- Yes, yes I want, I want. - I'll be in movie, right?
- You bet! - She speak English?
Better than me.
Can you translate something for me?
- Here, take the camera. - Yeah, sure.
Let's get inside and meet her there.
- What's her name? - Alya.
She was a school teacher.
What is it?
The note that Igor held up.
- Like this? - Yeah, I think so.
What does it mean?
"Stay away!"
Tell us what happened.
My brother, Vallik, Sergei's father, found the first body.
I still remember how he was screaming
when he turned her over.
Go on.
It didn't take long time to find the others.
A trail...
A trail of bodies...
They found two...
and a woman...
led to the tree where they had built a fire.
There we found two
and four more in the ravine.
We were so sad,
but not surprised.
Then we found
nobody had survived.
But the scene was so strange.
I felt...
them people getting nervous.
I felt it too.
Something was wrong with that place.
I walked away, just wanted to get away from it.
That's when I found two others,
on the north side.
There was something wrong with them,
more wrong than the others.
And something...
in the snow near them.
A machine!
- So strange... - Sorry.
Let's... Let's cut a minute.
So, you found 11 bodies.
- Yes. - You're sure?
I know what I saw, young lady.
I will never forget.
It's just... the report, the photos of the scene...
Everything says that there were only nine.
The report?
You believe what everyone tells you to believe...
or you believe your own eyes?
I will drop you a trail here.
We really can't thank you enough, Sergei.
- I told you! - What did you tell me?
Aliens! What else could this be?
What about the military?
You said yourself they were conducting experiments back then.
Well, I'm changing my vote to "aliens" now.
Yeah, that makes way more sense, Jensen.
How about it, Andy? What do you think of Jensen's alien theory?
- Stupid. - Hmm. He's the strong silent type, huh?
I don't think Andy agrees with your theory.
Whatever!
Do you think you enough footage of me? Get some of the mountains.
But you're so much more interesting, JP.
Hey Andy! Denise cannot take her eyes off you.
Yeah, I get that a lot. Oh, Jesus!
What an asshole!
So guys. Is it everything that you hoped?
- Yeah. - Oh, yeah!
JP! Any last words?
Is that it?
- Is that what? - The "Kholat Syakhl".
Yeah.
The Mountain of the Dead!
Jesus!
As you can see, the weather changes quickly,
and it had.
My snowshoe again!
A piece of shit!
- I would not want to die here. - Weather should get better over the next.
- Get some beef we're only going. - Jensen!
- Yo! - Just one more shot! - Come on!
You guys, this is awesome.
So, Mr. Hauser, tell us about cooking on the trail.
Well, I like to keep it as simple and light as possible. Therefore...
I give you... dehydrated Mountain Chili. Delicious.
You're normally a vegetarian, right?
- Seriously? - Yeah.
Well, I don't know... Look here, I have macaroni and cheese, huh?
Mmm!
Alright. So what we do is boil some water.
You're using snow, though?
Yeah. We need to conserve our fresh water, but don't worry.
Boiling snow will kill any bacteria that's in there.
- That smells amazing. - JP, so you are king of king.
Dude, you might want to wait it up!
You burn your mouth.
Idiot!
Why would you give me that, when you knew how hot it was?
- I still can't taste anything. - Serves you right.
- That looks fresh everybody! - What's that?
Chocolate? Anyone?
- Oh, that looks good. - You had that the whole time?
I sleep fine anywhere.
- There was a surprise for you too, Denise. - Really? What is that?
A little earlier when I was chopping up some wood.
Thank you. Nice.
- It's life size. - What do I do with it?
- I can show you later if you want. - I'm sure you can.
How many nights have we got with these guys?
Uh two.
Tasty!
How's everyone's pepperoni?
It's good.
- Want some? - No, thanks.
Oh, Jensen,
show me your beautiful eyes.
- That is sexy. - Is it sexy?
How is your first experience on a professional film set working out?
How is this a professional film set?
This is a professional... This is best of the best, top league, man.
It's fun, man. How you holding up with the hike?
- It's fine. Easy... - Yeah. Yeah really?
- In my sleep. - Come at me hike.
Come at me hike! Come at me mountain!
I was hoping you could lead the expedition tomorrow.
I think we're gonna stick with A-fab...
It's his confidence that does it for me.
And in a few other things he did for you, huh?
Jesus...
I didn't even hear that, and I'm glad...
- You didn't want to hear it at all... - It was hilarious.
Really?
- Isn't that beautiful? - What?
The Northern Lights.
Oh, right.
Yeah, it's very...
lovely.
- How is your tongue? - Fine.
You know, if you're not interested in the aurora borealis,
Denise's tent is over there.
Believe it or not, I'm not actually proving underneath right now.
Okay, what are you doing?
In the week leading up to the incident,
there were reports of orange lights in the sky.
Six totally separate witnesses.
- Aliens! - That's what most people think.
The official response was : "Unusual atmospheric conditions".
So... moonlight reflecting off clouds, things like that.
But you don't believe that.
Hey! You guys should get some sleep!
We get an early enough start, we should hit the site tomorrow.
- Okay! - What?
Big day.
Yeah, I'm just gonna... be a minute.
Okay.
What was that?
- What was what? - That sound!
Never mind.
- Holly! Get up! - What?
- Something was here! - I'm coming. - You gotta see this!
- It's just Jensen, screwing around. - Holy shit!
- What the hell...! - Okay, we're rolling.
- Denise? - I don't like this.
Denise, if anything was going to happen, it would have happened last night.
You don't know that.
I wouldn't put you in any danger.
I know that it's weird, but that's why we have to get it on film, okay?
All right, whatever.
Can you guys wait a sec?
Thanks!
You're a dick.
Ok. So we woke up this morning and we found something weird.
Footprints. Lurking in between these two rocks and around the tents.
The shape is weird. See how big that one is?
And then the other one is even bigger. Two different sets, two different people.
- Oh! People? - I'm not talking about Yetis, Jensen.
Oh come on! Look at the size of these things! What else could do that?
I don't know! A bear, a snow tiger?
- What? A snow tiger? - Snow tigers are all extinct, genius!
It gets weirder.
Anyone hiking in this kind of snow, needs specialized boots.
They need to have a lot of grip, so they either have spikes or very defined grooves.
But these are smooth. Whoever it was, they were barefoot.
Now Andy tells us that, as low as the temperature gets at night here,
- you'd lose your toes in 10 minutes. - Which would explain the Yeti.
- It's not a freaking Yeti! - How do you know?
- Because Yetis don't freaking exist! - You don't exist!
For God sake, Jensen!
Okay, we're rolling.
None of the footprints lead into or out of the camp.
It's like something dropped out of the sky,
walked around in barefoot while we were sleeping, and then took off again.
- Do Yetis fly too? - They might.
Hey, could we pack up now, please?
- Are there really Snow Tigers here? - No, there are no frigging tigers here.
Come on.
We don't have to cross that, do we?
No.
You guys alright? You've been quiet all morning.
Yeah, we're fine.
You don't seem fine.
We just don't like being mess with, that's all.
Do you think that we're messing with you?
No, we think Bigfoot was checking out our campsite last night.
How could we possibly fake that?
Oh, you're right Holly. No ones ever faked footprints in the snow before.
He's right, Holls.
It's cool to cut loose and have some fun, but look around you.
It's the last place in the world you want have everyone freaked out.
You don't know what you're talking about.
So needless to say we're all over one edge this morning.
Holly! Do you hear that?
So we were searching where we think those strange sounds came from.
We listened to the tape and no one can even begin begin to explain what it is...
and then we found these.
Just like at the campsite, no tracks in or out.
We're getting a little freaked out.
Holly! Come look at this! More footprints!
- What is it? - It's a weather tower.
They put them in remote areas like this.
That propeller at the top measures wind speed.
No, not anymore. It doesn't.
- Whoa whoa whoa, what are you doing? - Look at the footprints.
Whatever made that sound, was here, and I want to know why.
- Well? - Hang on.
What the...?
Are you okay? You alright?
- Yeah. - Are you sure?
Holly... come on. I try.
- This isn't safe, Holly! - Yeah, that's what it looks like.
It's not nothing! It is a omen! We should just leave right now!
- Denise, can you just...? - What about the footprints...?
It's probably from an animal. Please, can you just give us a minute!
Hey hey hey, come on.
Look, she's just messing around with us for her stupid movie. Come on.
- Okay? - Yeah.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm just a bit freaked out, that's all.
Well, you know. Everyone's a little run...
I um... I heard about this mountain pass, in China,
where birds fly into walls and people and animals go crazy, and die.
And it's all because the wind generates a 4 mega Hertz sound
that makes people go insane.
- Do not you think that that...? - The wind is making us crazy?
No. Jensen. We all saw the tape and heard whatever it was.
Please tell me what's wrong.
I've heard them before.
Jesus, Jensen.
I had a...
I had a really bad trip when I was in high school.
Like on acid. Okay, I've never done it.
The funniest part is kind of like all your brain cells are firing at the same time.
For the first time in your life, then it got a little weird,
and... I heard them.
And they were chasing me and I was running...
and next thing I remember, the cops were picking me,
and I was in the middle of the street screaming about demons.
And... now I'm out here with you.
- And here they are. - Okay, hear me. When I was a kid...
Yah, I used to have these dreams.
About this place. It was exactly the same, the mountains, the snow, everything.
And it was like there was this magnet, pulling me toward it.
And, you know, I get out here and then there's this door...
A door. And I don't want to open it but I have to.
And then, like on the other side there just this darkness.
Like blackness and it swallows me up.
And I used to wake up like absolutely screaming
and my parents said that I was having those night terrors,
Then they took me to a shrink, and he put me on pills and nothing worked.
Okay. And then I saw that news report about the scientists, and... I just knew.
I said, that's it. Oh my God, that's the place that I've been dreaming about.
And this is how I know that we were all going to do
what nobody else has been able to do.
And we're going to figure out what happened to those people.
Okay. We are just meant to be here too.
Aha. So how's that for crazy?
You've been hanging out with me for too long and you're supposed to be our Velma.
- What's that? - Scooby Doo.
- The dog? - Yeah... No, no, Velma...
You know she's... in the gang
she's like the smart, intelligent woman with short hair, glasses...
- I've never seen it. - Okay, whatever.
Unless you guys want to camp here, we should get going.
I definitely don't want to camp here, okay.
This mountain really is amazing.
Did I already mention how much I hate these freaking snowshoes?
Anybody? Nobody?
- Guys wait! - Come on, slowpoke.
Guys wait! This is it! We're here!
- Oh, thank God! - Are you sure?
I've seen the pictures a hundred times. This is it. This is where it happened.
This is the Dyatlov Pass.
53 years ago today, nine people set up camp on this very ground,
ate dinner and went to bed.
At some point between 9 and 11 o'clock that night, something that Russian officials
could only identify as an "unknown compelling force"
caused all nine of them to flee from their tent in such terror,
that they ripped through it and fled into the night,
that was 17 ° C below zero.
You're gonna love this footage, Andy. You look like a TV chef.
Oh yeah? Which one?
The gay one.
- That's harsh. - That's real cute, Jensen.
Rustem Slobodin, 23,
the first of them to fall.
Igor Dyatlov, 23,
the group's leader and the most experienced hiker,
it was probably his idea to try to the tents.
Zinaida Kolmogorova, 22,
she was just a year older than I am now,
She got the closest to the camp before succumbing.
The only victim showing any sign of a struggle.
She was missing her tongue and a large portion of her oral cavity.
Lyudmila Dubinina, 21.
Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolles.
Alexander Zolotariov.
Alexander Kolevatov.
The cause of death for all the victims was determined to be hypothermia,
but Rustem and Nicolai also had severely crushed skulls,
and Lyudmila and Alexander Zolotariov had a number of broken ribs.
But none of the bodies had any defensive injuries.
No external injuries whatsoever.
Somehow, something managed to crush the skulls of two men
and shattered the ribs Lyudmila and Alexander
without leaving so much as a bruise.
Also, Alexander's body tested positive for high levels of radiation.
Hello!
Where out here, did Alexander encounter so much radiation?
And why only him?
Georgiy Krivonischenko, 24.
Yuri Doroshenko, 21.
While the others ran,
they sat quietly by their dying fire
and calmly froze to death.
- What's up, Andy? - Nothing.
Doesn't look like "nothing".
The GPS is all screwed up, should have alerted us when we got to the site.
I'm lucky to have spotted it.
And I suppose you think that that's my fault too.
- I don't know. Did you screw with it? - No!
If she did, she managed to get over to my watch too. My altimeter is toast.
And look at this.
My compass is a Suunto.
It got me to the Himalayas, and has always worked perfectly everywhere but here.
I think we should go.
- What? We just got here! - We don't have to go back yet but...
we're flying blind without a GPS or a reliable map.
- What's wrong with the map? - We shouldn't be here yet.
What do you mean?
According to the map we've covered 14 miles today.
There's no way we could have gotten here before midnight.
So what? So we were fast.
Look, let's just pack up and keep moving until the compass stops acting up.
There's obviously... some kind of, I don't know,
magnetic field in the rock here or something.
We can start up somewhere new, nobody be able to tell the difference.
It won't match the footage that we shot before though.
Screw the footage, Holly! Something obviously is wrong.
We should just leave. If we start packing now we can make it.
No no, no, no. I don't want to camp here either,
but by the time we get packed up and get moving,
we're gonna be hiking in the dark. No good.
Guys, it's for one night.
You know, people lived for thousands of years without watches and GPS.
I think that we can make one night.
It's what we all came here for.
Alright, I'll go start dinner.
Thank you.
Hey!
I'm learning date night over there,
just starting to feel like a third wheel.
I just don't understand what she sees in somebody like him.
- I mean he's such an arrogant... - Confident...
- self-important... douche-bag - rugged...
Yeah, you know, there's room in that tent. I'm sure if you want to go and join them?
Oh! Maybe for you too, I'm sure you'll have
a boyfriend as nice as Andy one day, so...
What are you doing?
Nothing, I'm just gonna...
Shit!
Thank you.
This is one of the reasons that you can't meet anyone.
No, I can't meet anyone, cause everybody thinks I'm dating you.
Oh you wish...
Those thing about what Ranger Rick said about this being a magnetic field...
Yeah?
What if it is not?
Okay.
Why don't you tell the folks at home what you got there.
So this is a fairly basic Geiger counter.
Um, without going too complicated, it detects levels of radiation.
As you can hear...
there is definitely radiation in this area.
It could be uranium in the rock here.
It's nothing dangerous, but it's way more than we should be seeing.
Yeah, and the source of it...
it's definitely coming from here.
Let's check it out.
- Over this way. - Watch your step.
Lucille does not like this.
I think that we found something.
Hey Jensen.
See how the ice is thinner there?
- Yeah. - The snow...
Yeah? What about it?
It looks like someone's been here,
maybe like, even in the last few days.
Be careful!
Okay.
Here, right up here.
- Holly, be careful! - Okay.
Wait.
Jensen, I don't think that this is a rock.
- Shit! Are you getting this? - I'm getting it, I'm getting it.
Jensen, this...
Be careful!
- Can you see this? - Yes.
Keep going, keep going!
Come on!
- What is that? - I don't know.
- Oh my God! - Oh, Jensen!
Do you see that?
- Tell the camera what you see! - Oh Jensen!
What do you see? Come on!
It's like a cave or something...
Oh my God, Jensen it's... You gotta put the camera down and come help me.
- There's a door! - What?
Put the camera down.
I got to get to some film.
This is so weird!
Of course it's weird, Jensen. Look!
There's a door in the middle of the mountain!
It locks from the outside.
It's designed to keep something in.
- Yeah, but what? - Holly!
Look there! Come on!
The Russian government has spent a lot of time and effort building
a big, solid door on the side of a mountain to keep whatever's inside in there.
- I don't think we should going... - Jensen! What the hell are we here for?
Don't you want to know if the unknown compelling force is a Yeti,
or an alien, or a Soviet engineered Superman?
I want to know what happened here and the answer is behind that door!
So would you just help me open it, please?
Okay?
Wait.
- It's moving... - It's already opened.
It's frozen shut at the seams.
Oh, that's good. That means that we can get it opened by squeezing off the ice...
Okay, I shall get some hot water and we can go...
No, no no. Not that! Jesus!
- No, because... - What?
They're already very jumpy okay, and this is just going to go freak them out, and...
just... I don't want to move camp okay, so...
we'll tell them about it tomorrow.
We'll just leave it now, and then we'll come back, okay?
Hey guys! What's up?
- You want to go to bed? - Yeah, sure.
- Good night. - Good night.
- Good night, Holly. - Good night.
Good night, guys.
What are you reading?
"Slaughterhouse-Five".
- You don't like Vonnegut? - No, I love that book.
- I was just thinking about it yesterday - That's good.
Very impressive!
- Have a seat, Professor. - Thanks.
Just let me put this down...
You know, it's impossible to get warm
when you're sitting on snow all the time.
Yeah. I think my ass has been numb since we left Vizhaj.
Did you guys find anything with the Geiger counter?
No, perfectly safe.
Oh that's good!
I guess, I mean, I know you're hoping to find something for your movie.
There is still time.
Young Love.
I won't be too sure about that...
Thatcher's a good dude, but not sure if he's boyfriend material.
No? I think they look cute.
It's because he is the master of the "trail hookup".
The "trail hookup"?
Yeah, that it is... Oh man.
The "trail hookup". You get a girl out in the middle of nowhere
especially when it is cold, she needs someone to snuggle up with...
How romantic, oh God!
- It's not the worst of it... - He has herpes?
No, not that I know of.
You know that camera on his phone?
Oh, no! He records it
It's not just for shooting landscapes, yeah, like a digital notch on the bedpost.
No! Denise!
She's going down...
So what is your trail game?
I'd like to introduce you to my young friend...
Colonel Whiskey.
- Hello, Colonel. - Yes, please.
John Patrick Hauser,
Are you trying to get me drunk?
See that I had to wait for a little "paradoxical undressing".
Mmm. Nice.
- You really go through? - Don't worry, it's just a "trail hookup".
- What's a "trail hookup"? - You're still in the running, Casanova.
I'm not sure if I wanted that guys. Sloppy seconds.
You could always curl up with Lucille, right?
Hey man, you laugh, but...
if it was legal in the state of Oregon to marry a camera, then...
I would do it. But unfortunately it is not,
so we gonna have to keep our relationship professional... mostly.
Well, I am going to...
- going to sleep. - Right on.
- Good night. - Go ahead.
Sweet dreams.
I'm sorry we accused you of faking those footprints.
It's alright. If I didn't know that I didn't do it,
I would have thought exactly the same thing.
No, we jumped to a conclusion that we shouldn't have.
I expected a slap, not so a little bit. I know better.
Well, if you want to make it up to me, you could...
give me something warm to snuggle up with.
- Seriously? - Yeah.
Yes.
It's... six a.m.
That makes it the third day,
And... it's time to meet Denise.
- What are you doing? - Huh?
- Making our own movie. - Are you ready again?
You got to look so surprised?
I'm not surprised, I'm impressed.
Impressed?
Turn that off.
- What? - Turn it off!
Don't have to yell while having sex...
- Andy! - Oh, better way of moving this part of the show.
Oh! the dinner we had in Ivdel?
- We weren't even there in Ivdel...? - Andy!
Shit!
What was that?
- You heard that right? - Yeah, fuck.
Guys?
Everybody okay?
What was that?
What the hell is that?
Shit!
Denise! Grab your equipment!
Denise, get up!
Avalanche! Oh my God!
Come on, let's go!
Denise! Run, run!
Come on!
Denise, come!
Denise!
No!
Where is Andy?
Oh, God!
Oh, my God!
- Denise! - Denise! Denise!
She's gone!
Denise is dead!
No way man, she could still be breathing somewhere!
She's gone!
- Settle down. - She's gone!
You left her!
- You left her! - Screw you!
She was just another trail hookup to you wasn't she?
I said shut up, right now!
He's right! There's nothing we can do for her!
- They goddamn killed her! - It was an avalanche!
Oh wake up man! They tried to kill us.
They tried to bury us, so look like an accident!
You crazy bastard! *** doesn't happen in the real world!
Are you telling me you didn't see those charges?
Huh? Or was that a horde of Ukrainian exploding mountain ghosts?
- You don't know what happened! - What? What?
You want anyone find us, then you look around!
I had to apply for permits and submit travel plans.
JP, they knew exactly where we were and when we'll be there.
They waited until we were asleep, Jensen is right,
Somebody is trying to kill us!
- Jesus, Holly. You too? - Oh, God!
Okay. So tell me, who is it?
The military, man!
- This is serious! - Great, eh. Great at cold war, prove it!
Shut up! Both of you, shut up! Okay?
I don't want to believe that Denise is gone, but she is, okay?
Now we have to pull together and focus on not losing anybody else.
- Andy, what do we do? - My pack and my first aid kit.
Okay. What now? Tell us what to do?
You guys, you got to reset my legs. It's the bones...
Okay, Jensen, take the camera.
- I can do this, it's okay. - Be careful with my leg!
Sorry, sorry, sorry!
Andy! I need to cut the pant leg, okay. So you just...
- Okay, cut it, cut it, cut it. - I'm gonna be really quick!
Just don't...
Wait, I promise I'm going to be gentle.
- Shit! - Shit, okay.
Andy, just say calm. It's gonna be okay.
Okay, okay, that's fine, that's fine. We just gonna do it this way.
JP...
come here a second, I'm going to need you to get something.
- Oh, God! Ok, ok, ok... - Oh, how is it?
- Ok, it's so good. - How is it?
It's ok, it's ok, it's ok.
It's alright, it's okay. I got that. It's okay.
It's not as bad as you thought. It's...
Jensen, please go get a piece of wood or something we can make a splint with.
- No, no, no! - It's not so bad as you thought,
you're gonna be okay.
- Alright hold on. - I promise, I promise you I'll just...
This is gonna hurt a little, it's just gonna hurt a little, okay?
You got to reset it, you got to reset it now.
- Alright, brother. - Yeah.
I'm a going three, okay?
- Take a deep breath, get ready, ok. - Yes.
- Are you ready? - Do it anyway.
Alright, on three.
Ready? One..
That wasn't so bad! That wasn't so bad!
Not for you!
- It's all over. - No!
- Okay. - Is this thing really on?
Turn it off! I don't want you all to see me like this! Turn...
This set won't work.
I paid for the international plan.
This is so stupid. We need help. We have to send up a flare.
- If whoever did this sees the flare... - Nobody... did this!
You don't know, JP. I mean, maybe Jensen is right.
No!
This is why Andy risked his life to go back and get the pack, okay.
It's late enough when we ***, they have to see it.
Do you have to do that?
No matter how this ends, I want there to be a record of what happened to us,
so we don't end up another Dyatlov mystery.
If we gonna do this, can we just get some cover first?
I don't think that we can move Andy.
What was that?
- What? - That look...
What the hell is going on?
We found something before when we were out with the Geiger counter.
What did you find?
A door.
What?
We've been freezing in this freaking snow all day,
and there's a freaking bunker here?!
But we couldn't open it anyway and the radiation was... strong.
How strong?
Not dangerous, but...
Unbelievable!
Did you plant the footprints?
No! I didn't plant the footprints.
I don't believe you.
Fine, don't believe me.
Okay.
If somebody did start this avalanche, the reason why is in there, right?
Yeah.
Let's send up the flares, we'll get some people out here,
and now, wait, whoever is doing this has no option of killing us anymore.
Okay.
Come on!
What?
Orange lights in the sky.
JP, I'm so sorry.
I should have told, but...
you were just so worked up about the compass, and...
and the map, and...
I didn't mean for any of this to happen.
You...
You followed the step by step plan that killed nine people.
What did you think was going to happen?
I don't know.
I just...
I have just always been drawn to this place, and...
I don't know why, I can't explain.
I didn't mean for this.
Do you think that anybody saw the flare?
I don't know.
We have to set out there much longer.
I'm going to rip that goddamn door, seeing radiation or not, okay?
Yeah.
Okay.
Looks like it's blueberry pancakes or mac and cheese?
You got to with blueberry for breakfast.
Good to eat.
Hey Jensen...
- Yeah, what's up? - Hi, man...
I'm sorry about Denise.
I really am. You can think whatever you want to think, but I'm sorry.
Yeah, me too.
Oh, shit! Somebody's coming. Look!
Help!
We need help!
We saw flares! Are you alright?
Our friend is hurt!
- Don't look. He's lying. - What?
They don't have any packs. How did they get here so fast?
- They were following us. - You see, I told you!
- They are ones that set the targets! - Go!
- Who? - The military!
- Move out! Go go go now! - We're not leaving you, Andy!
Well just go! I can't go anywhere! Go!
- Lift him up. - We'll get you up, come on.
- I can't go anywhere! - One, two, three.
Okay!
- I can't... - Shit!
I can't go, I can't, I can't! Just go!
Don't help me! Go now!
- Jensen, the door! - Okay, got it.
- JP, you're gonna follow us, okay? - Wait.
Alright, give me the flare gun. At the pack. Give me the flare gun.
Hurry up!
We got to go! Now!
- Go! - I'm not going to leave you her!
- JP, come on! - We got to go!
I will send help!
Jesus, they're shooting at us!
What the...?
Holly!
Oh, Jesus!
- No! Go! - Oh my God!
- Come on! - JP!
Get up! Get up!
- JP, come on! - Shit!
Come on, Holly!
Get up!
- Open the door. - Shit! Shit! Shit!
Open it!
It's already opened. Just frozen shut.
Guys! Guys!
- Shit! - Oh, shit!
It's opened! Get inside. Come on!
Get in!
Holly! Shut the door! Shut the damn door!
***
The lock's on the outside! Help me hold it closed!
- Oh God, they locked it! - JP?
- Yeah? - Are you okay?
No, I'm bleeding a lot.
Put pressure on it.
- JP it's alright. - Just stay still for a second.
I'll turn off the camera, just help me ***.
God!
Okay, I got... I got it.
Oh my God!
Who do you see?
It's a tunnel!
- What? - We're in a tunnel.
Okay.
What do you see?
A switch... a power switch.
- Trip it! - Okay, okay. Alright.
- It works. - Oh thank God!
- We need to barricade the door - Why?
Because it's a lock from the outside. They can get in whenever they want.
No ones coming in here, man. They're not going to waste the bullets.
- Damn it, Jensen... - Now look, have you looked around?
No one is coming to save us.
We're on our own.
They know that in a few days we're gonna dehydrate...
then they don't have to worry about any mess.
Then that's it, is it? They just lock the door and come back in a week.
Unless we can find a way out.
- Can you walk? - Yeah.
Okay. Be careful, be careful.
Shit!
Okay.
- We go straight. - Okay.
- Jensen, stay close. - Okay.
Let's go slow, go slow.
Okay.
***
- Go go go go! - Shit, other tunnel, other tunnel.
JP JP JP...
What? What!
What?
I just felt something.
What?
Something is here!
- Follow me. - Something is here, Jensen, I swear!
There's nobody down here, guys.
Come on!
Shit!
- Which way? - Left.
- Take it easy. Go slow. Go slow. - Alright.
The lights are still on here.
- Stay close. - Okay.
Oh shit.
- Don't go to far ahead. - No.
Jesus!
What is this place?
It's a...
a lab, I think.
If it was.
What happened in here?
Who knows?
Sit down, let me see where you're hit.
Wait...
Here.
Use this.
This gonna hurt.
I'm sorry.
Just rest here for a few minutes.
I found an opening.
- Be careful. - Yeah, no problem.
Look at this place.
Holly, come here. Look at this.
- What is it? - It's a log book, I think.
I know this word.
- You do? - Yeah.
I saw it lots of times when I was researching this.
What does it mean?
Killed in action.
Of course it does.
You think you can read anything else?
Just the dates.
1945.
1959.
The year the hikers were killed.
And then it stopped.
What? It's a boat.
Eldridge.
Is it the USS Eldridge, from the Philadelphia Experiment.
What Philadelphia Experiment?
Come on! Have you been under a rock or something?
In 1943,
the United States government commissioned experiments on that ship.
What kind of experiments?
Teleportation.
Oh, my God!
There were rumors that people wound up fused to the ship,
but no one has ever seen anything like this.
These pictures are like top, top secret.
Someone could have been killed for this.
Oh, my God!
Okay.
We must get out of here.
- Yeah. - JP, can you move?
- No. - Oh shit.
I'm not leaving you here, okay, so... think of something.
Just find a way out, okay?
Okay, when I do, I'm coming back and I'm dragging you out myself, okay?
Let's go!
Jesus Christ!
Uh, it's a naturally formed cave.
I don't think they tunneled this one out.
Looks like it's been widened a little bit, but that's it.
What are you...? A spelunker now?
Look at this.
There's got to be a nuclear power cell. That's why there's electricity here.
Alexander was here. This is where he picked up the radiation.
There has to be a way out.
Be careful!
Oh, my God!
What is that?
- It still works. - There. Give me that.
I told you someone had been here recently.
Who is he?
Military.
Why is he down here?
If you're thinking about killing five Americans
to keep a secret that has been buried for 50 years,
won't you send somebody to make sure that was still a secret to keep?
- What are you doing? - Checking something.
Oh shit!
That thing we found in the weather tower.
That was his tongue?
How did it get up there?
He must have let something out.
That's why the door was unlocked.
They could have been doing some kind of experiments on them, maybe?
You said there was a lot of that going on.
Oh, my God!
Holly, look at the bullet holes.
This wasn't a lab.
It was an execution chamber.
Oh, Christ!
Holly, what is that?
It looks like one of the soldiers from the book out there.
I don't understand.
- Jensen! - These things, they...
They don't look right.
Maybe that's what he let out.
What the hell was that?
Wait!
That door wasn't opened before.
Was it?
Be careful!
What was that?
JP?
Oh God!
Something's here, Jensen.
- Oh, no! - Oh, my God!
- Is that blood? - We need to get out of here, okay?
- What is that? - I don't know.
- Some kind of light? - No, underneath it.
Let me see that.
That's the same with camera. There's still battery life. Check what's on that.
No recording!
I just want to get you saying that on camera!
- You must go now! - Come on now leave.
The Cold War's over. We're friends now.
I don't... I don't.
Please fast forward before the battery dies.
He's dead.
Stop!
What's on there.
- No recording! - I just want you saying that on...
Shit!
That's impossible!
No no, maybe not...
Remember the Eldridge, from the Philadelphia Experiment?
It was supposed to teleport from Philadelphia to Norfolk.
- So? - So...
It is supposed to have arrived in Norfolk 10 minutes before it left Philadelphia.
Then you're telling me that's a goddamn time machine?
No. I'm telling you that no one, not our top scientists,
not the government, not theirs
knew what was going on. They didn't know what they're screwing with.
Holly, all of these experiments were abandoned.
The crew of the Eldridge, the ones that weren't...
fused to a bulkhead, they went insane.
Some of them... some of them changed...
Mutated...
People weren't meant to do these things.
JP!
Jensen, come on!
Come on!
JP!
Jensen!
What are you doing? Get over here!
- Where did they go? - They... they came back for me.
Oh no. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you, shift together right now!
- JP! - Come!
They're on the ceiling! On the ceiling!
Jensen!
- Oh Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ! - Jensen!
- Where it come? - I don't know!
Look, Holly, it's up there, it's up there!
- Jensen, where did it go? - I don't know!
- Where did he go? - Get JP!
Jensen!
We gonna get him away from that door! When I do, you run! Got it?
Got it!
- Run! Watch out! - Come on, come on!
- This way! - I'm behind you!
Run! Go!
Jensen, this way!
Go! Go!
Why did they let us go? Why did they stop?
I don't know. We should be dead.
Why didn't they kill us when they have the chance?
What the hell is that?
It's like a giant fossil.
- What are they doing? - They're waiting for us.
JP! I said that I would go back for him...
No, we can't go back for him. You saw what they did to him.
If we open that door, they're gonna do the same thing to us.
We're trapped, and they know it.
We're in here because this is where they wanted us to be.
- Holly, are you seeing that? - Yeah.
Do it again.
- You recorded that, right? - Yeah.
Good.
I know it, I know it...
- What? - Teleportation.
Those creatures, they way that they disappeared...
become... intangible.
They can teleport.
But not through the doors down here.
So they are locked from the outside.
There's gotta be a connection between those things and this place.
They came from here.
They came through this.
That makes sense...
Kind of like a...
giant...
" wormhole ".
Like a...
transporter.
- How did it get here? - I don't know.
Holly,
the Mansi, the natives, Alya said that they've been here for thousands of years.
I don't know how this thing works but I bet these drawings are theirs.
So they built a teleporter?
I don't know, maybe.
Hell, maybe they just found this thing down in a cave and put the drawings on it.
It could be some kind of alien technology.
Maybe they were trying to weaponize it.
What if there are more portals like this around the world?
If those things came out of one of them,
it could explain all kinds of unsolved mysteries.
The Eldridge, the Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant...
Who knows what else?
Flashlight's dead. Shit!
- Jensen, I can't see! - It's okay. Just take my hand.
There you go. You got it. Watch your step. Okay, okay.
We're gonna unlock the door. Reach out in front and sit down, okay. You got it.
Alright.
It happened...
What?
I opened the door and darkness followed me, just like in my dream.
Hey, come on. Hey, hey, hey.
- It's one of your dreams, just a dream... - I sorry.
Jensen, we're never getting out of here!
I'm sorry...
Is the camera on?
- I can see the light. - Yeah.
Alright.
I have an idea.
Not tic-tac-toe again, Jensen. You're just killing the battery.
No.
In there...
What about? Losing holes in the space-time continuum...
and obliterating our puny human brains?
That's my plan.
She...
has got no control,
has no buttons.
What means it either goes to one fixed place,
or anywhere.
Anywhere?
That's all I can think of.
But what if...
you picture somewhere...
clear in your mind,
and you concentrate on it, and that is where it takes you.
You knew this thing there is no place like home, that easy.
That easy.
And we won't wind up fused to the mountain or something?
I don't know. I hope not.
We're gonna die here, Jensen.
It's this...
or them.
Okay.
What do we do?
Um, I'm doing a lot of guessing here.
But I think that it should be some place that... is still fresh in your memory,
Some place nearby,
some place that you can picture clearly.
Outside the mountain.
Oh! You mean the other side of the door?
Certainly the freshest thing in our minds,
and now that the door is locked,
it will protect us from those things, right?
Okay.
I'm scared.
"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does".
Where is that from?
" Slaughterhouse Five".
I never read it.
Don't let go.
Other bodies.
Vallik!