TIL that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and he was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria.
TIL that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and he was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria.
>According to John Leake, author of Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery, MacPherson’s body was found to have suffered significant trauma, including amputation of arms, hands and legs. The damage is consistent with rotating machinery; his snowboard also had a uniform pattern of damage and was cut apart, which indicates that it too had gone through a machine. Leake’s conclusion was that MacPherson had a snowboard accident and injured his leg, and was lying on the slope waiting for rescue. During that very foggy day, a snowcat driver didn’t see MacPherson and ran him over by accident, killing him. Instead of reporting it, that driver (or his supervisor) buried MacPherson in the shallow crevasse. His body stayed hidden there for fourteen years, until the glacier melted enough for it to be seen.
Ok what the fuck?
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I love how we’re so sick of /r/hockey that were just posting random hockey stuff here to talk about lol.
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>According to John Leake, author of Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery, MacPherson’s body was found to have suffered significant trauma, including amputation of arms, hands and legs. The damage is consistent with rotating machinery; his snowboard also had a uniform pattern of damage and was cut apart, which indicates that it too had gone through a machine. Leake’s conclusion was that MacPherson had a snowboard accident and injured his leg, and was lying on the slope waiting for rescue. During that very foggy day, a snowcat driver didn’t see MacPherson and ran him over by accident, killing him. Instead of reporting it, that driver (or his supervisor) buried MacPherson in the shallow crevasse. His body stayed hidden there for fourteen years, until the glacier melted enough for it to be seen.
Ok what the fuck?
I love how we’re so sick of /r/hockey that were just posting random hockey stuff here to talk about lol.
Pretty messed up story.