About half a mile from Tregaron there is a ghost. It wears a three cornered hat, barks like a dog, can jump on the backs of four people at once and is becoming so great a nuisance that strong measures will have to be taken with it. Some nights it does not make its appearance, but at other times it comes with a vengeance, and, so to speak, plays the bear with the occupants of the house, because, as was before said, it can and does jump on four people’s backs at once.
Nobody believes in the ghost, but there is a lot of curiosity as to what the disturbance is about, and perhaps just a few do believe a lee-tle tiny bit in ghosts generally. There is now a rare opportunity of catching this ghost, and perhaps a few doctors could be got to come down from London, and we might see how long it could live without anything to eat.
It isn’t everybody that can see a ghost, but most people can see a house, and I’ll be bound there will be lots of visitors, in the day time, to look at the house where the ghost is said to play its pranks. The last ghost I heard of was at Machynlleth, and a policeman caught it, and the Magistrates fined it 1s and costs! If the Tregaron Magistrates are wise, they will give this ghost three months at Cardigan when they catch it.
Cambrian News, 12th November 1875.
The Ghost.
Faenog is said to be the scene of operations for the ghost, whose doings were described last week. It is thought the popular outcry about ghosts is intended to serve some purpose. Only the ignorant are imposed upon, but unfortunately in country places the ignorant are somewhat numerous.
Cambrian News, 26th November 1875.
The Tregaron Ghost.
I am sorry to hear that this ghost has disappeared altogether, and the magistrates will, therefore, not have an opportunity of sending it to Cardigan. What a joke it would be to give the ghost’s name and age. Perhaps my friends did not know ghosts had names. We need not, however, say anything about names at present.
Cambrian News, 10th December 1875.