According to Mark Rees, who has interviewed the family, the trouble began in the house in Rhondda Street in 1965 and seemed aimed at the mother. Objects were thrown straight at her and smashed against doors as she pulled her children close to protect them. Furniture was upended to block doorways and barricade rooms. An American ghost-hunting blog that picked up the story in 2015 notes that the events were filmed at the time, and describes an unseen force pushing and tossing the furniture about.
The police were called and could not explain how an intruder could have got out of a room whose door was blocked from the inside. ITV Wales, revisiting the case in May 2015, headlined the mother's verdict that it "couldn't be human". The family fled the house, and as in so many poltergeist cases the disturbances stopped suddenly without any explanation being found.
Rees says the case could rival Cardiff's "Pete the Poltergeist" as the biggest in Wales, and new details from his interviews were added to Paranormal Swansea and Gower at the last minute and were to form part of a documentary. It is tagged contested because, as with all poltergeist cases, the evidence is testimony and the reports of baffled police, but it is one of the better witnessed modern hauntings in the city.
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