Stories from Kholat Syakhl, Oblast de Sverdlovsk, Rússia

Dyatlov Pass: nine lives, a tent and the limits of evidence

Nine ski hikers died in the Urals in February 1959 after leaving their tent in the snow. The Soviet file, a Russian review in 2020, and avalanche studies in 2021-2022 provide concrete clues, but no record of the final night itself. A dossier about the people, the traces, and the uncertainty.

1,859 km · Espoo

Lake Bodom: the night, the evidence and the acquittal

Four teenagers camped beside Finland’s Lake Bodom in June 1960. Three were killed and one survived injured. Decades later, shoes, a preserved tent and DNA brought the case back to court; the 2005 trial ended in acquittal. No killer has been identified.

2,107 km · Pripyat

Chernobyl: the night of Reactor Four and the decades that followed

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a test at Chernobyl’s Reactor Four ended in explosions and a release of radioactive material. This dossier follows the technical sequence, delayed public warning, emergency work, measured health effects and uncertain projections, through to the continuing challenges of confinement.

2,227 km · Região do rio Podkamennaya Tunguska

Tunguska: the explosion that felled a forest without a crater

On 30 June 1908, an explosion above the Siberian taiga flattened trees across roughly 2,000 square kilometres. Evenki testimony, seismic records and later expeditions support an incoming cosmic body breaking apart in the air. This dossier distinguishes observation from estimates of energy, casualties and the object’s nature.