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 AlŃshenkaâsame as the gentle one of the Karamazov brothersâand started caring for him as if he was her baby. Since he didnât respond to breast-feeding, she gave him water with sugar.
The only other people who have seen AlŃshenka alive were the local drunks. They didnât pay him a ton of attention. When his new-found mother, Tamara, was institutionalizedâthe story about the creature sounded like her illness getting worseâhe 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.
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