A letter from 1989.A sphere in the jungle.Four men vanish; one survives by pulling the trigger.This week on Stories Lost, we follow a paper trail from Kharkiv’s Belgorod Highway to North Vietnam’s Lapthach — two cases preserved in Igor Kalytyuk’s archive. We examine a late–Soviet abduction letter by Ivan Rybchenko and a 1968 incident in the Vietnamese jungle: a lightless three-meter sphere, radio blackout, and a field team that dwindled one by one. Different formats, different routes into print — same unresolved edge.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Living ship “grown” from a universal embryo🔹 Mesh transmitter nets over a dead world🔹 Dorra’s coil-bodied engineers & Ak’s eye-like beings🔹 Sunlight bending around a black sphere🔹 A self-inflicted shot breaks the control🕰 Chapters00:00 — The Fire Was Low01:20 — Two Cases from the ArchiveCase One — The Letter (Kharkiv, 1989)02:29 — A Letter from Kharkiv03:32 — The Light on Belgorod Highway04:32 — The Door in the Light05:02 — Answers Before Questions06:27 — Knowledge Without Understanding07:55 — Questions That Were Not Allowed09:18 — A Room That Responded to Thought10:51 — The Examination14:20 — The First Planet16:31 — Paralysis17:23 — They Wanted to See Me19:06 — Dorra20:28 — The Dorrians24:13 — Not Intended for My Eyes28:11 — Returned to EarthCase Two — The Black Sphere (Vietnam, 1968)28:11 — Lap Thach, Vietnam28:46 — The Object in the Sky30:51 — The Black Sphere31:43 — Waiting by the Fire32:40 — Boris Ivanov’s Diary34:55 — Taken One by One36:03 — “I Shot Myself in the Leg”36:18 — The Sphere Was GoneAnalysis & Closing37:00 — Later Commentary39:58 — Why One Man Survived41:09 — Two Unresolved Cases42:29 — Final ThoughtsSources:V. G. Azhazha, V. I. Zabelyshensky. UFO Contacts. Moscow: Ripol Klassik, 2009. (pp. 112–116)The Black Sphere in the Jungles of Vietnamhttps://cloud.ufo-forschung.de/s/cEqcmy3x55feHyJThis episode weaves together editorial records from Kalytyuk’s archive, alongside the published compilation by Azhazha & Zabelyshensky.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords:black sphere, Kharkiv abduction, Vietnam jungle, Igor Kalytyuk, Boris Ivanov

Mist over the Kattegat – Close encounter, child witness in Sjællands OddeA craft in the fog.Eight figures in a hanging box.A boy who says they looked friendly.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Overby on Sjællands Odde, Denmark, to revisit a 1967 dusk-time sighting first published in UFO-Nyt. “They looked so friendly,” Jesper told his mother after watching an object descend over the shore.The case blends classic close-encounter elements with a rare child witness: a descending craft, odd “legs” of light, and occupants handling instruments. Decades later, a re-interview challenges key details, raising questions about memory, suggestion, and how early UFO investigations were conducted.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Yellow “legs” that ended mid-air🔹 Three landing struts retract, near touchdown🔹 Basket lowered; eight climb down fast🔹 Smiles and waves, almost no sound🔹 2025 re-interview reshapes the record🕰 Chapters00:00 The Mist Over Sjællands Odde00:01 “It’s a Tornado Coming”01:01 A Dark Object in the Sky02:23 The Report Reaches Rude Skov03:12 Erling Jensen and Initial Skepticism04:41 “I Wish It Would Come Back”05:17 Overby, the Road, and the Weather07:29 A Sudden Turn and a Near Landing08:25 The Basket Beneath the Craft09:53 They Pointed Something at Him10:41 Low Over the Trees13:22 The Strangest Details15:57 The Beings and Their Appearance17:09 An Extraordinary Account17:39 Published in UFO-NYT18:55 The Black Substance on the Beach19:07 Classic Close Encounter Features20:42 Child Witnesses and Reporting Thresholds22:43 Ionized Plasma Vortexes?22:59 A Case That Would Not Change26:00 Jesper Speaks Again — 202526:44 Memory, Suggestion, and Investigation Methods27:54 Final ReflectionsSources:https://archive.org/details/UFO_Nyt_No_2_marts-april_1967/page/n13/mode/2uphiddenmark.dkhttps://hiddenmark.dk/This episode weaves together the fieldwork of SUFOI investigator Erling Jensen, later reflections by SUFOI veteran Toke Haunstrup, and a modern on-site re-interview with Jesper that reframes what was—and wasn’t—actually seen.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLost

This week on Stories Lost, we retrace three Swedish encounters — from a forestry crash by the Gulf of Bothnia, to a silent frame over Byviken, to twelve small men on a frozen road near Eslöv. Across decades, testimonies shift between folklore and ufology. We follow an anonymous laborer, twin brothers Holger & Henry, and cattle herder Helge Eriksson — each describing light, sound, smell, and fear as the ordinary world tilts.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Blinding flash that X-rays trees🔹 A uniformed “dwarf” speaking Swedish🔹 A hissing sack — body dissolves in river🔹 Glowing shard cracks cement, radio burns🔹 Twelve small men march into violet light🕰 Chapters00:00 – Introduction: Three Cases We Never Forgot00:34 – A brief word before we begin01:38 – The Being (1955): The man in the gallery02:39 – The Being (1955): The object and the light05:12 – The Being (1955): A conversation with the dying stranger09:50 – The Being (1955): The river and the disappearance12:02 – The Twin Brothers (1949): A calm summer morning12:39 – The Twin Brothers (1949): The object over the porch14:45 – The Twin Brothers (1949): Years of silence18:03 – The Twin Brothers (1949): What remained20:50 – The Small Men (1931): Epiphany night23:35 – The Small Men (1931): The light in the fieldThis episode weaves together the fieldwork of Erland Sandqvist and later reflections by Anders Liljegren and Håkan Blomqvist, alongside the testimonies of Holger, Henry, and Helge Eriksson.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords: Sweden UFO, 1955 Bothnia, Byviken twins, Helge Eriksson, folklore vs ufology

This week on Stories Lost, we follow Jade Ekström – a Swedish woman born in 1920, whose life unfolded among diplomats, royalty, and international business circles – when a private memory from Vindö in the Stockholm archipelago is suddenly exposed at a dinner table in rural Guatemala: “we flew in from the east”.Staying close to the testimony and the surviving documentation, the episode links two events described by the same witness: a shared sighting of a luminous object rushing over Kanholm Bay in the late 1940s, and a later encounter in 1958 with a man calling himself Ben Austin – a man who seemed to know too much, offered a “trip around to Venus”, and left Jade with a sense of dread she would never forget.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Twelve witnesses at a summer house on Vindö🔹 A light stops above the treetops, then shoots upward🔹 A dinner in Guatemala where the past resurfaces🔹 “Would you like to take a trip… to Venus?”🔹 Frank returns at 6 a.m. – changed🕰 Chapters00:00 – A Warm Night in Guatemala00:38 – “You Are Interested in UFOs”01:09 – A Secret From Vindö Resurfaces01:39 – Contact Cases and the Third Way in Ufology02:44 – Who Was “Anna”? The Truth Revealed03:12 – Jade Ekström’s Extraordinary Social World03:55 – Spirituality, New Age, and a Hidden Story05:06 – Letting Jade Speak for Herself05:27 – The First UFO: Vindö, Late 1940s11:33 – Mexico, 1958: The Invitation to Guatemala13:20 – “Would You Like to Go to Venus?”15:35 – A Man Changed Forever18:32 – Who Was Ben Austin?19:30 – The Craft Behind the House20:23 – Fear, Memory, and Aftermath21:11 – The Pyramid-Shaped Starter Unit22:59 – Strangers Among Us24:41 – Reflections, John Keel, and Final Thoughts24:54 – Thanks to Our SupportersSources:https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2024/05/vi-flog-in-fran-oster.htmlThis episode weaves together recorded interviews and the field perspective of Håkan Blomqvist, placing Jade Ekström’s own words at the center.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords:Jade Ekström, Vindö sighting, Ben Austin, Guatemala 1958, UFO contact

This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Langenargen on the northeast shore of Lake Constance, where a late-night drive home in February 1977 turns into a close encounter report that resists any simple explanation.Two witnesses describe intense, searchlight-like beams and a high-pitched tone—followed by a second, much closer return near the Waldeck Café. One man ends the night bleeding at a neighbor’s door after a moment of terror… and an encounter with two strange, silent figures.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Objects approach from over the lake🔹 Light brighter than stadium floodlights🔹 Sudden disappearance “like switched off”🔹 Panic at locked doors🔹 An unexplained missing hour🕰 Chapters00:00 – A Light Behind Closed Eyes02:06 – Night of February 23–24, 197702:44 – The Waldeck Café and the First Lights06:41 – The Objects Return08:02 – Frozen at the Window11:10 – The Closest Approach14:10 – Police, Panic, and Hospitalization15:47 – Going Public16:13 – The First Newspaper Report17:18 – MUFON Investigation Begins21:03 – Radar Silence and a Military Revelation22:31 – Aftereffects and Trauma24:31 – Psychological and Physical Consequences27:06 – Credibility Tests and Reliability30:12 – Missing Time and Hypnosis34:04 – Psychiatric Evaluations35:24 – The Man in the Black Coat37:44 – Men in Black and Long-Term Effects39:52 – An Unresolved Case40:35 – Final ThoughtsSources:Best ufo cases-europe by Illobrand Von ludwigerThis episode weaves together witness testimony, police reports, and years of follow-up investigation described by Illobrand von Ludwiger, tracing how a single night near Lake Constance continued to shape the lives of those involved.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords:Lake Constance, Langenargen incident, missing time, close encounter, MUFON-CES

Blue at the Threshold – Ongoing contact, childhood encounters & a hospital crossing in PolandA farmer’s life, threaded by anomalies.Blue figures at the edge of life.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Brodowo in north-eastern Poland, tracing a witness’s lifelong thread of encounters — from meadows and barns to a surgical theatre in Ełk. “He has not changed a single detail of his story.” — NPN researcher.We examine a pattern: sightings that seed childhood, return in adolescence, and echo during a clinical crisis. On 20 Nov 1995 and 25 Feb 1997, Andrzej (pseud.) reports craft over his farm; decades earlier he met small beings in a forest and was fed something “like snow.” Later, on an operating table, three tall blue figures halt his drift toward a dark boundary.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Tractor fails after close flyby🔹 Triangular “searching lights” over fields🔹 Forest meeting with gray hunchbacks🔹 Blue beings at the hospital threshold🔹 Seven-year silence, then renewed inquiry🕰 Chapters00:00 – Introduction: A Life-Shaping Case01:54 – The Road Into Darkness02:11 – A Story Years in the Making02:34 – First Major Sighting (1995)03:55 – Second Sighting (1997)08:07 – Childhood: The Boy in the Bushes09:05 – Strange Lights & Village Legends10:19 – Three Lights in the Field10:58 – The Hunchbacked Figure11:46 – The Cow Incident12:33 – The Most Disturbing Encounter15:53 – Buried Memories Return16:43 – At the Edge of Life (1975)19:10 – Seven Years of Silence19:43 – The Call That Changed Everything20:38 – Back to Brodowo21:27 – A Possible Landing Site22:20 – A New Documentary Begins23:26 – Questions That Remain25:10 – Closing ReflectionsSources:https://youtu.be/8IY9l_5idAY?si=gJL8-6VK4B9v_tdVhttps://wylatowo.pl/2009/01/nowy-portal-o-zjawiskach-niezwyklych/This episode weaves together the fieldwork of Marcin Mizera (CBUFOZiA/NPN), on-site filming with Wirtualna Polska, and reflections from Swedish ufologist Håkan Blomqvist — alongside Andrzej’s own testimony.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords: Brodowo, blue beings, Polish UFO, Andrzej, NPN

The Missing Seven Hours – radio disruption, family sightings & regression in Jackson’s Point, OntarioThis week on Stories Lost, we follow Canadian investigator David A. Haisell to Jackson’s Point, tracing a case that began in a London quarry and spiralled into a decades-long puzzle. “I underestimate his intellect.” — Gerry Armstrong.The phenomenon: a live phone-in derailed by a pulsing tone, overlapping sightings around Lake Simcoe, and a family whose ordinary life kept colliding with the impossible. The concrete: a 1953 camp game becomes a seven-hour void; in 1978, a psychiatrist leads Gerry back to what he thinks happened in the missing time.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 CFGM phone-in jammed after “Gerry Armstrong”🔹 Orange fireball rises beyond the trees🔹 Pamela’s precise, independent sighting🔹 Pendulum session unlocks cold details🔹 Cross taken, “not right to worship”🕰 ChaptersSources:https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1979_Vol%201%20No%201.pdfhttps://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1979_Vol%201%20No%202.pdfDavid's latest book on the case: https://www.amazon.com/Control-Factor-David-Haisell/dp/0973823054This episode weaves together the fieldwork of David A. Haisell with Ron Knight’s on-air investigation, and the Armstrong family’s own testimonies.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLost

This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Sobolivka in western Ukraine, retracing a 1990 encounter preserved in the archives of Igor Kalytyuk. Regional radio lit the spark; villagers and a Zhytomyr team followed the trail under an old linden by a stream.Late-Soviet ufology called it a fourth-kind contact within the AЯvOS sequence. In Sobolivka, reports converged: a landing near Novaya Street, a translator device speaking Ukrainian, and physiological after-effects among witnesses. Central to it are two schoolgirls—and a family who rushed to the site minutes later.🕰 Chapters00:00 Introduction00:20 Setting: Ukraine 199001:00 Rise of UFO reports01:52 Fourth-kind encounters02:08 Media headlines02:51 Investigators arrive03:15 First red sphere03:57 Strange sounds04:25 Parents hear the signal05:12 Girls at the shelter05:35 Wristwatch stops06:00 Disc descends06:47 Craft details07:30 Humanoids appear08:00 Description of beings09:52 Panic and paralysis11:20 Being inspects jacket12:05 Metallic voice12:39 “We are children of another planet”13:40 Object buried14:10 Takeoff15:27 Parents return to the site16:36 Physical effects21:01 Red sphere returns21:27 Police findings22:18 Craft reconstruction23:13 Being descriptions24:22 Radiation & anomalies25:58 Expedition conclusions28:48 Official report signed29:15 2015 commentary32:20 InterpretationsSources:https://cloud.ufo-forschung.de/s/cEqcmy3x55feHyJ?dir=/Kazakhstan/CPHS-SAKKUFONThis episode weaves together the fieldwork of the Zhytomyr expedition led by Albert Sergeyevich Mikhailov with witness testimony from the Kovalsky family, Tanya Balashova, and others—set against the preserved records curated by Igor Kalytyuk’s archive.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLostKeywords: Sobolivka Phenomenon, Zhytomyr 1990, fourth-kind encounter, UFO Ukraine, AЯvOS

Flatwoods Monster, toxic gas & doppelgänger in West Virginia & the Karelian Isthmus.A fireball over a dark hill.A faceless figure in a green sky.Two cases, one unsettling pattern.This week on Stories Lost, we follow a 1952 pursuit up a West Virginia hillside and a 1987 night on the Karelian Isthmus—threads drawn from Mikhail Gershtein & Vadim Deruzhinsky’s “The Undead and Mysterious Creatures.” We explore the reported craft, gas, and towering silhouette in Flatwoods, then a gliding, hooded figure outside Leningrad decades later. Eyewitness shock, physical symptoms, vanished dogs—set against modern skeptical readings and eerie echoes across continents.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Flashlight finds a towering hooded form🔹 Hissing gas & burning throats🔹 Car dies, “thousands of vibrating needles”🔹 Green sky, faceless gaze, dogs vanish🔹 Skeptic’s owl theory vs. patterns🕰 Chapters00:00 Intro & Book Context00:33 Let’s Dive In00:58 Flatwoods Begins02:19 The Monster Appears03:40 Aftermath: Sheriff Arrives04:52 The Snitovsky Encounter06:49 Russia 1987: The Baryshevo Case09:17 The Creature Looks Inside09:51 The Green Dawn11:40 Skeptical Interpretations12:27 Why These Cases MatterThis episode weaves together eyewitness accounts from Kathleen May, Gene Lemon, George & Edith Snitovsky, and A.V. Lomonosov, alongside commentary from Joe Nickell and material compiled by Mikhail Gershtein & Vadim Deruzhinsky.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslosthttps://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLost

The Spiterstulen Encounter – Ilkley echoes, telepathy & a vanished boulder in Jotunheimen, NorwayA lone ridge above Visdalen.A figure that shouldn’t be there. Forty-five minutes that won’t let go.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Spiterstulen in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains to follow Fredrik’s account from the turn of the millennium — a quiet valley, a broken bridge, and a presence felt before it was seen. “Children in suits do not fly.” — FredrikWe trace the echo of the Ilkley Moor photograph — the squat, helmet-smooth head, heavy arms, and blurred outline — as it reappears in another landscape. Fredrik describes direct eye contact across a cold spring river, a metallic voice in his head, and a boulder that may not have been a boulder at all.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Metallic voice calling “Fredrik” 🔹 Forty-five minutes of silent standoff 🔹 Sudden lift-off toward a “boulder” 🔹 Weather shift from clear to storm 🔹 Return visits of silent lights🕰 Chapters 00:00 – Introduction: Ilkley Moor and the Photograph03:01 – A Letter from Fredrik03:04 – Visdalen, Jotunheimen: The Setting04:25 – Fredrik Begins His Account05:41 – The Presence Behind the Hill06:22 – Face to Face07:40 – Earlier Experiences and Patterns10:37 – The Boulder and the Ascent11:52 – Sudden Weather and Retreat12:51 – What Was It? Reflection and Return14:21 – The Lights Outside the Window15:23 – Closing Words from Fredrik15:31 – Reflections on Testimony and Memory16:56 – Thanks to Viewers and Supporters17:00 – EndThis episode weaves together the first-person testimony of Fredrik with on-the-ground details from Visdalen — a reflective reconstruction of a day that still troubles the edges of the ordinary.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel: Support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@storieslost/membership https://buymeacoffee.com/storieslost https://www.patreon.com/c/StoriesLost