HBO's True Detective: Night Country may be based on REAL LIFE - and the details are bone chilling

The fourth season of HBO's universally acclaimed show True Detective: Night Country might be based on truly terrifying events.

The hit series sets out a mystery unfolding within the Alaskan wilderness town of Ennis, with eerie similarities to the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident. 

The notorious incident saw nine Soviet hikers perish in the Northern Ural Mountains, cryptically suffering from not only hypothermia, but chest traumas and fractured skulls.  

Other than the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the anthology series also raised eyebrows with episodes that were strikingly similar to the events of the Hosanna Church scandal.

However, it does not appear that fans of the latest series appreciated the morbid call-backs, after viewers slammed the installment as 'unbearable' and the 'worst premiere' in recent memory. 

The fourth season of HBO 's universally acclaimed show True Detective: Night Country was filmed in Alaska and various areas throughout Iceland

The show is set in the fictional Alaskan wilderness town Ennis, and one of the show's investigations us showing extreme similarities to the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident

In the episode that some have likened to the 1959 tragedy, a group of scientists mysteriously disappear from their research station.

A few of the scientists were eventually found to be frozen in a block of ice.

In reality, the nine hikers on that unfortunate trip were camping on the eastern slopes of the Northern Ural Mountains, when the trip took a bizarre turn. 

For an unexplained reason, after the hikers set up camp for the night, they cut themselves out of their tent and fled into the forest, completely underdressed for the artic temperatures. 

After they were later found dead, it was determined that six died from hypothermia - while the three others had physical injuries that puzzled investigators. 

The hikers were missing body parties like eyebrows, tongues, and eyes.

Theories have come up over the years from individuals thinking that the hikers' deaths were caused by animal attacks.

Others believe their deaths were because of avalanches or heavy winds throughout the mountains.

Not every accurate detail of the incident is in True Detective: Night Country, but one of the researchers based off the hikers was found with a severed tongue.

All nine hikers involved in the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident died between February 1 and 2. Six of them died from hypothermia while the other three died from physical injuries. 

While the, latest season received poor reviews, a highly praised storyline in Season 1 of the anthology series was the Tuttle Cult, which was based on the Hosanna Church scandal in Louisiana.

The scandal blew up headlines in 2014 after Pastor Louis Lamonica Jr admitted to being the head of a Satanic ring in 2005.

The third season was inspired by the highly publicized West Memphis Three, three men from Arkansas convicted for murdering three boys in 1993.

The killers committed a Satanic murder and it was suggested the children were victims of lingering Satanic Panic. 

The first Season Three episode shows two children in a fictional Arkansas town going missing while bike riding in the 1980s and are found dead in a state park.

Like the West Memphis Three case, three teenaged outcasts were arrested and convicted for the murders.