The Local Sweden

Students turn Swedish viral scream into Trump protest

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:54:44 +0100

Every night at 10pm, students at Sweden’s Uppsala University take part in the 'Flogsta scream' or 'Flogsta roar': a bizarre phenomenon where residents of the Flogsta area open their windows and scream at the top of their lungs, leading to viral videos that have caused people the world over to think that Swedes are absolutely insane.

Swedish students' howls echo across the world

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:43:00 +0100

A video featuring the spontaneous, unsettling screams of university students in Sweden is making waves across the world, shedding light on a curious Swedish university tradition the origins of which remain unclear.

English parking ticket for Swedish snowmobile

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:10:00 +0200

Central England doesn’t boast ideal snowmobiling conditions at the best of times, so why would anyone bring a snowmobile to Warwick in the middle of summer?