Welsh UFO sightings from 1917. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
1917
Kidwelly
Strange knocks were first heard at the beginning of January 1917, in a new build house at the Kidwelly Gasworks. Living at the house was the manager, Mr. Charles Touking Rippin, his wife (Elizabeth Hannah) and their four children: Flora May (b. 1904), Edgar Charles (b. 1905), Arthur Henry (b. 1907).
The knocks became more and more insistent until Mr. Rippin began replying with knocks of his own. By the end of the month 'conversations' via knocking were being held, with the knocks beginning around 20:30 and continuing until 23:30 each evening. The phenomena attracted lots of interest from the public and psychic researchers alike, with people generally believing it to be the ghost of Abel J. Williams, a young shunter who was killed by the Fishguard Express in December 1916.
The ghost had heavy press coverage during February 1917, but it trailed off in March with no obvious cause being discovered. I've transcribed all the press reports I could find here.
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