"So you want to know about
Chelovek v svintsovom kostyume? He is a rumour, a tale to tell the
novobrantsy to keep them in line."
"Some say he is a scientist who got to close to an anomaly and was changed, others say he is the result of secret experiments and is looking for a cure. Others say he is a Cosmonaut exposed to radiation whose capsule crashed into the Zone."
"He is said to wander the Zone, glowing with an unearthly light."
"All say that anyone who sees him dies horribly, his touch is instant death."
"If no one ever sees him and lives to tell the tale, where do the stories come from"
The Man in the Lead Lined Suit, by Crooked Dice.