Haunted
There is much to suggest that the Dualais Rock Inn is haunted. Looking around the interior, as you are invited to do on the videos included on this website, one gets the impression that the previous occupants left in a hurry. No-one would surely leave a property that way. Note the photographs on the walls, the lelevision set. the dinning table set for a meal and the children's crayons.
A reader wanted to make a film about it and writes:
"I'm looking to raise funds to make a short documentary about the history of aberdulais in Neath south Wales. The area has a lot of history to it, once a booming Steele industry back in the early 1600s, all that is now left is the national trust aberdulais falls and the dulais rock inn. I was brought up in the pub when I was young, it has so much history and I can tell you it is very haunted. Unfortunately the pub has been closed for 10 years now just left to waste away. Hopefully I will be able to gain access and take a look around it for the first time since I was 8. Hopefully I can get some help in my goal, in need of the right software and camera for it."
The Neath Ferret researcher could not help thinking about the Mary Celeste while working on this website.
Mary Celeste (often misreported as Marie Celeste) was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratiafound her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7, and on discovery was still amply provisioned. Her cargo of denatured alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had been on board were ever seen or heard from again.
The name of the ship has become a byword for unexplained desertion.
Wikipedia.
