Bakfjord

You have now arrived at the tiny village of Bakfjord, the hometown of the spy whose name was on everyone’s lips in 1967, Selmer Nilsen. The village lies in the innermost part of Varnes Bay in the 137-metre-deep arm of the Bakfjord. At the very heart of the bay there is a little sound leading to the idyllic Pollen bay, which is an Eldorado for crabbing and shell hunting, and for those who like to take a dip in the summertime. If it was only Selmer Nilsen who had brought the rugged but beautiful village disgrace, it might have turned out fine, but Bakfjord is full of stories straight out of the X files. During a violent storm in 1925 four men were lost at sea, their boat ‘Lommen’ was recovered shortly after floating near the shore and was towed to Honningsvåg. The year after a body was found buried under a stone wall in Bakfjorden, and then the rumours began to circulate about both murder and robbery! We will not reveal the answer to the mystery here, but you can find out what happened if you read the book ‘The Bakfjord Mystery’. Another mystery is the case of the unlucky farmer in Bakfjord who lost his gold wedding ring shortly after getting married in 1952. For 54 years he searched for it, before he found it again well hidden under a solid layer of peat. Afterwards, he smugly proclaimed, you can’t sit and stare at the sea if you want to solve the case.