Phantom Signals: The Lost Cosmonauts

Before Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, others may have gone before him—and never returned.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record investigates the chilling claims surrounding the Lost Cosmonauts: alleged Soviet space missions that ended in failure, death, and silence. According to independent radio operators in Italy and former Soviet insiders, faint transmissions, distressed breathing, and garbled final words were intercepted from the void.

The Soviet Union officially denied any such missions. But gaps in the record, erased identities, and unexplained anomalies continue to feed a mystery the Kremlin never acknowledged.

Were there astronauts before Gagarin? And what happened to the voices that called back from space—and were never heard again?