Wraith in the Mine.
Two men on the night shift at Ollersett coal pit, Derbyshire, when creeping on all-fours underneath the dipping rock roof, observed an object standing a few feet away lifting up its arms and uttering loud screams.
The men were paralysed with fright, and before they had recovered from the shock the apparition vanished. Two nights later a white-faced miner, in a state of collapse, stated that he had also seen the wraith. The ghost was reported to be headless, and to resemble the form of a woman, but this was probably due to the fact that some years ago a woman's body with the head severed from the trunk was found in the pit.
The ghost turned out to be a pure white badger, which had made its home in the mine.
Dundee People's Journal, 31st January 1914.
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