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The Rabbit Hole In the late winter of 1959, nine experienced Russian hikers set off on an expedition into the Ural Mountains from which they would never return. Search parties discovered a curious scene. The hiker's camp sight was orderly, as if at any moment they might return as unexpectedly as they had left. The tent was in relatively good condition, save for a few cuts to the rear wall. It only grew more confounding when they began to find bodies a mile away, in states of near undress and almost uniformly without shoes. The mystery deepens further when the last bodies are discovered months later. Unlike the other six, who died of hypothermia, and despite showing no sign of external injury, it is determined that three hikers died as a result of blunt force trauma equivalent to a serious car accident. The official explanation of the investigation was a "compelling unknown force." For almost 60 years the question remains, what caused these people to rush out into the freezing winter night, towards what they had to know was their certain doom? We may never know. One thing is certain, though. The cuts on the side of the tent was a result of someone trying to get out.