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The Baby Aleshenka

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

True Crime

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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One night, while walking through the woods on the outskirts of her town, an elderly woman discovered what she thought was an abandoned infant lying in the dirt. She carried it home and resolved to raise it herself, but what began as an act of compassion would soon spiral into a mystery that left her community asking whether the baby Aleshenka was even human. MUSIC  Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One night, whilst walking through the woods on the outskirts of her town, an elderly

0:37.1

woman discovered

0:37.8

what she thought was an abandoned infant lying in the dirt.

0:42.5

She carried it home and resolved to raise it herself, but what began as an act of compassion

0:48.2

would soon spiral into a mystery that left her community asking whether the baby Alyoshenka

0:53.4

was even human. I'm gonnae. I'm gonna I'm

1:11.6

The Life in the remote Siberian wilderness has long been defined by endurance.

1:41.3

To those living far from the reach of Russia's great cities, existence here is

1:47.3

stripped down to its most basic form, survival against the elements. To outsiders, this world

1:55.0

may seem bleak and unforgiving, a place untouched by the comforts of modern life. But for the people who inhabit the endless forests

2:03.4

and frozen valleys of the Ural Mountains, such isolation is simply a way of life. Their days

2:11.5

follow a rhythm as old as the land itself. Wake, work, eat and sleep. The silence of the tundra is broken only by the low

2:21.6

hum of wind through pine and the distant rumble of machinery from scattered industrial towns.

2:28.2

To those raised in the city, the lack of distraction would feel unbearable. Yet for these rural communities, life simplicity is both grounding and familiar.

2:39.0

Many families still live as their ancestors once did, relying on their own hands, their neighbours and the turning of the seasons.

2:48.0

Radio, television and other luxuries of the modern age have found their way into even

2:53.5

the most remote corners of the Urals, but they have done little to change the people. Tradition

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