Episode 68: Morfa Colliery

The Morfa Colliery disaster in Wales on the 10th of March, 1890 took the lives of 87 miners, but the death toll could have easily been far higher.

Almost half of the colliers scheduled to work that morning hadn’t come in for their shift, with some claiming that is was because of reports of paranormal activity within the mine in the leadup to the disaster that warned them of impending doom…

SOURCES

📚 Haunted Wales: A Guide To Welsh Ghostlore by Richard Holland

📚 Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain by Russell Ash et al.

💻 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/15-bodies-buried-beneath-tata-16040525

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