February1959.NineexperiencedSoviethikersdiedunderimpossiblecircumstancesonaUralMountainsexpedition.TheycuttheirwayOUToftheirtentfromtheinside,fledinto-30°Cwearingalmostnothing.Somehadmassivechesttraumawithnoexternalwounds.Onewasmissinghertongue.Sovietinvestigatorsconcluded"acompellingnaturalforce"killedthem.Thecasewasclassifiedfordecades.
The CIA actually ran a secret mind-control program using LSD, electroshock, and sensory deprivation on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. This isn't a theory — it's declassified. The director ordered all files destroyed in 1973 but 20,000 pages survived by accident.
November 24, 1971. A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight, collected $200,000 ransom, then parachuted into a storm over the Pacific Northwest. He was never found. The only unsolved hijacking in US aviation history.
February 1959. Nine experienced Soviet hikers died under impossible circumstances on a Ural Mountains expedition. They cut their way OUT of their tent from the inside, fled into -30°C wearing almost nothing. Some had massive chest trauma with no external wounds. One was missing her tongue. Soviet investigators concluded "a compelling natural force" killed them. The case was classified for decades.
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