surely youve got an angle on this, no
I have mixed feelings about this case. On the one hand I find some of its features considerably
less mysterious than the Dyatlov Pass incident, but on the other handI find some aspects
more mysterious than what happened with the Russian ski party.
Both cases share the following features:
- There's no specific reason to assume the deaths were the result of anything other than exposure / hypothermia.
- The real mystery concerns the chain of events that led to the deaths occurring where and when they did (as opposed to why the individual parties died in medical terms).
- The main impediment to analysis is the issue of whether the group acted all together on the decisive night, versus acting as separate sub-groups (at one or another point in the chain of events).
- The anomalous behaviors the evidence might suggest are consistent with the effects of hypothermia.
The Yuba County 5 case adds the following weird factors / features:
- There was an alleged witness-on-the-scene at the point the guys abandoned their car.
- At least some of the victims survived long after their disappearance had been noticed and a search had been initiated.
- Unlike the Dyatlov party, the Yuba County guys were nowhere anyone expected them to be, so the mystery extends farther back in the storyline.
- There's much more of a timespan during which the mystery chain of events could have played out.
- The mental / emotional issues attributed to all 5 guys add a further dimension of possible panic, misunderstanding, discord, disorientation, etc., prior to any hypothermia effects setting in.
- Three of the four bodies eventually found had been ravaged by animals, and at least one of them consisted of no more than scattered bones.
- One of the 5 guys remains missing, but IMHO it's more a matter of his remains being missing / missed to date.