I never found anything exactly eerie, at least not until I found this:
Recently, I came across a webpage that listed rumors in space science. The top on its list was a case it referred to as that of the dead cosmonaut – as you may expect, it drew my attention, and went on to read it. There exists a story dated back to the American-Soviet space race, back in the mid-1900s, whose truth is still unknown; but is most likely true – in my opinion.
As we all know quite well, the Soviets – among other nations – had sent, into space, a considerable number of animals to experiment on; to see how they react to the new environment, and, there was, of course, no negative reaction to it. First were the fruit flies sent by the U.S., then were a monkey, Albert II, and a mouse, both by the U.S. Third came the dogs Tsygan and Dezik, sent into space by the U.S.S.R. Next in line was Laika, the first animal in orbit, and she was followed by many animals right up till 1961, when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. But, the question soon arose, in 1961 itself, as to whether Gagarin was really the first, or whether a human was experimented on before him. The space race scenario gave rise to many who supported such a theory – especially after it was backed by an apparently unquestionable detection from space.
‘Разве это не опасно? Говорите со мной! Наша передача начинается теперь. Я чувствую себя горячим. Я могу видеть пламя. Я собираюсь терпеть крах? Да. Я чувствую себя горячим, я вернусь…’ the cosmonaut was heard to say, by the time the transmission broke off. ‘Isn’t this dangerous? Talk to me! Our transmission begins now. I feel hot. I can see a flame. Am I going to crash? Yes. I feel hot, I will re-enter…’
Amateur radio operators were quite busy at this time – especially the most famous duo of Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia. Every one of these operators around the world listened to the launches. The Judica-Cordiglia brothers set up a listening station in Italy to intercept communication transmissions between ground operations and spacecraft for both American and Soviet missions and even recorded Laika’s heart beat as she went into space and into orbit. In 1961, however, a few weeks before Gagarin’s flight, what they recorded was far more eerie.
The brothers claimed to have detected and recorded radio transmissions of a cosmonaut slowly dying in space. They believed she was a human sent (secretly, if I may add) to space to test how well humans could cope there, after the animals’ positive tests. The Soviets did not, probably, want to publicize such a mission until the right time and therefore did not announce it at any point of time – not even when they disintegrated. The Italian brothers, soon after detecting this unexpected transmission, announced their find, and the Soviet Union promptly denied any such thing. The brothers had found, in their transmission, the following text in Russian: ‘Разве это не опасно? Говорите со мной! Наша передача начинается теперь. Я чувствую себя горячим. Я могу видеть пламя. Я собираюсь терпеть крах? Да. Я чувствую себя горячим, я вернусь…’ translating to ‘Isn’t this dangerous? Talk to me! Our transmission begins now. I feel hot. I can see a flame. Am I going to crash? Yes. I feel hot, I will re-enter…’. You can hear it for yourself in this recording:
Supporters of the theory believe the Soviet government hid the cosmonaut’s death to preserve the country’s reputation as a leader in space exploration. The truth remains a mystery, though. What do you think of it?
