A huge underground library in Sweden collects paranormal phenomena

A library In a basement in the Swedish city of Norrköping he collects articles, books and testimonies about paranormal phenomena, including stories from people who claim to have traveled to Venus or the Moon, a collection that attracts historians and curious people from all over the world.

Clas Svahn, 65, and Anders Liljegren, 73, are neither believers nor superstitious and define themselves as “investigators of the unknown” when presenting their research on phenomena “inexplicable”.

Books make up most of the material, which also includes original testimonies recorded on magnetic tapes and photographs of ghosts, all exhibited by the Archivos de lo Inexplicable association in a 700 m2 space.

“It is a repository of knowledge”explains Svahn, claiming that his improvised library is the largest of its kind in the world.

“We try to obtain as much information as possible about unsolved scientific mysteries to make them available to the world”, Add. He claims to receive visits from about 300 people a year.

These files are being digitized, and a large part of the pieces are already available on a server, provided you have the access codes, which the custodians are happy to share.

Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, crossed the Atlantic to visit the site, as part of his research for a book on the history of the “UFO” phenomenon.

“I worked on countless files in Europe, USA and the United Kingdom. But my stay here was without a doubt the most fascinating and productive,” comments to AFP.

“In my opinion, you cannot study the topic in depth without consulting this background”he highlights.

Impact of paranormal phenomena on society

Long stigmatized, the famous “unidentified flying object”, or UFO, is making its way into scientific research. In mid-September, NASA released a report with recommendations on how to rigorously study them in the future.

In the room dedicated to these inexplicable aerospace phenomena, Svahn flips through the yellow pages of a book with a red cover.

The work is a clandestine edition by UFO experts from the USSR and is a typescript of which there are only 7 or 8 original copies.

“They didn’t know what they were seeing, but it was actually rocket launches.”” from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, says the enthusiast who understood the content of the book with the help of Russian-speaking people.

The archives of this enormous library are full of surprising stories, such as that of Victor Hugo during his political exile on the island of Jersey off the French coast, highlighted in an exhibition at the Norrköping art museum.

In his notes before writing the “Jersey rotary tables”, Published posthumously in 1923, the writer described the contacts he had had with his deceased daughter.

These writings gave rise to a new religion observed by several million followers in Vietnam, explains the exhibition’s curator, Magnus Bärtås.

A fresco by Victor Hugo today adorns the wall of a temple about ten kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City.

By accumulating all this data on the abnormal, the artisanal media library “also covers folklore and beliefs,” Svahn emphasizes, insisting that the archives are not limited to UFOs.

““The material highlights the impact that these phenomena have on society around the world and on people’s lives,” relates.

Beliefs evolve from generation to generation and what was once superstitious and rejected is no longer so.

Artist Ida Idaida spent a month researching the site’s underground archives to create her work, a gigantic black wooden structure.

It was inspired by the experiences of witch women, taken from books. According to her, her knowledge was despised throughout history.

For Bärtås, people whose experience and testimony are not taken seriously ““They find a space here.” “If something is strange or inexplicable, we should not reject it, we should study it and be open”he maintains.

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