The Boathouse stands on the cliff at the edge of the Taf estuary in Laugharne, below the path Dylan Thomas walked to his writing shed. He lived there with his wife Caitlin and their children from 1949 until his death in New York in 1953. His mother, Florence, came to live in Laugharne after his father died, and she died in 1958.
The haunting is said to be Florence. The reports are small domestic ones: the sound of chairs being dragged across a floor when the room is empty, pictures found swapped round on the walls, and lights turning themselves on and off. They are passed on by the Tenby Observer and by the listing site HauntedPlaces.org.
The two sources do not agree on who she was. The newspaper calls her Dylan's mother, which fits the facts; the listing site calls her his mother-in-law, which does not. Caitlin's mother was a different woman altogether. The museum itself does not promote a ghost, and the reports are anecdotes, but they are attached to a house where the family lived and grieved.
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