TOBIAS FORGE Stalking Case Under Investigation

According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, a woman in her 40s has been charged with harassment after allegedly sending repeated messages, payment requests and letters to GHOST frontman Tobias Forge between July and October last year. She continued contacting him through different means after being blocked, including sending registered letters — one of which contained a mobile phone. Forge later handed the device over to the police.

The woman allegedly sent long messages of praise to Forge via text and WhatsApp. When he blocked her number, she began sending him registered letters. Tobias never picked up the letters sent to him, except for the most recent one. It contained a phone that, according to him, did not look like it was factory-packaged.

In his testimony, he described the situation as "intrusive" and "threatening,", stating that this crossed a personal boundary.

"I didn't want to keep [the phone] in my home so I put it on the balcony before I handed it in to the police," Tobias is quoted as saying in the preliminary investigation report (translated from Swedish). "I feel quite reserved around people trying to contact me, but over the years I've had about a dozen stalkers. However, no one has done anything as invasive and downright threatening as sending a mobile phone. It wouldn't have been so good if I lived at a secret address, for example. With that phone, I reached my limit."

He added: "I've had devoted pursuers before, most of them are pretty harmless, but there's something about this that's odd."

The woman has also sent several Swish requests (a mobile payment system in Sweden) for 5,000 kronor (approximately $530) to Forge.

The woman, for her part, claimed that she and Tobias first met 16 years ago, that they were in contact every day via messaging apps and that they have been engaged since September last year. However, she did not want to share their chats with the police.

Tobias denies knowing the woman or having any connection. He is not seeking compensation and stated he only wants to be left alone.

"I don't want to make her life worse," he said. "I just want her to leave me alone and not hurt anyone else."

The woman reportedly also faces additional charges involving other individuals.

Forge formed GHOST in Linköping, Sweden in 2006. He worked anonymously until 2017, when a lawsuit from four of the band's former "nameless ghouls" lifted the lid on his identity.