Rebecca Adams lived near Laugharne Castle in the eighteenth century, and Edmund Jones, who collected her story, describes her as a woman who appeared to be a true living experimental Christian, beyond many. That is to say, she was not the sort to be scared by nonsense.
One evening she had business in Laugharne town. Her mother tried to stop her, saying she would be caught by the dark and might be terrified by some apparition at Pant y Madog. This was a pit by the side of the lane into Laugharne which was never known to be dry, and which many people had both seen and heard apparitions at. Rebecca went anyway. It was fairly dark by the time she was coming home, and she had passed the haunted pit and was congratulating herself on having seen nothing.
Then a great dog came towards her down the lane. About four or five yards away it stopped, squatted on its haunches, and let out a scream so loud, so horrible and so strong that she thought the earth moved under her. She fell down in a faint. When she came to, the dog was gone. It was past midnight when she got home, weak and exhausted. Wirt Sikes reprinted the story in 1880.
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