A Phone-call from Hell
- Finn Olav
- Nov 16, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 24, 2019
Part 3
I work with guided boat trips around the Røst Archipelago. Showing people the bird colonies that ones was among the biggest seabird colonies in the world. I show people the nature and the wildlife in the aria. I lecture about the biology, culture, history and the interaction between us humans and the nature and how different ways of interacting with nature has affected it. Locally and globally.
Then one day I received a phone call during a boat trip. Through the noise from the boat engine I could identify that I was talking to a man with a dialect telling me he was from the southeast part of Norway, not to far from Oslo. He said his name was Morten Alexander Joramo and that he was an astrologist. He had moved to Lofoten and that he wanted to go to the Trenyken island and visit the cave there “Helvete” (Hell). So far this seemed quite normal. I take special people around to special places all the time. But the next he told me made me lift my eyebrows half a millimeter extra, and that's a lot on my stone face. He wondered if I could pick him up from the island three to four days later. Then you are more than just average interested.
Then the day came when I should set this person off on this island. Among the tourists waiting to go bird-watching that day was a tall man with quite long blond hair. With a backpack, a sleeping bag and a couple white grocery bags with food. We were lucky that day and the sea was calm enough to land the smaller landing boat directly beneath the cave. He got ashore with his stuff. I showed him where to go and made an appointment to pick him up four days later. Every day when passing, I checked to see if I could see him and see if everything was all right. Then after three days, my phone rang. “Morten here. Can you pick me up on the way out tomorrow?” The cell phone coverage in the area had improved the last years making it possible to use a cellphone on Trenyken. But there is still not possible to make a phone call from the inside of “Hell”.
When I took Morten onboard he seemed to have become a much more talkative person than he was when I sat him of there. Having no one to talk to for four days, and what he had found out while staying on the island made him literally bubble over. So he started explaining in short what he actually was up to.
What he was explaining was a story taking us almost five thousand years back in time. So stay with us for the next chapter in this saga when the curtains fall and the local history suddenly becomes global.
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