Old Man Nok
In an area known as Pren Tywyll on the fourth hill surrounding Pontyddim lived Old Man Nok who was blamed for the death of a young boy named Morgan. Parents grouped together and killed Nok for the death, unbeknownst to them the boy died by accident. Cursing the parents, he still haunts the woods today and in the deathly silence of Pren Tywyll where the only sound is your own heart beating. If you hear the sound of another’s breathing behind you. Don’t turn around.
Founder and Editor of Pilgrim House, currently researching folklore and early Welsh Christianity and curator of the archives of the lost village of Pontyddim.