Heartbeats from Space

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The Judica-Cordiglia brothers shocked many with their claims of radio reception of lost Soviet cosmonauts. This is the fascinating story.
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Errata:
- At 4:57, Laika was the first animal, not the first living being.
- At 5:17, Explorer I launched on February 1st, NOT February 31st since that doesn’t exist.
- At 10:19, I said "Vostok" instead of "Voskhod."

[@progtunes]

Imagine being one of the very first people in space, dying up there from a fire, and nobody even remembers your name.

[@justanothershit4001]

@@kristianpavel07 yeah...

[@Tefz.]

@@kristianpavel07 Humans are too

[@quitingyoutube3291]

@@Tefz. Very…

[@InitiateDee]

Vladimir Komarov

[@Jojobetter53]

bone chilling

[@ShadowAvis]

I'll be honest, this gave me chills with the recordings alone

[@cmxzie]

Immediately first recording made me nervous

[@Ashacarlosalbert]

The disclaimer was goddamn right

[@Pandagun.]

The women one gave me the chills a lot

[@apho-sappho]

Tbh if it is a hoax (tbf prolly) just. Absolute props to the woman who voiced her. Absolute props

[@DaNintendude]

Almost had to turn the video off at the woman one because man that was terrifying.

[@bigotis9042]

The Minecraft videos really helped your channel take off, but I'm glad you're branching off into other content because I think you're a great storyteller and I love your editing style as well. Keep it up

[@DRIPZO.]

I agree

[@1steezy_]

mans going places

[@gregoryturk1275]

Very good utuber

[@xashaa69]

True :)

[@bigotis9042]

@@Cosmicdev58 ?

[@bricksnblocks]

Bro I legit just got into the rabbit hole of Soviet space missions! I can't believe that you made this video right as I got involved.

[@zeluga42047]

There’s no doubt a lot of stuff Russia is still hiding from the old days of the Soviet Union

[@bricksnblocks]

@@zeluga42047 Definitely. I wonder how many widely accepted facts of history are totally false and we just had no idea due to government secrecy.

[@ThePlanetary]

I love when that happens

[@ThatOneAmpharos]

Can relate to being bored and then falling down into deep rabbit holes of stuff from the early ages and looking at age old articles and footages

[@ThatOneAmpharos]

And then spending ages on it for no reason, in the end I'll have infinite knowledge on that subject

[@kalisto_x1]

Bro's story telling is immaculate

[@creativekitten6815]

Straight facts

[@chasethemaster3440]

Facts

[@stars-hk9uo]

bro is the best story teller, I would shit my pants the second he starts telling a horror story

[@TheSearchForTruth88]

Good thing that's all it is. A story. A piece of fiction.

[@Bulblorb]

or is it?@@TheSearchForTruth88

[@sludgeskin]

the one of the woman saying she is feeling hot and that there are flames, its so haunting. they really should've done horror rather than radio hoaxes. there could be some failed soviet or american missions that we don't know of. the fear and immense pain these people could have felt is an interesting subject to explore

[@johnhuman.]

it sounds fake af

[@Makarov3792]

@@johnhuman. Because it is, lol

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

@@Makarov3792 yeah but it would still make for a good horror story/game/whatever

[@StarLightFIlmProductions]

@Makarov how do you know its fake unless it was confirmed for all we know the moon landing was fake cause little there is no wind on the moon but how can the flag be weaving in the air if there is no gravity on the moon it would have just stood still

[@Makarov3792]

@@StarLightFIlmProductions ...it was literally debunked many times as fake, you can refer to "Phantoms of space" by James Oberg. >moon landing flag "argument" You could have picked a better one, but you decided to pick this one, lol. So, the flag pole for moon wasn't regular pole, instead it was reverse L-shaped, so the flag would keep the heading and not get fucked up by vibrations coming from ground. But the horizontal bar haven't extended fully, so the flag got some vibrations from it and then it stood still.

[@LavenderRex7705]

The moral of the story is to always be skeptical of a pair of Italian Brothers

[@OneShotStudio]

Mario brothers 🤨

[@isaacpaintsemrouboanderline.]

@@OneShotStudio With a pet turtle (bowser real?) 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@O_2og]

Imagine many years from now some one finds a cold Soviet craft floating around in deep space with a preserved cosmonaut inside

[@alyxlocke1284]

With how impressive cameras are getting for photographing space, I wouldn’t doubt it

[@unownyoutuber9049]

@@alyxlocke1284 we wont ever find it unless the Russians release its last known orbital information, then we could trace it.

[@The_Hydration_Police]

@@unownyoutuber9049 I mean how far could it travel from earth in that time?

[@unownyoutuber9049]

@@The_Hydration_Police if were talking about the one which got shot on an escape trajectory form earth, then it will go into orbit around the sun and eventually do a close flyby to earth one day because of how orbits work. it wouldn't have escaped the suns gravitational influence.

[@yobaugst3369]

​@@unownyoutuber9049 not with that additude

[@turtley25]

just the thought of dying alone in space is so sad and frightening and on top of that having the fact it happened at all hidden makes it even worse (assuming this is real)

[@timewarpdrive77]

Imagine dying in an alternate dimension

[@ajxx9987]

It's believed to be a hoax so I doubt it

[@timewarpdrive77]

@@ajxx9987 Even if it is, the concept is still horrifying

[@MigWith]

@@ajxx9987 i think its better to honor the tragedy as if it were really, because if its you are doing some good honoring their death that would've been silenced. and if its fake, you didn't do anything wrong nor damaging.

[@ajxx9987]

@@MigWith that is an interesting point of view

[@goldentoaster9302]

Only RetroGaming can switch genres like a chad

[@randomcamera746]

LEMMINO?

[@reenokop]

Getting lost in space seems super eerie and unsettling. Would be kind of interesting to know where lost cosmonauts could end up in a few million years tho.

[@Thatguywiththelaptop]

In reality if you're lost in low Earth orbit you won't last long. In a few months to years the occasional collisions with air particles will slow you until you re enter the atmosphere.

[@nordiner]

Also, if you listen closely to the alleged recording of the lost soviet cosmonaut, you can distinctly hear, independent from the translation, a somewhat thick italian accent. Russian, although well pronounced, doesn't have that kind of inflection with so much stress at the last word, as you can notice when she is talking about flames. As far as I've read, their sister Teresa is the most likely candidate as the voice in the recordings, as she was studying russian at the time. Sorry if I made any mistakes, english is not my first language 😷

[@deadset15-hrvavik17]

I noticed that too, us Slavs do not exactly speak like that consistently. We would also probably be yelling and swearing constantly

[@StarNanny]

There are regional accents, and the USSR covered a LOT of territory. Not to mention defectors from Mussolini’s crap. I would think about that, as well as any hoax theory, for balanced investigation. If you want truth, you have to investigate all possibilities. For instance, there is a radio phenomenon, well known to Citizens Band Radio enthusiasts/users called “skip”. Radio transmissions can be received from extended distances temporarily; the radio waves bounce between cloud layers and travel farther than normal before hitting ground receivers.

[@deadset15-hrvavik17]

@@StarNanny yes but when you have experts coming to the conclusion that these can only find signals on the ground it already complicates things. Also the voice doesn't sound distressed, its almost like they are reading a story or Document.

[@StarNanny]

@@deadset15-hrvavik17 Professional test pilots are trained to convey information, regardless of circumstances. Skip is such a random occurrence it is often forgotten.

[@deadset15-hrvavik17]

@@StarNanny Man if you are already dead and the station knows, you'll be spouting fire not information

[@NeverTHOUGHTofIT]

Devs made minecraft lore so complex, this guy resorted to space cause that's way easy

[@TutorialCraftsMc]

RetroGaming is one of the type of KZbinrs who makes you actually watch the whole video ♥

[@ULTRABOSSMOB]

Facts

[@Enirom]

He makes you want to watch till the end to know the whole story

[@AntonGermanReal]

indeed

[@h.a.z.m.a.t5072]

4:00 I was alone walking around my house with earbuds in my ears listening to this. I was also about to enter my room which was really dark. I just turned around and went, hell no!

[@losergorila_6306]

SAME I immediately ran to turn on the lights and bring my legs up to my chest😭

[@InvisibleGeometry-ow6ny]

Lol

[@TyDoT22]

That edition... Just amazing! A video of yours talking outside of the Minecraft topic will be always interesting.

[@thebritcadian]

just the thought of silently drifting away watching your planet growing smaller and smaller gives me mad chills.

[@Jayman2800]

6:18 I'd much rather crash into the ground in a fiery pit than experience the horror of floating into endless void. Imagine, you're ready to come home after several orbits, you're dizzy, you're starving, and the only thing you can think about is what stories you will be able to tell to your family and friends, the fame, the title of first person in space, only to press that button and see your home get smaller and smaller as you fly faster and faster away from it, never to be seen again. The only thing left to do is let out one final cry: *_SOS To The Whole World_*

[@Memory_Burner]

Only RetroGamingnow can explain the scariest anomalies of the deep void of space

[@BrokenRecord11943]

I’ve always wanted a vid like this, from Minecraft to space what can’t you do

[@zakem]

Me every time he "takes a step back for a moment": *phew, finally a break*

[@smileyface81mc77]

Same. It’s the piano music for me. Like we’ve finished up the creepy stuff and jumped into investigating the scene with Sherlock Holmes.

[@5er_]

Half life 2 needed more of this "feeling" the recordings give

[@murrmakesstuff9269]

Thats oddly specific but I kinda like that idea. It would need a bit of a different tone for sure though.

[@SilverGeFer]

I fail to see the point of Half-Life 2 with the video.

[@5er_]

@@SilverGeFer watch the hl2 beta trailer, i think is from E3

[@badtothebone9144]

The beta feels close to this in many ways, including how I think the child labor was in the game, I think there were, and brutal yet violent ways and an eerie city, where there are gases you cannot breathe, stalkers being creepy, etc.

[@laprueba6521]

@@badtothebone9144 you say that as if stalkers aren't creepy in retail

[@sauron6031]

6:28 my heart literally dropped hearing this. This is real horror to me.

[@amankumar5602]

Got goosebumps thru my whole body. Scary thought.

[@konstantinrazumovski236]

Scary but scarier still is whoever voiced this in russian had a horrible italian accent. I am not joking.

[@roniefleur296]

​​@@konstantinrazumovski236Idk if it's italian accent, it's clear that whoever voiced this wasn't russian but since it's ussr and there were many people of different nationalities who were forced to speak russian I thought that was the case it's a weird way to speak for someone who's "dying" too actually

[@emmapadilla1750]

nothing happened to jeb

[@haydenwestmoreland4244]

This caught me off guard when I first saw it seeing as it is not a topic you usually discuss, but it was well worth the watch. I hope to see more like it.

[@MCraven120]

I can't believe how much they've added all this lore to Galacticraft in just one update!

[@mlodyvez]

If you reading this, have nice time watching this video 😊

[@Local_NPC403]

No.

[@mlodyvez]

@@Local_NPC403 ok

[@piotrek5s170]

9:51 You know it when this music comes on that things are about to get really interesting

[@ArtemisWasHere]

That recording has me extremely uncomfortable, terrified, and- a few tears actually *shivers* well done

[@Adam_X78]

I’m sorry son, you must confront your fear, don’t let it cripple you.

[@prototype_11]

@@Adam_X78 Is that gonna stop whatever can be out there to explain though? I mean, fear never ends, we just overcome it and create new stronger fears.

[@Adam_X78]

@@prototype_11 You must be ready for anything. There’s nothing to fear, but fear itself.

[@UnknownZYX_4085]

@@prototype_11 i overcome my fear of death, i am now ready to overcome my fear of pain of death

[@peppermintgal4302]

@@prototype_11 Its fake.

[@randominternet8198]

Space radio or wavelength recordings are terrifying, like i would use them if I was trying to make a horror movie monster

[@mikeoxmall69420]

The sound of Saturn is either terrifying (magnetic field recording) or hilarious (lightning storm sounds like a phat bong rip)

[@saintvoorhees4807]

Could you imagine going out like that... Gives me chills. Here is another thought... What if the man was launched by accident?

[@saintvoorhees4807]

The womans voice about being hot. could have been stuck in the hottest part of the atmosphere or shielded enough.... The horror

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

I don't think its possible to accidentally launch a rocket

[@hh7426]

There’s no way they were launched accidentally, too much effort goes into preparing and coordinating a launch for it to be accidental

[@ajxx9987]

It's a hoax

[@AutumnWind92]

Accidentally launch? What's that, Looney Tunes?

[@Mat-pu7sk]

Nice! I loved this video! Defiantly one of my fav so far next to "Minecraft doesn't need you", "alone" and "You've never heard of these minecraft versions" :D There is just something authentic about your style, the music, the way you choice your wording

[@Footyboi1]

as always, I am incredibly intrigued by the mysterious anomolies and stories retrogamingnow has to offer, what would youtube be without you. thank you man, thank you

[@aarondaugherty3920]

The pivot to this sort of content in unexpected but very exciting for the future. The work and research that went into making this is clear and the final product is excellent and stands up against any creator in this genre. I wish you the best in your future endeavors as it looks like I'll be following your channel for not just minecraft anymore. Tldr; Great video and good luck!

[@juhooon]

i'd really like you to explore topics such as these for the dive vids. please do more. loved them

[@VektroidLive]

This was amazing and I really, really hope you feel empowered/excited to consider doing more along these lines in the future. Absolutely tremendous.

[@lukewilson7175]

I thought the heartbeat was someone banging on glass for a second

[@rain3rr]

that first audio recording is eerie as fuck lol

[@tristantheoofer2]

yea fr it sounds like some fucking screaming for help while theyre burning up

[@ragtag369_]

@@tristantheoofer2 too me it sounds like they’ve already been severely burned and those are their last breaths.

[@brknglasses2734]

This was really cool! I had heard about some of this stuff, but I had no idea it went so deep!

[@jackatk]

I love your writing and editing style! This is one of the best video essays I’ve seen. Also, great job including your errata in the description. I’m glad your branched out your content!

[@DyxoXinoro]

I really appreciate showing every side of the story. I'm used to people releasing videos like this and fixating on either the mystery or debunking it, while you showed both in equal measure and even went more into the history of the brothers and how, in spite of the controversy, they went on to be highly respected and successful in adjacent fields.

[@Flexic3D]

I really love your edit! Looks like a documentary man! Those audio recording was pretty scary! Keep it up the editing skills!

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I've always wanted an explanation on those recordings. Other channels quickly reference them very shortly usually part of a space race story, giving very little attention or trying to analyze them. I'm glad you brought all of the important factors and picked it apart carefully. Thank you!

[@robertpucovsky]

I have to say I wasn't expecting this from you. I loved it. Keep making these kind of videos, it was very well made. Good job.

[@Niki-therealbird]

Imagine sitting at home having a good day then all of a suden you get a transmision of someone asking for help . Like id piss my pants hearing some dude scream for help as he drifts into outer space. and also hearing his heart beat just makes it worse.not only that but then when trying to find out what happened you find nothing about this person.totaly eerie

[@icecubeinc]

RetroGamingNow with another banger of a video. I love your work!

[@oleanderkazzy_]

My mind immediately went science fiction interpreting it as some distress signal from a dying xeno, possibly a soldier

[@diverseknowledge5897]

You did an amazing job. I remember this story years ago. And it popped up again today. Everything is connected. ❤❤❤

[@attilahorvath3055]

This was a truly great video RGN! I really like space and it's mysterys. I hope more of these type of videos will come in the future

[@Yvng-Daad_Gaming]

first recording scary af

[@ThrawnFett123]

Honestly, I'd think the Soviets messing with them is a more valid explanation. They were mildly popular, they had contacts in Moscow, and they garnered some international attention. If you wanted to obfuscate what you were actually doing, what better way than for small "independent" players to claim things. Even "failed" missions would lead to technical prestige being associated with it. It provides top cover if your own missions fail as "more crazy rants" if you need to. And it wouldn't require a large or sophisticated effort, just some weak equipment nearby and a few people to mess with them

[@buivars]

Earned a sub immediately with the great presentation, interesting content, and perfectly encapsulating the eerie feel of the subject at hand.

[@vermillion1670]

I can't believe I've been refreshing my home page on youtube hoping to get interesting videos to watch and yours has been under my radar for 6-7 days. I've been waiting for another video from you.

[@awesomejman9325]

Hey retro I wanted to say this was an awesome video and I hope to see more content like this. Keep up the awesome content!

[@JasonLihani]

Wow I LOVED this. You should DEFINITELY do more like this. You're an amazing researcher and presenter. It doesn't have to just be Herobrine, apparently.

[@am-180]

very glad to see you branch out! your production is always great, so most anything you put out will likely always be great

[@Rye_Smile]

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more of this type of content! 💚✨ Subscribed!

[@ChongCMfan]

nice video appreciate your hardworking

[@countrycoffeecup7772]

1:00 Captain of the Alien Spaceship that sent this: Alright, which one of you fell asleep while recording a transmission for the humans? 1:22 Alien recording this transmission: Bro, quit playing your tribal music so loudly! I'm on the phone with the humans!

[@nintendianajones64]

Excellent video. Please make videos like this one.

[@TimeKingYT]

Dude, its awesome to see yoy branching out to other things, keep it up! you always manage to make anything interesting, and make it way easier for casual people like me to understand these mysterys, and also i know you probably want to branch out, but i do think your minecraft ARG videos are some of the best, although they probably take months. anyways, keep it up man

[@sharplydressedrabbit3604]

I think I already know what this video is about. The stories of the lost cosmonauts is so interesting.

[@ascensionbringer]

when the title changes 3 times

[@moonpr1sm]

Retro, I LOVE that you did a video like this! Keep up the fantastic work, I love all of your videos

[@Zooperdoop]

Really enjoyed this video! Can't wait for more!!

[@shaneosullivan3358]

Bro this new minecraft update is so realistic 💀💀

[@lilkris3008]

This is awesome well researched and fact checked I would love more internet mystery’s and forgotten tales

[@worldforger0]

Really cool to see you branching into other topics, loved it!

[@koeh07]

Please do more videos about space / general theories! This video was awesome and I really liked it, great work.

[@Pedro1745]

Small correction for 9:28, it was a dual mission with Tereshkova in Vostok 6 and Bykovsky in Vostok 5, both in orbit simultaneously with some encounters close enough to stablish radio contact.

[@billtheking5917]

Please make other similar videos. It was amazing.

[@CV7Omega]

abosuletley love this video. I hope you do more space mysteries and or weird space sounds that have occurred.

[@jonathanconey4552]

Imagine if it turns out it was just a bunch of nerds playing a prank on the brothers.

[@countrycoffeecup7772]

5:18 Why does Explorer 1 sound like the lockdown music from _The Escapists?_

[@SamWannabe]

The video’s title used to be “lost cosmonauts” no?

[@Jessica_Szoke]

This is quality content! I appreciate how you cite your sources!

[@SuperQGS_]

Wow, just wow. What a fascinating video, and such a natural way for you to expand into a more diverse set of topics and be more free as a content creator

[@serenitythelefty4916]

Super happy RGN is doing more than just Minecraft Theories. Hope things like this continue!

[@lightsinthedarkness]

As a person who knows Russian it does seem very close to the translation he provides. Of course not very clear to know precisely, but from what I can understand it's close. It's is very feminine in voice but it could be an extremely muffled transmission to where a young person sounds feminine. It's very creepy to hear it cause it's like on the verge of sounding too inaudible.

[@lightsinthedarkness]

Must of found a group of people who could use bad Mike's ig.

[@ULTRABOSSMOB]

It is obvious why I’m addicted to this channel, keep up the great stories!! 👍👍

[@brainpill7886]

Please make more space videos, you explain it so well, I'd listen for however long it is

[@Sudupe16]

It makes me wonder what they're motive for faking it was, they seemed to really put a lot of effort into it.

[@Adam_X78]

It’s good to see you upload a video

[@Oscar-ek2jx]

I applaud you for using your analytic skills to cover things with real world application. More of these videos would be really cool

[@burltrap]

You did a great job on production and presentation. You're completely capable of making more content in this style if you want to. Thanks for the content!

[@draculaisme]

We need some content like this

[@antonioharo2548]

i LOVE this topic, i can already tell im gonna have to sit my ass down and watch this one, Im so glad you didnt just keep doing minecraft and started to branch out i hope it goes well for your!

[@kyanoang3l0_old]

Subbed to this channel originally for the MC lore vids. Now I wanna see more of this.

[@GrimKreeper]

You explain things in a way that I fully understand, so thank you! Also, that first noise was actually kind of freaky!

[@Axtxro]

these stories are amazing

[@nolastar508]

You now my favorite KZbinr is back for some more amazing content

[@S0M3GUY778]

Holy shit this is the perfect video. I have never heard of this, the storytelling ability is emaculate and the topic is fascinating. Please do more!

[@Rexington]

I didn't realize this was you! Wow thats incredible. Feels like the old days of Lemino video essays. Great work! Mysterious and creepy

[@cobothecool1799]

Its a good day when Retrogamingnow posts

[@mooncatcher_]

Don't want to admit it, but i know russian very well. Your translation timing was absolutely on point. Also the actual audio is very chilling, indeed she says all that things with clearly defined soviet-era russian accent. If this is to be faked someone had to find a voice actor that was very good and also hated USSR. So that narrows it down quite a bit.

[@alanjackson724]

It's fake. If I remember correctly I'm pretty sure the brothers also had a female friend/cousin who was a Italian-Russian translator which further casts shadows on the claim.

[@Omni601]

@@alanjackson724 Got the proof or video?

[@abrahamlovegrove8138]

@FreelanceOmni says the guy blindly following a video with no sources whatsoever. Look on their wiki page. Under the main load kf the article it has a small section about them forging signals etc. and also them only ever being alone when they recorded them

[@alanjackson724]

@@Omni601 huh weird. I posted a response comment but I think it got deleted cos I had pasted a link (for the source I was referring to). Anyways basically what I said is that the brothers had a sister called Maria. She began learning Russian to help translate russian transmissions/radio, and eventually became fluent. Source is aerospaceweb (I can't paste links cos youtube thinks I'm a bot and will take it down). Also the original comment I was responding to contradicts most statements by russian speakers, and even russians themselves, who claim that the accent does NOT sound russian at all. There is so much evidence against this that I seriously can't see how people still believe it.

[@Savariable]

@@abrahamlovegrove8138 bruh. they didn't even state their stance, they just wanted evidence. They just wanted to see evidence before believing something, insulting them for "blindly following a video with no sources whatsoever" does not make sense when they didn't really specify their stance. From the context of their message you can assume they are believing the video over the comment, but they could easily just be trying to come to a more educated conclusion on the topic, you don't know and you don't need to be rude about it.

[@Twiddle_things]

Holy cow! I knew about some of these stories, but a majority not! Stellar video, man!

[@Alisaisbae]

Dude, this video is awesome! I really love the diversifying content. :)

[@MontiiCat]

Despite what a lot of other people are saying, I think this video is amazing and very well done and researched. I fully support the continuation of this type of content and hearing your theories :) Minecraft is nice but this is just as, if not better, than those videos in my opinion. I loved it and can see the care and time you put into this video and the research behind it. Very well done man :)

[@ii25chess]

retros channel is truly a legend

[@Arti_Novideos]

I hope this kind of content keeps going, you really make it interesting C:

[@nuniyoa]

i love this new type of video!! i'll definitely be watching more if you make it, but only do it if you want to! :)