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Stories Lost brings forgotten tales of the unknown back to life — real accounts from real people. You decide what to believe.Subscribe to get access to our compilations with new intros. Thank you for supporting us!https://storieslost.sehttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stories-lost7/subscribehttps://buymeacoffee.com/jakobsjon0f Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Yesterday34 min
The Visitors Who Showed Him His Own Death | Finland
The Visitors Who Showed Him His FutureIn the summer of 1954, 18-year-old Osmo Leino claimed that three strangers entered his family’s temporary home outside Turku, Finland. They seemed to know who he was—and they brought a small machine that appeared to show him images from his own future.One of those images, Osmo believed, showed how he would die.This week on Stories Lost, we follow one of Finland’s strangest forgotten encounter stories. It begins with a low-flying object that nearly struck Osmo and his younger brother, and continues with two extraordinary nighttime visits involving mysterious technology, apparent telepathic communication, and predictions of events that had not yet happened.Before leaving, the visitors gave Osmo one final instruction: he was not to speak about them for twenty years.When he eventually published his account in 1977, Osmo claimed that several of their predictions had already come true.But what about the final one?Chapters00:00 The Final Picture04:01 The First UFO Encounter07:05 The Visitors Arrive09:13 The Machine That Showed the Future14:29 The Telepathic Experiment18:01 The Visitors Return21:38 The 20-Year Secret23:41 Osmo’s Later Experiences27:40 A Strange Dream29:30 Osmo’s Final Years31:19 What Really Happened?SourcesOsmo Leino’s published 1977 account.Minna Hivonen, Ultra, 2004 — based on Osmo’s account, their friendship, conversations and correspondence.Tapani Koivula — later writings and interviews concerning Osmo Leino.Juhan Avgrand, Visitors from Space, 1992 — Finnish television documentary featuring Osmo discussing his experiences.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and strange accounts of the unexplained.https://www.adlibris.com/sv/bok/nattgrim-9789189966215👽 Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@storieslosthttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslostThank you for watching Stories Lost!#StoriesLost #UFOHistory #HumanoidEncounter #HighStrangeness #Unexplained #Finland #Mystery #Documentary
- 1 weeks ago30 min
Three of the Strangest Encounters We’ve Ever Found
Small figures in red inside an old house. A stranger in the back seat who becomes something else in the witness’s account. And a woman who describes meeting a man called Pilate—before producing an X-ray she believes supports her story.This week on Stories Lost, we follow three encounters that left their witnesses searching for explanations long after the events were over.In eastern France in June 1970, children reported seeing small, pot-bellied figures moving through an old farmhouse. Their attempts to find the visitors led them through empty rooms and open doors, until a strange grey animal appeared at an upper window. A local teacher began asking questions, but the events that followed made the property itself another part of the mystery.In Crimea in 2001, a father and daughter stopped for a young man asking for a lift. He was strikingly beautiful, drank water almost constantly, and seemed preoccupied with a small box. Before the journey was over, the daughter’s recollections had become a series of disconnected scenes—and she had stopped referring to their passenger as a man.And in Kirov in 1991, a different woman, also named Irina, described waking in an unfamiliar room and being led through an encounter she could neither understand nor control. One man eventually gave her a name: Pilate. Years later, researcher Alexey Priyma published her account alongside a drawing attributed to her and an X-ray containing a small pale mark whose significance remained disputed.What did these witnesses experience? And how far can we follow their stories before the surviving evidence runs out?Chapters00:00 Introduction01:40 The Figures in Red — France, 197002:24 Someone at the Window03:10 The Search Inside the House05:12 The Strange Grey Animal07:22 The Teacher and the Children’s Drawings08:22 The Fire and the Missing Bicycle12:13 The Crimean Hitchhiker — 200113:19 The Passenger and the Box15:34 The Abandoned Petrol Station17:33 Alien or Hypnotist?18:54 Irina’s Account — Kirov, 199119:36 The Unfamiliar Room20:17 The Hall and the Moving Chair23:35 “I Am Pilate”23:58 Alexey Priyma’s Investigation25:19 The X-Ray26:16 The Proposed Operation28:58 Final ThoughtsSourcesLumières dans la Nuit, no. 113, August 1971 — “Une étrange affaire,” pp. 16–19.Le Parisien libéré, May 24, 1971 — early newspaper coverage of the children’s encounter and the subsequent fire, prepared in collaboration with Lumières dans la Nuit.UFO Navigator, no. 18, August 2001 — “Alien or Hypnotist?”, publishing Irina’s letter about the Crimean encounter.Alexey Konstantinovich Priyma, Vnezemlyane idut! (The Aliens Are Coming!), Tatyanin Den, Moscow, 1994 — “The Woman with a Device in Her Body.”Some visuals are AI-assisted reconstructions of the published accounts.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and strange accounts of the unexplained.👽 Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7xcWPbM5ZVNz4sFpyE79Ahttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslostThank you for watching Stories Lost!#StoriesLost #HighStrangeness #HumanoidEncounter #Unexplained #UFOHistory #MissingTime #Paranormal #Mystery #Documentary
- 2 weeks ago34 min
The Incredible UFO Case in Northern Norway That Vanished from History
He Vanished at Sea. When He Returned, He Remembered Being Taken.A trawler dead in the water.A sphere three thousand feet wideAnd a man who could not remember his own name for almost a year.This week on Stories Lost, we look at the case of Kenneth Brean, a British trawler officer who vanished at sea in the Arctic Ocean just before Christmas, and resurfaced years later on a mountain plateau near the Norwegian border, unable to speak or recall who he was.Two Sámi herders found him and another unidentified man sitting beside a fire, dressed in strange clothing and staring blankly into the flames. It would take nearly a year, and the blinding light of a welding torch, before Kenneth began to speak again. What followed was a memory of a massive luminous sphere descending over his trawler, two smaller craft, a beam that tore through the hull, and an enormous chamber filled with benches, strange green beings, and towering pale figures who studied him without a word. Kenneth was placed under a secrecy order, his family relocated and forbidden to speak his name, and he died years later of leukemia attributed to radiation exposure. We tried to verify his account and instead found a wall of silence, broken only by one detail that could not be erased: a missing British trawler, and her entire crew.Was Kenneth Brean's account a genuine record of something taken from him at sea? Or is the trawler we found simply a haunting coincidence?Chapters00:00 Introduction01:47 The Sámi Herders and the Man by the Fire03:22 A Year of Silence04:01 The Welding Torch05:17 Kenneth Brean's Account Begins08:36 The Sphere Over the Trawler11:30 The Smaller Craft12:47 The Beam14:21 Inside the Chamber15:47 The Green Beings and the Tall Ones18:47 Returning to the World19:50 Secrecy, Exile and Death22:58 Searching for the Truth24:20 The Search for the Ship25:40 Prince Charles27:45 The Wreck at Karken30:35 What the Crew List Cannot Explain33:52 Outro & ThanksSourcesUFO magazine (Norway): "UFO" nr. 2, 1982— publication of the Kenneth Brean account.Tromsø newspaper, December 27, 1955 — interview with pilot Strand on the loss of Prince Charles.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7xcWPbM5ZVNz4sFpyE79A/membership/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslostThank you for watching Stories Lost!#UFO #UAP #StoriesLost #CloseEncounter #MissingAtSea #Norway #Arctic #HumanoidEncounter #HighStrangeness #Paranormal #AlienAbduction #MissingTime #UFOHistory #Mystery #Unexplained #Documentary #TrueStories #ColdWarUFO
- 3 weeks ago52 min
He Opened Fire on the Aliens — And Paid the Price
Stories Lost Short Cases #4 – Close Encounters, Closer Than ExpectedA shot fired in fear.A struggle beside a silent river.A meeting in the fog that no one could explain.This week on Stories Lost, Short Cases, we look at three lesser known encounters where witnesses found themselves at remarkably close range with something they could not identify — and in some of these cases, close encounter really does mean close.We begin in Goiás, Brazil, in 1967, where farmer Inácio de Souza fired his rifle at three beings standing beside a landed craft, and would be dead within fifty nine days. From there we travel to the Loire in France, where Micheline G was seized by a pair of enormous black hands on an empty path in 1950. And we end in the Sauerland forests of Germany, where a forest warden reached out to touch a silver object in a meadow, and woke up surrounded by four small beings breathing through masks.Was Inácio's illness radiation sickness, misdiagnosed leukemia, or something science still can't explain? Was Micheline attacked by something intelligent, or something that mistook her for a threat? And what were the beings in the Sauerland meadow really collecting?🔹 A farmer's fatal encounter in rural Brazil🔹 A violent attack beside the Loire in France🔹 A forest warden's silent contact in postwar Germany🔹 The physical evidence left behind in each caseChapters00:00 Intro00:49 Stories Lost TV01:22 Brazil, 1969: The Case of Inácio de Souza03:05 The Encounter on the Farm04:02 Inácio's Testimony07:05 Illness, Diagnosis and Death11:47 Radiation Poisoning or Misunderstanding?15:53 France, 1950: Micheline's Encounter by the Loire18:26 Seized on the Embankment26:01 Aftermath and the Gendarmes' Investigation35:21 Twenty Years Later: Charles Garaud39:23 Germany, 1948: The Sauerland Forest Warden43:17 The Beings and the Burn Marks48:04 Thirty Years of Silence51:42 OutroSourcesAPRO Bulletin, 1969.Infoespace (Belgium), reproduced early investigation material on the Inácio de Souza case.Charles Garaud, French UFO investigator and journalist — interview and site visit with Micheline G.Mysteria, issue 57, 1985 (West Germany) — first full publication of Ernst August's witness statement.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7xcWPbM5ZVNz4sFpyE79A/membership/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslostThank you for watching Stories Lost!#UFO #UAP #StoriesLost #CloseEncounter #Brazil #France #Germany #HumanoidEncounter #HighStrangeness #Paranormal #AlienEncounter #MissingTime #UFOHistory #Mystery #Unexplained #Documentary #TrueStories #ShortCases
- Jun 13, 202624 min
Alyoshenka the Beautiful: Russia's Saddest UFO Mystery
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
- Jun 2, 202624 min
Forgotten Encounters in the Nordics | SL Short Cases #3
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
- May 16, 202628 min
The Ship of Sinners | Russia’s Most Disturbing UFO Encounter
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
- May 4, 202633 min
One of the Strangest and Most Specific Accounts We've Heard of
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
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Stories Lost brings forgotten tales of the unknown back to life — real accounts from real people. You decide what to believe.Subscribe to get access to our compilations with new intros. Thank you for supporting us!https://storieslost.sehttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stories-lost7/subscribehttps://buymeacoffee.com/jakobsjon0f Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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