Author’s Note:
So, for this story, I grouped together the hikers that were found with very little external damage, Dyatlov, Zinaida, and Alexander. Their causes of death were ruled to be hyperthermia. Their bodies were found in different areas but I wanted them to be together as the other hikers were. Trying to include Yudin’s survival in this entire storybook was very difficult because technically the only survivor of the group’s expedition, Yuri Yudin, didn’t hike Mount Ortorten with the rest of the group. Yudin, who suffered from several health ailments, had turned back to the town of Vizhay due to knee and joint pain before the group even began the last leg of their journey up the mountain.
I based this last story’s plot on one of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding the Dyatlov Pass Incident. One of the most told theories is that the Soviet government covered up the deaths due to the hikers being the victims of a weapons test gone horribly wrong. Many people seem to back this theory because of how quickly the Russian government shut down the investigation, and because the government shut down the mountain for three years after the incident occurred. The plot twist in my story is that all the creatures were developed by and belong to the Russian government. I wanted the reader to know that Yudin survives, but I wanted the reader’s imagination to run wild about the conversation the captain and Yudin have deep within Mount Ortorten.
Thank you for reading my story! If you’d like to learn more about the real story of the Dyatlov Incident, here’s the link to a great website with more information! https://interestingengineering.com/the-mystery-of-the-dyatlov-pass-incident
Story Source: The real vampire in Russia and Slavonic countries & The Soldier and the Vampire