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Scare your Children that Werewolves and Mummies are Real
In the fall of 1972, many Swedish newspapers reported werewolves spreading fear in a southern Swedish town. The papers claimed that youngsters were “paralyzed with fear,” that frightening werewolf assaults created a “werewolf panic,” and that three schoolchildren had been slain! A woman was brutally abused in her cellar by an instructor. The event was held in Trelleborg, a town of about 23,000 inhabitants that is otherwise serene and quiet.
For a few days, werewolf culture held journalistic interest, but then the stories moved on to other topics. After that, the incident vanished and was reduced to a pleasant anecdote, a distant recollection from Trelleborg.
However, a few weeks later, news sources revealed that there had been another wave of werewolf attacks in Jakobsberg, a Stockholm suburb about 411 kilometers north of Trelleborg. This time, grownups were reporting to the police that a werewolf was prowling the roofs at night, breaking windows, and fatally biting victims! Like the initial alert, the public’s curiosity about the second wave of werewolf attacks petered out after a few days.
The next year, Sätra, a Stockholm suburb, was the scene of a mummy sighting, according to Aftonbladet, one of Sweden’s largest daily newspapers. The mummies “howled like a werewolf,” killed cats, and alarmed…
