* 3 best ghost story in Wles
The Demon Husband
One of the oldest stories in Haunted Wales is also one of the strangest.
It was first written down in 1691, compiled from letters written only a few years after the events were said to have taken place.
The setting is a house, now ruined I believe, on the Gower.
It features the apparition of a living person (not as unusual as you might think) - one Lieutenant Colonel Bowen, who was away in Ireland, leading a dissipated life.
The haunting first manifested itself in the form of alarming crashes and bangs sounding around the house. Then a weird facsimile of Colonel Bowen appeared in his wife's bedchamber and it demanded to get into bed with her.
Realising it was something ungodly, she refused and it became irate. But it did not approach her and, as she prayed fervently, it disappeared.
From then on, the household had no rest. Shrieks, moans and "the noise of whirlwind" echoed round the rooms and Mrs Bowen saw the shape of something invisible lying in her bed, accompanied by the disgusting smell "of a carcase some-while dead".
Her bedroom filled with "a thick smoak (sic) smelling like sulphur" and she and her servants were slapped and pinched by unseen hands. And throughout all this, the fake Lt Col Bowen kept reappearing and goading them all. Eventually, they abandoned the house altogether.
One of the oldest stories in Haunted Wales is also one of the strangest.
It was first written down in 1691, compiled from letters written only a few years after the events were said to have taken place.
The setting is a house, now ruined I believe, on the Gower.
It features the apparition of a living person (not as unusual as you might think) - one Lieutenant Colonel Bowen, who was away in Ireland, leading a dissipated life.
The haunting first manifested itself in the form of alarming crashes and bangs sounding around the house. Then a weird facsimile of Colonel Bowen appeared in his wife's bedchamber and it demanded to get into bed with her.
Realising it was something ungodly, she refused and it became irate. But it did not approach her and, as she prayed fervently, it disappeared.
From then on, the household had no rest. Shrieks, moans and "the noise of whirlwind" echoed round the rooms and Mrs Bowen saw the shape of something invisible lying in her bed, accompanied by the disgusting smell "of a carcase some-while dead".
Her bedroom filled with "a thick smoak (sic) smelling like sulphur" and she and her servants were slapped and pinched by unseen hands. And throughout all this, the fake Lt Col Bowen kept reappearing and goading them all. Eventually, they abandoned the house altogether.
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