Welsh UFO Sightings 1915

Welsh UFO sightings from 1915. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
January 1915
Soar, Anglesey

A strange voice was heard at Bryncoch House near Soar on Anglesey, home to Elizabeth Jones, her adult son and daughter, and grand-daughter Annie, who it singled out particularly.

The North Wales Chronicle of January 15th 1915 reported:

AN ANGLESEY GHOST STORY, A "STRANGE" VOICE HEARD AT A LONELY HOUSE.

The inhabitants of the district between Bodorgan and Gwalchmai have passed through a nerve-trying experience; indeed, it may be said that the best part of Anglesey is more or less excited over a "ghost story" which is being told with unlimited variations. The "visited" house lies in a lonely spot, about a mile to the north of Soar village, and is inhabited by a widow named Elizabeth Jones, with an adult son and daughter, together with a girl thirteen years of age, who is Mrs Jones' grand-daughter. With the view of gaining first-hand knowledge of the place and of listening to evidence on tho spot, our correspondent proceeded there this week, a task that should never have been attempted minus a pair of sea-boots, as the road leading thereto was well-nigh impassable owing to the recent heavy rains. It may be stated that the opening chapters of the story as told in the district synchronise with the return home on leave of a soldier who is undergoing training with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

He was on his way home along a lonely road when he was startled at hearing a voice calling out to him, but apparently there was no one on the road except himself. He proceeded on his way, but had not gone far when he was brought sharply to the "attention" by hearing the voice again calling out to him. This time he received an invitation to go to Bryncoch, the house referred to on the following night, taking his wife with him. Startled beyond measure and fully believing that there was a "ghost" in the neighbourhood, he hurried to Bryncoch and there related what had occurred. A short time later he left and proceeded to his own house.

Having been invited to the house by Mrs Jones, our correspondent was told that this was only one instance of many similar cases in which "something" had troubled them during the first week of the year. Startled one night by hearing continuous rapping, the son got up but was unable to ascertain the cause. This was on a Sunday night; the two following nights the same sharp rapping Was heard at short intervals, and on Wednesday evening some neighbours who were in the house heard a faint voice.

A MYSTERIOUS VOICE.

Silence reigned supreme for some minutes when suddenly the "spirit" began to "speak." At first it seemed as though the voice came from an empty cupboard close to the fireplace, and after several persons had refused to open it one of the company did so, but the cupboard was bare. Those present were terrified to hear the "voice" revealing to them "secrets" which each individual had fondly hoped was locked in his and her own breast. The little girl did not seem to take things too seriously and her grandmother rebuked her for laughing. Thereupon the "spirit" in turn rebuked the lady of the house, "because," as he remarked, "it is with Annie that I want to speak."

So awed were the company that they spent a considerable time in meditation. The party broke up at a late hour, wondering greatly, and amazed at the things which they had heard, but marvelling still more at the fact that the "spirit" had not deigned to appear. On the following night a large company sat together at Bryncoch, and on this occasion similar scenes were witnessed. Among those present was a gipsy whose curiosity had impelled him thither. He claimed to have solved the mystery by discovering that the girl was gifted with ventriloquial powers, but the girl (who was at school) is not aware herself that she possesses any such powers, and denies that she hoaxed the company present at the house.