Martinsburg Herald

October 11, 1902

“Miners Afraid of Ghost.”

Three hundred miners the other day refused to go down in the Glyncorryg colliery, near Port Talbot, in Wales, because they said it was haunted. It was asserted that the figure of a woman bearing a lighted lamp had been seen in the workings and the screams of a woman heard.

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