Welsh UFO sightings from 1864. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
January 1864
Glascoed
The Illustrated Usk Observer was less than impressed by reports of the ghost of an old Irish cobbler in Glascoed.
"OLD HICKY'S GHOST. - The gossiping portion of the inhabitants of this hamlet, have been busily employed for the last few weeks in commenting on the cause and probably results of the adventures of one of those nocturnal visitants called a ghost, which is said, now and then, to favour this locality with its presence. Those people, who assume to be better posted than their neighbours in the meaning of the signs and countersigns of these ghostly travellers, most seriously declare - and for anything we know to the contrary, as seriously believe - that the ghost in question is the spectral representative of an Irish cobbler, of dubious repute, who formerly lived in the hamlet under the familiar cognomen of "Old Hicky," and that these visitations have been caused, as he when living prophesised they would be, by a mal-appropriation of his effects, the most valuable and cherished of which is said to be a game cock and its spurs. In contravention of this story, it is stated on equally indisputable authority, that as his conduct and antecedents were of anything but a moral or religious complexion, "Old Hicky" is in the safe custody of "Old Nicky," and, therefore, completely prevented from "re-visiting the glimpses of the moon," however much he might feel disposed to do so; and furthermore, that had he been permitted to dwell in a more seraphic sphere, he would not wish to come again here. We simply place these facts before our readers without offering any comment of our own, leaving them to form their own conclusions on this ghostly narrative."
PRESS
Early February 1864
Dowlais
Various newspapers carried an intriguing story about a 14 year old boy from Dowlais who claimed to have seen his own ghost standing 'white and death like' in his back yard. Although a healthy lad beforehand, he soon sickened and died after the encounter. Here's the story in the Cardiff Guardian (12/02/1864):
"A WELSH GHOST. - Last week a lad aged 14, living at Dowlais, went out into the back yard in the evening and returned almost instantly in great fright, exclaiming that he had seen his own ghost. When sufficiently recovered to give an account, he said that on opening the back door he saw himself, white and deathlike, standing in front, and he at once ran back. His friends endeavoured to joke him out of the belief, but he was not to be shaken, and, singular to add, so states a trustworthy informant, he sickened, and, though a healthy lad up to the date of his fright, grew worse and died."
I did a cursory search of the death records, but without more detail he would be very hard to trace.
1864
Pant-y-Wenol Farmhouse, Llyn
Home to Gwen Evans and her daughters, Catrin and Elin, the household began experiencing poltergeist activity in 1864. The Rev. Kilsby Jones came down from London to attempt to lay the ghost, but instead laid the blame at the feet of 14-yer-old Elin. She spent some months in prison at Pwlhelli before eventually being released without charge.
The house - and Elin herself - was renowned in the area for many years. In 1986 S4C aired a drama based on it as part of their Almanac series, and poet Moses Glyn Jones wrote a book on it.
Here's the Caernarfon Herald of May 16th 1986 reporting on it:
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