The Scream found in freshly sawn plank of wood

Erling Vindfjell was sawing planks for a house he is building near Seljord, three hours west of Oslo in Norway, when he spotted a manifestation of Edvard Munch's The Scream.



His family have since named the accidental artwork “The Scream in the Forest” and are aiming to conserve it for posterity.

“We want to keep it somewhere where no one can get hold of it. It must surely be treated as an art object,” his daughter-in-law Gunn Helga Vindfjell said.



She said that she did not believe there was any cosmic significance to the find. "I’m not superstitious, so I don’t think there’s anything strange about it," she said. "But I expect that some people will think that."