Aleshenka – Alien Baby Or A Tragic Victim Of The 1957 Kyshtym Disaster 40 Years Later?
OK – this is as strange as it is interesting, with numerous different accounts, versions and theories. Regardless of all that though all seem to agree on where and when it began. In the village of Kaolinory, near Kyshtym, Russia, while out walking on a hot summer night in 1996, Tamara Vasilieuna Prosvirina, an elderly woman made a remarkable discovery.
She claimed she heard what she at first thought was a small animal running in the trees. However when the sound turned to a child-like cry or whistle, she located where it was coming from and saw what she claimed was a baby.
Tamara immediately wrapped the “baby” in a shawl and took it home to her apartment. She named it Aleshenka and treated him as if it were her own child.
Tamara’s daughter-in-law, also called Tamara, saw Aleshenka when she visited the next day after her mother-in-law had rang to say that she “had a new baby.” She would describe it later as something “not from this planet!”
She claimed she heard what she at first thought was a small animal running in the trees. However when the sound turned to a child-like cry or whistle, she located where it was coming from and saw what she claimed was a baby.
Tamara immediately wrapped the “baby” in a shawl and took it home to her apartment. She named it Aleshenka and treated him as if it were her own child.
Tamara’s daughter-in-law, also called Tamara, saw Aleshenka when she visited the next day after her mother-in-law had rang to say that she “had a new baby.” She would describe it later as something “not from this planet!”
Aleshenka - Alien? Or tragically deformed child?
"It Didn't Eat Food - It Consumed It!"
Aleshenka’s appearance was unsettling enough for Tamara Junior – the head was slightly larger than the body and in the shape of an “onion” and it had very large eyes, with a small hole for what he appeared to breath out of. What unsettled her most though was how it ate the food her mother-in-law gave to it. She stated that she “never saw it’s mouth move” and it was as if it “sucked it up.” According to Tamara Junior it didn’t eat food, it “consumed it!”
Strange? Here is where it gets really strange, and where slightly different accounts start.
Somewhere between several days and a month after she discovered Aleshenka, Tamara was said to have fallen ill and was hospitalised. Some say that a neighbour actually called the local hospital after the old woman was telling people she had a baby and was “raving again!”
It is said that she was mentally ill and well known for her odd behaviour. She was known to walk to the local cemetery at night and remove the flowers from people’s graves so she could display them in her home.
It is not clear how Tamara ended up in the hospital, whether she indeed fell ill or whether her mental state was a question, but ultimately, Aleshenka was left alone in the apartment.
According to one newspaper report, at the time of Tamara’s “detention” she tried to alert the medical staff that there was a baby in the apartment but she was ignored. A quick look was said to “only show a cat wrapped up in rags.”
Strange? Here is where it gets really strange, and where slightly different accounts start.
Somewhere between several days and a month after she discovered Aleshenka, Tamara was said to have fallen ill and was hospitalised. Some say that a neighbour actually called the local hospital after the old woman was telling people she had a baby and was “raving again!”
It is said that she was mentally ill and well known for her odd behaviour. She was known to walk to the local cemetery at night and remove the flowers from people’s graves so she could display them in her home.
It is not clear how Tamara ended up in the hospital, whether she indeed fell ill or whether her mental state was a question, but ultimately, Aleshenka was left alone in the apartment.
According to one newspaper report, at the time of Tamara’s “detention” she tried to alert the medical staff that there was a baby in the apartment but she was ignored. A quick look was said to “only show a cat wrapped up in rags.”
Note the matchbox gives you an idea of the size of Aleshenka
Aside from Tamara and her daughter-in-law, the only other person who had seen Aleshenka was Vladimir Nurdinov. Although it is not clear why, he used to visit Tamara and had seen her new “child.” Upon hearing that she was in hospital he went to check on him but by this time, Aleshenka had died of thirst and starvation. The remains had also started to mummify.
Incidentally a slightly different account states that Nurdinov was staying at the apartment with Tamara, while another version states that it was Tamara Junior who went back and discovered Aleshenka’s dead body and then gave it to Nurdinov. What is clear is that Nurdinov handed the body over to a local policeman, Vladimir Bendlin.
Again stories differ on these events. Some say that Bendlin went to speak with Nurdinov in relation to stolen power cables, while others claim that Nurdinov contacted Bendlin himself as he genuinely didn’t know what to do with the remains.
Bendlin decided initially that this was the mummified remains of a child and took it to Dr. Irina Yermolaeva for analysis. She stated that it wasn’t a hoax in that it was a genuine mummified body that was once living tissue. Her conclusions though were that it was a premature child that was deformed, something which could be attributed to the far reaching fall-out of the 1957 Kyshtym Disaster. You can read more about that here.
However Bendlin’s clinical assistant, Lyubov Romanowa, who herself had seen many deformities in children stated that “they had never seen anything like this”, and that she believed that is was “not of human origin.”
She said the differences were just too many, twenty were made note of in all, not least of which the amount of bones on the head that consisted of four in total that had sharp edges which were “completely different to a human being!”
Check out the videos below that look at the Kyshtym Disaster in a little more detail.
Incidentally a slightly different account states that Nurdinov was staying at the apartment with Tamara, while another version states that it was Tamara Junior who went back and discovered Aleshenka’s dead body and then gave it to Nurdinov. What is clear is that Nurdinov handed the body over to a local policeman, Vladimir Bendlin.
Again stories differ on these events. Some say that Bendlin went to speak with Nurdinov in relation to stolen power cables, while others claim that Nurdinov contacted Bendlin himself as he genuinely didn’t know what to do with the remains.
Bendlin decided initially that this was the mummified remains of a child and took it to Dr. Irina Yermolaeva for analysis. She stated that it wasn’t a hoax in that it was a genuine mummified body that was once living tissue. Her conclusions though were that it was a premature child that was deformed, something which could be attributed to the far reaching fall-out of the 1957 Kyshtym Disaster. You can read more about that here.
However Bendlin’s clinical assistant, Lyubov Romanowa, who herself had seen many deformities in children stated that “they had never seen anything like this”, and that she believed that is was “not of human origin.”
She said the differences were just too many, twenty were made note of in all, not least of which the amount of bones on the head that consisted of four in total that had sharp edges which were “completely different to a human being!”
Check out the videos below that look at the Kyshtym Disaster in a little more detail.
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Media Frenzy And Military Presence
By the time the stories had gotten around the small village, the main tale was that Aleshenka was an alien child who somehow had been lost and discovered by Tamara, the mad old woman.
Whether true or not, this theory was readily perpetuated by the locals as many saw it as a chance to “cash in” and sell their stories to the ever growing number of journalists and TV stations that were starting to show an interest in the happenings, not least of which were MTV Japan who were “throwing money at anyone who could tell them about the alien!”
Indeed Tamara and Nurdinov were even suspected by some to have hatched the plan together in an effort to make money, however the initial testing showed that it was a genuine body made up of what was at one point living tissues and there was no evidence of them making any major financial gains.
Really strange?
As the media interest grew, many UFO experts and enthusiasts descended on the small Russian town. Although the initial examinations of the body suggested it was indeed genuine, no DNA testing had yet been done. It is said a respected ufologist Boris Zolotov offered to have the creature tested and without thinking Bendlin handed it over to his assistants. It was a decision that he said he would regret.
Whether true or not, this theory was readily perpetuated by the locals as many saw it as a chance to “cash in” and sell their stories to the ever growing number of journalists and TV stations that were starting to show an interest in the happenings, not least of which were MTV Japan who were “throwing money at anyone who could tell them about the alien!”
Indeed Tamara and Nurdinov were even suspected by some to have hatched the plan together in an effort to make money, however the initial testing showed that it was a genuine body made up of what was at one point living tissues and there was no evidence of them making any major financial gains.
Really strange?
As the media interest grew, many UFO experts and enthusiasts descended on the small Russian town. Although the initial examinations of the body suggested it was indeed genuine, no DNA testing had yet been done. It is said a respected ufologist Boris Zolotov offered to have the creature tested and without thinking Bendlin handed it over to his assistants. It was a decision that he said he would regret.
A front view of the skull of Aleshenka
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The four bones on the head appeared to have sharp edges
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Bendlin expected to have the results back in a matter of weeks but months went by and he had heard nothing. Then when Zolotov was finally tracked down by a television station he offered the following bizarre explanation.
He stated that his assistants were driving to the lab with the body and a “UFO came down right there on the road and blocked the way.” Zolotov said that they “took him back” and has not commentated on the matter since.
Some theorise that Zolotov may have been forced to hand over the remains to intelligence services, with one journalist at the time claiming that he had witnessed people being forced to sign confidentiality papers. Others state that Zolotov had sold the remains to a private unknown buyer for obvious financial gain.
Whatever did happen, the remains have not been seen since.
However, an unknown woman stepped forward and said that she had taken the blanket that the remains had been wrapped in and secretly kept it. She offered to Bendlin that she would hand the blanket over for DNA analysis if they promised to “take it seriously and investigate it properly.”
Tamara’s daughter-in-law confirmed that the blanket was the one that the old lady had used to wrap Aleshenka in, and when the DNA results did come back they showed traces of human DNA (thought to be Tamara’s) and a strain that is “unknown to science.”
Officially Aleshenka is said to be that of the body of a premature child, approximately 20-26 weeks old and that it had severe deformities, and it was also claimed that "he" was in fact a girl.
It is not unbelievable to think that a frightened young girl had given birth to a premature baby that was deformed due to the radioactive environment of Kyshtym, and had panicked and essentially dumped the baby in the woods. If that was the case though, experts state that it would not have been able to survive longer than a few hours after birth if at all.
The only two people that saw it alive other than Tamara, the old lady’s daughter in law and Nurdinov maintain that, indeed it was alive and that the creature was not human.
He stated that his assistants were driving to the lab with the body and a “UFO came down right there on the road and blocked the way.” Zolotov said that they “took him back” and has not commentated on the matter since.
Some theorise that Zolotov may have been forced to hand over the remains to intelligence services, with one journalist at the time claiming that he had witnessed people being forced to sign confidentiality papers. Others state that Zolotov had sold the remains to a private unknown buyer for obvious financial gain.
Whatever did happen, the remains have not been seen since.
However, an unknown woman stepped forward and said that she had taken the blanket that the remains had been wrapped in and secretly kept it. She offered to Bendlin that she would hand the blanket over for DNA analysis if they promised to “take it seriously and investigate it properly.”
Tamara’s daughter-in-law confirmed that the blanket was the one that the old lady had used to wrap Aleshenka in, and when the DNA results did come back they showed traces of human DNA (thought to be Tamara’s) and a strain that is “unknown to science.”
Officially Aleshenka is said to be that of the body of a premature child, approximately 20-26 weeks old and that it had severe deformities, and it was also claimed that "he" was in fact a girl.
It is not unbelievable to think that a frightened young girl had given birth to a premature baby that was deformed due to the radioactive environment of Kyshtym, and had panicked and essentially dumped the baby in the woods. If that was the case though, experts state that it would not have been able to survive longer than a few hours after birth if at all.
The only two people that saw it alive other than Tamara, the old lady’s daughter in law and Nurdinov maintain that, indeed it was alive and that the creature was not human.
The body of Aleshenka was sent for extensive testing - the results were shocking, to say the least!
Still Many Loose Ends!
Researchers who have spent considerable time on this case generally agree that the daughter-in-law, Tamara, is telling the truth. The following is an account she gave about finding out about the creature. It is said that she has never swayed from this account over the years. She would state:
“I used to visit my mother-in-law twice a week. She was living on her own. On that day I brought her foodstuffs just like I did before. I was about to leave when she told me: ‘We’d better give some food to the baby too.’ Then she showed me to the bed. I took a closer look at it and saw him. He was on top the bed, squeaking some funny sounds. I could see his mouth shaped like a small pipe. His tiny scarlet tongue was moving. I also spotted two teeth inside. In a way, he looked like a little baby. His head was brown, and his body looked gray. I didn’t see any eyelids. He didn’t have any genitals either. And the pupils of his eyes were widening and narrowing just like the cat’s eyes do when you turn on the light and turn it off again several times in a row. The fingers on his hands and feet were pretty long. I only bothered to ask my mother-in-law where on earth she’d got the monster from. She told me she’d found him in the forest. She kept calling him ‘Aleshenka.’ She gave him a candy and he started sucking on it. I thought it was some kind of animal.”
Incidentally, around the same time that Aleshenka’s remains vanished, Tamara (the old lady) was killed in an apparent hit-and-run as she “tried to escape” from the institution she was being held at. Those that saw the accident claimed that she was acting in such a way “that someone was calling to her.”
She was due to meet with a team of academics in the days following her death who were interested in the case, most notably Mark Milkhimer, who was going to use hypnotic regression with Tamara in order to unlock the events leading up to her finding Aleshenka. Shortly after he arrived in Kyshtym, Milkhimer himself died of a sudden heart attack.
The video below shows the original footage that Vladimir Bendlin took on his own camera at the time of the body being handed to him. It is in Russian, but for those that don’t speak Russian, you still can get an idea as to the size and such – interesting viewing. The video below that is from The Unexplained Files.
[Marcus Lowth August 2015]
She was due to meet with a team of academics in the days following her death who were interested in the case, most notably Mark Milkhimer, who was going to use hypnotic regression with Tamara in order to unlock the events leading up to her finding Aleshenka. Shortly after he arrived in Kyshtym, Milkhimer himself died of a sudden heart attack.
The video below shows the original footage that Vladimir Bendlin took on his own camera at the time of the body being handed to him. It is in Russian, but for those that don’t speak Russian, you still can get an idea as to the size and such – interesting viewing. The video below that is from The Unexplained Files.
[Marcus Lowth August 2015]
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