Trimsaran Mystery.
“Ghost” in lone farm.
“Spirit” eludes police.
The activities of the “poltergeist” of lonely Glasbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, have provided the people of Trimsaran and other neighbouring villages with a seasonable topic of conversation. Perturbation at the mysterious activities in the farm has increased because for twenty years the present occupant has seen no signs of any uncanny occurrence. Within recent days, however, its “manifestations” have become increasingly mischievous and the farmer, Mr David Williams, who lives there with his wife and eleven-year-old son, has had to invoke police assistance in order to solve the origin of a series of peculiar domestic happenings.
The trouble began about a fortnight ago, when household articles were found to have been transferred, purposely and through no known agency, from one place to another. A collection of chinaware, for instance, was one day missed from a chest of drawers and found neatly stacked upon the hob. Then a picture was moved from an upstairs room to the ground floor. Since then the catalogue of happenings, none of which has yet been explained, includes the breakage of panes in a downstairs window, and of a stuffed owl in a glass case. Strips have been torn off wallpaper and plastering in the kitchen, while stones have fallen down the chimney and off the roof at odd hours of the day and night. This strange war of nerves has waged so incessantly that the local police have now taken a hand.
A “Post” reporter was informed that two police officers, from the neighbouring village of Trimsaran and Pontyates, recently stayed overnight at Glasbury while the family was accommodated at an adjoining farm. Nothing untoward occurred on this occasion, but police surveillance continues.
Realists have advanced the theory that the majority of the happenings could have been caused by ground subsidence, but old colliers in the district state that there are no underground workings in the vicinity of the farm. Considerable interest has been aroused in local spiritualist circles, and it is understood that offers have been received to make the Glasbury case the subject of psychic research.
Meanwhile the farm has become a popular rendezvous for hordes of curious sightseers from the surrounding countryside.
*”Poltergeist” – an alleged mischievous spirit.
South Wales Daily Post, 20th December 1946.
Gun ghost haunts a farm.
Express staff reporter.
Carmarthen, Friday.
Farmer David Williams, from the Carmarthenshire village of Trimsaran, expects to see a ghost with a gun any time now. He says it has turned his lonely home, Glasbury Farm, upside down, and yesterday: – “I came home and took off my boots. I stooped to pick them up – and they jumped across the room. I put my pipe on the table – and it floated into the chimney. I’ve sent my boy Charles – he’s 11 – to stay with relatives. He can’t stay in a haunted house over Christmas. But my wife is here and is bearing up fairly well.”
For some nights, says Mr Williams – Cups, saucers and plates were moved from cupboards and neatly stacked in odd corners; A stuffed owl was broken, while its glass case remained intact; Pictures moved from upstairs to downstairs; stones rattled in the chimney; and windows were broken.
A friend kept an all-night watch with a 12-bore gun. He rested it against a gatepost, and in a few minutes it vanished.
Says Mr Williams: “A policeman and a Welsh spiritualist are investigating. It’s the stones in the chimeny that worry me. I’ve been a farmer all my life, except for service in France and Egypt in the 1914 war. And I’m going to carry on here – despite the ghost.”
Daily Express, 21st December 1946.
The “ghost” took a day off when two policemen moved in.
A “spirit” that moved china and pictures in a farmhouse and threw stones down the chimney, took a night off when two policemen moved in at Glyn Abbey, Carmarthenshire. The “spirit” had worried farmer David Williams and his family. Previously a friend of the family had kept a night vigil after weird happenings. He took a 12-bore sporting gun with him, rested the gun on a gate, and waited. When he looked around, the gun had disappeared.
The spirit, “resting” for twenty years, had suddenly alarmed the Williams family by stacking china on the kitchen hob, carrying a picture downstairs, breaking a stuffed owl in a glass case and tearing paper off the walls.
Local spiritualist circles have asked the farmer if they may make the farmhouse the subject of psychic research.
Daily Mirror, 21st December 1946.
Glassbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, near Trimsaran, where the alleged “poltergeist” has been operating, and the tenant, Mr David Williams.
Trimsaran ‘ghost’ takes time off.
So tenant catches up farm work.
There has been a comparative lull in the activities of the “poltergeist” – the alleged mischievous spirit – of Glasbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, Trimsaran, since the recent all-night vigil kept by local police officers. Mr David Williams, the 62-years-old tenant farmer, yesterday said that apart from occasional bumpings and knocking sounds there have been no untoward happenings in the last couple of days.
Mr Williams, who previously disbelieved in spiritualism, says that he finds it difficult to believe that the strange disarrangement of household articles and the breaking of window panes were caused by human agents. With the assistance of neighbouring farmers he is at present fully occupied in catching up with farm work which has been considerably interrupted by the recent strange occurrences.
South Wales Daily Post, 21st December 1946.
The “noisy spirit” at Glasbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, near Llanelly, has ceased operations since the all-night vigil of two Llanelly police officers early last week. Mr David Williams, the 62-year-old famer, told a Western Mail reporter on Saturday that apart from odd knockings and bumpings nothing out of the way had happened for a couple of days. “I have,” said Mr Williams, “had some Spiritualists here from Ferryside, who have assured me that there is nothing to worry about unduly as the spirit is not likely to do any personal harm to any member of the family. My wife and I are continuing to stay at the farm, but we have sent our son to stay with relatives in the Llandilo district.”
A Western Mail reporter found in the farm house passage that large sections of the wallpaper and plastering had been stripped off the walls, and drawers o a tall-boy in the front room emptied on to the floor. Large stones said to have fallen down the chimney and off the roof were also there.
Glasbury Farm is in a very lonely spot about three-quarters of a mile from the nearest road between the villages of Trimsaran and Glyn Abbey.
Western Mail, 23rd December 1946.
Express Reporter keeps a night watch with the farmer and his wife, and –
The ghost farm lamp ‘cuts out’.
Express Staff reporter: Trimsaran (Carmarthen), Sunday.
Before the 200-year-old kitchen range in lonely Glasbury Farm, I sat and waited last night for the gun ghost. at 10.55 the two-wick oil lamp went out – with paraffin still in the holder. All evening it had been burning steadily. Then Mrs Williams, the farmer’s wife, said to her husband: – “Look, Davey, the lamp’s going again.” She lit two candles and took the lamp from the room. The paraffin splashed.
Said 62-year-old Farmer David Williams: – “We are getting used to things like this. We thought it was our boy Charles, who’s 12, up to his tricks, but we sent him away a week ago. It’s only in the last few days that things have quietened down. It started three weeks ago when I found a sack of cattle meal slit open in the store shed. I thought it must have been rats – but we couldn’t find any. Then crockery started to move. When our backs were turned the sugar basin went from the middle to the edge of the table. Only a breath of wind was needed to topple it to the floor. Two policemen spent the night here last week. All we hear now are rumblings about the house.”
Mrs Williams was alone when I arrived. She shone a torch on the broken window panes, torn wallpaper, and the spot where a bottle of beer had crashed. “Davey put two bottles on the kitchen dresser,” she said. “The next we heard was something breaking in the yard. It was one of the bottles. That was at 11 o’clock one morning.”
But at the Bird in Hand in Trimsaran one of the customers said: “It’s seven to eleven at night that things happen at Glasbury.”
Daily Express, 23rd December 1946.
He’ll try to talk to farm ghost.
If strange happenings at lonely Glasbury Farm, Carmarthenshire, continue, a private investigator is going to try to “talk” to the ghost that is “troubling” Mr David Williams at his farmhouse home. The investigator is Mr W Burgess, 45, company director, of Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. “If the curious events at Glasbury Farm persist,” he said last night, “I will hold a seance there with a special clairvoyant medium who will be able to see the disturbed spirit. We shall then know the full story.”
Daily Mirror, 27th December 1946.
Spirit ‘Squatter’ at Lonely Glyn Abbey Farm?
Eerie happenings attributed to supernatural agency.
Eerie happenings at lonely Glasbury Farm, between the villages of Glyn Abbey and Trimsaran, have been causing great uneasiness in those areas and police aid has been sought in an endeavour to solve the mysterious and frightening activities of a poltergeist, which has already caused much damage inside the farmhouse.
Glasbury Farm is situated in isolated marshlands almost a mile from the nearest roadway and is reached along a tortuous track. The destructive energies of the mischievous spirit became increasingly disturbing last week and the farmer, Mr David Williams, who lives at Glasbury with his wife and 14-year-old son, accepted police help in an attempt to trace the origin of the mysterious happenings.
Plaster and wallpaper have been stripped from the passage walls, catches removed from a chest of drawers, household articles removed through no known agency from one place to another. A collection of chinaware, for instance, was one day missed from a chest of drawers and found neatly stacked upon the hob. Then a picture was moved from an upstairs room to the ground floor. Since then the catalogue of happenings, none of which has yet been explained, includes the breakage of panes in a downstairs window, and of a stuffed owl in a glass case.
Two police officers, from Trimsaran and Pontyates, recently stayed overnight at Glasbury while the family was accommodated at an adjoining farm. Nothing untoward occurred on this occasion, but police surveillance continues.
The theory has been advanced that the majority of the happenings could have been caused by ground subsidence, but old colliers in the district state that there are no underground workings in the vicinity of the farm.
Considerable interest has been aroused in local spiritualist circles, and it is understood that offers have been received to make the Glasbury case the subject of psychic research. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Williams have decided to remain at Glasbury to attend to the many farm duties, but their young son has been removed to relatives at Llandilo.
Llanelli Star, 28th December 1946.