Aberystwith.
A Haunted House.
The inhabitants of this town were surprised on the night of St. David’s Day, to hear that a house was haunted with ghosts, in Baker Street, where thousands of people were assembled. The inhabitants of the house it appeared, had retired to bed about eleven o’clock, but as soon as they did so, they were surprised by a knocking and shaking of the bed, which occasioned them to give an alarm.
The knocking afterwards continued at intervals of about five minutes, but the cause of it could not be found, nor the ghost, should it be said, frightened away, although one person was kind enough to read a psalm, and assured them that afterwards every thing would be quiet. The assurance was no sooner given than the knocking and scratching was again resumed. The cause of this has not yet been ascertained, although the same performance took place on the night of the second instant.
Shrewsbury Chronicle, 5th March 1852.
A Ghost.
A ghost hunt has taken place for several nights during this week in the neighbourhood of Baker-street, groups congregating together under an alarm that a ghost was in a house formerly in the holding of the late John Hughes. A post boy, as a literary character, was called in to put down the ghost, by reading out of an old black-letter book some rigmarole or other. Is it not a sad thing that people in the 19th century can be so superstitious.
Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald, 6th March 1852.