A property in Cwmbran is back on the market with one very strange caveat. It comes with the ghost of the black hound of the underworld. It’s officially written into the deeds of the property that the black hound lives there, and has planning permission.
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00:00October means the start of spooky season, and plenty of us will be getting into the
00:07Halloween mood. So we're here in Cwmbran on a very normal street to see something that's
00:12apparently very not normal. This old chapel dotted amongst some usual looking houses has
00:18a secret that is officially written into the deeds of the property. You wouldn't think
00:24it just walking up this street, all the normal houses, children playing, that this house
00:30has some real dark secrets. In the past it's been up for auction and sold, but it was put
00:38up again recently and failed to sell. The auctioneers told me that there is some interest
00:42so it might be sold in the future, but in its past there are some very strange parts
00:46to the tale of the old chapel. It looks like it has history, it's believed it was built
00:52way back in the 17th century which would make it roughly 400 years old. It's got a
00:57graveyard out the front and the inside has seen better days. Centuries ago it served
01:01as a centre for Welsh non-conformist Christians and would have sit relatively alone without
01:06the area around being built yet. When you take a look into the details of the chapel
01:12though you'll learn that on the grounds of this property apparently lives an apparition,
01:17the Black Hound of the Underworld. And what makes it all the more strange is that the
01:24fact that if you take a look at the deed to the house the Black Hound of the Underworld
01:29is written into the official documents, something that certainly doesn't happen all too much
01:34in real estate law. So if you're buying this old chapel you might be buying a whole lot
01:39more too. The story goes that the old vicar of the church was up late one night and he
01:49could hear the sounds of an animal outside, so he looked into the darkness of the surrounding
01:53woodland to check what was there. And he was then faced with a dog and he knew that it
02:00was after him. Legend says that when the dog ran towards him the vicar struck him between
02:05the eyes with his Bible and the mythological dog apparently burst into flames and disappeared,
02:11leaving the vicar intact except his beard was burned off. It's a good story and who
02:17knows how much truth there is to it, but if you're looking at it from a legal stance then
02:21the Black Hound of the Underworld is well and truly part of the chapel. Nowadays it
02:29is all a little bit more light-hearted and there's planning permission for a nursery
02:33on the property, extra parking over the top of the graveyard or could be turned into a
02:38single dwelling house with some heavy renovation necessary. There's a kitchen area, a few rooms
02:44inside, and the building itself is really quite pretty and quaint. It failed to be sold
02:49at auction recently so it is still available if you're brave enough to suffer the consequences
02:54of the Black Hound of the Underworld.