* 2 best ghost story in Wales
The Thing at Lisworney Crossways
This story took some work to nail down. Tracing the story, I found it was first noted in 1839 and learned that it had occurred somewhere in the Vale of Glamorgan.
But where? Lisworney Crossways does not exist today. Lots of staring at modern maps, however, revealed a house called Llysworney - and near it a crossroads.
One of these lanes led to a farm mentioned in the tale. When I visited the area to do some fieldwork, I was delighted to discover that this track is now a green lane, entirely overgrown - quite delightful on the summer's day when I visited, but almost unbearably spooky at night, I should imagine.
And the ghost? Something really horrible - a spectre with the head and shoulders of a man and the body and limbs of a great, spotted dog. And it had two luminous, "moon-like" eyes.
Most of us would probably have fallen into a dead faint had we encountered this monster in the lane, but Old Anthony, the farm servant who features as the hero in the story, nonchalantly threw his hat at it, and it disappeared.
This story took some work to nail down. Tracing the story, I found it was first noted in 1839 and learned that it had occurred somewhere in the Vale of Glamorgan.
But where? Lisworney Crossways does not exist today. Lots of staring at modern maps, however, revealed a house called Llysworney - and near it a crossroads.
One of these lanes led to a farm mentioned in the tale. When I visited the area to do some fieldwork, I was delighted to discover that this track is now a green lane, entirely overgrown - quite delightful on the summer's day when I visited, but almost unbearably spooky at night, I should imagine.
And the ghost? Something really horrible - a spectre with the head and shoulders of a man and the body and limbs of a great, spotted dog. And it had two luminous, "moon-like" eyes.
Most of us would probably have fallen into a dead faint had we encountered this monster in the lane, but Old Anthony, the farm servant who features as the hero in the story, nonchalantly threw his hat at it, and it disappeared.
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