Jumping Bottles.
Strange happenings in a village.
Strange happenings are reported from the Three Horse Shoes, Pentwynmawr, a village near Newport (Mon.). An enamel bowl, it is said, flew from a table and fell into an adjoining room. Peculiar shrieks were heard. It is stated that tables and chairs move in a mysterious way, and a vinegar bottle jumped from a cruet and rolled on to the floor. No explanation is forthcoming of these strange occurrences.
Daily News (London), 26th January 1926.
Flying Glass at an Inn.
Queer Happenings for Five Days
From our Special Correspondent.
Newport (Mon.,) Tuesday.
To-night I visited the Three Horse Shoes, the old-established inn in the village of Pentwynmawr, near Newbridge, where weird and unaccountable happenings are reported, says the “Daily News” Newport correspondent. Mrs Lewis, the landlord’s wife, told me a story of flying crockery, the clutching hand and other strange “phenomena” which have provided South Wales with a first-rate topic of controversy. “These peculiar happenings have lasted for five days,” said Mrs Lewis, “and in each case they were preceded by a strange noise like a squib going off. I have seen a half-pint glass leap off the table and be smashed into pieces on the floor. I have seen a vinegar bottle jump off the cruet, throw its stopper on to the table and then roll on to the floor. But the most peculiar thing I saw was an enamel bowl which came flying out of the cellar into the kitchen, passing over the top of an old-fashioned high-backed seat. It was kept under a beer tap to catch the drippings. I know there was no one in the cellar when the bowl fell at our feet in front of the kitchen fire.”
Mrs Lewis told me that she was inclined to think it was the work of someone who had a grudge against her and her husband and was doing these things to frighten them out of the tenancy of the house. “It may be the work of a trickster, but he must be very clever,” she said. On another occasion when her husband went to draw beer the mug is said to have been whisked out of his clutch by an unseen hand. For the present the manifestations have stopped.
Daily News (London), 27th January 1926.