Haunted Llancaiach Fawr, Gelligaer, Wales.
N 51° 39.662 W 003° 16.937
30U E 480475 N 5723376
In a recent poll Llancaiach Fawr was named as one of the Top Ten most haunted buildings in Britain. Strange things have been experienced in almost every room, along corridors and stairs. Things seen, heard or felt, or sometimes odours in the air
Waymark Code: WMDF40
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/07/2012
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This is a historic House that just happens to be Haunted.
The House has an amazing history, King Charles the First lived & hid here at one time, before he was beheaded.
Colonel Prichard also lived there.
The Tours are designed for School children & Give lots of Historic information about the Cavaliers & Roundheads, Palimenterians & the start of the British Parliment.
"Perhaps the figure most often experienced is that of what we believe to be a nineteenth century housekeeper known as “Mattie”. The rustle of her petticoats has been heard in the bedchamber where it is believed she died, tragically, so many years ago and yet the saddest is the ghost of a little boy who fell to his death from one of the upper rooms. He sometimes makes his presence felt by a little mischievous tug of a sleeve or someone’s hair, or else he’ll slip his hand into the hand of whoever is in the room as though he is looking for someone to take him home.
Others are more puzzling - the figure seen in the vicinity of the Manor, although not within - could it be a suicide or the victim of a grisly murder? And what of the figure seen deep in contemplation - could this be Edward Prichard, master of Llancaiach Fawr during the Civil War period, his mind in turmoil about his support for the King? Then there is the puzzle of the carved stone Pentangle found hidden in the wall of the Manor - could it have been put there to ward away evil - or is it a curse!"
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