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The Visitors Who Showed Him His Own Death | Finland (opens the original)
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The Visitors Who Showed Him His FutureIn the summer of 1954, 18-year-old Osmo Leino claimed that three strangers entered his family’s temporary home outside Turku, Finland. They seemed to know who he was—and they brought a small machine that appeared to show him images from his own future.One of those images, Osmo believed, showed how he would die.This week on Stories Lost, we follow one of Finland’s strangest forgotten encounter stories. It begins with a low-flying object that nearly struck Osm
Three of the Strangest Encounters We’ve Ever Found (opens the original)
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Small figures in red inside an old house. A stranger in the back seat who becomes something else in the witness’s account. And a woman who describes meeting a man called Pilate—before producing an X-ray she believes supports her story.This week on Stories Lost, we follow three encounters that left their witnesses searching for explanations long after the events were over.In eastern France in June 1970, children reported seeing small, pot-bellied figures moving through an old farmhouse. Their att
The Incredible UFO Case in Northern Norway That Vanished from History (opens the original)
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He Vanished at Sea. When He Returned, He Remembered Being Taken.A trawler dead in the water.A sphere three thousand feet wideAnd a man who could not remember his own name for almost a year.This week on Stories Lost, we look at the case of Kenneth Brean, a British trawler officer who vanished at sea in the Arctic Ocean just before Christmas, and resurfaced years later on a mountain plateau near the Norwegian border, unable to speak or recall who he was.Two Sámi herders found him and another unide
He Opened Fire on the Aliens — And Paid the Price (opens the original)
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Stories Lost Short Cases #4 – Close Encounters, Closer Than ExpectedA shot fired in fear.A struggle beside a silent river.A meeting in the fog that no one could explain.This week on Stories Lost, Short Cases, we look at three lesser known encounters where witnesses found themselves at remarkably close range with something they could not identify — and in some of these cases, close encounter really does mean close.We begin in Goiás, Brazil, in 1967, where farmer Inácio de Souza fired his rifle at
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