On February 26, 1959, nine missing hikers were found dead. Their tent had been torn apart. Two of the corpses were found in their underwear, barefoot, next to remnants of a fire. Three more bodies laid in between the fire and camp. Approximately two months later, the remaining four bodies were found buried under 15 feet of snow. The clothes of the hikers were said to hold radiation and their hair had become grey, although most of them had been in their twenties. Some people believe that it was an avalanche, but there were no external wounds on the bodies and one body was missing a tongue. As well, their footprints remained visible in the snow. Mysteriously, the campsite was out in the open, instead of in or next to the forest, suggesting they were frightened of getting too close to it. Even more frightening was a note found near the bodies that read the words: “From now on we know that snowmen exist”, scrawled on a piece of paper. Some believe The Soviets had been testing weapons in the area and the hikers simply got caught in the crossfire. Other speculations range from alien abduction and experimentation, to the existence of The Yeti or a similar unknown creature. After the initial investigation, the files were locked in a secret archive, only to become available in the 1990s, but mysteriously some of the files had gone missing.