Welsh UFO Sightings 1850

Welsh UFO sightings from 1850. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
1850
Caernarvon

The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian of November 30th 1850 reprinted a piece from the Carnarvon Herald on a strange encounter:

SUPERSTITION

The days of fairies, ghosts, and goblins have not yet passed way, notwithstanding the numerous and severe strictures of tbe press upon the fallacy of such notions as are sometimes entertained respecting them. The superstitious belief in their existence, and in the ability and willingness to reveal the hidden things of the future, in order io aid a favoured mortal to attain some desired end, seems to prevail to an incredible extent in the mountainous districts of Wales.

Of this gross reculity, the following case will serve as a sample, and may be relied on as perfectly true. It refers to an alleged disclosure of treasures hidden deep in the bosom of old mother earth. The person to whom the pretended revelations were made is a labouring miner near Mold. He was first, he says, accosted by his unearthly visitant (a female) at midnight. She came to his bedside, gently tapped him on the shoulder, and desired him to get up and follow her, which he hesitatingly did. Perhaps the appearance or the ghost in the shape of a middle-aged woman emboldened the knight errant to obey her behest.

Be this as it may, he makes a market of her disclosures. Upon the strength of what the man states, a company of adventurers commenced operation by opening a new mine. They have a sunk a shaft to a depth of forty-two yards, and are, according to the miner's statement of what the ghost communicated to him, within a few yards of the lead ore; but, as crosses will be the portion of mortals, the agent of the proprietor of the last has strictly prohibited them from continuing the work, and the "land of promise" is destined to be inaccessible for some time to the luckless adveuturers.

The ghost is upon good, easy, familiar terms with the miner, and has appeared to him about sixty times, occasionally meeting him in some isolated spot, and accompanying him a mile or so, conversing freely as they proceed, till they arrive at the miner's house, when she quietly opens the door, waits ingress, then closes the door, and previous to her departure very politely and unostentatiously slips into his hands a piece of what is gravely suspected to be gold, but which most pertinaciously refuses to give a name to.

The ghost also gave a minute description of the different strata through which they were to pass in sinkiog, and was so very particular as to specify the day, hour, and minute upon which each successive change in the soil would take place, and her predictions have been verified to the very letter. The strange set of credulous mortals patiently await the time for permission from the agent to continue operations; and when the "good time" comes, they entertain not ihe slightest doubt that the earth is certain to yield the much coveted treasure to them.