A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found dead in a pool of blood at Burning Man on Saturday night.
Tens of thousands of ‘Burners’ flocked to the Nevada desert this year to engage in debauchery.
Burning Man is a yearly drug-infested music and art festival in Northern Nevada, in Black Rock City. Attendees engage in sexually degenerate activities such as “whippings by a dominatrix priestess,” “circle jerks,” “c*ck fights” and orgies.
Last week a wicked dust storm kicked up on the first day of the festival this year and it ruined camp sites. Winds reached more than 45 miles per hour, according to a spokesperson for Burning Man.
The Orgy Dome was also completely destroyed by the windstorm.
Video posted to X shows camp sites being blown away by the strong winds.
WATCH:
Burning Man. Day 0.
Worst Storm in history.
Let’s fucking go! pic.twitter.com/dDPrpNsq77— Simba Khela (@MTCryptoSim) August 25, 2025
Just one day after the windstorm, a monsoonal thunderstorm moved over the playa.
Burning man turned into a muddy hellhole.
Video courtesy of X user TrueBurningReality:
BURNING MAN 2025 – Tuesday August 26, 2025 645pm. We have water on playa. Heavy rain, wind, lightning and thunder but no dust!!!! Lots of rain. Wait till you see the lighting in the video! Illumination village @ 2 and Esplanade #burningman #swimmingman2025 #burningman2025… pic.twitter.com/RTEksmwBim
— TrueBurningReality (@TrueBurnreality) August 27, 2025
Police have not publicly identified the deceased man.
NBC News reported:
A man was found dead Saturday in a suspected homicide at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
The man, described as a white adult, was found “lying on the ground” and deceased after 9 p.m. on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
The discovery was made while the “Man,” a large human-shaped wooden sculpture at the center of the festival in Black Rock City, was engulfed in flames. A participant flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and reported seeing “a male subject lying in a pool of blood,” the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies, along with Bureau Land Management rangers and Burning Man Black Rock rangers, created a perimeter around the area and interviewed participants.
Last year it was reported a woman died on the opening day of the Burning Man.
