The Silver Train of Stockholm

For the metro train, see SL C5.
The Silver Train, also known as The Silver Arrow (Swedish: Silverpilen) at Kymlinge ghost station, "the metro station for the dead" (photoshopped image).

The Silver Train of Stockholm (Swedish: Silvertåget), also known as the Silver Arrow (Swedish: Silverpilen), is an urban legend about a silver colored ghost train that traffics the Stockholm Metro. The legend is one of several surrounding the Stockholm Metro involving ghost phenomena.[1][2] The modern railway network, which was inaugurated in 1950, has racked up several mythical urban legends over the years, especially of the horror genre, of which the silver train is the most famous.[3]

According to ethnologist Bengt af Klintberg, there is a legend where the train must have had some kind of curse on the living, as those who got on the train could not get off.[4] This curse is retold in various urban legends and ghost stories about the silver train and has even been turned into a TV-episode in the year 2000 for the Swedish horror themed television show Spökafton [sv], as well as a children's book in 2016 under the name Spöktåget Silverpilen ("The ghost train The Silver Arrow") in the book series Mystiska Myter ("Mystical Myths"), written by Swedish author Anna Hansson [sv].[5]

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