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Music of the Night – Is the Prince of Wales Inn Haunted?
Some details & photos from 1982 when hauntings at the Prince were first noted & investigated…
Wednesday June 30th, 1982
Things really don’t go bump in the night at the centuries-old Prince of Wales Inn; but the landlord, Mr Mickey Evans & his wife admit to hearing the ghostly strains of an organ & there are also strange voices long after stop tap – they are convinced of the presence of a poltergeist at this ancient inn.
Monday August 23rd, 1982
It appears that walls do have ears & with a bit of persuasion in the form of a massive electric shock, will “talk”.
Two regulars at the Prince of Wales (reputedly a surviving building from the legendary buried city of Kenfig, near Porthcawl are attempting to get to the bottom of ghostly, strange noises & early recordings have thrown up voices, organ music and a ticking clock…
“It scared the pants off me when I heard it for the first time,” said one of the scientific ghost-hunters, 52 year old Mr John Marke who is an electrical engineer from Nottage & who has used the public house since he was old enough to drink.
With his partner, Mr Allan Jenkins, an industrial chemist who specialises in mineral crytallography (the study of minerals), Mr Marke has set up sensitive recording equipment in a room above the bar.
They are working on the theory that the ferric salts & silica in the walls are capable of retaining the energy of sounds over hundreds of years – chemical analysis has proved the presence of chemicals similar to these used in the manufacture of recording tapes, transisters & microschips.
website researcher/author: Copyright © Rob Bowen, Kenfig.org Local Community Group, 2019 Source: Prince of Wales Inn, Kenfig;
Photos courtesy: Prince of Wales Inn, Kenfig/Rob Bowen (Kenfig.org)
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