Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men

As reported in London’s Sunday Dispatch on 9 February 1936

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 a 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 now 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 to-day 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.’

  © Mark Young 2026

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