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He Vanished at Sea. When He Returned, He Remembered Being Taken.A trawler dead in the water.A sphere three thousand feet wideAnd a man who could not remember his own name for almost a year.This week on Stories Lost, we look at the case of Kenneth Brean, a British trawler officer who vanished at sea in the Arctic Ocean just before Christmas, and resurfaced years later on a mountain plateau near the Norwegian border, unable to speak or recall who he was.Two Sámi herders found him and another unidentified man sitting beside a fire, dressed in strange clothing and staring blankly into the flames. It would take nearly a year, and the blinding light of a welding torch, before Kenneth began to speak again. What followed was a memory of a massive luminous sphere descending over his trawler, two smaller craft, a beam that tore through the hull, and an enormous chamber filled with benches, strange green beings, and towering pale figures who studied him without a word. Kenneth was placed under a secrecy order, his family relocated and forbidden to speak his name, and he died years later of leukemia attributed to radiation exposure. We tried to verify his account and instead found a wall of silence, broken only by one detail that could not be erased: a missing British trawler, and her entire crew.Was Kenneth Brean's account a genuine record of something taken from him at sea? Or is the trawler we found simply a haunting coincidence?Chapters00:00 Introduction01:47 The Sámi Herders and the Man by the Fire03:22 A Year of Silence04:01 The Welding Torch05:17 Kenneth Brean's Account Begins08:36 The Sphere Over the Trawler11:30 The Smaller Craft12:47 The Beam14:21 Inside the Chamber15:47 The Green Beings and the Tall Ones18:47 Returning to the World19:50 Secrecy, Exile and Death22:58 Searching for the Truth24:20 The Search for the Ship25:40 Prince Charles27:45 The Wreck at Karken30:35 What the Crew List Cannot Explain33:52 Outro & ThanksSourcesUFO magazine (Norway): "UFO" nr. 2, 1982— publication of the Kenneth Brean account.Tromsø newspaper, December 27, 1955 — interview with pilot Strand on the loss of Prince Charles.👍 Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy forgotten casework and eerie true accounts.👽 Support the channel:Support the channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7xcWPbM5ZVNz4sFpyE79A/membership/membershiphttps://buymeacoffee.com/storieslostThank you for watching Stories Lost!#UFO #UAP #StoriesLost #CloseEncounter #MissingAtSea #Norway #Arctic #HumanoidEncounter #HighStrangeness #Paranormal #AlienAbduction #MissingTime #UFOHistory #Mystery #Unexplained #Documentary #TrueStories #ColdWarUFO