Ghost that no one has ever seen.
Pulls of people’s bedclothes.
From our own correspondent, Ebbw Vale (Monmouth), Saturday.
For two days I have been trying to track down the Waunllwyd Ghost, the most peculiar spook that ever haunted house or earth. It has set the whole village of Waunllwyd talking, emptied the house, and attracted investigators from all over Wales. Its claims to fame as a ghost of unusual habits are these: No one has ever seen it. No one has ever heard it. Perhaps it is the ghost of the Invisible Man.
Instead of rattling chains and moaning, the Waunllwyd Ghost pulls off people’s bedclothes. It must be a very disappointed ghost for the house in which it appeared (invisibly) is now empty – without a blanket or a sheet for it to pull. This house was occupied by Mr and Mrs David Jones and their two sons. They got so cold at night with blankets being continually pulled off their beds that they left the house this week and moved to Abertillery, six miles away.
Mr Jones, foreman haulier at Waunllwyd Colliery, told me today that noises in the mine at night never scared him, but when it came to a ghost that would not leave the bedclothes alone he thought it was time to move. “When it is about,” he said, “the room fills with blackness, blots out everything in sight.”
Weekly Dispatch (London), 9th February 1936.
“Ghost that pulls bedclothes.”
From our own Correspondent, Ebbw Vale, Monday.
The story of ghostly visitations at a lonely house on the mountainside above the village of Waunllwyd near here, is being told by its occupants, Mr and Mrs David Jones, foreman haulier at Waunllwyd Colliery. “They started a few weeks ago,” said Mr Jones, “when the upstairs bedrooms were filled with a strange heavy blackness, and we felt the bedclothes being pulled by unseen hands. The other night the women of the household went to bed downstairs, and I and my son David, retired upstairs. I followed David into bed and then I felt as if the clothes were being pulled around me and I was being pressed down. David had the same experience.
“We jumped out of bed, and I shouted: ‘Stand out! Let’s see who or what you are!’ We decided to go back to bed and watch the window from where the only light came. Soon the atmosphere became heavy and I could feel the clothes being pulled around me. I leaped out of bed, and as I lit a candle both David and I saw a black shapeless form disappear out of the window.”
Daily Herald, 4th February 1936.