Dyatlov Pass Incident: Paranormal weirdness or legend?

Creepy wikipedia Article with links to an eerie incident involving 9 hikers on the Ural Mounteins, Russia in 1959.
Tents ripped from inside, grey hair, excessive trauma not from human origin and bright spheres reported in the area at the time. Wrap it all up with a communist government cover-up, and you have a case that will take lots of manpower to unravel, if that is possible..
Skeptics here: http://skepchick.org/skepticsguide/viewtopic.php?t=8760

UPDATE: The link doesn't work but there's a movie out: The Devil's Pass (aka The Dyatlov Pass Incident) by none other than Renny Harlin!  Fairly good Cinematography and Effects, but the script contains everything from Government officials to Time Travel and Wormholes, all in a simplistic, Blair Witch Project context.. Nevertheless, interesting attempt..