Once fifteen years ago ……

Once fifteen years ago, one summer night, I was out driving my car; it was 3 o'clock in the morning. I passed a place that in olden times was called "Tingstagärdsbacken" because assemblies (ting) were held there in former times. There lies a large burial mound, the largest of the many such mounds here in Njurunda, which is now the subject. It dates back to the Viking Age. When I had gone a little way from the burial mound, I met a girl whom I knew very well, and I wondered what she was doing out at this time of night, for it was not a holiday eve, for then it might not have been so remarkable if she had been at some entertainment. When I came level with the girl, she turned her face away, as if she did not want to show herself to me. I drove past her but turned around to convince myself that it was the girl I knew, but now she was completely gone without a trace. I stopped the car and searched carefully in the bushes that were there on one side of the road, but I could not detect a single trace of her. It seemed like magic. I stood for a long time pondering, after I had searched for her all around the place. No other car or vehicle that could have taken her had passed. I searched for two hours, which is why I had to give up finding her. The place where I saw the following is called Ovansjö. The last time I experienced such an event was eight years ago; it was also a woman who disappeared. It was a dark autumn night when I was also driving my car and met a small woman. The car's headlights fell on her, and I dimmed the lights so as not to embarrass her so much. The woman in question was so small that I had never seen such a small person. She was dressed like a nurse, with what looked like a black cowl on her head and a long cloak. As I was driving quite fast at the time, I slowed down so as not to splash her – the road was very muddy. Despite this, she walked down into the ditch and held onto the fence that was there. I immediately thought that this could not be a real person who was so unusually small. I stopped the car but could not bring myself to speak to her. As it was so dark behind the car, I could not see where she went. The experience is the full truth and no fiction. Her smallness proves that it was something supernatural.