”We will be back!” - Sundsvall, Sweden, March 1944.

This is a shorter version of the story that was presented by Fred Andersson in the webpage Medium. It takes place in the middle of Sweden in March 1944. An anonymous man was out cross-country skiing on Klissberget (Kliss mountain) outside the city of Sundsvall. It is a mountain that is a popular excursion destination for both summer and winter activities.

A man was out skiing very early in the morning, and there were hardly any people in the area. When he was on his way down from Klissberget on his skis, he passed a place called Tallberget (Pine mountain), and then he saw something strange, which he had not seen on the way up. On a bare patch of snow some distance from the trees, was a machine of some kind. It was a metallic sphere, standing on four legs. It had a diameter of about 7-8 meters (23-26 feet), and it was 20 meters (65 feet) away from him. The sphere seemed almost a little transparent, but he couldn't see through it.

He became very fascinated by the craft, almost hypnotized, and took off his skis and went closer to take a look. Suddenly, he is pulled into the ship and sucked up through a kind of elevator. Inside, he is greeted by three identical beings. They are about 120 cm (4 feet) tall and are all dressed in yellow jumpsuits. They also have a glass helmet on their head, that you can't see through, so you are not able to see their faces. At the top of the helmet, they have three, small protruding "horns". The man looked around the ship and could see strange lights, a lot of technical equipment and instrument panels, types of which he had never seen before. “Where is this from?” he thought. Immediately he got an answer: "From the outside". He understood that someone was talking to him through thought, telepathy. The voice went on to explain that he was in no danger and that they just wanted to take some samples on him. Against his will, he was undressed and put on a bunk somehow. The beings now attached lots of tubes and wires to him and they took saliva from his mouth. A sharp metallic instrument was also inserted into his groin. It hurt terribly. During the entire examination, the man tried to tear himself away, but his body did not respond and was paralyzed. Terrified and overwhelmed with pain, he soon passed out.

Inside the sphere the man encountered beings dressed in what looked like yellow space suits.

When he woke up, he was dressed and able to move again. But the pain in the groin was still there. One of the beingshelped him off the bunk and led him to the elevator. He was helped in and then suddenly he was down on the ground again and standing outside the ship. Once again he heard the voicetelepathically contact him and they explained that he shouldn't worry and he wouldn't get any scars or anything from the examination. Then the ship began to move and they lifted slowly and without a sound upwards. Then it picked up speed and disappeared into the sky.

Afterwards, he had problems with his health, contrary to what the beings said. The next day he felt dizzy and needed to go home earlier from work. He collapsed outside his house. The day after that, he had a high fever and it took 2 weeks before he was himself again. A doctor thought he had blood poisoning. Many years later, in 1970, a doctor found a defect in his eye, which could possibly come from the high fever he had in 1944.

Many years later something strange happened. It was a morning in 1984 and the man was sitting reading the newspaper in his living room. Suddenly the TV turned on by itself and he could see yellow-green flickering images of a snowy landscape. Then he saw himself on skis in the snow, heading towards a metallic sphere. Then he also heard a voice in his head that said

"Look carefully now, do you recognize this?".

In third person on the TV, he could now see himself lying on the bunk and being examined by the yellow-clad beings. It also seemed like they x-rayed him. After the examination, the beings had trouble dressing him. They didn't know where the clothes would fit, which could explain why he had his ski boot on the wrong foot when he left the ship. In his head he heard the voice say:

“We want you on our side. Do you want to join us? We can make your life longer. There are others like you here. And no one has regretted it.”

Without hesitation, the man answered with a strong "NO!". The last thing he heard the voice say was an ominous “We will be back!”

Apart from his family, the man had not told anyone about the incident in 1944. But after the episode with the TV, he changed his mind and contacted Vera Norling, a journalist at the weekly magazine Hemmets Journal (the Home Journal). Vera remembers that he called her on the phone, but after a short time they heard a lot of static and the call was cut off. So he called back and the same thing happened again. Even the third call the same thing happened. The journalist heard nothing more from the man after that.

A few days before they were going to publish the article, they received a letter from the man. They did not have time to publish it and it appeared in the magazine a few weeks later.

“I’ve written down my statement (a bit more detailed) and putit in a brown envelope with the writing TO BE OPENED AFTER MY DEATH. It is in my bank deposit box. Sooner or later my eventual living relatives will take part in my experiences. In consideration to my family I feel I must continue to be anonymous. I don’t want to expose them to profanity and harassment. I don’t expect anyone to believe in my story, but I will repeat it one more time: all of this is the truth. (Signed), Still Mr Anonymous”.

What really happened…and if the beings ever came back…or if this even happened at all, we will probably never know. Sometime in the future, perhaps his relatives will come forward with more information about Mr. Anonymous and his incredible story.

Source: the magazine Hemmets Journal #4, 1985 and Medium