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It's the little details that are hard to explain, like the missing tongue or the brain damage.
by ravingraven 10y ago
It's the little details that are hard to explain, like the missing tongue or the brain damage.
- keypusher 10y ago> It was claimed that Dubinina was found lying face down in a small stream that ran under the snow and that her external injuries were in line with putrefaction in a wet environment, and were unlikely to be related to her death. The brain damage is not out of the question if they were victims to a close range weapons test.
- zdkl 10y agoNeither are that hard to explain plausibly, and the wikipedia page does so. Brain damage could come from concussive forces applied from the blasts of the (speculated) explosive ordnance tests, this would in turn explain the absence of external soft tissue trauma? The tongue part, as is the case for a lot of missing limb story, sounds like some critter found a soft, yummy looking part of the corpse and made away with it. The bigger mystery IMO, is the absence of reported blast marks or damage to the terrain one would expect from testing explosives.
- stared 10y ago> The bigger mystery IMO, is the absence of reported blast marks or damage to the terrain one would expect from testing explosives. Mid air?
- vocatus_gate 10y agoMany HE munitions are airburst, because they cause greater damage from aerial deployment than they do close to the ground. For example nuclear weapons are detonated 1-2 miles above the ground. Considering that fact it doesn't rule out a conventional military munition.
- Smushman 10y agoIt was some time before they were found, and the snow might have hindered identification of that.
- vocatus_gate 10y agoMissing tongue was most likely an animal scavenging.
- Smushman 10y agoI agree - a likely explanation. A halfway decent examination should show if it was torn on bitten through... Writing this I realise it must have been bitten through by either external means (animal) or localized (bit off own tongue) or it would have been mentioned as another mystery. But for me, one thing that is harder to explain is the skull fragment. For that, there would have definitely been tooth or tool marks. Unless of course, she fell....