Halloween is basically not celebrated much in the Faroe Islands. Instead, it is preferred to remember those ‘lost at sea’ in what was everyday life for Faroese fishermen for centuries, stuck on small wooden boats in raging
storms. Today the Faroese fleet is one of the world’s most advanced, and fishing is a lot safer than it was, but the number of lives lost proves that it was a very risky endeavor. The 1st of November, or ‘Alla halganna dagur‘, is still set aside to remember the hundreds of Faroese lives that have been lost at sea through the ages. Recently, it became something of a ‘Halloween tradition’ to visit the tunnels north of Klaksvík, in which back in 2010 a routine recording turned into something far more frightening as screams could be heard throughout the tunnel despite the fact nobody else was there. Ghosts? Who knows? But the sounds are scary just the same: you can listen to them in this episode of ‘The Faroe Islands’ podcast.
