Welsh UFO sightings from 1920. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
1920
Graig
Various newspapers picked up a story from Pontypridd magistrates court, about a workhouse inmate who was said to have frightened people by pretending to be a ghost. The Portsmouth Evening News of August 31st 1920 reported:
"GHOST" OF THE MOUNTAINS. TROUBLE IN WELSH WORKHOUSE.
Two women inmates of the Central Homes which the Pontypridd Guardians maintain at Graig, appeared before the local magistrates yesterday on charges of assaulting nurses, and with being refractory paupers. It was said of one, Abigail Booth, that she had been in and out of the homes since 1911, and was a constant source of trouble. For some time she lived in a crevice on the Penrhyn Mountain, and frightened many people by pretending to be a ghost.
During the disturbances which these women provoked on Sunday, one nurse was bitten in the arm and another was severely mauled, being pulled to the floor by her hair. Plates were also thrown about, and the master declared that for a time pandemonium prevailed.
One woman was cautioned and sent back to the homes, but Abigail was fined £1.
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