In Carnarvonshire. About the year 1758, at the house of a certain farmer, in the Parish of Llanllechyd, there was a great disturbance from an evil Spirit, casting stones into and about the house, beating
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Mynytho, Gwynedd (1866)
SH 30623 30426 Bwgan Pant-y-wenol. Y mae son am y bwgan uchod wedi lledsenu dros braidd bob rhan o Leyn, ac y mae yn gryn syndod genym ganfod personau a safant yn uchel fel gwybodusion
Continue ReadingPorthmadog, Gwynedd (1875)
Portmadoc Jottings. Not far from my place of observation, there is a farmhouse, where lately the inhabitants have been troubled by strange moanings and other noises, leading them to think that there is in their
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One of the ghosts that have begun to infect this district has been got rid of at Portmadoc. It turned out to be a servant girl who had been rattling the milkcans. People are ready
Continue ReadingAfonwen, Pwllheli, Gwynedd (1910)
‘Haunted’ Cottage. Rappings and wailings. Welsh villagers “scared.” The neighbourhood of Afonwen, near Pwllheli is in a state of turmoil (telegraphs a correspondent) owing to mysterious rappings and wailings stated to be heard in a
Continue ReadingTywyn, Gwynedd (1912)
Welsh Ghost Story. The residents of Frankwell Street, Towyn, Merioneth, declare that a ghost haunts the neighbourhood nightly. During the past week, between the hours of eleven and one, stones and bricks have rained down
Continue ReadingAberdaron, Gwynedd (1889)
The Haunted Farm and the Bewitched Bull. A story from Wales. Extraordinary sights and sounds have been manifested nightly (says a correspondent of the Liverpool Post) at Bodurdda Farm, not far from Aberdarron and Bardsey
Continue ReadingCaernarfon, Gwynedd (1880)
A Ghost. Carnarvon is just now honoured with and exercised by a ghost – a rapping ghost, located at Bangor-street end of Turf-square, on premises belonging to our town-man, Mr Hugh Humphreys, and occupied by
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