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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Karolina Olsson, “The Sleeper of Oknö,” Woke Up After 32 Years In Bed
Description: Today in 1861, the birthday of a woman with a very strange story. For reasons that aren’t at all clear, Karolina Olsson went to bed as a 14 year old and apparently didn’t wake up until she was in her forties. Plus: someone marked Halloween by playing keyboards in a New York subway station dressed up as Michael Myers.
To this day, the questions remain (Svenska Dagbladet via Archive.org)
Karolina Olsson: The Woman Who Allegedly Slept for 32 Years (Amusing Planet)
Keyboardist Dressed as Michael Myers Plays the ‘Halloween’ Theme in New York City Subway S...