Welsh UFO Sightings 1886

Welsh UFO sightings from 1886. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
January 1886
Dolgellau

Rumours of a ghost were plaguing locals according to the Cambrian News of January 29th:

A GHOST. A correspondent signing himself Iolo writes: The story is current that the ghost of the poor fellow who was found dead in the river Arran in this town on the 2nd of this month is nightly visiting the place and frightening some of the persons who live near the spot almost out of their senses. The family who occupied "Ty Pren," where it is supposed the man was goiug to find lodgings, are said to be so much annoyed by him that they have decided to leave the place. While I write they are busy removing their furniture to a more crowded part of the town. Can it be possible that this story is the cause of their leaving?"

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PRESS
Bryncrug

The Cambrian News of February 5th reported:

BRYNCRUG. A REAL GHOST. A correspondent writes:— It is somewhat refreshing in this sceptical age and mid the din of the scoffing present to find that the belief in supernatural visious is not quite extinguished, and that there are honest people courageous enough to brave the flood of derision which their declaration of belief is sure to encounter. About the beginning of the present century there was a most troublesome ghost at a place called Gwyddfryniau which cost a fabulous amount of fast and prayer for a pious man from Llan Eifionydd to put down.

This ghost if tradition be true, was banished for a time only, and doomed to a rather damp confinement under the Dysynny bridge, where he has been heard at long intervals by a few privileged persons hammering at the stone-door of his prison, with an ounce-hammer of lead. He, it appears has at last gained his freedom, a feat greater than that accomplished by Monte Cristo. Last week he has been seen of men and in different shapes and upon different occasion and in several places. First of all he presented himself to human sight in the shape and guise of several large dogs which after gamboling about in a stranger manner disappeared in the deep still waters that surround the abutments of the bridge. Then he was seen wearing the form of a huge man, and when approached, vanished into nothing. So far the spiritual visitant has declined to hold converse with his beholders. Should he design to do so, I will with your permission give your readers the benefit of his communications which no doubt will be interesting.

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The South Wales Daily News of November 17th 1886 reported:

A GHOST AT BRYNMAWR. For some days past a rumour has been rife at Brynmawr that a ghost is to be seen in a house in Worcester-street East, and on Monday a large crowd of credulous people assembled near the house to await the ghost's appearance. They stayed some hours, but no ghost appeared.