Episode 131: Northern Lights and High Strangeness with Fred Andersson.

“Northern Lights” Digital painting by Barbara Fisher. Created in Procreate 2023.

I’ve known Fred for a little while now, and he is a wonderful person with a ready wit and an abiding curiosity about all highly strange things.

And he just came out with a book, Northern Lights: High Strangeness in Sweden.

It’s really good, lots of fascinating stuff in there. I bet most Americans don’t know much more about UFOs in Sweden other than the Ghost Rockets Incidents in the 1940’s and maybe the Ghost Flyers incidents of airplanes seen in snowstorms in the 1930’s. After that—maybe someone read something in an old issue of Flying Saucer Review, but there was no place one could go to read a real survey of sightings in English.

Until now.

And it isn’t just UFOs. There’s a generous dollop of Swedish folklore stirred into the book and that adds so much to the overall flavor of the stories contained therein. I loved reading it and I bet you will love it too.

I’m sure you’ll love listening to Fred talking with me about the book, how he came to write it, about the folklore of his native land, about how that folklore is a living tradition and his own personal high strangeness experience.

Please have a good time with this episode. Both Fred and I had fun talking, and we hope that you have some great fun listening!

The other two books mentioned in this episode are Vallee’s Messengers of Deception and Keel’s Disneyland of the Gods.