It all stems from a rather gruesome folk belief that badgers will bite on to your arm or leg and not let go until they hear the bone crack. This being Sweden though, the enterprising country that invented the car safety belt and flat pack furniture, they have come up with a clever way to deter the little furry black and white psychopaths.
Ingenious but deeply bonkers. How can this be? This tradition was the brainchild of Swedish dentists, who conducted experiments in the s and '50s to prove it was better for your teeth if you consumed your entire weekly allowance of sugar in one go, rather than small amounts over a longer period. Yep, Sweden might be the nation that gave us the ABBA hit Money Money Money, but the Swedes are moving faster than any other country on earth towards being a cash-free society.
The belief is it reduces crime. Money really has met its Waterloo. Studying can be stressful and sometimes you need to let off steam.
Every night at exactly 10pm, on a street in an area called Flogsta, the windows of student houses are thrown open and many voices let out a simultaneous cry of angst; a primal scream that can be heard for miles around. How "The Flogsta Scream" started is shrouded in mystery: some say it was originally a tribute to a student who died, but the tradition has now spread to other cities.
So, if you thought your student neighbours were annoying, they really have nothing on the screaming Swedes. The Huffington Post has previously covered the phenomena and confirms this is a real thing— The Flogsta Scream is one of those totally legitimate Swedish things that makes no sense to outsiders such as us. Beginning in the s, students in the Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden started sticking their heads out the window at 10PM every night to scream into the darkness.
It's a veritable symphony of woe. Apparently it began in the s and has been going on — no joke — every single night since it started. Amid the swirl, the story somehow changed from "people collectively scream out of their windows at 10 p.
You will just annoy the Swedes. Maybe wait for someone else to start screaming first, though. Just in case. BY Meg Van Huygen.
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