The Kyshtym dwarf, Alyoshenka

Record summary

Alyoshenka was a small mummified body reportedly found near Kyshtym in 1996 and kept by a local woman before police involvement. Photographs and witness testimony led to claims that it was an extraterrestrial, unknown humanoid or malformed infant. Russian reporting and later investigations offered more conventional possibilities, including a human infant with severe abnormalities, while the body was lost before definitive modern testing. The case matters because it is a clear example of uncertain remains becoming a cryptid through media framing, incomplete custody and absent biological verification.