Welsh UFO Sightings 1890

Welsh UFO sightings from 1890. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
September 1890
Merthyr

Cosmos' column in the South Wales Daily News of September 27th reported on a ghost seen in Merthyr:

A GHOST ON THE BACKSTAIRS? A LITERARY friend at Merthyr writes as follows:— Some Cardiff people seem to be devoting much attention just now to "Shadows," as such. Perhaps their present state of mind not without reason leads them to picture these crafty caricatures. Were not the minions of Balfour waiting about the town lately with idle hands? And was not the war dance they executed in Queen-street highly calculated to leave its mark upon the impressionables?" As there are people waiting to be frightened, I take this advantage of informing them that in their Town-hall is (er was) a back stairs. One night, when, in the brilliantly-lighted assembly-room, many lightly clad couples were threading their way in the usual delirium and delight of the mazy dance, something white was seen on that staircase and it remained large and suggestive in the comparative gloom. Is it possible that this Uncanny figure comes forth from its hiding place? Perhaps those who know something of alterations and repairs in and about the Town-hall may be able to throw light upon the subject; or, perhaps, the custodians of this resort of the wise men, and otherwise, of Cardiff, may be in a position to clear up the point beyond the Shadow of a doubt.