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Fred Andersson
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Fred Andersson is a Swedish story producer, researcher and writer with over twenty years of experience in commercial television and the author of three books. He lives in Märsta, outside Stockholm, with his photographer husband Grzegorz and two overly active cats.
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There was something utterly fascinating with the bloody corpse hanging on the wall above me, a tired-looking (yet very fit, with a six pack and all) Jesus looking up in the sky, internally begging for mercy from his heavenly father.…
In my text “Dinosaur Disclosure: Large Lizards, Sinister Serpents, and Dangerous Dragons in the Modern World,” I briefly mention a large winged creature in Sweden. I feel that a more in-depth look into this fascinating legend is needed. Enjoy!In northwestern Blekinge,…
Many years ago I took a dirt cheap flight from the buzzing big city of Bangkok to the overcrowded smaller city of Siem Reap in Cambodia. The place, packed — at least in the city area — by backpackers, tourists and street vendors, all…
Let me tell you a secret. One of the most powerful secrets of them all, a secret so damn secret no one will admit it exists: the people at the top of the hill, those with power and money, have…
It’s said that the word nonsense comes from unsense, the absence of sense. Wow, that’s four “sense”-ish words in the first sentence in a text about nonsense. How fitting. According to the might information god of the internet, Wikipedia, it’s…
Years ago when I browsed through old issues of UFO-Aktuellt, I found an incident which I never have been able to let go of. No matter what’s going on in my life and career, it’s there somewhere in the background…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonIn my pocket I always carry with me a very special coin. It’s there to remind me that I do things for my own sake and not for others; to satisfy my own ego and not allow anyone…
I’ve never seen a ghost, at least not a dead one. Ghost/spirits/whatever you want to call them might be lurking in dark corridors of English castles, doing their best to fuck up the nearest tourist they’ll find, but are they…
I’ve realized I can’t stop myself sometimes, as with stories, statements and random words one after another like “it was on a lonely countryside road”. Heck, even variations like “on a dusty gravel road” or “on a desolate dust road…
Photo by Åke Lejon.Hidden in the history of Swedish — and international — UFO observations, it’s possible to find one of the more anonymous incidents ever, at least when looking at it from a media perspective. It caused some headlines at the time, mostly in…
Like so many other places in the world during the seventies, Sweden was a strange place. It was a transition from the flower power psyops…Continue reading on Medium »
Sometimes when I look back at my writings I can see how I often focus on so-called inner experiences, or dreamlike events which might be…Continue reading on Medium »
I could almost sense him, the man behind me. Well, first I saw him — he was passing me in the opposite direction — and there was a slight…Continue reading on Medium »
The place where I live is my favorite spot in the world.Continue reading on Medium »
Still from Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr, 1957)The text messages coming from the filming was — to say the least — encouraging. We’re shooting the fifth season of a popular paranormal show and this time the cast and team is traveling…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonThe reality of someone else is always ambiguous, subjective and truly impossible to fully understand for anyone not living in that specific plane of existence; the inner reality some of us desperately try to share through art and…
Illustration: Sten Johnsson, modified by Fred Andersson.In Sweden we call it dagsmeja, that time of the year when it’s below zero and still the snow and ice starts to melt during the day, to freeze again at night. A crust…
In front of me are thousands upon thousands of blu-ray discs and DVDs, the result of years of collecting. I must admit that my obsession with owning movies has diminished over the years, mostly because I feel I’ve seen everything…
“To believe is one thing, to know is something completely different”. It’s a quote used several times in Victor Dinell’s and Crazy Pictures new movie UFO Sweden, something as rare as a Swedish science fiction movie. It goes back to…
Film review: The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra, 2021)I’m a collector of UFO-themed movies, or stories that relate to this particular subject. I have them all, more or less — from the cheapest exploitation to the biggest budgets. I enjoy most of them…
Very excited to be a part of this project and together with a lot amazing researchers, experts, historians, podcasters etc! Head over to Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling, available where you listen to podcasts, and Strange Semantics! ❤️ 🛸“In…
The Jawbone of Axala: From Giants in Norse Mythology, Observations in Modern Times to Bloody Murder.
Giants in Sweden: Past and Present.From UFO-Information, issue 4, 1977.My mom, a fabulous woman who always believed — and still does — in the importance of imagination, often took me out in nature and told the magical tales connected to it. Stories of witches, ghosts, trolls…
The Stalo as painted by Carl LarssonSweden has around 100,000 lakes and the west, south and southeast faces the sea. No wonder stories about lake monsters are so abundant in our northern Scandinavian country. The most famous one is without a…
One of the most effective ways to create magic is passion; to truly love something (or someone). That alone, to dive deep down into an interest without hesitation, is such a powerful way to change the reality and for one…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonThe first time I became truly aware of the connection between UFOs and owls was when I saw Olatunde Osunsanmi’s The Fourth Kind (2009). Milla Jovovich plays psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler, who moves to the small, desolate town…
Original illustration in UFO-Aspekt. 1977I’m a curious person. Sometimes too curious. This curiosity often shows itself as all me putting all my attention on nonsens. I hear or read something, a few lines here and there, even those in between.…
There was something utterly fascinating with the bloody corpse hanging on the wall above me, a tired-looking (yet very fit, with a six pack and all) Jesus looking up in the sky, internally begging for mercy from his heavenly father.…
In my text “Dinosaur Disclosure: Large Lizards, Sinister Serpents, and Dangerous Dragons in the Modern World,” I briefly mention a large winged creature in Sweden. I feel that a more in-depth look into this fascinating legend is needed. Enjoy!In northwestern Blekinge,…
Many years ago I took a dirt cheap flight from the buzzing big city of Bangkok to the overcrowded smaller city of Siem Reap in Cambodia. The place, packed — at least in the city area — by backpackers, tourists and street vendors, all…
Let me tell you a secret. One of the most powerful secrets of them all, a secret so damn secret no one will admit it exists: the people at the top of the hill, those with power and money, have…
It’s said that the word nonsense comes from unsense, the absence of sense. Wow, that’s four “sense”-ish words in the first sentence in a text about nonsense. How fitting. According to the might information god of the internet, Wikipedia, it’s…
Years ago when I browsed through old issues of UFO-Aktuellt, I found an incident which I never have been able to let go of. No matter what’s going on in my life and career, it’s there somewhere in the background…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonIn my pocket I always carry with me a very special coin. It’s there to remind me that I do things for my own sake and not for others; to satisfy my own ego and not allow anyone…
I’ve never seen a ghost, at least not a dead one. Ghost/spirits/whatever you want to call them might be lurking in dark corridors of English castles, doing their best to fuck up the nearest tourist they’ll find, but are they…
I’ve realized I can’t stop myself sometimes, as with stories, statements and random words one after another like “it was on a lonely countryside road”. Heck, even variations like “on a dusty gravel road” or “on a desolate dust road…
Photo by Åke Lejon.Hidden in the history of Swedish — and international — UFO observations, it’s possible to find one of the more anonymous incidents ever, at least when looking at it from a media perspective. It caused some headlines at the time, mostly in…
Like so many other places in the world during the seventies, Sweden was a strange place. It was a transition from the flower power psyops…Continue reading on Medium »
Sometimes when I look back at my writings I can see how I often focus on so-called inner experiences, or dreamlike events which might be…Continue reading on Medium »
I could almost sense him, the man behind me. Well, first I saw him — he was passing me in the opposite direction — and there was a slight…Continue reading on Medium »
The place where I live is my favorite spot in the world.Continue reading on Medium »
Still from Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr, 1957)The text messages coming from the filming was — to say the least — encouraging. We’re shooting the fifth season of a popular paranormal show and this time the cast and team is traveling…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonThe reality of someone else is always ambiguous, subjective and truly impossible to fully understand for anyone not living in that specific plane of existence; the inner reality some of us desperately try to share through art and…
Illustration: Sten Johnsson, modified by Fred Andersson.In Sweden we call it dagsmeja, that time of the year when it’s below zero and still the snow and ice starts to melt during the day, to freeze again at night. A crust…
In front of me are thousands upon thousands of blu-ray discs and DVDs, the result of years of collecting. I must admit that my obsession with owning movies has diminished over the years, mostly because I feel I’ve seen everything…
“To believe is one thing, to know is something completely different”. It’s a quote used several times in Victor Dinell’s and Crazy Pictures new movie UFO Sweden, something as rare as a Swedish science fiction movie. It goes back to…
Film review: The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra, 2021)I’m a collector of UFO-themed movies, or stories that relate to this particular subject. I have them all, more or less — from the cheapest exploitation to the biggest budgets. I enjoy most of them…
Very excited to be a part of this project and together with a lot amazing researchers, experts, historians, podcasters etc! Head over to Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling, available where you listen to podcasts, and Strange Semantics! ❤️ 🛸“In…
The Jawbone of Axala: From Giants in Norse Mythology, Observations in Modern Times to Bloody Murder.
Giants in Sweden: Past and Present.From UFO-Information, issue 4, 1977.My mom, a fabulous woman who always believed — and still does — in the importance of imagination, often took me out in nature and told the magical tales connected to it. Stories of witches, ghosts, trolls…
The Stalo as painted by Carl LarssonSweden has around 100,000 lakes and the west, south and southeast faces the sea. No wonder stories about lake monsters are so abundant in our northern Scandinavian country. The most famous one is without a…
One of the most effective ways to create magic is passion; to truly love something (or someone). That alone, to dive deep down into an interest without hesitation, is such a powerful way to change the reality and for one…
Illustration: Fred AnderssonThe first time I became truly aware of the connection between UFOs and owls was when I saw Olatunde Osunsanmi’s The Fourth Kind (2009). Milla Jovovich plays psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler, who moves to the small, desolate town…
Original illustration in UFO-Aspekt. 1977I’m a curious person. Sometimes too curious. This curiosity often shows itself as all me putting all my attention on nonsens. I hear or read something, a few lines here and there, even those in between.…
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