Is European E4 route haunted?
Many highways are thought to be haunted in this world, in
Malaysia the Karak Highway is said to be notoriously haunted and accidents are
caused by unrest spirits. It is interesting to learn that a European highway is
also haunted. Below news clip is translated and shared by Mr. Bjerstedt:
Vættir are blamed for
mysterious accidents on European route E4
On route E4 to the north of Gävle there has been many
accidents through the years, especially around Skarvberget. When we
investigated the matter closer we came upon stories about vættir, tomtar,
trolls and spirits.
Skarvberget is the name of a place by E4 to the north of
Gävle, about the same
hight as Björke. There's a rest stop right by the road.
The name often appear in connection with traffic accidents
on E4. In the archives we find reports of 59 different incidents and accidents
at or near Skarvberget, since 2000. The dark figure is higher because not all
the accidents have been reported.
If you look at E4 to the north of Gävle as a whole, not only
by Skarvberget, it has been a route where many serious accidents have occurred.
The route between Gävle and Axmartavlan was called The Road of Death.
When we tried to find out why the route by Skarvberget is so
accident prone, we heard strange stories.
Gabriella Gulliksson at the Transport Administration says
that the route in recent years has been spared from death or accidents
resulting in serious injuries. But it happens a lot at Skarvberget.
- This stretch stands out slightly, along with some other
places and distances
along the E4, when it comes to events, jams, incidents and
accidents without
injuries.
When the E4 which was converted into a so-called 2+1 road,
ie collision-free
path where it varies between one and two lanes, it was one
of the first 2+1
roads of its kind. It can matter, think Gabriella
Gulliksson.
The Overtaking fields in this 2+1 road is slightly shorter
than what is built today when building new 2+1 roads, she says. Another
explanation Gabriella Gulliksson believes may be that the road is cambered in
an old fashioned way. Roads are angled, cambered, in a certain way so that
rainwater will run off them. But there's also other explanations. For a long
time, it has been said in the area that the construction of E4 offended
something in nature. Deep within the woods, that should have been left alone.
In news items about events at Skarvberget, things that seem
strange are sometimes said. Three times vehicles have caught on fire while
driving, just at the level of Skarvberget. Drivers who suffer sudden symptoms
of illnesses at the same place are also mentioned. A lot of cars have been
punctured or had technical problems right there.
Stig Edvinsson from Bergbyis has worked with traffic
management for 30 years,
often together with the Swedish Transport Administration. He
followed the road
construction and remember discussions about supernatural
beings when the E4
north of Gävle was prospected in the 1980s.
At some meetings I attended in connection with the
construction of the road, I learned that the Swedish Transport Administration
had received quite a few letters in which it was asked "How the hell can
you build a road over the place where the trolls live?". I have not seen
the letters myself but they are supposed to have come from an old witch in the
woods, he says.
The witch must have been worried that the trolls would
become angry and disrupt traffic.
Another theory is that tomtar play tricks on the road and
cause accidents. Marianne Lundqvist that worked as a journalist in Hamrånge
heard about the tomtar.
- It was said that they shouldn't build there because then
the tomtar will come.
It was said that the humans touched land that shouldn't be
touched, Marianne
Lundqvist says. On sites and discussion forums on the
internet it's talked about vittra instead, a people that like the vættir live
under the ground, in stones or in old trees.
The freeway to the north of Gävle isn't liked by the vittror;
hence all the accidents.
Krister Wimark has lived a long time in Hamrånge. He has
heard many stories
about Skarvberget. Krister Wimark says that he lives with
little people [trolls,
tomtar, etc] and what he calls “some kind of spirit” on his
farm. He claims that
he has a connection to nature.
- There's enchanted areas up there in the woods. It would
not surprise me if
there are secret documents of things that they encountered
when they were
building the road. Maybe it was all about little people, I
do not really know,
Krister says about Skarvberget.
He himself is sure, however, what makes cars crash so often
on the E4. He believes in a kind of spirit: dead people who are still with us
living ones (ghosts).
- It was a sanctuary before. Ancient fortifications and
houses were built there. People had their lives there and worked and toiled,
even before the Viking era. I think those who have lived there before are
angry.
On Iceland, the authorities take into consideration what is
sometimes called huldufólkið, the elves, when building roads and houses. Roads
can sometimes take
an unexpected turn around what is said to be the elves
houses.
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