Welcome back everyone - were heading into space for todays video.
If space is your kind of thing then check out our Top 10 Scary NASA Urban Legends right
up here - today though, were sharing real accounts of people who have been to space
- the scary things they experienced, the unexplained sightings, and the memories that haunted them
for years after.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Astronaut Stories.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Knocking[a].
In 2003, Yang Liewei became the first Chinese person in space.
It was a historic occasion, but its also become famous for a very creepy occurrence.
In 2016, Yang told an interview that he heard someone knocking on the outside of the spaceship.
He described it as sounding like a wooden hammer hitting an iron bucket.
Terrified, he true to peek out of the porthole but couldn't see anything outside.
When he got back to Earth, Yang described the sound to experts, he even tried to recreate
it for them - but nobody could identify it.
In the years since, many people have tried to explain this strange phenomenon.
Some say it could have been some space debris but others say that this is unlikely as space
debris is few and far between.
Others claim it could be the expanding and contracting of the shit due the the changing
temperature of the spaceship has it orbited the Earth.
Even though thats the leading theory, many people have their own theories about aliens
or time travelers being responsible for the mysterious knocking sound …
Moving on to number 9 we have Alien Music[b].
In 1969, American astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young went to the far
side of the moon for the Apollo 10 mission.
It was going to be the final test before Apollo 11 took 3 humans to walk on the surface of
the moon for the first time.
When the Apollo 10 astronauts were orbiting round the moon, they took photographs of its
surface.
As they were working away, they began to hear music - specifically, they heard a strange
whistling sound that lasted nearly an hour.
When it faded away, Commander Cernan said -Boy, that sure is weird music.
Were going to have to find out about that- … Pilot Young replied -Nobody would believe
us- … and for the most part - they were right!
Many people couldn't explain the sound they claimed to have heard and so they didnt believe
it.
The leading theory is that it the sound came from radio interference between spacecrafts.
Some people have dismissed that though and have insisted that the astronauts would have
known the difference between radio interference and their -spacey music- …
Coming at number 8 we have Snakes In Space[c].
In 1994, Dr Story Musgrave did an interview where he described his career as an astronaut,
and one particular time which shocks him to this today.
He said -On two of my missions, and I still don’t have an answer, I have seen a snake
out there.
Six, seven, eight feet long.
It is rubbery because it has internal waves in it, and it follows you for a rather long
period of time.
The more you fly in space the more you see an incredible amount of things out there,
and that sort of thing brings to you, really, a certainty that other living creatures are
out there- … usually an account like this would be dismissed but Musgrave is a Doctor,
he had 6 academic degrees, is a trained mathematician, he was in the marine corps AND was a NASA
astronaut.
He seems like a credible witness.
He believes there are advanced creatures existing in space itself and that he has even tried
to communicate with them in the hopes that they come down and get him.
Next up at number 7 we have Docking[d].
In 1995, famous Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield had his first space flight.
His job was to relay the speed and range information to the pilot as they were docking into the
Russian Mir Space Station.
His job was to relay information to the pilot - any mistakes could have been a disaster.
Too soft and they would have bounced off, two hard and they would have broke the space
station in half, killing the 3 people on board.
Everything was going smoothly but then, one of the sensors started telling them that they
were 32 feet away, the other said 20ft.
If they didnt solve the problem in 30 seconds, it was over for them.
Hadfield had to calculate how far they were away, timing it with his stopwatch to decide
when they should fire their thrusters.
Luckily, they ended up being spot on and docked almost perfectly.
It took a few minutes before the astronauts began to realise they had done it - they had
avoided a space disaster, and they had lived to tell the tale.
Moving on to number 6 now we have Impossible[e].
On May 5 1981, Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok looked out of his porthole on the
Salyut orbital space station.
He then saw something which seemed inexplicable.
When he returned to Earth, he told the world at a conference what he saw.
He said -Many cosmonauts have seen phenomena which are far beyond the experiences of earthmen.
For ten years I never spoke on such things.
The encounter you ask me about happened on May 5, 1981, at about 6PM, during the Saljut
Mission.
At that time we were over the area of South Africa, moving towards the area of the Indian
ocean.
I just made some gymnastic exercises, when I saw in front of me, through a porthole,
an object which I could not explain … I saw this object and then something happened
that I could not explain, something impossible according to the laws of physics.
The object had this shape, elliptical, and few with us.
From a frontal view it looked like it would rotate in flight direction.
It only few straight, but then a kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of golden
light.
This was the first part.
Then, one or two seconds later, a second explosion followed somewhere else and two spheres appeared,
golden and very beautiful.
After this explosion, I just saw white smoke, then a cloud-like sphere.
Before we entered the darkness, we flew through the terminator, the twilight zone between
day and night.
We flew eastwards, and when we entered the darkness of the Earth shadow, I could not
see them any longer.
The two spheres never returned.- … there have rarely been descriptions so vivid and
detailed - and many people who here Kovalyonoks story hold it up as proof of UFOs.
Moving on now to number 5 we have Toxic[f].
In the mid 90s, Bob Curbeam took part in his first spacewalk as an astronaut.
Unfortunately, disaster struck when a connector to a hose began to leak, spraying toxic amonia
all over him.
He couldn't get back inside the space station covered in the stuff.
He managed to stay calm and fix the leak - but he was still contaminated.
He came up with a plan - Amonia has a low boiling point, so Bob decided to bake himself
in the sunlight of space for an extra 30 minutes in order to vaporize the Amonia off him.
He had to just sit out there, in space, hoping that he got all the amonia off and that he
didnt poison the crew and himself back on the station.
It was a success, his plan worked - but it was one of the most surreal and scary moments
an astronaut could ever experience …
Next up at number 4 we have The Lights[g].
In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was commander on the International Space station for over
6 months.
He was once doing a spacewalk to repair some atennas when something caught his eye.
He saw some lights that seemed to be in a line, almost like an upside down check mark.
They flew right past him but his fellow astronaut didnt see because they were facing the other
way.
When he described the sighting to those back on the ground, they dismissed it as a fishing
boat hundreds of miles below him.
Chiao himself has stated that he doesnt believe theres ever been any tangible evidence that
someone else is visiting Earth or has done so in the past.
He has simply told his story, and is leaving the explaining up to everyone else.
Coming in at number 3 we have The Drifter[h].
For some people, their biggest fear about space is the feeling of drifting away from
the space station - unable to claw themself back.
Well, Scott Parazynski may have had the closest experience to that.
He was performing a space walk when a jammed solar panel threatened the safety of the entire
space station and the crew inside it.
After 72 hours, NASA came up with a plan.
Scott was told to travel further away from the safety of an airlock than had ever been
attempted.
He later said in an interview -There was a real danger that we could do even worse damage
to the Space Station.
Then there was the potential of risk to myself, because if there was any metal to metal connection
with the solar panel, or arcing, it could actually electrocute me or cause ignition
of the 100% oxygen in my spacesuit.- … the stakes were high but Scott succeeded.
Disaster was averted - but Scotts heroics are still not known by many.
Moving on to number 2 we have The Secret Transmission[i].
In 1975, retired Chief of NASA Communications Systems Maurice Chatelain published his book
Our Cosmic Ancestors.
In it, he made an extraordinary claim about the first manned mission to the moon.
He said -Only moments before Armstrong stepped down the ladder to set foot on the Moon, two
UFOs hovered overhead.
Edwin Aldrin took several pictures of them.
Some of these photographs have been published in the June 1975 issue of Modern People Magazine-
… this claim was linked to the story that there were two minutes of radio silence after
Armstrong set foot on the moon.
People claim that the lost audio was him saying -These babies were huge, sir!
Enormous!
Oh, God!
You wouldn’t believe it!
I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out here … lined up on the far side of the
crater’s edge!
They’re on the moon watching us!- … of course, all of this is speculation.
An actual recording of this audio or the pictures have never surfaced.
That either means it didnt happen or its been covered up very well.
Either way its a creepy story.
And finally at number 1 we have The Green Bolt[j].
Gordon Cooper was a well known astronaut who flew on the Mercury 9 and Gemini 5 missions.
He was the last American to fly alone in space.
In 1963, he flew aboard the Mercury capsule for a circumnavigational trip around the world.
Everything seemed to be going OK, then, on his final orbit, as he passed over Perth Australia,
he saw a green object swing towards him at an incredible speed.
At first, he thought it was just a figment of his imagination.
There have been times where pilots and astronauts have seen objects like this but their equipment
detects nothing.
This time was different though.
The Muchea Tracking Station in Western Australia picked the object up on their radar.
That was huge.
Now he had something solid to back up his own experience.
He reported the incident to the National Broadcasting company.
When he returned to Earth, he was eager to tell his side of the story - but Gordon claims
he was approached by NBC reporters who told him they had been instructed to not question
him about the sighting.
All of this has fanned the fire of a UFO conspiracy.
So there we have it - some stories from space - its a fascinating topic but as this video
showed, there are scary sides to everything.
Which was your favourite?
While you think about that Im gonna read out a comment from my Top 10 Lyrics You Never
Realized Were Creepy Video.
Remix ccc CBC said -He knows when youre sleeping.
He knows when youre awake.
How bout dat?- … yes!
Now that I think about it, Santa Claus is coming to town IS quite a creepy song.
Or maybethe whole idea of an old guy with a beard watching people all year, even when
theyre asleep, and judging their behaviour is actually the creepy thing.
Well, Merry Christmas to that!
Keep the comments coming in, thanks for watching guys, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you
all in the next video!