I don't know how to feel about this. It's total manufactured B. S. There was an actual event, but this take on it is up there with something like "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" (and yes, that's the correct one - the Asylum mockbuster). But at the same time, I can't deny that I was entertained, laughing uproariously multiple times. That deserve some measure of recognition. These modern day mysterious mysteries-type shows are reaching a level of artistry on par with professional wrestling for the mix of fiction and glorious presentation. If know and understand what this is, then please enjoy. It is very entertaining on that level. If you approach this any other way, please do your fact-checking.
6 Reviews
Insulting
ShadowsBeneathTheLight11 November 2023
I am someone who is captivated by the Dyatlov Pass Incident so I figured I'd give this a watch. Did I go in thinking this would be amazing or accurate? No I wanted to see how they'd try to prove a Yeti was behind it all. It's not a bad documentary in that it's boring. Quite the opposite it's decently paced and well put together. The problem however lies in how much the documentary twists facts to make viewers buy their absurd conclusion.
For instance the name of the peak they were found on was called Kholat Syakhl. This translates to dead/silent peak or mountain with no game, because the peak is so high and barren no animals roam there thus the Mansi (local tribal people) avoid it. It does mean "stay away" or "beware the yeti like the documentary suggests. Furthermore the film crew try to say the Mansi have a deep folklore about a yeti. Well actually they don't. They have a belief in a Menk which is a forest spirit that has nothing do with a Yeti, especially since these spirits guard forests and the animals which roam in the forest, where as again Kholat Syakhl is intentionally named for being a barren peak/has no animals... kind of contradicts the Mansi mythology.
The documentary also tries to account for the injuries the skiers sustained as evidence of a yeti even though most of the injuries occurred postmortem and are consistent with natural decomposition in a snowy environment like they eyes and tongue breaking down while the corpse as a whole is mummified, the skin taking on a tan or orange like hue and the hair turning grey.
Perhaps the most ridiculous part is the photo of the shadow figure in the background of the trees that must be the yeti. Fun fact you can actually find photos recovered from the dead skiers which are now posted online courtesy of the Dyatlov Foundation. And you know what? The photo this documentary team shows isn't in any of the photos the Foundation provides. I guess only this film crew were able to get their hands on this magic photo smh.
The more I watched, the more I felt insulted. It really does seem like the documentary team think their audience is a special breed of stupid who believe anything that's on tv. But maybe that's just because again I have actually looked into this Incident before. But hey if you know absolutely nothing about Dyatlov Pass and really wish Yetis were real, this may just be the documentary for you.
For instance the name of the peak they were found on was called Kholat Syakhl. This translates to dead/silent peak or mountain with no game, because the peak is so high and barren no animals roam there thus the Mansi (local tribal people) avoid it. It does mean "stay away" or "beware the yeti like the documentary suggests. Furthermore the film crew try to say the Mansi have a deep folklore about a yeti. Well actually they don't. They have a belief in a Menk which is a forest spirit that has nothing do with a Yeti, especially since these spirits guard forests and the animals which roam in the forest, where as again Kholat Syakhl is intentionally named for being a barren peak/has no animals... kind of contradicts the Mansi mythology.
The documentary also tries to account for the injuries the skiers sustained as evidence of a yeti even though most of the injuries occurred postmortem and are consistent with natural decomposition in a snowy environment like they eyes and tongue breaking down while the corpse as a whole is mummified, the skin taking on a tan or orange like hue and the hair turning grey.
Perhaps the most ridiculous part is the photo of the shadow figure in the background of the trees that must be the yeti. Fun fact you can actually find photos recovered from the dead skiers which are now posted online courtesy of the Dyatlov Foundation. And you know what? The photo this documentary team shows isn't in any of the photos the Foundation provides. I guess only this film crew were able to get their hands on this magic photo smh.
The more I watched, the more I felt insulted. It really does seem like the documentary team think their audience is a special breed of stupid who believe anything that's on tv. But maybe that's just because again I have actually looked into this Incident before. But hey if you know absolutely nothing about Dyatlov Pass and really wish Yetis were real, this may just be the documentary for you.
Ridiculous But At Least It Was Entertaining
johnspringer-9544028 November 2023
This show provides some interesting factual background information about the Dyatlov Pass incident, which remains an enduring unsolved mystery. Many plausible explanations have been offered but none is entirely satisfactory. They include an avalanche, weapons testing and infasound. This show grafts background facts and reasonable but unconfirmed explanations onto the goofy presupposition that a killer yeti was involved: "avalanche caused by the KGB to cover up a yeti attack;" "infrasound made by screaming yetis;" "weapons testing to rile mutant supersoldier yetis into a murder frenzy!" It's all so earnest and eye-rollingly ludicrous that it ends up being entertaining even while insulting the intelligence of anyone with basic critical thinking skills.
Watch if you like cosplaying as a historian..
aaronrwinston4 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is my first IMDB review. It was too ludicrously dumb to say something. The historians and scientists in this documentary should be scared for themselves. They speak definitively about Yetis like they have studied them in the wild and personally dissected them. The part that really got me was they spoke about concepts that aren't even backed up by the lore they say is fact and that "the ONLY rational explanation is a Yeti" caused the massacre. Also, they go on to say that Yetis are capable of infrasound (didn't include the words "theory" or "hypothesized" in that statement. HBO Max wasted money on this one.
I am avoiding the Urals!
mark-1210528 September 2023
If I ever needed another excuse to avoid the Urals this 2 hour special gives it to me. I had no idea about the Nazi connection or belief in a Yeti super-highway and it is crazy to think about what actually happened out there to this group. And the recreations were PHENOMENAL and transported you in to the dark scary experience in a way I haven't often seen. Clearly incredibly well researched and brought an old story to life in a new way. We may never know what really happened but this definitely sheds new light on the mystery. Worth checking it out if you believe or even if you don't. Must watch.
Extremely well done
imdb-2528819 February 2024
This was a top-notch documentary. The R\recreations were very well done. I never knew about the KGB spy among the group. I never knew there was a second group more recently who suffered the same fate as the Dylatov party. It was very insightful and very compelling, and they presented different possibilities of what might have happened to them; at no point was there any pretension that they were solving the mystery but I really like that they showed a photo of the potential Yeti Now, that was amazing!
I don't know what the lowest scoring reviewers were smoking but they need to sit on their hands instead of posting smack online! If you don't like what you're watching then don't watch it and change the channel!! This is the problem with the Travel Channel: they come here and read the negative reviews, and I guess they feel shame and decide to cancel perfectly watchable and very good shows simply because they listen to uneducated and brain-impaired dummies, just because nobody bothered themselves to come here and post the high rated reviews that this show deserves. This series is so original creative and unique only to be discontinued in favor of garbage like a dead files and Ghost Adventures because of the fools that are allowed to come here and wreak havoc; enough of that, already you fools!
I don't know what the lowest scoring reviewers were smoking but they need to sit on their hands instead of posting smack online! If you don't like what you're watching then don't watch it and change the channel!! This is the problem with the Travel Channel: they come here and read the negative reviews, and I guess they feel shame and decide to cancel perfectly watchable and very good shows simply because they listen to uneducated and brain-impaired dummies, just because nobody bothered themselves to come here and post the high rated reviews that this show deserves. This series is so original creative and unique only to be discontinued in favor of garbage like a dead files and Ghost Adventures because of the fools that are allowed to come here and wreak havoc; enough of that, already you fools!
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