"90 reports about clowns in southern Sweden have been made during Saturday."
"On Wednesday evening, four ten-year-old boys were surrounded by clowns with fake chainsaws."
"In social media there are now several pages where people invite each other to go out and hunt clowns. One page has 3000 members. Here, people have posted pictures of which weapons to use once you get hold of a clown."
In October 2016, cackling clowns had the whole of Sweden in their clutches – at least if the media coverage is to be believed.
A selection of the many clown headlines from October 2016. Photo: SVT
Around Halloween and All Saints, the hysteria reached its crescendo.
Then the clowns retreated back into the shadows, the incident sank into the bottom of news reporting and disappeared from the headlines.
Six years have now passed.
What really happened during the clown autumn 2016?
Follow SVT down into the archive to search for answers to what the connections are to previous horror epidemics in Sweden's history: The werewolf scare in 1972 and the "mummy in Sätra" in 1973.
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