Burning Man 2025 was marred by monsoonal storms, windstorms and a grisly homicide.
A murder investigation is underway after a person was discovered useless in a pool of blood at Burning Man final Saturday evening.
Tens of hundreds of ‘Burners’ flocked to the Nevada desert this 12 months to interact in debauchery.
Burning Man is a yearly drug-infested music and artwork pageant in Northern Nevada, in Black Rock Metropolis. Attendees have interaction in sexually degenerate actions akin to “whippings by a dominatrix priestess,” “circle jerks,” “c*ck fights” and orgies.
The person murdered at Burning Man this 12 months was recognized as a 37-year-old Russian man named Vadim Kruglov. His throat was slashed by a big blade. The suspect remains to be at massive.
TMZ reported:
The useless man discovered at this 12 months’s Burning Man had a big wound to his throat … the slash was from a knife, and the blade was recovered on the scene.
Our sources inform us the knife is being forensically examined … and regulation enforcement can also be going by means of a telephone that was discovered close to the physique.
We’re informed Vadim Kruglov’s useless physique was discovered inside a tent pavilion construction close to a makeshift bar Saturday evening … mendacity in a pool of blood.
As a result of the dying was dominated a murder, our sources say police bought a warrant earlier than coming into the tent pavilion … there was an opportunity the world might be deemed a dwelling, and cops felt it prudent to err on the facet of warning, no less than from a authorized standpoint.
Final week a depraved dust storm kicked up on the primary day of the pageant this 12 months and it ruined camp websites. Winds reached greater than 45 miles per hour, in keeping with a spokesperson for Burning Man.
The Orgy Dome was additionally fully destroyed by the windstorm.
Video posted to X exhibits 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 at some point 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’ve got 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