True Detective – Night Country: The Two Real Mysteries That Inspired The Series
True Detective – Night Country is a combination of suspense, police series, and horror stories, and all of this revolves around a strange, mysterious, and complex case. Season 4, which was directed by the Mexican Issa López, takes place in the city of Ennis in Alaska, where a pair of local police officers, played by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, must work together (even though they do not get along). nothing good) to investigate the strange disappearance of a group of scientists who worked at a station called Tsalal, where they also find a clue that leads them to think that this case is connected to the murder of an indigenous woman, which happened years ago.
True Detective – Night Country: The Two Real Mysteries That Inspired The Series
Ennis is in a season in which there is total darkness 24/7, plus the cold and snow make life more difficult than in other places in the world, and make the work of Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro difficult, who must find, about the two related mysteries. answers before it is too late and the truth is lost in the ice. True Detective – Night Country is fiction, but the season’s case has reference to two real, very mysterious events that many have tried to solve over the years.
The Disappearance of the Mary Celeste
In an interview, the director and writer Issa López told us that among the many references in the series is the case of a ship called Mary Celeste, and this is reflected in the way in which the Tsalal scientists disappear. The Mary Celeste was a ship that was found off the Azores Islands in 1872. Not only was the ship far from its original destination, but when those who found it climbed aboard, they discovered that its passengers were nowhere to be found and that There was no sign of them, but their things were still there. Everything had remained as they left it before they disappeared.
No one ever saw or heard from the passengers of the Mary Celeste again and with that, it became one of the great mysteries of history. Liz Danvers encounters a similar scenario when she arrives at the Tsalal station, there is even a movie playing, popcorn on the table, a sandwich is being eaten and the victims’ personal belongings are found in their rooms, although in this case, the bodies of the missing are found in the ice.
The Dyatlov Incident
The discovery of the scientists’ bodies is what connects True Detective to another famous cold case. After a “ghost” appears and leads Fiona Shaw’s character (Harry Potter) to a dark area in the ice, the bodies of the scientists are discovered, buried up to their necks in the ice, and with expressions of terror and panic on their faces. face.
The bodies are frozen and in strange positions, and that is a reference to the famous Dyatlov incident, which happened in the 1950s. Here, a group of hikers went out into the monster Urals, in what was then the Soviet Union, and they did not come out from there. Eventually, their bodies were found frozen, in strange positions, and with signs that something had happened to them, but it was not clear what had killed them or why they were far from their camp. In 2023, the theory was put forward that an avalanche may have killed them, but it is not completely certain, and it is not what happened to the Tsalal scientists in the series.
