The Paranormal Database

A fairy kingdom build from human ruins.

Maiden

Location: Swansea - Crumlyn Lake (aka Llyn Crymlyn), now Crymlyn Bog
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A fairy maiden lived in the waters of this lake. A story also claimed a large town once stood here but it was swallowed by the lake (after the locals insulted Saint Patrick) and then used by the fairies to construct their kingdom. A slight variation says the fairies were once the townsfolk before they were submerged. Bells could occasionally be heard coming from the water.

Monk

Location: Swansea - DVLA building, basement and floors D15/D16
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s onwards?
Further Comments: A shadowy monk wearing medieval garb is said to haunt the basement in this government building, while on the floors above, lights flicker on and filing cabinet drawers are opened unaided.

Jenny

Location: Swansea - Grand Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: An actress who went down with the Titanic, Jenny last acted in this theatre before meeting her doom. She is now seen dressed in brilliant white, quickly vanishing into thin air after being spotted.

Dead Miners

Location: Swansea - Morfa Colliery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1890
Further Comments: As if attempting to warn against the incoming disaster that killed 87, the days leading up to the event bore witness to screams and cries coming from the mining tunnels, and visual reports of miners who had previously lost their lives.

An old postcard of the Mumbles in Swansea.

White Figure

Location: Swansea - Mumbles, Caswell
Type: Other
Date / Time: April 1887
Further Comments: A white figure with a black face initially thought a ghost by witnesses turned out to be, in the best Scooby Doo fashion, an employee of the Oystermouth Water Works (who claimed to have dressed up to scare his children). An unimpressed mob stripped the man of his white clothing and the local vicar issued a sound telling off.

Ball of Fire

Location: Swansea - Mumbles, exact area not known
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Early nineteenth century
Further Comments: A man pursued a ball of fire that morphed into a shapeshifting 'horrid black thing'. Despite outrunning him, the shape settled near the exhausted man and started to shrink, so the man caught the entity in his hat. Intending to ask the entity where he could find buried treasure, the man began to daydream about what to do with his newfound wealth, which included leaving his wife for another woman; the creature disappeared.

Figure

Location: Swansea - Neighbourhood of York Place
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa November 1895
Further Comments: A ghost pointed at a certain spot in this neighbourhood where human remains were later found.

Crocodile

Location: Swansea - Pluck Lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 27 April 2008, and July 2015
Further Comments: In 2008, a witness reported seeing a one metre long crocodile in this body of water. The location was checked by a member of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Gwilym Games. Seven years later, video footage caught a bird being attacked by something in the water, with various people claiming the creature more likely to be a terrapin or a pike rather than a croc.

Olga

Location: Swansea - Psychiatric hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Olga suffered from paranoid schizophrenia who managed to kill herself while at the hospital. She has since made several appearances; a small woman with large green eyes and long ginger hair, she often sings and interacts with witnesses, who do not realise she is a ghost until later.

Welsh Polt

Location: Swansea - Rhondda Street
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1965
Further Comments: The police were called to investigate this poltergeist, which turned furnishings over and drove the Howells family to leave the property. Marcia, the matriarch of the family, described the experience on a local news channel, saying that her son could have been killed when the entity overturned his cot.

White Lady

Location: Swansea Bay - Oystermouth Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The castle grounds are haunted by this crying white lady with a bloody back. Another story has the site haunted by a white horse.

Fairy cows in fairy land.

Entrance to Fairyland

Location: Vale of Neath - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Possible twelfth century
Further Comments: Elidurus visited fairyland via an entrance located somewhere in the Vale. In the other land, horses and greyhounds were the same as our world, only much smaller, the sky always cloudy, and the fairies consumed only milk. Elidurus returned several times, but after trying to steal some gold for his mother, discovered that the doorway to fairyland had been once again hidden.