Jönköping Incident

The Midnight Article "Breaking News: Incident in Sweden" was written by u/Roblox838 and posted to r/MidnightPaper.

The text of the Article was as follows:

BREAKING NEWS: INCIDENT IN SWEDEN

An incident has rocked the Swedish city of Jönköping.

A bomb has gone off in the local area, and 10 buildings have disappeared. Currently several natural disasters, including flooding, sinkholes, and tornadoes are also happening. A warning has been issued for the counties (approximate translation of "län") of Jönköping, Kronoberg, Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Örebro, and Värmland. Some parts of Norway, including the Oslo area, also have been issued with a warning.

Other parts of Sweden, including the areas listed in the warning, have been affected too. But Jönköping has been most hit, or at least has been hit worse than Sarpsborg (Norway) and Karlstad (Sweden).

We don't know what's causing this, and no meteorologist knows as well. This is a mysterious situation and has never happened before. One of the top meteorologists of Scandinavia, ****** ***** Haaland, has tried to offer an explanation, but he could not.

After 12pm, the natural disasters expanded to give the same damage to the other areas.

Description:

The "Jönköping Incident" is a Location-Type Oddity that affected the Swedish city of the same name. The incident appears to be a massive explosion, thought to have originated by a bomb, that caused the mysterious disappearance of ten buildings in the area.

Some people speculate that this incident is tied to a pattern of natural disasters that have been occurring world-wide. The fact that what appears, for all intents and purposes, to be a terrorist attack, is thought to be part of a pattern of sudden natural disasters is of some note. It is possible that, given the strange and unexplained disappearance of the buildings in Jönköping, the incident is thought to be supernatural in nature.

For ten buildings to be destroyed and to disappear without leaving a trace in unheard of. Even weapons of mass destruction leave some trace of buildings behind. For an explosive to destroy only ten buildings and leave the area around them largely unscathed is worrying to say the least. This focused, hyper-effective, and complete destruction of specific targets seems to point to a kind of weapon that has never been witnessed before.

It is possible that the explosion was caused by another Oddity, such as a Biological-Type or Entity-Type. An extraterrestrial or extra-dimensional Oddity, for example, might possess weaponry that is advanced enough to cause the destruction mentioned in the Article.

A meteorologist, whose name was only partially censored, could provide no explanation for the destruction. What could be noted was that the Incident was indeed part of a pattern, as it began expanding and affecting other areas of Sweden.

Without more information, then, whatever Oddity caused the explosion is entirely unknown. All the evidence, however, points to this Oddity possessing incredible destructive power.