https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A recreational fisherman was casting his line into the Gullman fjord in the Bohuslän Archipelago in September when he discovered human remains including a jawbone with teeth. https://www.thelocal.se/20181128/swedish-fisherman-finds-centuries-old-human-jawbone Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:47:19 +0100 swedish-fisherman-finds-centuries-old-human-jawbone A perfectly preserved mummified bishop who died in the 17th century and was unearthed last year has been given a second funeral, after crowds queued to see him at a museum in southern Sweden earlier this week. https://www.thelocal.se/20151211/mummy-bishop-drives-masses-to-swedish-town Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:26:15 +0100 mummy-bishop-drives-masses-to-swedish-town The bodies of three children and nine men were dug up from the grounds of Sweden's Kalmar Castle earlier this year and tests suggest the bones are up to 500 years old, archaeologists have revealed. https://www.thelocal.se/20150813/twelve-skeletons-found-beneath-swedish-castle Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:11:32 +0200 twelve-skeletons-found-beneath-swedish-castle Swedish police revealed on Wednesday that bones discovered on an island in western parts of the country were believed to be the remains of a fallen Second World War soldier. https://www.thelocal.se/20150722/mystery-soldiers-bones-found-on-swedish-island Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:30:00 +0200 mystery-soldiers-bones-found-on-swedish-island UPDATED: A woman in southern Sweden is furious after stumbling upon scores of skulls and human bones inside Ikea bags in a church. The man who dug up the bones, however, says it's not as bad as it looks. https://www.thelocal.se/20140801/woman-finds-ikea-bags-stuffed-with-80-skeletons Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:51:00 +0200 woman-finds-ikea-bags-stuffed-with-80-skeletons More than a dozen human skeletons have emerged from beneath a Malmö street in a "macabre" find that left workers startled and onlookers thrilled. But archaeologists reacted differently to the discovery. https://www.thelocal.se/20140217/twenty-skeletons-unearthed-in-central-malm Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:08:00 +0100 twenty-skeletons-unearthed-in-central-malm A 37-year-old woman charged with “violating the peace of the dead” for allegedly using human bones as sex toys was released on Friday as the court began deliberations, with the prosecutor arguing she should be sent to prison. https://www.thelocal.se/20121130/44782 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:39:00 +0100 44782 A woman in western Sweden who was arrested after police found skeletons in her apartment has now been charged for using the bones as sex toys, a hobby she claimed was motivated by an interest in history. https://www.thelocal.se/20121120/44536 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:19:00 +0100 44536 A Gothenburg woman is being held on murder suspicions after police found parts of a human skeleton in her apartment on Wednesday while responding to a call that she had been firing a weapon from her window. https://www.thelocal.se/20120906/43042 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:24:00 +0200 43042