The rather morbid topic of ‘lost cosmonauts’ is not one about which many are familiar. This elusive body of conspiracy theory holds that, in the very early days of the space race, the Soviet Union launched a number of highly secretive manned rocket missions into and beyond the upper reaches of the atmosphere. None of these missions, it is alleged, were successful, and not a single one of them managed re-entry, leaving the occupying cosmonauts stranded with no hope of rescue, facing a slow and horrifying death alone in the cold and indifferent depths of space.
Andrei Leonov - a Russian emigre with both an interest in radio astronomy and the occult sciences - claimed to have received signals from these cosmically-abandoned dead souls using specially-modified equipment whilst living in Horsingdon in the late 1970s. According to Leonov (who disappeared in mysterious circumstances not long after voicing his initial claims) these lost cosmonauts relayed to him, in awe-struck, static whispers, the terrible things (about which he refused to say anything further) their dead eyes had witnessed within the infinite blackness of space.
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