So the Dyatlov Pass mystery

I'll cross-post my reply to here.

Great article, thank you for posting it. I think the allure of mystery is blinding people to an obvious explanation. You tell me that a bunch of intelligent young college students went off in a remote location and later exhibited bizarre behavior, the first thing that comes to my mind is drug use, probably designer drugs. My guess based on interpretations of the students behavior would be LSD. They had access to University chemistry lab, LSD was known to academics at the time, its effects were still poorly understood, it was unregulated, and the effects last roughly 12 hours which is more than long enough to freeze to death under those conditions. One of the side effects of LSD is nature walks, when people decide to go for a walk to burn off some of the surplus energy the drug gives them and enjoy nature. LSD would have also been impossible for pathologists to detect in the body at that time, and all but impossible to detect now that so much time has passed. As for the broken bodies, they were discovered months after the incident after the snow had melted and their bodies could easily have been broken by natural forces during that time. Missing eyes are easily explained by scavengers.

Traces of radiation were found on only one victim. It could have been a mistake, contamination from a transport vehicle, faulty geiger counter, contamination from the stream, who knows; and the level of radiation wasn't reported. The reports have been sensationalized and various other inaccuracies reported. None of the popular explanations explain everything but to my mind an acid trip (or even PCP), especially if one or more members had a bad trip, explains everything. There wouldn't necessarily be any evidence at the tent, they may have used all of it, the search party didn't recognize it as drugs, or any remainder was lost to the wilderness. I'm honestly surprised that no one else has ever suggested it as it seems an obvious and probable possibility. Imagine one person has a bad trip, becomes irrational, upsets others, freaks out and cuts open the tent running off into the snow. Someone goes after him, the rest follow. They already have altered perceptions, become lost, terrified, possibly violent. Additional injuries occur post mortem during the months of winter as they are ravaged by scavengers, weather, and freeze damage. It's more exciting to imagine snowmen, cold war secret weapons, or freak weather phenomena but if you tell me a bunch of college kids go to a remote location, have a freakout, and die; drugs are the most obvious and likely explanation. 

Some interesting theories here: www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5uh4e9/probably_the_best_explanation_of_the_dyatlov_pass/