This episode explores one of Sweden’s strangest recorded encounters: a 1660 priest’s deposition describing how his wife was taken by “non-humans” and returned changed. The story sits in that uncomfortable overlap between folklore and case file- part Vittra/troll tradition, part testimony sworn like it mattered. Was this a brush with the hidden people of Scandinavian belief, a misunderstood psychological event, or something the UFO community still swears was an Alien abduction? Either way, one night’s encounter didn’t just become a tale- it became a record, and it haunted the couple long after the darkness lifted.
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• Northern lights over abandoned meteorological station – CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BC_%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B9.jpg
• Pages 230–232 from digitized copy of 'Samlingar til en beskrifning öfwer Norrland.' by Abraham Abrahamsson Hülphers (1775) – Public Domain. Source: Umeå University Library Digital Collections.
https://digital.ub.umu.se/node/785609?page=5&fulltext-query=&preview=785609%2F232%2Fsimple%2F0
• Ragunda gamla kyrka – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ragunda_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000179024.jpg
• Ragunda gamla kyrka – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ragunda_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200041885.jpg
• Ragunda gamla kyrka – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ragunda_gamla_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200041828.jpg
• Troll at the Door – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1914).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troll_at_the_door_by_John_Bauer_1914.jpg
• The Princess and the Trolls – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer.
• Silver spoon with flat shaft and cast knop with cherub heads – Public Domain. Source: Skokloster Castle.
• Ängsälvor – Public Domain. Painting by Nils Blommér (1850).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%84ngs%C3%A4lvor_-_Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r_1850.jpg
• The Cholmondeley Ladies – Public Domain. British School, 17th century.
• Still Life – Public Domain. Painting by Pieter Claesz.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Claesz_-_Still_Life_BST_BMAGG_K2223.jpg
• Bianca Maria’s Changeling – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bianca_Marias_Changeling_by_John_Bauer_1913.jpg
• The Changeling – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:The_changeling,_John_Bauer,_1913.jpg
• Study: Dancing Fairies – Public Domain. Painting by August Malmström.
• Hulte – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hulte.jpg
• Unknown prelate from the 17th century, called Bishop Hans Brask – Public Domain. Source: Nationalmuseum.
• Aristotle’s Works Compleated (fleuron) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aristotle%27s_works_compleated_Fleuron_N020671-18.png
• Aristotle’s Works Compleated (fleuron) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aristotle%27s_works_compleated_Fleuron_N020671-5.png
• The Compleat Midwife’s Companion – Public Domain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
• Interiör av Morastuga – Public Domain. Painting by Anders Zorn (1878).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anders_Zorn_-_%27Interi%C3%B6r_av_Morastuga%27_1878.jpg
• Fringed cloth, linen – Public Domain. Source: Museo Egizio, Turin.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fringed_cloth,_linen_-_Museo_Egizio_(Turin)_S_8551_p01.jpg
• Broder Martin 2 – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broder_Martin_2_by_John_Bauer_1913.jpg
• Broder Martin: Älvorna – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broder_Martin_%C3%84lvorna_by_John_Bauer_1913.jpg
• Broder Martin – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broder_Martin_by_John_Bauer_1913.jpg
• Abraham Hülphers – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_H%C3%BClphers.jpg
• Eavesdropper with a Scolding Woman – Public Domain. Painting by Nicolaes Maes.
• Tuvstarr on Field – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1913).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuvstarr_on_field_by_John_Bauer_1913.jpg
• I samma ögonblick var hon förvandlad till en underskön liten älva – Public Domain.
• Guldnyckeln – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1915).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guldnyckeln_by_John_Bauer_1915.jpg
• Swan Princess Hiding – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1908).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swan_princess_hiding_by_John_Bauer_1908.jpg
• Sjöekungen – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1911).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sjoekungen_by_John_Bauer_1911.jpg
• Hästen ledde han vid betslet – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Bauer-H%C3%A4sten_ledde_han_vid_betslet.jpg
• Bergaporten – Public Domain. Illustration by John Bauer (1918).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergaporten_by_John_Bauer_1918.jpg
• Brown Swiss cow with bell in Swiss Alps – Free to use under Pexels License. Source: Pexels.
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-swiss-cow-with-bell-in-swiss-alps-33016772/
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