Left House Because of “Ghost.”
Weird noises that were unexplained.
People in the township of Tirphil in the Rhymney Valley have been startled by a ghost story. A house on the hillside is believed to be haunted. Weird tales of mysterious noises and strange rappings and tappings on the doors and windows are told.
So persistent became the unaccountable noises – always at night – that the tenants, Mr and Mrs Edwin Evans, who have four children, were terrified, and left the house, and went to live at New Tredegar.
Interviewed by a Western Mail and South Wales News representative, Mr Evans said, “I thought the noises were a token of something that was going to happen. It was about six o’clock in the evenings that the rattling of the latches of the doors began, and then came the bumping of a tin box upstairs, as i someone were throwing stones at it. There were also strange rappings on the window-panes, but no one could be seen.”
Mrs Evans said, “We had only been at the house a month, and the noises started about three weeks ago. Once I heard a voice, but I could see no one. Neighbours stayed with us one night because we were so nervous, and the following night the rattling on the latches started again.”
Mr Evans said he understood that since he had left the house Spiritualists had visited it and “reckoned they had seen my father, who died at Cefn Forest seven years ago, in one of the rooms, and had described him correctly.”
The Western Mail and South Wales News representative was informed that three men stayed in the house on Sunday night week to try and fathom the mystery. One went upstairs and sat on a tin box. He was not there long before he was startled to find the box rising bodily.
Western Mail, 30th November 1936.