Welsh UFO Sightings 1901

Welsh UFO sightings from 1901. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
March 1901
Aberystwyth

The Aberystwyth Observer of March 7th 1901 reported on a story that had appeared in the Daily Mail:

AN ALLEGED GHOST STORY. On Monday the London Daily Mail stated that a ghost, or a persen masquerading as a ghost, has been frightening and attacking people on a lonely road near Aberystwyth. One man is said to have come ruuning into the town bleeding from the nose and bruised about the face and body, and was quite unable to account for his injuries except that he felt himself being knocked down and kicked about the body, the assailant being invisible.

There is just as much truth in this story as in several others which have emanated from Aberystwyth. For some weeks past some lads have been playing ghost, and that is all. The version given to the police by the man alleged to have been maltreated is that one night he was coming home from Waun Fawr, and at the cross roads he saw a man dressed in brown clothes, at a distance of fifteen or twenty yards. The man did not touch him or say anything to him, but he was frightened and stumbled against the hedge. That is all. So far as the police have been able to find out no one has been attacked.

The Aberystwyth Observer of March 14th 1901 reported:

THE ALLEGED GHOST. —It has been well said that "one fool makes many." It is reported that one night a week or two ago the members of the Drill Class - all young men, and mere lads - set out in a body with the view of catching the local spiritual De Wet, with one of their number wearing women's clothes, it being supposed that the feminie dress would act as a magnet and attract the ghost - who they evidently thought would be as simple as themselves.

At a given point the person in skirts was sent in advance, and the would-be captors moved forward in extended order along the fields on each side of the road ready to surround the culprit if he had happened to fall into the snare. The embryo volunteers evidently forgot that "in vain is the net set in the sight of any bird," and the alleged ghost kept out of the way. But he will doubtleas re-appear as long as he can induce a suficient number of simpletons to notice his vagaries and write about him.