Weird noises that disturb salvationist lassies.
From our own correspondent, Cardiff, Saturday.
What is the mystery of the Welsh ghost with a cough? He has been troubling two women Salvationist officers, Adjutant McGuire and Lieutenant Murphy, who live on the outskirts of the mining town of Blaina. Windows which they have been themselves unable to move suddenly fly up or down of their own accord. Doors bang, and loud knocks come from various rooms. Above all there is the persistent noise of that uncanny cough. Crowds have visited the house in the hope of solving these supernatural manifestations.
Weekly Dispatch (London), 19th February 1928.
Haunted house on hillside.
Mystery noises make night uncanny.
From ‘The People’s’ correspondent. Blaina, Saturday.
Spooks with a love of the theatrical and dramatic are making life a burden for the occupants of a wind-swept, lonely house on the mountain-side here. Two Salvation Army women officers, Adjutant McGuire and Lieutenant Murphy, who have just moved from the house, frankly confess they had been terrified by extraordinary noises and happenings. Windows, ordinarily too stiff to be moved by the occupants, move up and down during the night, hollow coughing breaks out suddenly in odd corners, doors are locked and unlocked by mysterious, unseen hands, while the sounds of heavy feet tramping along the corridors and stairways are heard.
The People, 19th February 1928.
A coughing ghost.
Hundreds pay night visits to haunted house.
In the hope of seeing an apparition hundreds of Cardiff people are making night visits to a house at Blaina, which is reported to be haunted. One night after the occupants had gone to bed they heard a window moving up and down. Then a door banged several times. This was followed by the sound of tramping feet on the stairs. It ceased half-way up the stairs. Two women say they saw an apparition in the garden. A mysterious tapping and a noise resembling coughing have been heard. All efforts to locate the origin of these happenings have failed.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 20th February 1928.