Kyshtym's Alien Jesus

A Russian ET parable

In 1996, an old schizophrenic woman from a remote Russian village was walking around a graveyard, collecting plastic flowers, which was a hobby of hers. A thunderstorm has gathered. Near one of the graves, lit by the lightning, she saw a tiny humanoid creature that seemed helpless to her. She took him home, named him Alёshenka—same as the gentle one of the Karamazov brothers—and started caring for him as if he was her baby. Since he didn’t respond to breast-feeding, she gave him water with sugar.

The only other people who have seen Alёshenka alive were the local drunks. They didn’t pay him a ton of attention. When his new-found mother, Tamara, was institutionalized—the story about the creature sounded like her illness getting worse—he was quickly forgotten and quietly died in her apartment. Soon, he turned into a dark mummy-like figure with a strange pointed skull we have video footage of.