Setting the scene. What are the Berwyns?

The Berwyns is a mountain range which is located high above our village and stretches for miles in each direction.
This large remote area ranges from Llangollen, Llandrillo’s neighbouring town of Corwen, Bala and to the outskirts close to the English border at Oswestry which separates Shropshire from Snowdonia, literally dividing North Wales. It is mostly a wild and isolated area for which persons would find it hard for walking and to navigate through, as it proved for King Henry II of England during his invasion of Gwynedd in 1165. It is thought that the King took an alternate route coming from Oswestry and marching to Gwynedd over this misty and often cloudy terrain for which torrential weather prevented the army from making any progress, and where eventually forced to turn back.
Towering at the highest point of this mountain range approximately 1 mile outside of Cynwyd, is an area called the Berwyn ridge, it is made up of four main peaks Moel Sych, Cadair Bronwen, Mynydd Tarw and Cadair Berwyn all of which have been the witnesses of many plane crashes. It is also said that these peaks have been haunted by a multitude of aerial phenomena over the centuries and contemporary paranormal mysteries abound, including ‘phantom bodies’, ghosts, lake monsters and that most modern of tales the ‘alien big cat’.

If you are lucky enough to walk this ridge on a misty day you will soon begin to feel these mountains have haunting stories to tell. Either that or you will feel cold and want to go home.