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She Called Him Alyoshenka – The Kyshtym Dwarf & Russia’s Saddest UFO MysteryA thunderstorm.A forgotten cemetery.And a tiny creature buried beneath the earth.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to the industrial town of Kyshtym in the Ural Mountains of Russia, where seventy-year-old Tamara Prosvirina claimed she discovered a strange living being during a violent storm in May 1996.According to her account, the creature was lying partially buried beneath two slabs of shale in a cemetery. She carried it home, named it Alyoshenka, and cared for it as if it were her own child.What followed became one of the most controversial and emotionally charged mysteries in Russian ufology.🔹 The storm in the cemetery🔹 The strange creature beneath the shale🔹 Witnesses who claimed to see it alive🔹 The death of Alyoshenka🔹 The mysterious mummy🔹 The forensic examination🔹 The disappearance of the remains🔹 The tragedy of Tamara ProsvirinaSources: "The Kyshtym Dwarf: A Failed Contact in the Urals" – A transcript from a documentary film about the events in the Ural Mountains, featuring interviews with lead investigator Vladimir Bendlin, witnesses, and local residents."The Mystery of the Kyshtym Humanoid Alyoshenka" – A compilation of Russian newspaper articles and reports (including material from Komsomolskaya Pravda) describing in detail the discovery of the creature, expert medical assessments, and the mystery surrounding the missing mummy."Kyshtym Dwarf: Operational Video Recording (Original)" – The unedited original transcript from the official Russian police video recording conducted in August 1996, containing direct interviews with Tamara Prosvirina and other individuals who claimed to have seen Alyoshenka.🕰 Chapters00:00 The Storm in Kyshtym01:31 The Town Nobody Notices03:37 Tamara Prosvirina04:46 The Discovery in the Cemetery07:32 Alyoshenka the Beautiful08:50 What Four People Saw11:34 Slavik's Story13:12 Nina Glazyrina's Testimony14:27 He Will Starve to Death16:22 The Mummy17:22 The Official Examination18:09 Stanislav Samoshkin's Verdict19:28 The Disappearance20:04 The Japanese Search20:52 Tragedy and Aftermath22:08 What Was Alyoshenka?23:13 Tamara Learns the Truth23:33 OutroThis episode follows the surviving testimony of Tamara Prosvirina, Tamara Nikolayevna, Nina Glazyrina, Vladimir Bendlin and others connected to one of the strangest anomalous cases ever reported in post-Soviet Russia.Was Alyoshenka a malformed human infant? An unknown biological organism? Or something else entirely?Nearly thirty years later, the evidence has vanished, the witnesses are gone, and the mystery remains unresolved.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:/ @storieslosthttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslost/ storieslostKeywords:Alyoshenka, Kyshtym Dwarf, Kyshtym Humanoid, Russia UFO, Russian Humanoid Encounter, Tamara Prosvirina, Vladimir Bendlin, Stanislav Samoshkin, Mayak, Russian Mystery, Alien Encounter, Humanoid Case, Unsolved Mystery

In this third episode of Stories Lost Short Cases, we return to the roots of this channel and explore three little-known encounters from across the Nordic countries.A Swedish driver reports a gigantic craft hovering above a forest road. A Finnish woman encounters a glowing humanoid figure walking through the darkness. And in the final months before Finland's independence, a woman from rural Karelia tells a story that sounds astonishingly modern despite taking place decades before the UFO era had even begun.Separated by time, geography, and circumstance, these accounts share a common thread: ordinary people describing experiences they struggled to explain.Were these encounters misinterpretations, folklore, psychological experiences, or glimpses of something genuinely unknown?Chapters00:00 Introduction & Stories Lost TV01:59 The Arkelstorp Encounter (Sweden, 1991)08:20 The Saima Gerkman Encounter (Finland, 1970)15:32 The Anni Lattu Case (Karelia, 1917)21:44 Before Flying Saucers: Why the 1917 Account Matters23:44 Outro & ThanksSourcesUFO Information. 1991. No. 04. AFU (Archives for the Unexplained), Sweden.Ufologen. 1972. No. 04. AFU (Archives for the Unexplained), Sweden.Nordic UFO Newsletter. 1988. No. 01.Additional Finnish archival sources and historical research relating to the Saima Gerkman and Anni Lattu cases.If you have additional information about any of these cases, particularly the 1991 Arkelstorp incident, feel free to get in touch.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:   / @storieslost  https://buymeacoffee.com/storieslost

The Ship of Sinners – UFO encounter, Green Estate & hidden traces in Russia.A locked door.A woman in blue.And something waiting beyond the trees.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to the Green Estate in Russia’s Pereslavl district, where caretaker Viktor Nikolayevich Kokorev claimed he found a strange visitor sitting inside his locked kitchen. “Your locks are nothing to us,” she allegedly told him.The account comes from the early 1990s, when strange reports began surfacing across the former Soviet Union. In this case, investigator V. Nitovshchikov reported not only testimony, but unusual traces: a mark on Kokorev’s neck, a toppled spruce and patterned burn marks.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Voices outside in the dark🔹 A woman with silver-white hair🔹 The invisible square doorway🔹 The reduced “sinners” in haze🔹 A golden light above the trees🕰 Chapters00:00 The Green Estate 01:51 Soviet Russia and the Paranormal Boom 04:25 The Caretaker at Green Estate 06:41 The Voices in the Snow 08:23 The Woman in the Kitchen 11:22 The Message From “Space” 13:00 The Invisible Doorway 15:00 After the Encounter 16:08 Physical Traces in the Forest 17:40 Nitovshchikov’s Investigation 21:28 The Elliptical Anomaly 23:18 The Golden Sphere 24:17 Co-Planetarians From Another Reality 26:27 OutroThis episode weaves together the fieldwork of V. Nitovshchikov, the testimony of Viktor Nikolayevich Kokorev, and the later observations of investigators including Oleg Antoshkin. Together, they form one of the strangest anomalous encounter reports to emerge from post-Soviet Russia.Source: https://cloud.ufo-forschung.de/s/cEqcmy3x55feHyJ?dir=/Azerbaijan/UFO_Courier_Magazine&editing=false&openfile=true👍 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:Green Estate, Ship of Sinners, UFO encounter, Viktor Kokorev, Russia

Ancient Contact – Ivan Boyes, UFO encounter & Arkonian beings in Ontario, CanadaA voice in the dark.A craft above the trees.A story that never ended.This week on Stories Lost, we follow the account of Ivan Boyes, who claimed that a night in October 1960 led him from a roadside in Ontario to the interior of an unknown craft—“Do not be afraid. We will not harm you.”What begins as a single encounter expands into something far larger: visions of future catastrophe, beings claiming origins in Earth’s distant past, and a life reshaped by recurring contact. Over time, Boyes describes not just an event—but an evolving reality tied to identity, memory, and purpose.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Compulsion into the night countryside🔹 Hovering craft and direct communication🔹 Inside a circular, seamless chamber🔹 Visions of Earth’s catastrophic future🔹 A life altered by continued contact🕰 Chapters00:00 – The Chamber00:01:12 – The 1977 Publication00:03:09 – The Night It Began00:04:40 – The Object Appears00:06:17 – “We Will Return Tomorrow”00:07:00 – Back Home00:08:03 – The Second Contact00:08:45 – On Board the Craft00:09:37 – The Message About Earth00:10:12 – The Vision of Destruction00:12:02 – A Dying Civilization00:12:48 – The Mission00:13:32 – Chosen at Birth00:14:20 – A New Kind of Contact00:15:54 – “We Have Always Been From Earth”00:16:42 – The Transformation00:18:02 – Back in His Room00:19:20 – Aftermath and Abilities00:20:01 – The Men in Black00:21:21 – The Arconian World00:22:39 – The Air Force Incident00:23:32 – Poisoning and Survival00:25:15 – The Wider Network00:26:14 – Time Travel and Ancient Civilizations00:28:34 – Cognetics00:29:18 – Why Him?00:31:15 – Final Words00:31:25 – ReflectionThis episode weaves together eyewitness testimony and later reflections from Ivan Boyes, tracing how a single reported encounter grew into a lifelong framework for understanding history, identity, and human origins.👍 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: Ivan Boyes, UFO encounter, Arkonian beings, Ontario 1960, ancient astronauts

Music From Somewhere Else – Lost time & frozen bodies in Russia, Uzbekistan & Ukraine.A silent object opens in the forest.A boy vanishes for twenty-three hours.A dead man wakes in the morgue.This week on Stories Lost, we travel through four short cases drawn from UFO Navigator and Chetvertoye Izmereniye, moving from Borok in Western Russia to Uzbekistan, Yablonovka, and Zaporizhzhia. “Come with us.” — GaziliaThese accounts circle around communication, music, missing time, and bodies placed far outside ordinary explanation. In Borok, Alexander Kozhenkov claimed to hear beings speak in tones like song, while his friend stood frozen and remembered almost nothing.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 A silent object unfolding like a flower🔹 Music heard inside another world🔹 Gazilia and the lost medallion🔹 A frozen body revived in summer🔹 Nine years gone in moments🕰 Chapters01:08 The Borok Encounter11:17 The Tulkun Case15:25 The A. Jaz Encounter22:22 The Frozen ManThis episode weaves together the fieldwork and reports of Mikhail Gershtein, the Yaroslavl UFO Study Group, M.A. Mamidov, Felix Ziegel, K.K. Kazanovich, and witnesses including Alexander Ivanovich Kozhenkov, Vitaly Zapovalov, Tulkun, and V. S. Pardazhev.👍 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: UFO Navigator, Borok, lost time, Gazilia, frozen body

Healed on the Ice – Richard Höglund, Father Rapas & The New Generation in Sweden and the BahamasA frozen lake.A vanished illness.A contact story that kept expanding.This week on Stories Lost, we follow Richard Höglund from Uddevalla to Grindhultsjön, and onward to the Bahamas after a claimed encounter with strange beings on the ice. What began as a private healing story became one of the most controversial contact cases in Swedish UFO history.The case includes a reported disappearance of kidney stones, later medical reviews, a buried metal plate, and repeated encounters tied to secret missions, coded messages, and an attempted peace movement called The New Generation. Alongside Richard stands Gunvor Höglund, whose testimony preserved key parts of the story long after his death.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 The landing on frozen Grindhultsjön🔹 A claimed cure for kidney stones🔹 The buried metal plate🔹 Father Rapas on the road north🔹 An underground base in the Bahamas🕰 Chapters00:00 – Introduction: Blomqvist & The Höglund Case00:41 – Richard Höglund: Early Life02:30 – December 1965: The Day Everything Began03:47 – The Encounter at Grindholtssjön05:25 – The Beings: Appearance & Behavior06:39 – First Communication08:44 – The Healing09:26 – The Message: “They Will Return”11:34 – Telling Gunvor12:33 – The Medical Mystery14:55 – First Contact with Ufologists16:28 – Second Encounter (1966)17:32 – The Warning About War18:37 – The Mission & The Metal Plate20:41 – Journey to The Bahamas22:25 – The Story Continues23:34 – Father Rapas Appears26:48 – Return to The Bahamas27:27 – The Underground Base29:12 – The New Generation Project31:34 – Collapse of the Movement32:26 – Secret Missions & Disappearances34:37 – Encounters in Nassau38:32 – Final Years39:28 – Death of Richard Höglund39:56 – ConclusionSources:https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2021/03/This episode weaves together the fieldwork of Håkan Blomqvist and testimony from Gunvor Höglund, Ernst Linder, Sture Johansson, Turid Johansson, and Gösta Johansson. Their accounts do not settle the case — but they reveal how one story grew into something far larger than a single sighting.👍 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:Richard Höglund, Father Rapas, Grindhultsjön, The New Generation, Bahamas

A Night Above the Blizzard – UFO encounter, Soviet officer testimony & alien contact in KazanA storm.A light in the sky.A memory that returned decades later.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Soviet-era Kazan and follow the account of Galy Galiev, a young officer who, in the winter of 1948, became lost in a blizzard on his way home. Forty years later, he recalled an experience that blurred the line between survival, dream, and encounter.What begins as a struggle against cold and exhaustion becomes something far stranger. A hovering craft, silent figures, and a conversation that moves from weapons to distant worlds—before ending where it began: in the snow, outside his childhood home.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Lost in a night blizzard🔹 Light descending from the clouds🔹 Taken aboard an unknown craft🔹 Conversation on weapons & defense🔹 Vision of a distant fallen civilization🕰 Chapters00:00 – Lost in the Blizzard00:45 – A Case from Soviet Russia02:14 – The Journey Begins03:34 – The Storm Takes Over05:13 – The Light Appears06:56 – Taken Aboard07:14 – Inside the Craft10:27 – Why They Chose Him15:16 – A Film from Another World24:15 – The Great Destruction27:32 – Why They Stay Hidden29:53 – The Farewell31:08 – Awakening in the Snow33:22 – Was It Real?37:39 – Stories Lost OutroThis episode weaves together eyewitness recollection and field accounts preserved in regional archives, centered on the testimony of Galy Galiev and later compiled by researcher Ravil Iskhakov.👍 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: UFO Kazan, Soviet encounter, alien contact story, blizzard survival, Tagir planet

Welcome to Stories Lost - Short Cases! A new format where we from time to time will explore shorter cases. Events that were recorded, sometimes only lightly investigated, and never fully followed through, yet still part of the historical record.This episode weaves together archival reports and witness accounts drawn from lesser-known publications and field notes, preserved across decades but rarely revisited.01:25 The Complaint in the Forest05:18 The Warning by the River09:35 The Sickness Inside the Craft👍 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:Encounter Fragments, UFO Sweden, Kyiv encounter, alien message, unexplained cases

Anna’s Missing Hour A road turns white as day.A car moves on its own.And an hour disappears.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to central France and the disturbing 1976 case known as "Anna". Recorded and investigated by French journalist Hugo Nhart, her account begins on a familiar road home from Limoges and unfolds into something far stranger.A bright structure blocks the road. Her Renault 4 advances without control. Then come missing time, a broken mirror, physical aftereffects, and later recurring dreamlike images Anna herself warned should be treated with caution. “I tell you they abused me. Otherwise how would you explain all that?” — AnnaBut that’s only part of the story.🔹 A forest lit like noon🔹 The car moves by itself🔹 Missing time on a known road🔹 A mirror found impossibly far🔹 Dreams, wounds, and uncertainty🕰 Chapters00:00 – A Darkness That Shouldn’t Exist00:14 – The Figures in the Room01:22 – A Case That Defies Explanation02:29 – The Night It Began03:05 – The Light in the Forest04:27 – Something Blocking the Road05:07 – The Car Takes Control06:02 – “I’m Going to See What They Want”06:44 – The Structure of Light08:03 – Drawn Into the Phenomenon08:46 – Inside the Light09:06 – Something Enters Her Mind09:56 – The Arm10:23 – The Sound in the Dark11:00 – The “Things” Beside the Car12:35 – Total Blackout12:48 – “We Have Killed Her”13:39 – Her Body Stops Responding14:44 – The Object Revealed16:13 – It Disappears16:34 – The Missing Time17:05 – The Morning After18:02 – Searching for Evidence19:31 – The Impossible Detail20:01 – No One Takes Her Seriously20:33 – The Official Response20:48 – Physical Aftereffects22:00 – The Investigation Begins23:21 – Can She Be Trusted?24:43 – What Happened Inside25:33 – The Procedure26:09 – The Beings27:16 – The Final Sequence28:07 – Trying to Explain the Impossible29:42 – Memory vs Reality31:14 – A Familiar Face32:40 – A Pattern Across Cases33:07 – What She Believed Happened33:45 – Two Possible Explanations34:08 – The Case Remains Open34:19 – What Do You Think?35:00 – OutroThis episode weaves together the fieldwork of Hugo Nhart and Anna’s own testimony, along with the details he said he was able to verify afterward. It remains one of the strangest and most difficult cases in the archive of close encounter reports.👍 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:Anna case, missing time, Hugo Nhart, UFO encounter, central France

Phoenix Mountain Incident – Meng Zhaoguo, UFO traces & witness testimony in Heilongjiang, China.A white object on a mountain slope.A forestry worker who got too close.A case China still argues over.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Phoenix Mountain in Heilongjiang, where villagers reported a strange object lodged high on the southern slope in 1994. What began as a local mystery grew into one of modern China’s most famous alleged alien encounter cases.Witnesses described lights in the sky, a metallic object on the mountain, and physical traces investigators later struggled to explain. At the center was forestry worker Meng Zhaoguo, who claimed a beam struck his forehead, leaving a mark doctors and investigators debated for years.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 The object on Phoenix Mountain🔹 Meng’s collapse and forehead mark🔹 Witnesses, burns & overturned stones🔹 The claimed onboard encounter🔹 Meng’s 2021 corrections🕰 Chapters00:00 The Most Famous Alien Case in China00:49 Something Lands on Phoenix Mountain01:35 Villagers See the Object02:28 Meng Zhaoguo Decides to Climb03:02 The Sound That Causes Pain04:05 A Figure Appears Beside the Craft05:22 The Beam That Struck His Forehead05:59 The Being Inside the Shed06:56 The Impossible Rotation08:52 The Night Everything Changed09:03 A Three-Meter-Tall Being Appears10:22 Levitating Above the Bed11:19 Taken Through the Wall12:31 Inside the Craft13:50 A Future Child and Repeated Visits15:12 The Glowing Plant15:41 Lie Detector and Official Tests16:50 “It Remains Just a Story”17:20 Investigators Arrive at Phoenix Mountain19:35 The Disturbed Rocks and Physical Evidence21:42 Meng Speaks Again (2021)25:18 “It Was Like a Giant Cauldron”27:47 Communication Without Words29:23 Contact Before Age 1731:27 A Warning About Earth’s Future32:29 “I Was an Experiment”33:13 The Language of the Beings35:40 What Really Happened?36:24 OutroThis episode weaves together the fieldwork of Sun Shili, Bill Chalker, Zhang Jingping, Chen Yanchun, Zhang Chianti, and the testimony attributed to Meng Zhaoguo and local forestry workers. 👍 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:Phoenix Mountain, Meng Zhaoguo, UFO encounter, Heilongjiang, alien abduction