Welsh Ufo Sightings from 1868. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
January 1868
Abernant
The Cardiff Times (02/02/1868) carried a report of a poltergeist like disturbance at a cottage near Abernant, on the Merthyr road. China, glass, and a clock were mysteriously broken and the terrified occupant - John Robberdy - was convinced it was the ghost of his recently deceased wife. Police Inspector Matthews investigated and, via a hole in the roof, determined that the culprit of ghostly falling plaster and other events was likely Robberdy's daughter who lived in the house next door.
Many local papers carried the report below, seen here in the Pembrokeshire Herald of March 6th 1868:
PRESS
November 1868
Snatchwood
Rumours were spreading of a ghost in Snatchwood following a local suicide, but the Pontypool Free Press (28/11/1868) summed up the general news media stance at the time by advising people to hide themselves in hedges with 'stout cudgels' and give the so called ghost a good whack!
