Every Year, This Finnish City Blasts Classical Music to Keep Youths Away
For the past few years, police in the Finnish city of Espoo have been employing an intriguing tactic to keep youths from partying on a local beach – blasting classical music from loudspeakers. There is no scientific evidence that young people have an aversion to classical music, but police in Espoo swear that it works, […]
Treasure Hunters Claim They Are “on the Brink” of Finding $20 Billion Trove
A group of treasure hunters that has been searching for the fabled “Lemminkäinen Hoard” treasure in Finland since 1987 claims that they are finally just “meters away” from finding it. Known as the Treasure Twelve, the group of treasure hunters has spent every summer since 1987 looking for the Lemminkäinen Hoard, the whereabouts of which […]
The Silent People – A Creepy Art Installation Freaking People Out on Google Maps
An eerie art installation located in a barren field in the Finnish countryside recently went viral after someone accidentally stumbled upon it while searching on Google Maps. With quarantine and isolation measures still in place in many countries around the world, people are spending a lot of time online looking for cool places to visit […]
Finland to Host World’s First Ever Heavy Metal Knitting Championship
Heavy metal and knitting doesn’t exactly sound like a match made in heaven, but that hasn’t stopped some truly creative minds in Finland from combining them in the world’s very first Heavy Metal Knitting Championship. Finnish Marketing Agency Tovari teamed up with Joensuu City Cultural Services and the Joensuu Conservatory in order to bring together two of […]
Finnish Cocktail Bar Bans the Use of Smartphones To Encourage Real-World Social Interaction
Chihuahua Julep, a cocktail bar that opened in central Helsinki, Finland, in August, has banned patrons from using smartphones inside the venue to encourage real-world social interaction. Initially, the owners of Chihuahua Julep only encouraged visitors to put their smartphones away so that the light from their screens wouldn’t ruin the bar’s ambience, but after […]
Horsing Around Is a Competitive Sport in Finland
Imagine a sport much like equestrian show jumping, but where the horse is replaced by a wooden stick with a plush toy at one and the rider actually does all the jumping over increasingly difficult hurdles. That’s the popular sport of Competitive Hobbyhorsing in a nutshell. The hobby horse is one of the oldest children’s […]
Pop-Up Restaurant in Finland Lacks Kitchen, Lets You Order from Other Restaurants
The “Take In” restaurant in Helsinki, Finland, is currently in the news for its ingenious service. Instead of cooking the meals in its own kitchen – which doesn’t exist – it allows patrons to order various dishes from a selection of 20 other restaurants in the city. Sponsored by American Express and Wolt, a popular […]
Real-Life Truman Show: Finnish Man Broadcasts Every Minute of His Life via Webcam
48-year-old Ari Kivikangas is into life-casting, which basically means he’s constantly broadcasting his day-to-day life webcam. But unlike other vloggers who try to come up with entertaining things to do and say on camera, Ari makes no effort to seem interesting. Surprisingly, that’s what draws more people to his UStream channel, because it makes him look […]
Finland’s Shouting Men’s Choir Will Make Your Ears Bleed
Shouting is what some men do best. And when a group of such men get together, you can hardly expect to hear something musical. But that’s what makes the Shouting Men’s Choir in Oulu, northern Finland, so special. The men shout, and it becomes music. The choir consists of 30 men who generally dress in […]
Mine Shaft Restaurant Takes Dining to a New Low
Ina bid to turn the idea of pop-up restaurants on its head, an award-winning Finish chef has opened a unique eaterie in an old mine shaft, 80 meters underground. Obviously, it’s called a “pop-down” restaurant. “‘Pop-down’ is such a unique idea that I just had to do it,” chef Timo Linnamaki said on Monday, before his […]
Teenager Sets New World Record at Mobile-Phone Throwing Contest
Every year, the Finnish town of Savonlinna hosts a fun and relaxing phone-throwing contest where participants are invited to take out all their frustration on their handhelds by throwing them as far as possible. This year, a Finnish teenager managed to set a new world record, with a throw of over 101 meters. Ever since 2000, […]
Christmas Tree Lights Powered by a Bunch of Electric Eels
People are definitely becoming more and more concerned about the environment, also more inventive. Looking for ways to save up energy, the staff of the Helsinki Sea Life Center aquarium in Finland, discovered they had a totally free energy source living right in their fish tanks – electric eels. “Our electrician built a device that […]
Finnish Bear Won’t Hibernate Unless He Is Tucked-In
Juuso, a large brown bear from the Predator Animal Center, in Finland, only agreed to crawl into his shelter and hibernate, after his best friend tucked him in. With winter drawing ever nearer, Juuso, a young brown bear from Finland’s Predator Center, seemed tired. All the other bears had already began their winter hibernation, and […]
The Sculpture Park of Veijo Rönkkönen Is the Weirdest Place in Finland
Deep in the forest of Parikkala, in the easternmost part of Finland, lies one of the craziest tourist attractions on the face of the planet – the sculpture park of Veijo Rönkkönen. Regarded by most as the most important ensemble of contemporary folk art in Finland, the sculpture park of Veijo Rönkkönen is a lot […]