Tore Forslund (26 February 1927–15 March 2000), also known as Spökprästen ("the ghostpriest"),[1] was a writer, poet, Lutheran priest, street musician, and editor of the magazine A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, that he founded 1957.
Forslund was ordained as a Lutheran priest in Luleå Cathedral on 19 December 1956, after a few years of studies at Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola and Lund University.
They sold miniature angels and devils in the village shop, and if a person dared to sleep overnight in the old parsonage, now a converted hotel, a diploma was handed out.
Disappointed at not being able to meet the accusations of the cathedral chapter, he decided to leave the Swedish church in 1981 and started to work independently with a full-time street mission.
Tore Forslund died 15 March 2000, at Växjö hospital, age 73.