The village appears to have remained untouched over many decades. The site is remote, miles from the highway and even further from the nearest populated town or a viable cell signal. Their goal is to shoot some preliminary footage of the location, add a voice-over, and develop a promotional piece to attract the significant financial backing necessary for the actual documentary.

Along with her friends, Tone and Max, Alice hires equipment and the services of an old classmate, Emmy Abrahamsson, to go on a scouting expedition to Silvertjarn. A budding filmmaker, Alice, wants to make a documentary about the mysterious events, both to honor her grandmother's memory and, perhaps, create her big break into the industry. No one ever discovered what had happened.īut Margareta never forgot and before she died passed down the reminiscences of her youth and the family she left behind in Silvertjarn to her granddaughter, Alice. When the officers arrived, the place was deserted except for the body of a young woman, Birgitta Lidman, stoned to death and found tied to a post in the middle of the town square and an abandoned newborn baby whose cries they heard coming through the open window of the empty nurse's office in the village school. What he found when he arrived prompted him to contact the nearest police. This was initially discovered when Margareta Kullman, heavily pregnant with her first child, hadn’t heard from her family there in over a month, had sent her worried husband to check on them. On August 19, 1959, the population of the village of Silvertjarn, Sweden, 887 people, disappeared without a trace. 'A fabulously eerie tale that kept me turning pages to find out what would happen next!' The Lost Village

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten