A murder investigation is underway after a person was discovered lifeless in a pool of blood at Burning Man on Saturday evening.
Tens of 1000’s of ‘Burners’ flocked to the Nevada desert this yr to interact in debauchery.
Burning Man is a yearly drug-infested music and artwork pageant in Northern Nevada, in Black Rock Metropolis. Attendees interact in sexually degenerate actions corresponding to “whippings by a dominatrix priestess,” “circle jerks,” “c*ck fights” and orgies.
Final week a depraved mud storm kicked up on the primary day of the pageant this yr and it ruined camp websites. Winds reached greater than 45 miles per hour, in response to a spokesperson for Burning Man.
The Orgy Dome was additionally fully destroyed by the windstorm.
Video posted to X reveals camp websites being blown away by the robust winds.
WATCH:
Burning Man. Day 0.
Worst Storm in historical past.
Let’s fucking go! pic.twitter.com/dDPrpNsq77— Simba Khela (@MTCryptoSim) August 25, 2025
Simply someday after the windstorm, a monsoonal thunderstorm moved over the playa.
Burning man was a muddy hellhole.
Video courtesy of X consumer TrueBurningReality:
BURNING MAN 2025 – Tuesday August 26, 2025 645pm. We now have water on playa. Heavy rain, wind, lightning and thunder however no mud!!!! Numerous rain. Wait until you see the lighting within the video! Illumination village @ 2 and Esplanade #burningman #swimmingman2025 #burningman2025… pic.twitter.com/RTEksmwBim
— TrueBurningReality (@TrueBurnreality) August 27, 2025
Police haven’t publicly recognized the deceased man.
NBC Information reported:
A person was discovered lifeless Saturday in a suspected murder on the Burning Man pageant within the Nevada desert.
The person, described as a white grownup, was discovered “mendacity on the bottom” and deceased after 9 p.m. on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Workplace stated Sunday.
The invention was made whereas the “Man,” a big human-shaped picket sculpture on the middle of the pageant in Black Rock Metropolis, was engulfed in flames. A participant flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and reported seeing “a male topic mendacity in a pool of blood,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.
Deputies, together with Bureau Land Administration rangers and Burning Man Black Rock rangers, created a fringe across the space and interviewed individuals.
Final yr it was reported a girl died on the opening day of the Burning Man.
