The Mysterious "Lost Cosmonaut" Recording | Random Thursday

In 1961, two amateur Italian radio engineers recorded what many believe to be the voice of a female cosmonaut burning up on re-entry. If real, this would have been the first woman in space.
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Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, recorded signals of a female voice making a distress call on a Soviet space frequency.
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Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia were two highly regarded radio engineers from Italy who, starting with the launch of Sputnik, made a name for themselves by tracking and recording radio signals from satellites in orbit.
Over time, they bought an old WWII bunker and transformed it into a listening station they named Torre Bert.
From here, the recorded everything from the heartbeat of Laika, the dog on Sputnik 2, to Yuri Gagarin.
But they also recorded some mysterious sounds from missions that were never made public by the highly secretive Soviet Union. One of these was of a woman crying out in distress in May of 1961.
If real, this would have been the first female in space, a full 2 years before the current first, Valentina Tereshkova.
To this day, Russian officials have never named or acknowledged the existence of a mission that this could have been from. Was this a doomed cosmonaut in her final moments? Or a clever hoax?
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[@DivinityOfBLaze]

Her last words which were "[unclear]" then "[unclear]" sound exactly like "Please, please". Which is extremely heartbreaking. Source: I'm Russian.

[@Saiqo17]

DivinityOfBLaze damn

[@theartistformerlyknownaslu3871]

It was super sad when she yelled talk. You could hear how scared she was

[@niccoramos7965]

i heard Pozhalasta.. as her last words this is tragic

[@DivinityOfBLaze]

@@niccoramos7965 Yeah "please". Though her pronunciation is really off... kind of sounds like a foreigner trying Russian. We don't really have accents in Russian so much as "wrong" ways to pronounce stuff. I guess if this is fake, that's more evidence into the fake pile. If not then just sad.

[@niccoramos7965]

@@DivinityOfBLaze ive been to Russia and i can say that accent is quite different from the usual Russian accent. its like Romance language accent actually has some Italian on her intonations

[@standardcake18]

It’s a scary thought. Out of control in space, knowing you’re doomed to die out there, and being forced to spend your last minutes of your life, gasping for air, silence, sense of impending demise. It’s scary.

[@The_Last_Norman]

Agreed I honestly can't think of a worser way to go.

[@jyro1072]

well, it doesn't make it any better, but she didn't die in space suffocating, she burned to death inside Earth's atmosphere

[@The_Last_Norman]

@@jyro1072I don't think that's who he/she was talking about.

[@PennyDreadful1]

@@jyro1072 Ohh well that's a relief!

[@goatwarrior3570]

@@jyro1072 Yeh, except the girl speaking on the recording never went into space, let alone died there. She was the sister of the Italian brothers who made that recording.

[@-eternal]

While I personally don't believe it, imagine dying in space and your existence being covered up. That's horrifying.

[@MrJdsenior]

Seriously, you think it's more horrifying if it's covered up? I suspect it makes absolutely no difference to the one that died in space. They are kind of over that stuff now. ;-) Now to the families, not so much.

[@-eternal]

@@MrJdsenior I suspect that you don't understand the concept of time and how people lose interest in things said months ago.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@-eternal Temporal nature is known to me, at least as far as it can be. You suspect wrongly. Also, typically, YT commenters ARE still interested in replies to comments left, even from long ago. Apparently you just have a VERY short attention span, becoming more and more typical unfortunately. ;-)

[@-eternal]

@@MrJdsenior Attention is given to the most insignificant matters, this does not support that a strong mind is behind at play. Sadly, this is becoming more and more common. :^(

[@MrJdsenior]

Not bad ;-)

[@DEFW21]

As a veterinary technician, I can tell you without doubt that a dogs heartbeat is significantly faster than the recording they present as cosmo puppy's heartbeat.

[@CJXcars]

I thought this too!

[@marcopohl4875]

maybe it was cold and the heartbeat slowed down? I only know this happens to cold-blooded animals, so no idea if it makes sense for a warm-blooded dog

[@whatmeworry1494]

Russian dog different

[@bobbybingle1662]

Woof Woof.

[@therealskull4786]

It maybe slowed, film degrades over time.

[@dax9431]

The disappearing 'SOS' signal is the scariest!!!!! Imagine that!!!

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

Fucking chills from the first audio

[@Gamble661]

Hopefully they were eventually picked up by the Galactica on it's way here....

[@juliao1255]

I am super curious about the SOS ("save our ship"), because in America, we use Mayday for air disasters (planes, zeppelins, blimps, helicopters). But do astronauts, cosmonauts, or other countries in air trouble? But i agree that whatever the signal was, having it move away and fade out spells disaster.

[@clinton8421]

Desyat'… Devyat'… Vosem'… You wait, shivering with excitement and fear in your seat. *Sem'… Shest'… Pyat'…* You feel the rumbling of the engines under you. You watch the window in front, staring into the bright, blue sky. *Chetyre… Tri… Dva…* You begin to brace. *Odin… Vosplameneniye!* Suddenly, there is a pressure placed against your body as the rocket begins to shoot of the ground. The capsule starts shaking violently. You continue to stare out the window. Blue sky. You are now leaving Earth's atmosphere. The G-force of the upward movement has pushed you into your seat. You can’t even move your head. Even with the discomfort that feels like you’re about to die, you are not concerned. You have been trained well and, after all, you are literally leaving the planet you have called home for your entire life, so it’s bound to be a bumpy ride. You can’t wait to enter space for the first time in human history. Such an achievement is hard to grab, yet you did. Then, after around eight minutes, the shaking stopes. You are now able to move. The G-force once pushing down on you ceases entirely. Looking out the window ahead, you notice that the blue of the sky has been replaced with the darkness of space. Nothing but an abyssal void stretching for trillions of kilometres without end. Without any other object in sight. You look to your left and right. You can still see the curvature of your home. The point where the atmosphere that once protected you turns into the void. There is no sound, no movement, no weight. Nothing. However, after the majesty of floating in zero gravity eventually leaves you, you sense that something is wrong. Why can’t you see the Earth anymore? You should be orbiting, shouldn’t you? That is when you make the grim discovery. You start to fill with panic as you scan through each and every window separating you from the vacuum of space, and you see nothing but the dark abyss. The Earth is behind you, but there are no windows to see. You can’t be still moving? It’s hard to tell, but you aren’t taking any chances. You begin to try and manually steer the craft, as the automatic systems aren’t. But, no matter how far you turn, the view doesn’t change. Your windows continue to be filled with the black expanse of nothing you’re headed for. The booster systems that turn you have failed. “Beep, beep, beep… Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep… Beep, beep, beep…” You send out the tell-tale notes of dots and dashes that call for help. “S.O.S.” Frantically, you send the message back the way you came. Over and over and over again. “Beep, beep, beep… Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep… Beep, beep, beep…” You begin to cry. You’re terrified. You can’t turn the craft in either direction. All you can go is away from your home. Outwards into emptiness. You send an audio message, but there is no response. Just the white noise of static. At this point, you know you are going to die. It’s only a matter of time. Still, you send the S.O.S. message. You think of your family at home. Your partner, your parents, your children. Eventually, you give up. You scream and yell and cry, faced with your own mortality. You float in the middle of your capsule, your tears floating in droplets around you. Eventually, you begin the feel the effects of carbon dioxide poisoning. You feel tired, dizzy, soar. You are also dehydrated. You have a headache. You look out the window. All you see is the cold, dark, black, endless expanse of space you’re travelling through. Finally, your heavy eyelids close and you fall into unconsciousness . You died in your sleep, suffocating on your own carbon dioxide after three days travelling through space. Forever lost in space, your name was forgotten to history. You never existed. Your body remains floating in your spacecraft. You were the first person in space, and the first person to die in space. You stood on the edge of the abyss and fate pushed you in.

[@darreloutland4604]

@@juliao1255 I think it was mose code that the signal was getting weaker as it flew to deep space..😳 Of all the stories told THIS is the one'a I'd pray is not REAL!🙏😢 Just to imagine a poor soul stuck in one'a those thangs floating away knowing they were lost forever....always bring a tear to my eyes!😳😕😢 in a situation like THAT.. All you can do is open the hatch(if possible) and end it quick vs having time to think of whats coming just waiting for DEATH. . Lord don't let that be true!🙏🙏🙏

[@opheliabawles9646]

Valentine Teseshkova looks like she could rectify any equipment malfuntion by simply giving the offending instrument a stern stare.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

LOL

[@sarnxero2628]

They named the first female Kerbal after her. Very cool

[@Illegiblescream]

Russians are wonderful. Such. hardened people.

[@simialogue]

Made my day, thanks!

[@jshepard152]

Yeah! Look at how the Soviets won World War 2, with women and children digging tank barricades by hand. Those women had to be tough.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

Out of all the conspiracies I have heard in my life.... the Lost Cosmonauts is one I REALLY hope is not true.

[@andrefrazier8653]

out of ALL of them... THIS? lmaoo really?

[@pixibelle3282]

Yeah, it was debunked.

[@Goldnfoxx]

Lost Cosmonauts, one would think, would have several opportunities to at least end their own lives. I'm sure there are at least a few dozen other conspiracies far, far worse.

[@Ay_Yo_WTF]

9-11 "have i dishonored you"

[@Nyx_2142]

@@pixibelle3282 "Debunked" by who exactly? Anecdotal evidence and hearsay with no sources don't mean dick.

[@Werrf1]

Also please note - their sister was learning Russian at the time that this was recorded. Honestly, the hoax hypothesis really is pretty convincing.

[@waNErBOY]

the fact that this is probably fake doesnt mean it didnt happen with someone else. The USSR definitely suffered incidents with it cosmonauts that we never found out about.

[@Jpeg.g]

Look up penguin mating and lower the pitch

[@shuthemoody]

@@waNErBOY With no evidence, you're basically making up fan fiction, then.

[@waNErBOY]

@@shuthemoody since when is the KGB deleting all negative docs about them a fan fiction?

[@shuthemoody]

@@waNErBOYDo you have any evidence they deleted evidence about this particular story? Ok, then. I didn't think so. Because there's a crap ton of evidence that says this is a hoax, like the basic fact that it could not have happened due to the radio blackout. Use your brain.

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

Theres probably been all kinds of missions that we dont know about where astronauts have died in space

[@sparrowlt]

no there are not

[@lolykebrtwv]

@@sparrowlt I'm sure you still believe in santa

[@sparrowlt]

@@lolykebrtwv I like cheeseburgers

[@zorkk2000]

@@sparrowlt I'm sure you do and your a special little boy

[@sparrowlt]

@@zorkk2000 empire state building

[@grace-hu4qw]

Does anybody else get a genuine feeling of terror from that recording of the supposed heartbeat and gasping?

[@BPS298]

Yup.

[@Voice_from_the_Void]

my theory is that the weird beeping was the "low oxygen" alarm, hence he gasps for air once that alarm goes off

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

Not really lmao

[@KylesDigitalLab]

​@barkpeeler2000Yeah the "heartbeat" sounds fake to me. But the breathing accompanied by the weird beeping is the most disturbing out of all the recordings. I really hope it was a hoax or something.

[@jgunther3398]

shortwave radio has some of the weirdest sounds. an evening randomly listening to an old analog shortwave radio is creepier than any horror movie

[@DalCecilRuno]

As much as I'm fascinated by all those mysteries...that recording of the woman speaking Russian has a clear Italian cadence to it. I'm familiar with both languages and this sounds like an Italian speaking Russian. Also, the whole communication style didn't sound like the interactions between cosmonauts talking back to Earth. They always use the name of the base place, and special code words. This recording sounds like someone wanted to prank them, or they did it themselves to chase some headlines.

[@jimoberg3326]

Thank you!!

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

Thank you for your comment about the recording that sounded like an Italian trying to speak Russian. Another comment said their sister was studying Russian at the time.

[@seencere7284]

I agree - I noticed non native accent too

[@Sioolol]

I am a native speaking russian and I heard not a single trace of any accent in this recordings. I think it is a bit of a stretch. The problem is that the quality is so horribly bad that you can hear anything if you put your mind to it.

[@Nehmo]

@@Sioolol That's not the first time someone objected to the accent. Also, the line about the signal getting weaker without a doppler shift is suspect.

[@keithshaw7305]

I remember a story my dad told me when I was a teenager. His brother was in the US Navy stationed in Hawaii at a naval listening and radar post in the early 60's. Of course that was in the middle of the Cold War and the Space Race, so they were keeping tabs on the Soviets. Apparently one day they caught an object on the radar and heard a Russian voice. Long story short, the voice was saying something about being out of control and heading out of orbit, which the radar confirmed. I don't remember how long he said they tracked the object, but it was multiple days. He didn't say whether the voice was male or female. Unfortunately I cannot verify the story with my dad or uncle since they've both been gone for the better part of 20 years, but if it's true... I'm sure there are still some classified Soviet documents that are yet to surface, and we all know that our government still has classified documents, so maybe both governments are covering up something? Still?

[@billpugh58]

So a Russian ground based radar tracking system reported an unmanned launch going out of control. Must have happened hundreds of times.

[@Name-oz4lq]

Every single government is hiding stuff. A lot of stuff

[@Name-oz4lq]

@@billpugh58 it’s happened a lot of times, but only reported a couple times. Gotta love governments 🙄

[@TheRealAb216]

the poor dog. all alone just waiting till death comes.

[@MikeS-um1nm]

Yeah, that has always bothered me A LOT too.

[@spiritmatter1553]

I recently learned that poor Laika died in the capsule after "only" about five hours.

[@Lishkabro]

To give you some peace of mind, I think the oxygen would deplete and the dog would have lost conciousness.. better than starving for days.

[@TheRealAb216]

@Joe Bland OK Mr emo edge lord.

[@alt8791]

Joe Bland thx for the existential crisis

[@Nurpus]

00:53 - Just imagine being a rural farmer in a remote mountain village in the 60s, and seeing a shiny metal capsule fall from space and a woman emerge from it....

[@KanishQQuotes]

A beautiful Russian military woman in glorious 70s hair

[@astronaut9571]

She landed on her personal parachute

[@markoradivojevic5717]

Raditza

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

They invited her for dinner

[@Gamble661]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Bet that's not all they invited her for ....

[@yatharthbakshi]

I find the story of the SOS growing fainter and fainter to be even more terrifying than the one about the woman crashing. I’m surprised no one is talking about that here. Crashing into a known earth and dying is still better than just floating endlessly into space, waiting for your food or water or oxygen to run out

[@scotty2827]

The last two words she said sound like “ozvi jse” In Czech which is very similar to Russian. “Ozvi jse!” in Czech means “answer me!” And she repeated it twice...

[@puroobsessed]

I think she was asking if she was gonna crash and no one was answering her!

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

Kolín?

[@ggabey14]

I am Czech and yes, "Ozvi se!" means Answer me or just telling someone to respond back

[@DarlockAhe]

It makes absolutely no sense in Russian. As a native speaker, I can hardly understand half of what was said.

[@goatwarrior3570]

8:10. Yeh, could have been a failed mission by the Soviets to send an Italian woman into space with only broken Russian that just happened to be picked up by two Italian brothers with a sister who had studied Russian. IT MUST BE TRUE!!

[@paracellgaming2665]

Are you russian by any chance?

[@Vlad-ke4ge]

@@paracellgaming2665 I'm russian and I agree with goat warrior, the woman on recording didn't sound fluent russian, there was an accent, its fake

[@Bugy64]

She did not have an accent

[@goatwarrior3570]

@@Bugy64 Lol yes she did. She probably greets you with privijato, menjato zovuto Marija. 😂

[@Bugy64]

@@goatwarrior3570 I lived in the Soviet Union before it collapsed, I said that she did not have an accent because there were many parts of the Soviet Union that had people with accents like hers that were not italian

[@zackschilling4376]

Im pretty sure the brothers just so happen to have a sister, and guess what language she was studying? Thats why she sounds like someone who wasnt a native speaker of Russian, cuz she wasnt.

[@Coffeebean1985]

Who knows.

[@aste4949]

@@Coffeebean1985 This recording has been thoroughly debunked many times over even since the 60's due to so very many basic as well as complex factors. The suspiciously Italian accent, poor grammar, lack of actual professional phrases and communication, that re-entry communication is impossible even to this day, why none of the far more sophisticated round-the-clock funded-as-matters-of-critical-national-security stations and centers picked it up around the world, how ridiculously intense and strict the selection process for cosmonauts were, the propaganda disaster this would be for the Soviets if it were real, and many more!

[@agustinlara9922]

My theory would be that the brothers have a Italian Sister that studied Russian. And in the 60's recording, they have a very, very, very old microphone.

[@bobbybingle1662]

@@Coffeebean1985 Anyone with a bit of intelligence lol.

[@michaelwilliams1747]

@@agustinlara9922 ml ml mío ml ml ml ml mi m m niño ml mi ml ml ml ml ni ml ni ml ill lo ill ill l lo k kk k kii

[@willmistretta]

The Italian accent on this "Russian" is thicker than grandma's marinara.

[@richardmillhousenixon]

@@vlc-cosplayer No, because babushka's marinara would be extremely slav and not much Italian

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

@@richardmillhousenixon Can't say Nonna either cause that would be too Italian. I think Grandma balances it out.

[@e.s.6275]

Not sure; the sound quality is too low. More strange thing is the way it's spoken: too slow, larger pauses between the words, and the words together don't make perfect sentences. However, all these factors could be more usual back in times of analogue radio communication.

[@dylanmccallister1888]

@@e.s.6275 also reentering the atmosphere under g forces and extreme stress, in this hypothetical situation her capsule is burning up to boot Heat exaustion, g forces, stress Or its also a haox. The soviet union had a lot of control around space missions and covering up their failures. You dont get the first mam to space without trying first is what im saying. Or the first space station, maybe they covered up a failure or two there as well. Because that does not build confidence in the people or their space program.

[@annadorahallman5595]

poor Laika. I took an Animal History course in my 4th year of university and one of my classmates wrote his thesis paper on Laika. She was a street dog from Russia, and she died while on Sputnik 2. One of the saddest parts of the whole thing is that the researchers did not learn much from Laika's launch, so she essentially died for nothing. A main theme discussed in the course was how animals are so deeply intwined in the lives of non-human animals, often to their detriment, and evidently space exploration is no exception. RIP Laika

[@billvanalstyne]

As a licensed radio amateur for more than 50 years, I'm inclined not to conclude that it's a fake, for these reasons: (1) We know historically that USSR used HF radio rather than VHF/UHF because they didn't have any equivalent of the US Deep Space Network (DSN), which provided continuous line-of-sight radio communications with orbiting astronauts. (2) They used full-carrier double-sideband AM, which is about the poorest kind of voice radio transmission technology there is, being subject to interference from the background noise floor as well as other RF sources on the same or nearby frequencies. Most telling, however, is the PHASE DISTORTION, which on this recording is very severe This would be expected, coming from a craft moving at very high speed and transmitting THROUGH part or all of the ionosphere. (3) While it's not impossible to artificially create the complex audio characteristics such a real signal would inevitably carry using present-day audio DSP technology, it would be EXTREMELY difficult using 1950s radio/audio technology. As someone who started listening to HF/SW radio in 1957, all I can say is that this recording -- at least TECHNICALLY -- sounds 100% legitimate to me. That doesn't mean it's a cosmonaut, of course, but it virtually eliminates the possibility, in my mind, that it's a faked recording.

[@shalvius]

How about they recorded voice over legit audio?

[@samh3805]

shalvius Were would they come from? Why would the brothers care?

[@shalvius]

@@samh3805 I mean, it's possible to do this way right? I speak Russian fluently and as others mentioned I can also confirm that voice doesn't sound like native speaker.

[@tracygilmore7983]

Asking Mr. Van Alstyne : Could there be a compound "skip" that would give the false speed and fading to a welder on a hotline as was suggested below?

[@hatman4818]

I'd like to weigh in myself... I think it's fake. He mentions an earlier recording where it sounds like the signal is drifting off into interplanetary space... Um... No. The amount of potential a rocket has is measured in m/s of "delta V". Basically, how many meters per second a rocket can change its velocity by. To get to low earth orbit, a rocket needs to reach 8,000 meters per second (not accounting for energy lost from gravity and drag). The delta V required to reach escape velocity however is 11,200 meters per second... You don't just pull 3,200 meters per second of delta V out of your ass, especially not on accident, and especially not when you've BARELY managed to get the first satellites and people into space. You'd need a rocket overbuilt by 40 or 50%, and if the soviets HAD that, they would've EASILY won the space race. If you can escape earth in a capsule, it's not THAT much harder to go from that to actually landing on the moon. Getting to space is pretty difficult... Like... REALLY difficult. You simply don't accidentally fly off into interplanetary space. If it were THAT EASY that you could do it completely on accident, we'd be living on space stations right now. I'm not going to do it because I'm incredibly tired right now and just want to go to sleep, but I'd be willing to bet if you applied Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation to the Vostok rocket, you'd likely get a delta V readout around 9,500 meters per second, which when you account for air resistance and gravity on the way up, is only just enough to reach low earth orbit, and not much further beyond that (certainly not sounding like disappearing into the infinite void). Not to dispute your point directly Bill, you know a lot more about radio than I do. However, these guys were ALSO good at the subject, and likely knew exactly what to do to make fake recordings sound realistic. Could it be true?... I SUPPOSE, but the "flying off into space" implication has me thinking not. These 2 guys were good with radios... their WEAKNESS is spaceflight. I don't think it was conceivable at the time for a manned capsule to reach escape velocity.

[@yarkoshum1432]

Knowing Russian, as a native speaker - i find this record to say at least-unconvincing...The way she talks, it sounds like a random person, lacking any knowledge of terminology/professional slang describing such catastrophic reentry conditions...

[@bigelectriccat1]

She probably wasn't a cosmonaut. Probably a test subject, like the dog. A farm girl with Down's syndrome or something like that. She wasn't expected to survive, but she could never know that. (Also, it's probably a hoax.)

[@roxydzey]

@@kaistzar2831 well they did that with a dog, it would be cruel and cold but pretty logical in a scientific matter to put the very 1st human out there who doesnt know the consequences of disaster it could happen.

[@matthewleitch2458]

Perhaps with the weak radio signal it was difficult to use more complex words? It is difficult to understand what is said even now

[@alfredosilvaneto]

@@bigelectriccat1 you're joking, but if this audio was real, it would make a lot of sense that they put a common person in a capsule that was never intended to come back and didn't have any knowledge of that. It sure sounds like shit Soviet Union would do. And, well, I don't know, but maybe isn't there a chance that at some moment before the capsule reentered atmosphere it would get hot and it would still be possible to send radio signals? Depending on the angle? Well, I don't know anything about that...

[@sunrisings292]

@@alfredosilvaneto ...Yes, you don't know anything about this. Radio trasnmissions durng re-entry to Earth's atmosphere were impossible (and still are). These "recordings" were a hoax.... And the "desperate" side at the time was the US who lagged far behind the Soviet space program. That can explain why this "recordings" hoax was made by a scared Italian family. SCARY!! LOL.

[@denisdrozdoff2926]

From a native speaker's perspective: russians don't speak like that. Wording doesn't match with emotions and context.

[@bmobert]

I have heard from other, interviewed native speakers that the translation is wrong. I mean, the counting is clear. But the other stuff about fire and heat is fuzzy. Perhaps you can listen to it again, while not looking at the translation, and confirm or deny the translation? Just your own, personal opinion?

[@FelixFonRihhofen]

@@bmobert Another native speaker here! It's not exactly wrong... it sounds strange and not natural. Like heavy accented speech.

[@arthurtkachenko4501]

I'm a native speaker too. So, let's debate it. Did you attend an army? Did you know about how they use words, etc? Pretty convincing for me. Especially when there a still a lot of "strange" stuff at Russia at 2019. So it's very, very, very, very possible. Don't forget that Korolev was in jail, and "police" broke his jaw...

[@themartianway]

I thought everyone in Russia is robot?

[@dorogomiloff]

@@FelixFonRihhofen one problem, though: I've never heard such an accent. First time I hear someone pronouncing words this way. Very unnerving.

[@embracethesuck1041]

I've always wondered how many cosmonauts died that the soviets never admitted.

[@usun_current5786]

None. Soviet regime collapsed and new government did everything to discredit communist regime by opening archives and venting all dirty laundry, including the biggest disaster of moon rocket explosion which killed several dozens personnel including some top ranking ones.

[@shookings]

Joe is keeping up with his existential dread series, I see.

[@josephdavis9204]

It's a great topic for Thursday... especially with the weekend closing in.

[@ivanfreely6366]

At least it's Space related.

[@markburgess3860]

yeah, the audio recording is some boda fide nightmare material. even if it is fake.

[@manjsher3094]

Mmmm covering fake stories, sometimes it's the signs of running out of topics.

[@utbdoug]

Two guys in a shed making audio.. Give them their due, I'm calling them the OGs of creepypasta

[@rikuurufu5534]

I was kinda surprised when I found out that Tereskova is actually still alive at 82. They made her a general in the Soviet Air Force, and relatively recently, she made a public statement that, given the opportunity, she would like to live on Mars.

[@Luwab]

Proper Babushka tho

[@rogerb5615]

Tereskova should contact Jeff Bezos: Carrying her aboard a Blue Origin mission would be a huge p.r. achievement for Jeffie.

[@rikuurufu5534]

@@rogerb5615 Jeff who? (just kidding)

[@SpudEater]

RichTheWolfGaming more like, Blue Origin who?

[@rikuurufu5534]

@@SpudEater I know right?

[@bigimskiweisenheimer8325]

The chances of the brothers recordings being real are slim to none and slim just left town.

[@mjjumps]

Be a believer. It’s more fun.

[@natasha8007]

As a native Russian I’ve never heard an accent like that on a native person. Sounds like a hoax to me. Or a prank someone played on the brothers.

[@koalpierce9106]

As a Pilot, based on the radio recording (what was decipherable of it) it sounds more like a female pilot in a small, twin engine aircraft, with a bad left engine fire.

[@loub1105]

The most plausible hypothesis I have heard. She mentioned something to the affect of "the left". Which to me makes me believe she could see something then answered "yes". She was either hallucinating or someone was talking to her.

[@ciberthej]

@@loub1105 They only picked up one side of the transmissions since the other was being sent from earth. Most probable cause I imagine.

[@River_X2_]

This is what I was thinking without any real knowledge of aviation world though. It just makes more sense.

[@usun_current5786]

no, it's a hoax, she speaks Russian with a clear accent

[@jimcat68]

If it was real, this seems like the most plausible explanation.

[@RudeFoxALTON]

It was even more impressive than the first female astronaut: the world's first creepy pasta.

[@novajames6871]

ALTON PLAYS mmmmmm pasta

[@MitzfingFox]

Mmmmm pasta

[@eljuniorcen2675]

Mmhhhhh Yummy pasta

[@mm-hc6im]

lol

[@megamichael4021]

Mmmmmmmmm pasta

[@ashtongarn4262]

Shouldn’t have watched this at 2:19 am

[@jackmarshall5911]

Ashton Garn I feel u bro

[@fall1n157]

@@jackmarshall5911 yeah im watching this at 2:32 am lol

[@chasechristian6263]

Neither should I......neither should I

[@subashraj5801]

I'm watching at 2:24 😂

[@OmgPandamonium]

2:21 am xD

[@pianoraves]

You know when you play the Sputnik signal backwards it goes "!qɘɘd qɘɘd qɘɘd qɘɘ𐐒"

[@TheRealGlooper]

Qeed?

[@wrendina9996]

Holy shit

[@bumndrass]

...?

[@pianoraves]

@@TheRealGlooper ".qɘɘ𐐒"

[@bandaidcheerios2309]

peed peed peed peed

[@Shaz_Caz]

Oh no! Laika! That sounded like distressed barking not a heartbeat 🙁😢

[@BluesyBor]

Sadly, it sounds like you're right...

[@Pain-mr2hn]

I thought this immediately. Definitely barking.

[@nykytamcdonald]

Yes. Poor Laika died on that mission.

[@castinlead3997]

That's just wrong, shooting a dog into space.

[@iNREEk]

I heard the same. I have a dog. Poor doggie :(

[@devinf.8317]

Something that makes this 10x creepier is that this audio can be found in the files of the Half Life 2 beta.

[@Jpeg.g]

Look up penguin mating and lower the pitch

[@tufegimigetirhanim]

@@Jpeg.g why?

[@Francisco_Lopes]

@@Jpeg.g lmao

[@omgaustria-hungary1192]

My friend sent me a link to this video and the sound file, it does sound eerily similar

[@Ballsackgamin]

That’s why I came here. It also appears in a horror game as well.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

Native Russian speaker here. I listened to the recording without reading the subtitles. It does sound very creepy, but it also used wrong accents in syllables: "горЯчо" instead of "горячо". This is a mistake that someone who does not speak Russian would make if they tried to read Russian text as if it was written in some other European language such as Serbian or Croatian.

[@talltroll7092]

Given the way the Soviet Union worked, it's not impossible that the tape is real, and the speaker sounds "wrong" because Russian was not her first language, even if her papers identified her as a Great Russian

[@gevansmd1]

@Rios Salvajes definitely a native Italian speaker, not Russian.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

@MrZapparin> There have been Soviet Union leaders who came from all kinds of far off places There was no soviet leader that I'm aware of that had an accent from any language that was not part of the soviet union. Stalin had a Georgian accent, but Georgia was part of the union for example.

[@limerence8365]

Who's to say it was Russian at all. Perhaps another country wanted in on it but they had to borrow Soviet equipment and she was responding to the Soviet ground control. Why they would do that, I don't know, there just could be loads of reasons why she didn't sound Russian.

[@rogerdinhelm4671]

Actually it can be just a rural accent

[@UZI9MMAUTO]

I've heard crazy things on Shortwave. I remember getting spooked. A lot. Especially hearing people many miles away. At odd early am hours. Making noises but not taking

[@rileysummers9757]

I'd love to hear some of these stories

[@slopcrusher3482]

Some of the funniest things I’ve ever heard, and some of the creepiest shit I’ve ever heard have been listening to shortwave radio. The creepy stuff is more disturbing, like stumbling upon a numbers station or, more recently, stumbling upon unencrypted Russian military broadcasts with broadcasters that sound terrified.

[@MrMircs]

@@slopcrusher3482 do you remember the frequency?

[@133col]

That's a really bad Russian accent there. Almost like how an Italian speaks Russian. Interesting.

[@Rickenbacker69]

The brothers' recordings have pretty much been discredited as fakes. Wikipedia has some info on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers

[@wildboar7473]

URSS didnt have many accents??? Big place you know. Wiki is full of political agenda shit like Google. Zionpedia.

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Thanks much for the link, Mats.

[@Jalide]

@@wildboar7473 yes even Stalin had an accent. Georgian.

[@Jalide]

@@wildboar7473 Lol. spicy take.

[@dylandominguez3281]

That’s got to be a very scary experience to be launched into space but only never to come back to Earth.

[@xliquidflames]

Wouldn't a dog's heart beat much faster than that? They're so tiny. Plus, he's locked in a dark tube that shook violently for a while then went silent. His heart would be racing.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Nah bro, you're clearly forgetting: this was a _space dog._ League's ahead of regular earth pups. He had prepared his whole life for that, as evidenced by his very chill heartbeat. Obviously.

[@samurphy]

@@idontwantahandlethough also, possibly drugged.

[@Euthymia]

Her heart. Strelka/Laika was a female, as were the other Soviet space doggies. Easier to diaper, therefore keep pee out of the instruments.

[@GoodMusicManiac999]

On Earth. Out there there is no gravity, so as a consequence heartbeat and blood circulation change.

[@rustyfox5261]

Drifting off into space only to be swallowed by the ever expansive void is by far the one thing that sends chills down my spine. I cant imagine the fear this woman went through if this conspiracy is real.

[@theoriginallee1014]

Simply could not come up with a name that felt right for one of my two sister kittens. I named one Luna a week ago and after seeing this video today, I finally found the right name for the other. Its official. I will name the kitten in honor of the original Laika. RIP good pupper - xo

[@jerry3790]

From my experience in KSP I predict that there was at least one cosmonaut that died because they forgot to add parachutes to the rocket. Also the cosmonaut escaping earth was definitely Jeb. Also also I’m pretty sure the dog is pronounced Ly-ka.

[@cgourin]

Jerry Rupprecht i don’t think so, there were parachutes but they just deployed through bad staging after MECO.

[@shanukatolkar4493]

I lost both my pilots in career mode, jeb made touch down on kerbin without parachutes, and valentina went way too far, so there.

[@cgourin]

P Bebnowski the best kerbonaute ever,a legend, millions of missions a small fraction of which ended well.

[@curlywolfone]

I’m sure they pronounced the dog dead.

[@Eeda01]

I like how you just call him "Jeb" like everyone knows who that is...?

[@zachflegel7116]

The first female in space was Laika the dog. Get your facts right

[@kamilarikut3638]

Woof woof, poor Laika... 🐕

[@imdawolfman2698]

@@kamilarikut3638 I always choke up... The worst way for a dog to go, alone and frightened... Good dog Laika, good dog.

[@BluesyBor]

Actually, the first female in space was some microbe who survived being shot out on a boulder during some ancient huge meteor impact.

[@brokenwishbone422]

Same. It makes me sad and mad what the government does. I did some electrical work in Bethesda/Silver Spring at NIH and it is true about the hundreds of monkeys and animals being experimented on in cages in the basements of those buildings off of Georgia Ave. @@imdawolfman2698 Also, you don't have a family member named Richard, do you?

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

@@brokenwishbone422 We have heroic animal rights groups like Peta for exposing these horrors.

[@abelsm6270]

Imagine if the message Explorer 1 sent out was "Eat Shit Sputnik"

[@idontwantahandlethough]

beep boop git gud scrub

[@ryantwombly720]

Fascinating story. Also, I’m super happy Laika made a successful splashdown and found her forever home with a lovely couple and several puppy friends on a farm upstate.

[@russelpea]

Ryan, we have to talk... How can I tell you?....

[@blackcat1642]

a glorious collective farm upstate

[@WilcoVerhoef]

Are you talking about the same farm that Mr. Peanutbutter's parents went to? Without any phones or internet?

[@TheDonster2]

Ah, yes... The farm where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others?

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Ryan Twomby Unfortunately, the real story is very sad.

[@whitetrashbandit2704]

Another one of my favorite KZbinr's putting out a video for me this morning!!! It's a great morning so far.

[@walterrudich2175]

This female "cosmonaut" has an Italian accent.

[@brettbaxter4860]

This was debunked as being the brothers sister transmitting from outside the bunker.

[@beenrare]

Brett Baxter actually? 😂

[@accomplisheddiplomat4091]

@37 pirate You forgot spaghetti.

[@kathrynross7818]

Brett Baxter :

[@grimiskitty1120]

@@brettbaxter4860 Where's the link for that because I can't find anything about it being debunked. I would really like to read that article

[@martineldritch]

"Isn't it dangerous?" No cosmonaut would have asked a question like that, in an Italian accent or no. Of course it was dangerous.

[@jimjambananaslam3596]

I see fire, is that a bad thing? Hello?

[@chronos1081]

Dude, she's stressed out, things dont correlate well in that kind of situation

[@martineldritch]

@@chronos1081 True but just saying that Gus Grissom's last words in the Apollo fire were not "I see fire in the capsule, is it dangerous?" Of course it was. Astronauts and cosmonauts were all a cut above us regular peeps, stressed out or no. I don't mean to detract from the post-modern theatre that this hoax provides, just bear in mind that it is one.

[@DreamfactoryZero]

If it is real, you also have to take into consideration how things get lost in translation between Russian and English.

[@inf11]

3dgun nah, she speaks with accent, this is just most likely a fake.

[@BPedo8IGHT]

newest series, Nightmares with Joe

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

This probably should have been saved for Halloween.

[@danizoar]

6:26 she said"ответьте"(ansver me) 6:30 she said"пожалуйста"(please)

[@STVN9111]

pashalsta !! I could understand that, when I went to russia i heard that word everytime after saying spacibo, I believe it now!

[@R0DBS2]

Pazalusta I know russian Thanks

[@sunrisings292]

....."Where's the onion?..." ..."No parmesan??... ...AAaahhh....!!..."

[@aste4949]

@@STVN9111 You're being sarcastic, I hope? Hard to tell online sometrmes! This recording were debunked long ago due to multiple clear flaws and problems.

[@seekandfind5005]

Please in Russian convinced me.

[@overlyobsolete2797]

I'm a Russian speaker, and she sounds like she has an accent, and her tone is strange and doesn't really match what she's saying. It just sounds weird, so I don't really know.

[@joeylantis22]

Peter Boyarsky Is it possible to admit those weird time, accent, etc, due to being really hot? Having little oxygen? Fearing you’re going to die? Or even due to her training making it important to not put much emotion into her speaking?

[@littledancingfawn]

I wonder if perhaps it was a Chinese ( or someone from another country) women but speaking in Russian to make it seem like it was a Russian program if anyone was to find out. The US and USSR in a Cold War trying their hardest to get to space to be the first. While the focus was on them, a different country comes out and wins the space race. Idk. Just a though after you stated she sounded odd or with an accent.

[@solgato5186]

Peter Boyarsky Maybe she worked the Minsk metro for a while.

[@sireanthony1793]

I heard to italian brothers recorded it and got a woman who spoke russian and faked it they apparently addmitted to faking it

[@kristinahoerler]

Excellent! I didn’t think of that, and why not? From any communist country! And if it was a early test they might not have wanted to risk an important or well known astronaut. You’ve convinced me, I’m sure it’s real.

[@richardc7721]

I remember a story going around my family in 62 that an uncle who was a Ham radio operator heard this event and was sure it was a Russian in earth orbit. He was living about 100 miles south of the border with Colorado.on a mesa in New Mexico. He was working for a natural gas company manning a remote compressor station at the time.

[@jaypatil5029]

damn how old are you?

[@elizabethczepiel5220]

Correct, a lot of secrets were kept. When I was younger, I heard a rumor a female cosmonaut was recorded in orbit and her last words before disappearing mysteriously forever were "Oh no, not again."

[@forestsoceansmusic]

: D

[@potatoblues]

Last video of the night, time to sleep...heyoos from Melbourne, Australia. 👋

[@reallydeej]

Same here. G-night from Sydney.

[@officialspock]

Good morning guys

[@istvanszabo3229]

I'm going to sleep, too...in Brooklyn, NY!

[@tylerlambert8400]

wait, how are you typing right side up?

[@BigMilan]

hahaha and one day later, I too can post the same comment: "Last video of the night, time to sleep...heyoos from Melbourne, Australia. 👋"

[@ChaosXOtaku]

2:56 that sounds more like the dog barking than a heart beat

[@timfrey2358]

Chaos X Otaku I think you're mistaking the high pitched sound which is the signal.of Spudnik 2, it sounds just like the first Spudnik earlier. The heartbeat is a low thrunming sound, like the one they record of a man's heartbeat and breaths later, you need to wear headphones and turn up your volume or you can't even hear the heartbeat.

[@Randall1001]

As I recall, Russian speakers have raised suspicions about the recording because the woman's syntax and vocabulary are a bit off... as though she's a non-native Russian speaker who isn't quite fluent in the language as a native speaker definitely would be... and evidently the brothers had a sister who had been studying the Russian language...

[@BelisariusAlKhwarizmi]

Sputnik was frightening because we knew that the ability to launch a bleeping tin ball would soon be followed by the ability to launch a nuke

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

Dont worry Muhammad your grandad had nothing to fear, the Soviets wouldn't have wasted a nuke on a desert country.

[@user-zf2gy7mr4t]

NapoleonBonaparte yeah, they just invaded and fought for ten years instead

[@st4rlightr4v3n4]

@@NapoleonBonaparde Have you encountered the concept of radioactive fallout? The US and Russia were having a pissing match that could have eliminated all life on the planet above the size of an insect. It was, and continues to be, everyone's problem.

[@Nautilus1972]

I'm only afraid of the USA, the only people to use nukes on humanity. Russia never frightened me.

[@alijordan6686]

NapoleonBonaparte clearly someone hasn’t done their research on nuclear fallout,always ready to attack someone who makes a statement,but sound way more stupid

[@Annkhes]

Whether or not these are genuine, they'd make for a creepy movie.

[@xapplimatic]

I can see a really great fake investigative series launching over this recording something like "ghost hunters"

[@bugenjoyer2187]

I agree. There could be a whole subgenre of scify horror about early space exploration. A good title for a movie like this would be something like “Cosmonaut”

[@johnjohnson374]

At the last part she says 32, 32, I wonder if that was degrees for angle, the space shuttle comes in at 40 degrees. Pretty terrifying when you think of the crude technology and communications back then, lack of oxygen and her last moments being burned alive. I think the worst part of it all is that she went to her grave with no recognition for her bravery.

[@blackhawksnbullsncubsnbear4615]

If it makes you feel any better, it seems to be fake. That is, the recording is not that of a cosmonaut. Whether it is a straight up hoax or just an airplane pilot is not certain. Though someone mentioned that the sister of the guys who recorded the audio was learning Russian and that the voice sounds like an Italian speaking Russian.

[@ScottWiecenski]

Since she was talking about how hot it was, I always presumed she was reporting on the temperature inside the capsule. 32 degrees Celsius is 89.6 Fahrenheit, so at that temperature it would feel hot inside the capsule. In the full video, she also says "Forty five" and "Fifty" (Which would be 113 Fahrenheit and 122 Fahrenheit respectively) She also says "Forty one. I feel hot!" (Forty one Celsius is 105.8 Fahrenheit) So I am of the opinion (If it is real) she was reporting internal capsule temperatures. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqW0q4xjl6x9m80

[@paulhayes5724]

There's an excellent Armchair Theatre play on this theme called "The Man Out There" - highly recommended. It was originally shown only a month or so before Gagarin's flight.

[@iVardensphere]

Looking forward to the Hollywood version of the story. They can take that 30 second recording and 'fill in some gaps', eventually releasing their movie trilogy based on real events. Seriously though, great video. I had no idea.

[@alalalala57]

That sounds great tbh. A historical fiction sort of thing.

[@iVardensphere]

@@alalalala57 heh... I back that 😀

[@danielc3124]

This comment became genius level when he slipped in "trilogy". A single thread can indeed produce a lot of cloth in Hollywood.

[@erinc.1610]

Like the movie "Contact" ?

[@sireanthony1793]

But the recordings are fake

[@3PercentNeanderhal]

I would prefer gravity and fire over slowly suffocating in a cold endless void.

[@moonooze6171]

Hells yeah

[@Frozo-nt2ky]

I think you would go unconscious pretty quickly

[@Gamble661]

All you'd have to do is turn your oxygen supply way down and you'd just drift off....

[@enclave_here]

Pretty fucking metal way to go out

[@prince-solomon]

I would prefer slowly falling asleep than to burn alive for seconds/minutes before dying.

[@trevorpollo]

It's possible she had already completed re-entry which would explain the radio signals getting through, but there was a system malfunction that caused a fire in the capsule after re-entry. It's also possible that the documentation of this event were either destroyed in the cover up or where stored in an abandoned and long forgotten facility somewhere in Siberia. It's also possible she was in an experimental aircraft that never went into space. At that time Russia was in an air race as well as a space race with the west. Russia and the U.S. were creating one experimental aircraft after the other, but unlike the U.S. at the time, Russia wasn't afraid to have women pilot aircraft. Personally, nothing about that recording struck me as a fabrication, however, the radio engineers may not have correctly guessed the events that were actually taking place in that moment.

[@blackhawksnbullsncubsnbear4615]

Only issue with it being genuine is that people have noted the woman speaks with an Italian accent. Once more, the sister of the guys who recorded the audio just so happened to be learning Russian at that time.

[@spacecadet35]

Obvious fake. @6:12 she says "I see fire! I see fire!" If, during reentry, you can see 'fire' out the window, then you are creating so many ionised particles that no radio communications are not possible. " By the laws of physics, it is impossible for her to both see the reentry 'fire' and to communicate that fact.

[@Jeka643]

The lady had an accent, didn’t sound like a Russian.. sounded like someone speaking Russian as a second language

[@06320017]

lady does not have an foreing accent, the voice is not so clear but my wife whose native language is russian says it is russian, its accent is a russian accent spoken in different parts of russia

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Wouldn’t put it past the Soviets putting a non Russian at risk tbh. Why risk a Russian citizen?

[@philyfly358]

Michelle Charlton in the early days of CSSR, ONLY top class extremely smart 100% Russia people were allowed in the space program

[@philyfly358]

Michelle Charlton cosmonauts were literally heroes in Russia and in no way would the Soviet Union “disgrace” their space program by using a Russian minority

[@philyfly358]

Michelle Charlton by smart people I mean fighter pilots with thousands of hours of flight might get selected, along with elite soviet scientists or someone of that caliber

[@simoncpu_was_here]

Tell my wife I love her very much she knows Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you Here am I floating 'round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do

[@RogueBoyScout]

My mother said "To get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom."

[@jurijavsenak]

Ground control to major Tom....

[@fooley9370]

Earth below us

[@fuckitweballin759]

Ashes to ashes Funk to funky We know major tom's a junky

[@historyofrockmusic-mostpow3826]

It so fake, im russian and that woman speaks with english accent and uses ancient book words that russians didnt use for 200 years (like "plamya" - means "fire"- nobody says that in russia.)

[@rez0071]

If they wouldn't have covered up all there crash's

[@sawspitfire422]

Not to mention we already know of cases where cosmonauts have died in reentry, for example Vladimir Komarov, so why would the soviet government have hidden one event while not hiding the events of Soyuz 1? Occam's razor suggests its fake

[@xxxdroidmonkeyxxx]

To go further; even if modern words were used, the accent is way off. Like I commented in the general thread, it sounds like someone trying to speak Russian for the first time. The pronunciation was butchered to hell and back.

[@trashaimgamer7822]

It's not fake. She was a CIA agent who pretended to double cross and let herself get killed by her pupil in order ro save her nation. She was a true patriot.

[@vasiliykryuchkov7130]

I would disagree about plamaya, it is commonly used by firefighters for example, though it looks like fake to me aswel, sounds like she is not a native speaker.

[@DuelingBongos]

My first thought was that if her capsule were undergoing reentry, the radio signal would be blacked out. But if the capsule were past the blackout period, she might have been describing that the capsule had caught on fire somehow. Perhaps the parachute had caught on fire? The most cryptic thing was when she said "thirty-two." What could that have meant?

[@distinctjackal9016]

Angle of descent I assume

[@ScottWiecenski]

Throughout the entire transmission she throws out the numbers 32, 41, 45 and 50 while talking about how she feels hot. I'm pretty sure she's reporting internal capsule temperatures in Celsius, which would be 89.6, 105.8, 113 and 122 degrees Fahrenheit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqW0q4xjl6x9m80

[@AutPen38]

32 is the average IQ of the gullible fools that can't spot an obvious hoax that dates from a time when no one really knew how space travek worked. Just read the script that the hoaxers' sister read out. It's like a twelve-year-old wrote it. "1-2-3-4-5, I am hot" lol.

[@spicychef7]

​@@ScottWiecenskiThat is so horrible to imagine she was boiled alive inside a can in outer space.

[@collieclone]

When Russian military radio operators count one, two, three, four, five they do not start with один (odin = one), but раз (raz = one time), два, три, etc. That alone would disqualify this as being genuine.

[@marco3dartist]

Protocols can change from mission to mission depending on various factors.

[@heyitsdrew]

it seems real by the fact she was trying to get information. saying numbers and saying on the left and talk seems like she was trying to make adjustments.

[@AnonURnot]

ColinJPZ Get rekd

[@solgato5186]

ColinJPZ aha, neato

[@BuildAndMine]

@@marco3dartist Russians never say один when counting though. It's not just about protocols, it's about Russian language.

[@ecizevsky]

She clearly speaks Russian but pronunciation is just so bad... much like when Hollywood was trying to impersonate Russians back in days. Also it does not sound that she is in stress, but rather just annoyed. Additionally cosmonaut communication usually contains a lot of call signs and nothing like that could be heard here. I would consider that being from Russian space program with skepticism.

[@blackcat1642]

Have you black box recordings? pilot are very profetional when they are about to crash

[@amirabudubai2279]

To me, the biggest red flag is that nobody else recorded it. It is impossible they recorded that from reentry(mission control can't even record during plasma blackout) and if it was a fire during orbit, then she would have been high enough and fast enough that more people would have heard the signal.

[@amirabudubai2279]

@@blackcat1642 Cosmonauts/astronauts are a couple cuts above commercial pilots. You ever see the list of plane crashes Neil Armstrong survived as a result of his skill, reflexes, and nerves of steel? They only picked the best of the best that had already survived near death experiences. It is practically unthinkable that a cosmonaut of that era would panic at first sign of a problem.

[@Markle2k]

@@amirabudubai2279 Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We don't know that nobody else recorded it or heard it without recording it. There are better reasons to doubt its authenticity.

[@Markle2k]

@@amirabudubai2279 Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968. The primary killer of astronauts was plane crashes. It isn't "unthinkable."

[@tacticoolfuddery6497]

It's not known if she burned up in the atmosphere it's very possible that her craft had an electrical short and caused a fired that leaked into the oxygen storage.

[@Corbald]

I think this sounds more likely, especially since the US program suffered a similar issue, but on earth. It also explains why there was no Ionic shielding to interfere with the radio signal, as well as why the sight of fire would panic her. She wouldn't have noted fire being present if it were, say, outside the porthole window (if there was one) while she reentered, that'd be expected, and if she saw fire inside during reentry, I sincerely doubt she'd have had time to report it! Sounds like an on-orbit accident....

[@psilynt1]

This is a really good explanation, but I'm still going with it being terrestrial.

[@WilcoVerhoef]

@@Corbald But then the missing Doppler effect would be unexplained. Unless she was maybe at the peak of an extremely parabolic path? And if she was so high up, it's even stranger that noone else picked up the signal. Unless the signal was directional.. Is that practical?

[@Shupavin]

I think they were at the stage that they still used 100% oxygen pressurized capsules, meaning it would've completely burned up everything inside within 15 seconds.

[@jshepard152]

@@Shupavin I don't think the Russians ever used 100% oxygen.

[@usun_current5786]

I am a Russian native speaker and this woman is not a native speaker, I can hear clear accent, so I highly doubt it's legit.

[@MrJamesjustin]

My Dad worked at Woomera, in South Australia. I remember once he told me about hearing Cosmonauts screaming for help over a radio he was listening to. (He spoke Russian) It seems there was a reentry disaster. Nobody ever mentioned it on the news. I'd say it is entirely possible that the woman these blokes heard was as you're suggesting the First. The dimming signal too, I think could have been fading away with distance. There were a lot of horror stories in those days I believe.

[@jimoberg3326]

Thanks for the account, and for your father's service. About when was this supposed to have happened? Multiple cosmonauts? There were LOTS of such stories in those days [mid-1960s]. Those were the first subjects of my initial Soviet space history investigations: Finding deleted cosmonauts [illustrated chapter] www.jamesoberg.com/vanishing_cosmonauts_with... 1975 www.jamesoberg.com/phantoms.html 1988 www.jamesoberg.com/usd10.html

[@gabrieltarango9810]

Can pronounce Russian names. Murders everyone else's names. Lol. love your videos.

[@PCLHH]

He's a double agent!

[@shakalpb1164]

He´s a soviet spy

[@joescott]

Thanks Galadriel!

[@lucasbowering]

So did he pronounce Laika right? I thought it was different.

[@AtilaElari]

@@lucasbowering nope,he butchered it. There is no direct analogue for й in Лайка in English, so you can't get proper pronunciation by reading the name in English letters.

[@derlingerardclair6252]

If this was the actual voice of some female Cosmonaut in a failed space capsule,then God bless the poor girl.

[@5StringTheory]

As a russian, from what I could understand, she was saying it with such a weird accent, while some other phrases were very unclear, or sounded like some other language. Also her voice was sounding like some weird acting. Like when an american actor speaks russian in movies. I can't imagine that this women was a "real" russian. Are here other russians who thinks the same?

[@Vale-nh6ey]

Lmao I’m Valentina, it’s so funny hearing you say my name so many times

[@scarlettmanson712]

Not true, since your also apparently argentinian.

[@Vale-nh6ey]

Scarlett Manson I- what? Argentina is my country, that’s not my name

[@MeltTheUniverse]

@@scarlettmanson712 wait... what?

[@skyscall]

usmankhan upesh simp

[@DUMP_MLBB]

UR NOT

[@drainpig894]

PS: Range is also a factor. One Russian manned mission nearly ended in disaster, but for one boy in a wooden shack who sat up listening to his rig, heard the cosmonauts and relayed this information to mission control. They had been searching the area with helicopters for over 48 hours but couldn't pick up any transmission, the boy was within range and heard their signal twice. If not for him, the guys would have died shortly after from exposure.

[@jimoberg3326]

More details, please... like when? This sounds plausible for the 1960's, please try to remember details.

[@timrobinson513]

Why does it have to be from any space craft? Couldn’t the signal come from anywhere like an aircraft?

[@khalil9611]

Tim Robinson: No spacecraft would be traveling at that speed, radio frequency and altitude even if within the atmosphere.

[@oWeNFaRiOn]

And if she were a pilot,she wouldn’t see fire from The cockpit as most planes don’t fly that high

[@timrobinson513]

flower Shibe. Most!

[@TheRealKaiProton]

What I find amazing about this, its just over a year since this video was uploaded, and it popped up on my KZbin feed today... Just after Talking about the space program with my kid, who has school work on it, I guess my phone was listening in.

[@servancastillo986]

this is the woman the Boss was referenced from in MGS3, where the Boss went to space as an experiment and no one knew her name, who she was, just knew her as the Boss. Her achievements lost and kept secret, much like our secret cosmonaut here

[@caonabo2]

It was unmanned indeed, it was "womanned".

[@Calliopa_22]

*clap* *clap* *clap*

[@sarnxero2628]

Wahmen

[@MarmaLloyd]

This isn't going to get you laid :D

[@caonabo2]

@@MarmaLloyd it already did! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@officialspock]

Badum tsss

[@Rex-ii2yz]

It breaks my heart, but im glad to have heard this. Edit: I hope this indeed was a fake.

[@mrjpb23]

You’re in luck, because it definitely was.

[@Jalide]

Cosmonauts getting killed however were still pretty real.

[@colleenwelch2330]

@@mrjpb23 how was it debunked?

[@06320017]

if you did it fake, instead of playing heartbeats and breathing, you would create a more explicit sound record in a studio, why heartbeat ? the second recording was a woman speaking in russian asking for help. but it can be a pilot too. if you prepare these in studio, you would create more explicit sound record to make black propaganda about russians.

[@novajames6871]

Rios Salvajes damn it I’m starting to believe you now,,the transmission during entry is impossible due to speed and temperature

[@yoursotruly]

I heard the dog say, "Man's best friend, my a$$!"

[@papinbala]

its laika, the I is pronounced as a short I not E, like bike-ah Likah. it means barkey

[@jimoberg3326]

Tochno.

[@chrys8048]

@@jimoberg3326 Láika ?

[@jimoberg3326]

@@chrys8048 == Комментарий о произношении был верным.

[@papinbala]

@Kevin Koeppen really? your laughing your ass off? what would happen to you if you actually said something funny? I hope you wouldn't have a heart attack.

[@papinbala]

@@jimoberg3326 spasibo bratyxa

[@f.d.english5080]

Sounds like, "your total comes to 10 rubles please pull to next window"

[@KevinP32270]

lololol

[@steadfastcoward]

McDonalds, what a hamburger!

[@Tyrfingr]

lmao!

[@e46matt7]

@@Tyrfingr k

[@jamesclukey7488]

Can I get some fries with that ?

[@daleburris3772]

what a nicely comprehensive bit, thanks! When I picked up a savenger hunt amateur downlink from the Russians aboard ISS, and the SSTV images started coming in clearly with bleeping and blooping, all received on a $50 fixer upper mobile from a taxi, a homemade audio level adapter made from a fax modem card transformer, and a free Windows XP Pentium 4 from work... I hopped up and down so hard I almost knocked myself out because I didn't know that if I got excited enough I was capable of jumping too high and hitting my head on the ceiling in the garage. The antenna was a dipole made of two tent pole segments. So much for needing a cross yagi with circular polarity. There's still a dish-shaped skull dent in the ceiling.

[@fogrunr5075]

As far as amateurs being successful in radio when the government fails, you should look at the case of Arthur Collins, founder of Collins Radio. When Peary's group was trekking to the North Pole, and the US Naval observatory in Washington, D.C. was failing to contact them, young Arthur Collins used a homemade video and clear understanding of atmospheric radio wave ducting to make contact with the polar explorers. So yes, amateurs can have the genius to surpass government ventures.

[@antonnym214]

As far as the veracity of the recording: Win, lose or draw, it's super interesting. I agree with your assertion that the ionized air around the capsule would prevent radio transmission. All good wishes!

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

This is why people at NASA are always on edge while astronauts are in descend.

[@kyouhyung]

3:58 Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

[@bingola45]

...and there's something gone from underneath my tail...

[@sammyhooligan803]

ground control,my circuit

[@Youbetternowatchthis]

It is 99% chance to be fake for various reasons. This is what guy named Sven Grahn, who researched the topic concluded: "I think that the Judica-Cordiglia brothers did run a tracking station and picked up signals from various spacecraft. However, for some reason they thought that they needed sensational stories maintain their image of a "hot-shot" operation. Once they over-interpreted some receptions and made fantastic claims they were "trapped" and had to continue to produce sensations."

[@Markle2k]

The Laika recording itself is suspicious given what we know about her physical condition from launch until her death from stress an heat exhaustion a few hours into flight.

[@EksaStelmere]

The dudes were credible before and after this event, so I wonder about that. They certainly didn't need to fake it, but stranger things have happened.

[@z54964380]

@@EksaStelmere They wanted to keep their fame so they definitely had the motive, and the fact that the US didn't seem to catch this USSR space failure during the space race when these 2 amateurs were able to is unbelievable

[@jamesdean44775]

Tall Dwarf Pfff I imagine EVERYONE was an amateur at intercepting radio signals of this sort in 1961.

[@mrducky6322]

The idea of being in a space capsule that goes a little too fast and escapes the Earth’s orbit is horrifying. Because there is nothing you or anyone else can do, You have to sit there horrified until you either run out of food water or air with no way to speed up the process. You just get to sit there knowing you are going to die alone and helpless.

[@ADIE261]

could possibly be a distress signal from a light aircraft crashing as in the 60's there were quite a lot of soviet plane crashes which have very little information on cause and location

[@marinasegler3053]

Dragonis Dragor o [Y

[@the1cozensfamilyfamily4]

Could be a high-altitude aircraft? This was the Cold war, so High altitude Jets wouldve existed, but only New, so it couldve been that it was a high altitude bomber jet test gone wrong

[@vorlitra6879]

Hm maybe

[@chadhumphries1445]

Or it could be fake. Sounds pretty fake. The two Italian brothers that made it said it was fake.

[@xapplimatic]

@@chadhumphries1445 Do you have documentation or a link to a tertiary or secondary source quoting them saying this?

[@sammyhooligan803]

That's similar to my guess. A human female test subject used for testing high altitude jets ? Sad.

[@kathybirkett7986]

A couple of Canadian stories that you might find interesting to talk about... Canadian astronauts - Roberta Bondar, Chris Hadfield, Julie Payette, and Marc Garneau, among others. And, the story of the A. V. Roe aviation company. When the Avro Arrow project was shut down in the 60s, apparently many of the engineers went to work for NASA.

[@richwinds7179]

Can Canada do anything on its own? Seams like Canadians claim to fame in space is hitchhiking on other peoples spaceships.

[@Gazdatronik]

I played the audio for my russian friend who was born in 1984 but emigrated to the US in 1999. He tried but said he couldn't understand her. Even if the audio was garbage, the cadence of the language should have at least given him an idea. Even now as I listen to it, the cadence sounds nothing like him and his mother having an argument as they sometimes did. Its what I have to compare as the sound of russians under duress. The Torre Bert recordings has a more emotive, nearly songlike quality of the voice, not that his mom couldn't be the sweetest person in her own tongue. I'd like to think that the russians could have launched and failed such a mission, but I remain a skeptic even though its a very intriguing story.

[@noblenormie1179]

These villagers must have been suprsied when she told them she just was in space 😂

[@charlieapples9373]

If you know anything about Soviet Space Race era history, it is VERY possible that they sent not just one, but multiple women into space without ever disclosing it. Women actually make more efficient astronauts/cosmonauts; they weigh less, use less oxygen, food, water, produce less waste, and at the time were considered much more expendable than valuable male cosmonauts. Because nobody cared if some no-name woman died. The Soviets were desperate in their competition with the US, and neither country wanted to have a woman be the star of a successful test run (this was the 1960’s, women were second class citizens who really didn’t matter). But considering the Soviets had extremely dangerous untested spacecraft that they needed to test ASAP, and a limited number of veteran male astronauts, it makes perfect sense that they would secretly use women for the most dangerous test missions. They weren’t supposed to be known; it was all about national ego and fame through the medium of technology. Women were the perfect human test subjects; very efficient, obedient (they were told they’d be remembered as heroes, and basically had no choice), and were easily forgotten. There were _many_ things that could go wrong with early spacecraft-perhaps she wasn’t reentering earth’s atmosphere, but instead her cabin caught fire in orbit. This was totally untested technology at the time.

[@charlieapples9373]

Estrellakatarinathegreatrussian - I have to agree. There is definitely a cultural aspect to be considered when studying Soviet and Russian space missions. Unlike in America, which by comparison was pretty honest about their experiments (again, *by comparison* ), Russia has always had a history of treating their soldiers, military personnel, scientists, astronauts and everyday citizens like cannon fodder. It’s a much more cynical and vicious sort of dog-eat-dog society. It didn’t matter if dozens of men or women died during test flights. Nobody cared unless the test flight was successful. Those early pilots were completely expendable, and women were easier to launch into space without dying.

[@jimoberg3326]

You do realize it was a publicity-seeking hoax by the Italian kids, don't you? Want evidence?

[@InquisitionXenos]

Wait.. Captain Kathryn Janeway?

[@dwldjon]

HMMMMMMMMM

[@msshy8854]

To hear her go to 5:10 😊