Welsh UFO sightings from 1888. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
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Talgarth
Letter form the South Wales Daily News of January 19th 1888:
SPIRITUALISM IN BRECONSHIRE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, I find in to-day's issue of the South Wales Daily News a letter from the pen of the Rev W. J. Davies, Talgarth, denying certain statements which he made to me concerning the "ghost" (acoording to his theory last week) which has been troubling him so much of late. I firmly adhere to the report which appeared in the South Wales Daily News of Friday last, which Mr Davies states now to be false and I further add by saying that when I spoke to him concerning the affair last week, he then made me to understand, more than once, that he truly believed it to be the work of a ghost, as no human being could have done such mischief with all the doors closed. Undoubtedly Mr Danes, on account of so much excited, especially at the time when I spoke to him, has quite forgotten what he really did say.—I am, &c., Jan. 18. YOUR CORRESPONDENT.
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January 1888
Porthmadoc
The North Wales Chronicle of January 28th 1888:
NEW AND OLD GHOSTS. About a fortnight ago strange rumours were afloat about a mysterious ghost having been seen on the Portmadoc embankment in the shape of an ordinary mortal, who made a most extraordinary disappearance on being approached. The mysterious visitor made his appearance to several of the workmen ou their way home to work at Boston Lodge, and the stories spread about concerning him have lost nothing in their repetition. An older ghost which does much more mischief is also again about the town on dark evenings, in the shape of empty boxes in the front of several of the tradesmen's shops, and has already upset several of the inhabitants, both physically and morally. This last-named ghost has become so impudent as to establish himself directly opposite the police station, without, so far, receiving the reward which such an enemy to the public peace deserves.
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February 1888
The Pontypridd Chronicle of February 10th reported:
CAPTURE OF A WELSH GHOST. HEAVY PENALTY FOR THE JOKE. For the past fortnight the inhabitants of a village on the outskirts of Shrewsbury have been nightly terrified by the dangerous pranks of a ghost. On Sunday night, however, fifty villagers, set out with sticks and missiles, and succeeded in effecting a capture. It was then discovered that the offender was a Welsh farmer who bad recently gone to reside in the locality. His captors chastised him severely, and had it not been for timely interference he would probably have been lynched. He had, as it was, a very narrow escape, and was only released on handing over five pounds to the Saloy Infirmary in payment for his folly.
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Troedrhiwtrwyn A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR AT TROEDRHIWTRWYN. "Once upon a midnight weary, While I pondered, weak and dreary, Over many a quaint and curious Volume of forgotten lore,- While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, Rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "Tapping at my chamber door, Only this, and nothing more."
A correspondent writes:— Considerable excitement has been created in the neighbourhood of Troedrhiwtrwyn by a rumour that ghosts have been perambulating the place at the "witching hour of night, when graveyards yawa and Spirits walk abroad." Panes of glass have been broken with stones thrown by unseen hands, and neither neighbours nor police have been able to discover the perpetrator of the outrage. The superstitious attribute the evil deeds to a ghostly visitant, but the more sensible folks about the place expect to see something more substantial than an apparition in the grasp of the blue-coated guardian, who is now looking for the vanished hand. Let us hope the Troedrhiwtrwyn ghost may turn out to be as innocent as Poe's ebony bird, and that when asked if he intends repeating his mischievous larks he will echo the solitary word of that mysterious visitor in the expressive answer "Nevermore."
The Pontypridd Chronicle of October 26th 1888 gave a brief update:
THAT GHOST AT TROEDRHIWTRWYN. Since our last issue no stones have been tbrown at Troedrhiwtrwyn. The ghost has ceased to haunt the neighbourhood, and peace like the river reigns from dewy eve till morn. "That ghost" is evidently afraid of a policeman.
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November 1888
Abernant
Disappearance that wasn't! Newspapers reported on the mysterious disapearance of a miner from the River Level Pit; in reality the teenager was hiding out from his father. Read more HERE.
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