00:00A postcard arrived in 1961 from a hiker who died in 1959, and the stamp was still wet.
00:06In February 1959, nine experienced hikers ventured into the Ural Mountains in Russia and never came back.
00:13Their bodies discovered weeks later in the snow with injuries that couldn't be explained.
00:17Torn tents, missing eyes, and a terror frozen on their faces that investigators still can't rationalize to this day.
00:24The case was closed, the families mourned, and the mountain earned its nickname.
00:30Death Mountain.
00:31But in June 1961, a small post office in Sverdlovsk received something impossible.
00:38Uh, a postcard.
00:40The front showed a grainy black-and-white image of the exact mountain pass where the hikers died,
00:46and on the back, written in shaky handwriting, were just five words.
00:50I should have stayed down.
00:52It was signed with the name Ludamila Dubinina, one of the nine who perished.
00:57Authorities dismissed it as a sick prank, but when they examined the postcard closer, they found something that made their
01:03blood run cold.
01:04The stamp had been issued in 1961.
01:06Yes, but the ink on the message was tested and matched a specific brand of pen.
01:11Discontinued in 1958.
01:12A pen that Ludmila was known to carry.
01:15The handwriting was compared to her journals recovered from the mountain, and experts confirmed it was a 93% match.
01:21No one could explain how a dead woman sent mail from the place she died, two years after her frozen
01:27body was buried.
01:28The postcard was locked away in an evidence room, and hasn't been seen since.
01:32But locals say if you visit that pass on June 14th, you can still hear the wind whistling five words.
01:38I should have stayed down.
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