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Hello and welcome to episode 2 
of Stories Lost Short Cases. 

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In this episode, we'll be 
exploring a few hidden gems 

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sourced from UFO Navigator, a 
Russian UFO publication edited 

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by Mikhail Gerstein and 
circulated in the early 2000s. 

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We will also present a selection
of cases from Chet Vertoya 

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Ismirenia 4th Dimension, 
published by the Yaroslavl UFO 

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Study Group between 1991 and 
2004. 

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As in our previous short cases 
episode, these are cases that on

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their own don't quite carry a 
full episode, but still 

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fascinate us enough that we feel
compelled to share them with 

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you. 
And if any of our brilliant 

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viewers happen to know more 
about any of these cases, please

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don't hesitate to reach out. 
We'd love to follow up in future

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episodes. 
Now we begin with the first 

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case, taken from issue 17 of UFO
Navigator, published in August 

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2001. 
We travel to the small village 

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of Barack in western Russia on a
quiet March afternoon in 1981. 

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There we take a closer look at a
case we've chosen to include 

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because it involves a form of 
communication we've never 

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encountered before. 
Borak is a small and remote 

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settlement in the Yaroslavl 
region of western Russia. 

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Located along the vast Reibinsk 
Reservoir on the Volga River. 

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It is not a typical village. 
During the Soviet era, Borak 

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developed into a scientific 
center connected to research 

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institutes in biology and the 
natural sciences. 

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Many of its residents were 
scientists, technicians and 

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academics, and the entire place 
carried the atmosphere of a 

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quiet, intellectual, everyday 
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At the edge of the settlement, 
among the trees, stands a 

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monument to Nikolai Morozov, a 
scientist and thinker whose life

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came to symbolize endurance and 
knowledge. 

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It is a place primarily 
associated with research, 

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reflection and stillness. 
And that is precisely what makes

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what happened there a quiet 
afternoon in March 1981, so 

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difficult to explain. 
Two men, Alexander Ivanovich 

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Kozhenkov and his friend Vitali 
Zapavelov, were walking along a 

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narrow forest path, moving 
calmly through the trees with a 

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camera in hand, they 
photographed their surroundings 

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without any particular urgency, 
taking in the quiet landscape as

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they went. 
After a while, the path opened 

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up, leading them toward the 
monument. 

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To NA Mirazov, everything was 
ordinary, predictable. 

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Then something changed. 
Alexander noticed his friend 

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Zapavalov had stopped. 
He stood completely still. 

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His face was pale white as snow,
and his gaze was empty. 

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He didn't blink, didn't move. 
It was as if his entire body had

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frozen, as if something had shut
him down mid motion. 

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Alexander barely had time to 
react before a strong sense of 

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unease washed over him. 
He turned around. 

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Behind him, just a few meters 
away, an object hovered. 

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It was completely silent. 
It's shape was strange, like a 

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rounded loaf of bread, 
approximately 4 to 5 meters in 

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diameter. 
The surface was greyish blue, 

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covered with a thin matte layer 
that muted the light. 

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It had a faint Sheen, yet 
appeared almost lifeless. 

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No visible openings, no details 
suggesting any kind of 

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construction, it simply hung 
there in the air. 

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Instinctively, Alexander raised 
his camera. 

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Holding it at waist level, he 
pressed the shutter. 

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At that exact moment, the object
began to move, not like a 

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machine, but like something 
alive. 

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Its surface opened slowly, 
deliberately, like a flower 

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Unfolding segments expanded from
its upper section, parts sliding

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apart and moving up and down 
like interconnected elements. 

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Structures that had not been 
visible before now emerged 

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clearly, and still there was not
a single sound. 

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And there, at the center of the 
opened object, 2 figures 

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appeared. 
They stood still for a moment, 

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then moved forward, as if 
stepping out of the object and 

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down toward the ground. 
Their movements were calm, 

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controlled, almost human, but 
not entirely. 

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As they approached, it became 
clear they were significantly 

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taller than Alexander, at least 
2 heads higher. 

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Their bodies were slender and 
proportionate, with arms and 

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legs resembling those of a 
human, but their entire forms 

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were covered in something 
resembling frost, a thin layer 

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that shimmered faintly. 
They wore something like tight 

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fitting suits, almost like 
leotards in a skin toned color. 

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At the same time, a faint light 
emanated from their bodies, a 

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pink Violet glow that caused 
their hands and fingers to 

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shimmer in the same hue. 
Their faces were essentially 

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human in structure, but 
difficult to discern clearly due

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to the light. 
Their eyes were set slightly 

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closer together than usual, the 
features around the mouth and 

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chin appeared unusually 
harmonious, almost beautiful. 

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The figures stopped about 3 
meters in front of him, and then

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they began to communicate. 
There were no words. 

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There was sound, soft flowing 
tones, almost like music, a kind

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of melodic murmur or purring, 
shifting in rhythm and 

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intensity. 
Their mouths moved In Sync with 

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the sounds, but what they 
produced resembled singing more 

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than speech. 
Alexander stood there, tense, 

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unable to understand. 
He raised the camera again and 

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pressed the shutter once more. 
At the same time the beings 

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continued their sounds, and 
suddenly he heard himself 

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respond. 
But his response was different, 

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simpler, shorter, almost 
monotone. 

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He voiced what must have been 
single syllables. 

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They were primitive sounds that 
formed in his own throat without

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any conscious intent. 
It was as if he was trying to 

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imitate their way of 
communicating, but couldn't 

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quite emulate it. 
Despite this, a strange 

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understanding emerged, not 
through words, but through a 

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direct sense of meaning. 
He perceived that they were 

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trying to calm him, that he did 
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And in the midst of this strange
exchange, he also received 

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something else, not as a clear 
message, but as an image, a 

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feeling, a place. 
Three stars connected in a shape

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resembling a triangle. 
That was where they came from. 

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The exchange continued for 
several minutes, perhaps 8 or 9,

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but later he would not be able 
to recall it in detail, only 

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fragments, feelings, 
impressions. 

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Then everything changed again. 
The figures turned, moved back 

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toward the object, and stepped 
inside. 

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The segments closed slowly, 
exactly as they had opened. 

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The structure returned to its 
original form. 

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The object disappeared, not 
through sudden acceleration, but

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by simply no longer being there.
When Alexander looked up again, 

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he saw it once more, high above 
the tree line, hovering at 

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perhaps 150 meters. 
It remained there briefly, and 

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then vanished. 
Alexander stood there. 

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The silence was absolute. 
He turned to his friend. 

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Zapovolov was still standing in 
the exact same position, rigid, 

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pale and absent. 
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anything, had not moved, had not
reacted. 

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Afterward, Alexander tried to 
find traces on the ground where 

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the object had been, but he 
found nothing. 

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When the photographs were later 
developed, it turned out that 

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every image had been destroyed 
completely white, overexposed. 

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But the most puzzling part came 
later. 

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When Zapovalov was later asked 
what had happened, he could 

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recall almost nothing. 
The encounter itself was gone 

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from him. 
The beings were gone. 

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Even the sense that he had taken
part in something unusual had 

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disappeared. 
The shifting of the needle began

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to stir later in the early 
1980s, when the case began to 

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attract the attention of 
researchers. 

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The first investigation was 
carried out by a group of 

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Leningrad ufologists under the 
direction of MA Mammodov on 

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assignment from the researcher 
Felix Siegel. 

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He later included the event in 
his compilations of UFO 

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observations in the Soviet 
Union. 

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The investigators surveyed the 
area and using dowsing 

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techniques identified 4 
so-called active zones in the 

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terrain. 
No physical traces of the event 

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were ever found, and because the
account rested on a single 

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witness, while the other man who
had been there was unable to 

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confirm, the investigators 
concluded that the case could 

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not be considered reliable. 
It was set aside and archived, 

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but it would not stay there. 
In 1999, the case resurfaced. 

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Ufologist KK Kazanovich 
conducted a new interview with 

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Kozhenkov. 
This time, he concluded that the

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core of the account remained 
consistent with the earliest 

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statements from the early 1980s.
His assessment differed from the

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earlier investigation, and he 
noted that something else had 

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shifted over time. 
Ever since that day, a strange 

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sense of calm had settled within
Kozenkov, as if the experience 

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had left behind more than just 
memories. 

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His way of seeing life began to 
shift, becoming more reflective 

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and more philosophical over 
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His inner life seemed to 
resonate at ever higher notes. 

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For our next case, we travel to 
Uzbekistan, where music, just 

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like in the previous case in 
this episode, plays a role. 1 

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spring morning in 1990 in the 
Uzbek Savkos Nishjan, a student 

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named Tolkien, who was in the 
11th grade, woke at dawn to go 

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for a jog to his friend Igor's 
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As he moved along the road and 
approached a bridge, he came to 

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a wide stretch of asphalt. 
He was about to step out across 

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it. 
At that moment, he suddenly felt

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a sharp pain in his eyes. 
As he tried to Orient himself, 

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he noticed an object hovering in
the air at approximately the 

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height of a Telegraph pole. 
It was described as a large, 

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bright red cylinder, completely 
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Tolkien reported that he was 
immediately overwhelmed with 

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fear and that his legs stopped 
responding as if he had been 

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temporarily paralyzed. 
The cylinder then began to 

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descend and landed on the 
asphalt about 50 meters away. 

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Shortly after landing, the 
object split vertically into two

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equal halves. 
From inside the craft emerged a 

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being that Tolkien described as 
very tall. 

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Dressed in a silver colored 
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The being had Gray hair reaching
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disproportionately long arms 
extending below its knees. 

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At this point, Tolkien reported 
that he lost consciousness and 

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his memory of the event ceased. 
When he later regained 

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consciousness, he found himself 
in a completely different 

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environment. 
He was seated in a soft and very

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comfortable armchair. 
In front of him was a foaming 

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sea, and in the distance a sun 
shone over a landscape where 

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tall formations resembling 
stalagmites rose straight up 

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from the water. 
The surroundings were described 

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as shimmering and radiant, yet 
the light was not blinding or 

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uncomfortable. 
He did not observe any other 

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beings in this environment. 
After some time he became aware 

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of a faint music nearby. 
He could not recognize the 

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melody, but it reminded him of 
violins. 

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He described how the music led 
him into a calm trance like 

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state in which listening gave 
way to the feeling that he was 

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being drawn into the sound 
itself. 

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And as this happened, his sense 
of time began to fall away. 

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This state was abruptly 
interrupted by a sharp noise. 

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When he opened his eyes, he 
found himself back on the 

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asphalt road, at the exact 
location where the cylinder had 

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previously landed. 
The sound turned out to be the 

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horn of a car passing by at high
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It was now raining heavily, and 
Tolkien felt a growing headache 

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and a sense of disorientation. 
He then made his way home. 

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It later became clear that 
Tolkien had been missing for a 

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total of 23 hours. 
During that time, his 

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disappearance had caused 
significant concern in the 

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village. 
His parents had contacted both 

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the school and the police, and a
large scale search operation had

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been organized, led by a police 
major. 

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His classmates had also 
participated in the search. 

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The assumption had been that he 
had been involved in an accident

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or had been the victim of a 
crime. 

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An additional account connected 
to the event came from a local 

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police officer, Avias Pardajev. 
He later stated that his wife 

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had observed an unusual 
phenomenon. 

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During the same night Tolkien 
was missing, she reportedly saw 

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a glowing red sphere hovering 
above their home. 

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According to her description, 
she experienced intense fear and

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an inability to move. 
The object then appeared to 

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shrink before disappearing into 
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The couple initially chose not 
to report the incident, but 

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later came forward after 
learning about Tolkien's 

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experience. 
We move now to the small village

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of Yablanovka, deep in rural 
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We find a 14 year old boy who 
has found a quiet place to rest.

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He is holding a magazine and 
flipping through it absent 

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mindedly. 
Many years later, he would write

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down what happened that day. 
By then he was an adult, working

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as an engineer. 
He signed his account with the 

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initials A Jazz. 
He never revealed his full name,

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but on this day in 1939, he is 
just a boy. 

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Then, suddenly, the light 
changes. 

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A dark cloud drifts across the 
sky above him. 

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In the next moment, a beam of 
light cuts down toward the 

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ground in front of him. 
The boy barely has time to react

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before he sees it. 
What a remarkable object. 

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It moves silently through the 
air, like a bat in flight. 

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Its motion is strange, almost 
alive. 

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First it moves in a spiral, 
hovering and circling. 

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When it reaches about 70 meters,
it suddenly stops. 

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Then it begins to descend 
straight down, perfectly 

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vertical. 
As it lands, he sees its shape 

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clearly. 
It resembles a massive Dome, 

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like a gigantic old fashioned 
diving bell. 

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An opening forms. 
The first to step out of the 

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craft is a man. 
He is wearing something like a 

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spacesuit. 
When he removes his helmet, the 

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boy is stunned. 
The man has dark skin and wears 

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a white turban on his head. 
To the boy he looks like an 

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Indian. 
In his hand he holds a strange 

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yellow object, elongated, shaped
like a cross between a rod and a

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harpoon. 
Shortly after, another figure 

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emerges, a woman. 
She is dressed in a dark blue 

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form fitting suit, wearing a 
silver helmet marked with a star

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at its center and sandals of the
same metallic color. 

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When she removes her helmet, 
beautiful golden hair falls down

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over her shoulders. 
Her face is unreal, so beautiful

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that the boy immediately 
compares her to Aphrodite, the 

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Greek goddess of love. 
Her eyes are large, unusually 

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large, and completely without 
eyelashes. 

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Her nose is slightly upturned. 
The boy hesitates. 

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His first thought is not that 
this is something 

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extraterrestrial. 
On the contrary, he believes he 

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may have stumbled into a secret 
film set, or perhaps he's 

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witnessing some kind of top 
secret Soviet military craft. 

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But the woman smiles a radiant, 
warm smile. 

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She says something to him in 
Russian, but the words sound 

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wrong, drawn out, unnatural, as 
if each letter is being 

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pronounced separately, as though
the language is being read 

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rather than spoken. 
Come with us. 

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And strangely, the boy feels No 
Fear. 

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He follows them inside the 
craft. 

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It is nothing like he expected. 
The massive, enclosed diving 

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bell reveals itself to contain a
spacious, round and comfortable 

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room. 
The air is fresh, carrying a 

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faint scent of ozone. 
Somewhere in the background, 

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music is playing, soft and 
familiar, like quiet lounge 

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music. 
The man in the turban stands at 

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a control panel. 
It is filled with buttons and 

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switches in every color of the 
rainbow. 

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The woman, who introduces 
herself as Gazelia leads the boy

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to an armchair. 
He sits. 

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The chair is so soft that he 
feels himself sink into it. 

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She hands him a cup. 
The drink tastes exactly like 

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cocoa. 
Not just similar, but exactly 

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the same. 
Then she gives him a strange 

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fruit. 
Its appearance is unfamiliar, 

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but the taste is oddly 
recognizable, like a mixture of 

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strawberry and pear. 
At one point, Gazelia pulls 

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aside a curtain. 
Behind it is a screen. 

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On the screen, space is visible.
Deep black, endless stars 

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scattered across the darkness. 
She points to a planet, our 

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Earth, she says. 
Time passes, but he does not 

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know how long. 
Eventually it is time to leave 

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the craft, and the boy wants to 
give something in return. 

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As thanks, he offers them some 
apples he had picked earlier. 

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Gazelia laughs, a soft sound 
like the gentle chime of a bell,

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and accepts one of them. 
In return she gives him 

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something. 
An object made of white metal, 

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like a coin or a medallion. 
It's surface is covered in 

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strange symbols, hieroglyphs he 
has never seen before. 

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He takes it and steps outside. 
Behind him, the door begins to 

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close, not like a hatch, but in 
a spiral, exactly like the 

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shutter of a camera. 
Then everything happens quickly.

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A beam of light shoots out from 
the craft. 

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It rises straight up into the 
air, reaching approximately 150 

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to 170 meters. 
Then, without warning, the craft

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moves off horizontally. 
In an instant, it is reduced to 

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a glowing point. 
Then nothing. 

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The boy remains standing there. 
He looks at his watch. 15 

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minutes, perhaps 17. 
No more. 

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He runs to the nearest house in 
the village. 

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There he finds a woman and tells
her everything. 

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The words pour out of him. 
The craft, the people, the 

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music. 
She looks at him and dismisses 

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him immediately. 
Go to bed, boy. 

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You've had sunstroke and you're 
talking nonsense. 

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In that moment, he understands 
this is not something he can 

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tell. 
Years pass. 

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The boy grows up, and much later
he sits down and writes. 

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He recounts everything as he 
remembers it, every detail, 

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every impression, every strange 
nuance of what happened that day

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in September 1939. 
He signs it. 

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A jazz, an engineer from that 
day, he carries with him 1 

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remaining thing, the coin, which
is the only physical evidence. 

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He keeps it for many years, but 
in 1958, during a move, it is 

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lost and with it the only thing 
that might have proven that it 

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all truly happened. 
For our final case in this 

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episode, we moved to the city of
Zaporosia in Ukraine. 

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In August 1980, a grim discovery
was made on the southern tip of 

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Cortezia Island in Zaporosia. 
There, in the summer heat, a 

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naked male body was found lying 
motionless. 

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People at the scene called for 
help. 

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When police and medical 
personnel arrived and examined 

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him, they found no pulse and no 
sign of breathing. 

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He was declared dead and 
transported to the morgue. 

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What followed would defy 
explanation. 

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When the medical examiner began 
the autopsy and made an incision

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into the abdomen, he encountered
something entirely unexpected. 

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The man's internal organs were 
frozen solid. 

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Not merely cold, frozen with 
visible ice crystals. 

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Despite the intense summer 
temperatures outside, the liver 

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itself showed signs of frost, as
if the body had been exposed to 

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extreme cold for an extended 
period. 

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A Medical Council was 
immediately convened. 

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The decision was made to halt 
the autopsy and instead allow 

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the body to thaw slowly in a 
room maintained at plus 7°C 12 

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hours later, the body was 
brought out from the room where 

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it had been left to thaw. 
The medical team prepared to 

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resume the autopsy. 
The instruments were already 

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laid out, the room quiet and 
routine, when suddenly there was

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a heartbeat. 
A single, unmistakable 

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contraction. 
The room froze. 

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For a brief moment, no one moved
and no one spoke. 

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Then it happened again. 
The man who had been declared 

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dead began to show signs of 
life. 

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Consciousness returned 
gradually, and his body reacted 

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violently as sweat poured from 
his skin and streams, as if it 

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were struggling to restore a 
lost equilibrium. 

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Analysis later revealed that the
sweat contained unusually high 

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levels of nitrogen. 
Then, suddenly, he opened his 

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eyes and introduced himself as 
Nikolai. 

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His first request was simple 
water. 

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He drank nearly 3 liters in one 
go, as if he had been deprived 

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for years. 
The doctors were faced with 

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something they could not 
explain. 

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The process his body appeared to
have undergone resembled no 

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known medical condition. 
It suggested a form of suspended

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animation antibiosis, but far 
beyond anything achievable with 

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known technology. 
In their assessment, any attempt

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to revive a human from such a 
state using conventional methods

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would inevitably result in coma 
and death. 

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When Nikolai was told where he 
was, that is, in a hospital in 

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Zaparizhia on August 14th, 1980,
he turned pale and nearly lost 

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consciousness again. 
What he told them next was 

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fragmented but consistent. 
He said he was from the village 

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of Aparinka in the Rostov 
region, located 425 kilometers 

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to the east. 
On the evening of July 5th, 

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1971, he had gone to the 
Saversky Donets river for a 

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swim. 
Suddenly a beam of light 

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descended from the sky. 
The temperature dropped sharply.

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He described being lifted upward
like a feather into a chamber 

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with a window. 
The last thing he remembered was

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seeing the earth drifting away. 
Then darkness, cold, 

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unconsciousness. 
To him, only a few moments had 

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passed, but in reality, nine 
years had gone by. 

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As a precaution, Nikolai was 
temporarily placed in a 

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psychiatric facility. 
Shortly thereafter, the KGB took

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control of the case and ordered 
the doctors to remain silent. 

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Some details, however, were 
verified. 

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The investigation confirmed that
a man with Nikolai's passport 

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details had indeed disappeared 
without a trace. 

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In 1971, a large scale search 
operation had been carried out 

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in the village in an attempt to 
find him. 

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When his parents and wife were 
shown a photograph from the 

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hospital, they did not hesitate.
They recognized him immediately,

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but what happened to Nikolai 
after that remains unknown. 

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The case was archived under the 
classification Top Secret and 

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under the rules that govern such
files, it would not be made 

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public for at least 100 years. 
Thank you for watching episode 2

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of Stories Lost Short Cases. 
If there's a case you'd like us 

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to cover in this series, don't 
hesitate to reach out to us. 

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Which of these held your 
attention? 

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We are always interested to hear
which of these accounts or 

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details stayed with you. 
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