Welsh UFO sightings from 1835. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
c. 1835
Aberystwyth
Correspondence published in the September 3rd 1880 edition of the Cambrian:
GHOST STORY. —About forty-five years ago a young Frenchman, a sailor, was engaged as one of the crew of an Aberystwith vessel and continued so engaged for some time, till he became well known in the town. At the same time a good looking young woman from the neighbourhood was in service in the house of a respectable family on the Marine Terrace. The Frenchman kept company with this servant girl.
One night when he was away on a voyage, his sweetheart retired to her room, which was above the back kitchen, leaving the other servant girl down stairs. Presently they both heard the young Frenchman repeatedly calling his sweetheart by name. She accordingly asked her fellow servant to open the door to let him in, but she refused to do so, saying that he was her young man. They both knew his voice, and were surprised to hear it, as his arrival was not expected for some time.
At last his intended went down stairs and opened the door, and there he was seen extending his hand. He took her hand but turned his face from her, and afterwards went away without saying a word, through the garden out to what is now Newfoundland-street. It was a fine moonlight night and she knew him perfectly well by his walk and general appearance, and she could not imagine the cause of his strange behaviour. She went into the house and related all that had occurred to her fellow servant. Soon after the news reached Aberystwyth that the vessel had been lost far away at sea and that some of the crew and among them the young Frenchman had been drowned. Those who were saved stated that this happened the very hour the young woman supposed she had seen him. She is still living in the neigbourhood of Aberystwith. She is now about 67 years of age, and can testify to the truth of the above narrative. SENEX.
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