The newspapers of a hundred years ago – September 1821 – recorded a marvellous ghostly visitation at Rhosbenbwa Farm, in the pretty Montgomeryshire village of Meifod. The occupier of the house was Mr Thomas Jones, an honest and respectable farmer belonging to the Calvinistic Methodist body. The spiritual experience of two preachers was requested, but the result seems to have been only an onslaught on their bodies with pebbles. The people of the district became alarmed, and hundreds visited the place. One theory was that the same ghost who many years ago alarmed the occupiers of a neighbouring farm had returned after fourteen years’ transportation, and that his return was in some way or other connected with the unseasonable weather.
Western Mail, 8th September 1921.