The newspaper Karjalainen reports Friday that overall perceptions of the fear of violence have not risen significantly in Finland.
Despite widespread discussions about a perceived increase in public unease due to the volume of asylum seekers last year, people in Finland are actually less frightened of becoming victims of violence today than they were in the year 2012.
According to the 2015 survey carried out by the University of Helsinki's Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, 31 percent of those polled said they felt frightened of becoming a victim of a violent crime outside at night
That's a four percentage point increase over the year before, and not exactly the overwhelming rise in fear that researchers may have anticipated.
The university's Petri Danielsson told Karjalainen that given the extent of the discussion of increased fear lately in the media and social media in recent months, he characterised the increase as relatively moderate.
Every day is an accident waiting to happen
For its superstitious readers, Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet reports on this Friday the 13th that Finland appears to be the fourth-most accident prone country in the European Union.
The paper reports that according to fresh EU statistics, Finland is in fourth place in terms of the number of recorded accidental injuries, right after the Baltic countries.
Finland is much more accident prone than the countries of Sweden, Germany and the UK, the paper writes.
More than one million injury-causing accidents take place in Finland, with 2,500 of those injuries resulting in death annually.
The most common causes of accidental death are people falling down, usually at home during leisure time.
Deaths and injury caused by traffic accidents in Finland on the other hand, are going down, the paper writes.
Satu Pajala of the National Institute for Health and Welfare told the paper that the disparities between accidents at home and on the roads or at the workplace are likely due to labour and traffic safety laws.
Only the countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had more accidents that resulted in death than Finland. Following Finland on the list are mostly eastern European countries, including Romania, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia.
The country with the lowest number of accidental deaths in Europe, according to Eurostat figures, is Lichtenstein.
Bear bothers in Hamina
Residents in the municipality of Hamina were put on bear alert by police early Thursday evening after a brown bear was sighted.
Police told evening tabloid Ilta-Sanomat that they received a call at 5 pm Thursday about a bear roaming around in the Ristiniemi district of Hamina, about 140 kilometres east of Helsinki.
Earlier in the day Thursday morning police received a call about another bear sighting in Hamina's Vilniemi village, the paper writes.
Police have asked members of the public to keep an eye out for any more bear reports and to call emergency services at 112 if a bear is sighted.