The Paranormal Database

Fish Fall

Location: Aberdare - Mountain Ash
Type: Other
Date / Time: 11 February 1859 (or 1841)
Further Comments: Live fish were seen falling from the sky during a storm around the home of a Mr Nixon. Some of the fish were removed from the guttering of neighbouring houses; a few of the creatures survived and kept in freshwater.

Mass Premonition

Location: Aberfan - No fixed location
Type: Other
Date / Time: Pre-21 October 1966
Further Comments: According to the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol 44, no 734, around 200 people reportedly predicted this disaster in the days leading up to it, including a local girl who was unfortunately one of those killed in the appalling accident.

Trotting Dog

Location: Bridgend - Crossroads between Bridgend and Laleston
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Said to manifest every night at midnight (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The phantom hound haunting this crossroads would appear nightly and trot off along a road before vanishing. It was said several people had tried to follow the creature but would always lose sight of it.

Gold Guard

Location: Bridgend - Ogmore Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Protecting hidden treasure, this shade once attacked a man who tried to take all the gold - he died soon after of a wasting disease. It is not known whether the spectral woman who has also been seen here is the same ghost, although most legends say she does guard the hoard, which in turn is said to be haunted by the wailing of its former owners. Another legend says that whoever falls asleep here may wake in the past or future.

Hazy Airman

Location: Bridgend - RAF Stormy Down (abandoned)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: June 2005 (man and son encounter), 08 April 2012 (photograph)
Further Comments: A man and his twelve year old son watched a hazy figure dressed in a Second World War uniform walking towards them, even though the figure did not actually move closer. The uniformed man then reached down to the ground as if to pick something up and slowly faded away. Other people have seen an airman near the former Hangar One and have also heard an air raid siren. A photograph taken in 2012 is said to show a phantom figure.

An old postcard of Caerphilly Castle.

Old Hag

Location: Caerphilly - Caerphilly Castle
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Marks a death in the de Clares family
Further Comments: Once owners of the building, the de Clares family were haunted by a Gwrach-y-rhibyn, warning them about an eminent death in the family. Now they have moved away, the ghost is still seen - drifting towards the castle only to disappear once she enters the ruins. A figure dressed in red also haunts the building.

Airship

Location: Caerphilly - Caerphilly Mountain
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 18 May 1909
Further Comments: Two men speaking in a strange tongue were seen by a witness here - they made their escape in an airship. Though it is thought they were German, no country in the world had an airship capable of making that kind of flight at the time.

Family

Location: Caerphilly - Morgan Jones Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: March 2003, 00:30h (approx)
Further Comments: Two friends walking home in the early hours of the morning spotted the silhouettes of a man, woman and child walking towards them along the same path, around one hundred yards away. As the distance fell to fifty yards, the family faded and vanished.

Self-propelled Objects

Location: Caerphilly - Panteg Inn
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This polt makes his presence felt by animating inanimate objects.

Blonde

Location: Caerphilly - Private residence at Penybryn
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: August 2007
Further Comments: A visitor watched a blonde lady, in her early twenties, walk past him on the landing of a friend's place. He spoke to her, but she ignored him. A short time later the visitor asked his friend who the blonde woman was, only to find out that he should have been alone at the site. A search of the residence found nothing.

White Lady

Location: Cilfynydd - Woods in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1968
Further Comments: Last seen by a newspaper editor and a friend, this phantom lady darts between the trees on a hillside. Some say she is accompanied by another white figure in a cloak.

If the cottage glows red, don't enter.

Young Lady

Location: Coity - Former lane, may no longer exist
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: An entity here would initially take the form of a lady so pretty that any man spotting her would fall in love. The woman would lead the man away from the road, taking them to a cottage filled with demons. The entity would also take the form of a hare, changing into a snake when people came too close.

Gas or Ghost

Location: Dowlais - Undenominational Christian Mission Hall
Type: Other
Date / Time: 20 October 1897, around 20:00h
Further Comments: A mystery was declared after no source could be found for a large explosion outside the hall which shattered several windows. It was written that locals suspected a supernatural agency as the building had a history of being unlucky (in the form of once being damaged in a storm).

Child Throwing

Location: Dyffryn, Maesteg - Unidentified house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Pre 1933
Further Comments: A ghost here attached itself to a boy and forced him to set fire to haystacks and releasing the cattle from their sheds. When the boy refused to perform the ghost's demands, he found himself punished, and on one occasion, thrown over his parent's house. The ghost would also throw stones and smash windows (it is not clear whether the child acted as the ghost's agent for these activities). The phantom was eventually banished.

Hovering Figures

Location: Eglwysilan - Mountain Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1987
Further Comments: While driving along this dark road at night in the rain, a motorist encountered two white figures holding hands. He said that the faces were very clear, but they appeared not to have noses. No legs were visible, and they just hovered. The figures stopped in front of the car, looked straight at the driver for several seconds and then drifted to the other side of the road before disappearing through a field gate.

Postman's Dog

Location: Ewenny - Crossroads where one road leads to Ogmore
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown, likely nineteenth century
Further Comments: A postman reported that he would see a large phantom black dog every night, watching the creature move silently as if on a mission.

Bell Ringing

Location: Kenfig - Kenfig Pool
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Pool still present
Further Comments: Legend says that the pool covers a lost town from which one can still hear the church bells ringing on stormy nights. The truth is likely to be based on the nearby town of Kenfig being lost to shifting sands during the sixteenth century. Other local legends say that the pool is bottomless and that a whirlpool pulls unsuspecting swimmers to their deaths.

Organ Music

Location: Kenfig - Prince of Wales public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: After the landlord reported hearing phantom music and voices in his pub, John Marke and Allan Jenkins used the building to experiment with their 'stone wall' theory. While they recorded some sounds, it could be debated that there was a rational source to the sounds.

Phantom Female

Location: Llangynwyd - Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The church is reportedly home to a ghostly young woman.

Hazelnuts

Location: Llangynwyd - Gelli-siriol farmhouse
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century
Further Comments: An apparition would appear to any stranger who approached the house after dark. The entity left the site after a basket of 'charmed' hazelnuts left by a former tenant were removed from a windowsill.

Phil e'r Capel

Location: Llangynwyd - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of Phil e'r Capel harassed local man Wil Howel, forcing him to perform tasks such as tossing gold and silver into the river. The phantom also asked the girl who provided him with end-of-life care to take a hidden purse that contained a half guinea and hide it elsewhere.

Philip Thomas

Location: Llangynwyd - Pentre Farm and surrounding area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century
Further Comments: Catherine, a serving girl at the farm, refused to give the dying Philip Thomas a glass of water. His ghost returned, tossed a bucket of water over Catherine, instructed a child in the house to burn clothing, and pelted the building with stones. Philip's ghost never left Catherine's sight and would try to strangle her. The local vicar failed to banish the ghost, but fortunately the vicar of Glynogwr managed to rid Catherine of her phantom tormentor and the household returned to normal.

White Horse

Location: Llangynwyd - Roads in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Even the most fearless residents on the village felt terror when they encountered this phantom, snow-white mare along the roads at night.

Dark Man

Location: Llanharan - High Corner House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This shadowy figure with black hair has been observed by the fireplace. He is blamed whenever items mysteriously vanish.

Murdered Landlady

Location: Maesteg - Castle public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Thought to have been murdered by her husband in Room 5, which is always said to be cold, a female form has been seen lurking downstairs. It may be the same entity responsible for the whistling that occurs after hours.