Welsh UFO sightings from 1877. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
January 1877
Ebbw Vale
Rumours of ghosts were making the rounds, as reported in the 27th January edition of the Monmouthshire Central Advertiser:
A GHOST STORY. -It is no unusual thing to hear of ghosts visiting this locality. The present story is the most ridiculous and absurd ever circulated here. It is stated that the two ghosts generally accompany each other, one dressed in the garb of an old woman, the other dressed as a little girl. The timid are afraid to go outside the door after dark, and the superstitious firmly believe that both are visitors from the world of phantoms. A strict watch has been made, but the ghosts manage to elude apprehension. Several articles have been missing from Saddler's-row, and it is feared that the public will soon find out, to their sorrow, that the two assumed ghosts are thieves who are in quest of plunder.
The Cambrian News of February 9th 1877 printed a letter about a ghostly encounter:
CORRESPONDENCE. THE BARMOUTH BRIDGE GHOST. SIR, The sad event that happened lately, near by, and the inquest held in consequence, will be in the recollection of your readers; also the recommendation of the jury, which does not appear as yet to be carried into effect. From a circumstance which occurred one evening last week, it would appear that travellers over our bridge at a late hour should be prepared, in case anything "uncanny" might obtrude a startling appearance. Two friends, gentlemen of recognized position in our town, were returning from the Junction over the bridge about nine p.m., when on nearing the Barmouth end a gigantic, ghostly, white object suddenly rose up before them blocking up the path. One of the friends, who was a juror at the inquest at once concluded, with the rapidity his quick intellect decides a point, that he beheld a spiritual manifestion from the unknown world - monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens - and therefore quickly decided in executing a strategical movement, and "skedaddled."
His companion is a man of more solid and sterner mould and one of experience in dealing with spirits, illicit or otherwise, in performance of his duties in protection of her Majesty's revenue. He retreated but a few paces, to give his arm fair play, and flourishing his trusty "shillelagh," a weapon that never misses fire, he shouted, "Come on you --, come on!"
But it did not come on; in fact it went off, vanishing as speedily as it had appeared. The vigilance of our one policeman having been directed to the matter, it is to be hoped that the author of this silly joke, having been disappointed also in his anticipation, will not venture to try a similar experiment on belated wayfarers; if he does he will find himself - The Hut, Barmouth, 7th Feb., 1877. SURPRISED.
PRESS
September 1877
Towyn
Charles Fort included this snippet about strange lights in his Book of the Damned: London Times, Oct. 5, 1877: "From time to time the west coast of Wales seems to have been the scene of mysterious lights.... And now we have a statement from Towyn that within the last few weeks lights of various colors have been seen moving over the estuary of the Dysynni River, and out to sea. They are generally in a northerly direction, but sometimes they hug the shore, and move at high velocity for miles toward Aberdovey, and suddenly disappear."
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