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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...

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 K...

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 allegedl...

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 enc...

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. “...

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 mo...

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 blu...

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 rare...

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. He...

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...

Shadows on Le Malmont – red lights, tall figures & vehicle interference in DraguignanA sound in the dark. Loose stones sliding down the path. And something descending toward them. This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Le Malmont above Draguignan, where a quiet October night in 1973 turns into a layered encounter of light, sound, and presence. “If this affair is not an elaborately staged hoax...

The Martebo Light – mysterious lights, witness encounter & folklore in GotlandA lonely road in the dark. A flashing light answering a car’s brake pedal. And something stepping out of the forest. In this Special Episode we revisit one of our earliest cases. We travel to the windswept marshlands of Gotland to investigate one of Sweden’s most enduring mysteries – the strange and elusive Martebo L...

Red Beams in the Valley – abduction reports, telepathic contact & forest encounters in China. A storm over Jiulongshan. A green cloud at Tiger’s Mouth. Two cases. One unsettling pattern. This week on Stories Lost, we travel into remote mountain valleys in southern and central China, where two alleged close encounters unfolded far from cities, cameras, and easy verification. From Tiger’s Mouth...

This week on Stories Lost, we travel to rural Aveyron, France – to an old farm where a family’s nights fill with glowing balls that blink out, reappear, and move with unnerving purpose. “I was too old… I did not want to see things like that.” — the grandmother. Across weeks and scattered dates, the phenomenon shifts – six lights in formation, an upright “obus” hovering above the ground, and a son...

Byrkjefjell – Stone altar, blue circle & giant apples in NorwayA sunlit hike. A hand-built altar on bare rock. And a perfect blue ring in the snow. This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Byrkjefjell on Kvamskogen, east of Bergen, where a married couple in the mid-1960s or early 1970s stumbled upon a scene they would never forget. A stone altar. Fresh ash. And an apple placed as if in offering...

Walter Rizzi, the Dolomites & a message from the sky in South Tyrol. A white light in the mist. A raised hand – without words. And a warning that still lingers. This week on Stories Lost, we follow the trail of Signor Walter Rizzi through the Dolomites of South Tyrol – from a midnight drive over the Grödner Pass and the Sella Pass, to a close encounter beside a silvery craft standing in the gr...

Silent Repair in the Blackout – Power outage, telepathy & burns in Mariannelund, SwedenA town goes dark. A craft hangs without a sound. A witness carries pain—and visions. This week on Stories Lost, we return to Mariannelund, Sweden, and Gideon Johansson’s 1959 night—an updated re-release of an older episode, now framed with new questions and tests against physics. “They simply went on with re...

This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Taizé in eastern France, just north of Cluny, to revisit a 1972 overnight encounter seen by dozens from the amphitheatre known as “the crater.” “It looks like an egg.” — François TantôtFive sweeping beams, seven yellow lights, and three disk-like “saucers” circling a grounded mass—reported for over two and a half hours. As four witnesses moved closer, a near...

In September 1968, in the backyard of a small pottery workshop in Brazil, something answered. This episode of Stories Lost explores the Schneider Encounter — a close contact that didn’t feel like a meeting, but like a system responding. A courtyard freezes at 3 a.m. Two flat silhouettes “answer” without voices. Evidence lingers long after the light. This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Joinvill...

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, radi...

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....

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 fe...

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 ev...

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 neighb...

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.”...