[storm2811]

Originally Posted by TheDuderino

My greatuncle heard his own banshee death wail. He was dead that night.

@jkrowling
ever hear a hare's scream? you know its not supernatural but itll still scare the crap out ya.
Sounds like a baby's scream (what id imagine one to be that is..) with an animal edge.

*shudder*

Oh thank feck you said that,me and a friend were out camping one night and we woke up at around 5 because of this really weird noise,sounds just like how you described it,scared the crap out of us!Thought it was some ghost child out to get us

I don't think I've heard a banshee before but I've heard some really weird noises at funerals,do they cry at funerals?

My brother heard one before at his friend's house,he was a Mcgovern and that's in the list of names so?I think his granny died soon after.

[_MadRa_]

Ive heard Over 85% of random noises are banshees....

[oncevotedff]

Originally Posted by Hugo Drax

When I try to shout them down to be quiet, people on the bus stare at me.

Well obviously. You're not supposed to answer a Banshee's cry. My grandmother and my aunt saw her on the nights of neighbours' deaths.

Originally Posted by suey71

Is the Banshee just an Irish phonominum?

Sorry about the spelling.

No. A Lebanese chap told me they have a similar creature.

[Pollythene Pam]

I hate vegans

[Corvus Maximus]

My Godfather died in 1991 my Mum and I heard the Banshee at 02.30am the time he died. It started of in the distance and moved closer, the sound seemed to circle the house and the garden. My bedroom was the only downstairs bedroom and I remember going to bed a bit spooked but unsure of the noise. As I entered my bedroom I heard the 'cry' in our back yard. I stood for about a minute and listened but heard nothing else. I then closed my bedroom door and as I walked toward the bed the 'cry' came from outside my bedroom door. I have never known such terror in my life, I was so scared that if I stayed in the bedroom 'it' would enter. After about 30 seconds of psyching myself up I rushed out the bedroom door and upstairs to my parents bedroom - turning on every light in the process.
My Mum also heard it, everyone else slept through it. She immediately knew what it was and reassured me. All I can say is it was an unearthly cry which no human or animal cry could reproduce. I now understand it was an ancient ancestor of our family and it's an honor which shouldn't be feared.

[Finnbar01]

My grandmother was visiting family in Australia, when she phoned home to Ireland to tell us how she was getting on, she told us that she had a strange horrible lucid dream of a child screaming and wailing. A few days later my aunt miscarried.

[minister poxbottle]

Originally Posted by medicman2009

My Godfather died in 1991 my Mum and I heard the Banshee at 02.30am the time he died. It started of in the distance and moved closer, the sound seemed to circle the house and the garden. My bedroom was the only downstairs bedroom and I remember going to bed a bit spooked but unsure of the noise. As I entered my bedroom I heard the 'cry' in our back yard. I stood for about a minute and listened but heard nothing else. I then closed my bedroom door and as I walked toward the bed the 'cry' came from outside my bedroom door. I have never known such terror in my life, I was so scared that if I stayed in the bedroom 'it' would enter. After about 30 seconds of psyching myself up I rushed out the bedroom door and upstairs to my parents bedroom - turning on every light in the process.
My Mum also heard it, everyone else slept through it. She immediately knew what it was and reassured me. All I can say is it was an unearthly cry which no human or animal cry could reproduce. I now understand it was an ancient ancestor of our family and it's an honor which shouldn't be feared.

stay away from de head shops kiddin sounds scary

[the purple tin]

I know a couple of people who swear they heard a banshee wail, no deaths afterwards though.
Is the Banshee evil?
Does she cause the deaths or just warn people about them?

[oisinthefirst]

Stayed for the weekend many years ago in an old stone cottage in the mountains of Donegal with some friends.

A bleak night with rain and wind, clung to each other all night whilst she wailed and scratched at the door. I suppose there was a death of sorts! Car ignition was dead the next morning. We didn't want to stay any longer so we hotwired the car and got the hell outta there. I had some tough friends with me and we were all very scared. Absolutely true!

Also heard her when I was about 9 years old and saw her once on the Antrim Coast.

Very Scary, absolutely believe in her or something.

[DorkBaller]

Originally Posted by the purple tin

I know a couple of people who swear they heard a banshee wail, no deaths afterwards though.
Is the Banshee evil?
Does she cause the deaths or just warn people about them?

This is a good twist. However, there should be more reports of people hearing banshees if banshees really "warn" people about an impending death.

Maybe it's like the grim reaper? It doesn't really warn but inform people that they're about to be dead?

[NoobSaibot5]

I remember when I was a child having a friend over to stay the night (I have one of those surnames on the list, or at least a derivative of it). My room used to overlook the back of the pipes near the Coombe.

For years there was stories there about Banshees. My aunt had gotten a job as a secretary and was returning home late one night when she seen the shilouette of a hunched over woman up ahead of her and she froze out of freight. Same thing as you guys said, she heard this icy, terrifying scream and just ran the other way. She's a tough woman but there's no way she was going to pass through here. This was when she was in her twentys and she's now in her sixties and still believes it. One of her neighbours passed away a few days after the incident.

Anyway, I had a friend over one night who used to have a bit of a vivid imagination, and he ends up waking me up really late. We were only kids, around 8 or 9 at the time, but I remember how terrified he was when he woke me up. He'd told me he'd heard someone crying out in the garden below my window, and that he'd seen a woman in rags. I thought he was taking the piss until I'd heard someone sobbing in the distance, coming from the direction he was talking about. When I looked out the window I didn't see anything myself, but I definetly felt it's presence. I believed him. Though it might sound like a horrible coincidence, his aunt ended up passing away not even two weeks afterwards. She was dying of cancer.

[oisinthefirst]

I was about nine years old when I first heard her, same as previous post, my grandad died the next day.

She also knocks on the door of your house, heard it!

[homersimpson]

A few years ago my granmother was very ill in hospital and my family were all there with her. I was at home and no one else was in the house.

I had the sitting room light off but the hallway light was on and the sitting room door was open.

I was sitting watching television when I saw something like a black shadow of a person walking up the stairs.

Something like this but not as black.



I wasn't spooked at all when I seen this and was totally at ease, but I knew then that my granmother was going to die.

Two days later she passed away.

She had always told me stories of getting signs when people were going to die

[iBeast]

At a local park there is a castle. The banshee is rumored to appear there at 12 o clock at night. Rumours were recently confirmed by the hardy men who go drinking in said park.

[wilkie2006]

This is a really interesting thread. Anyone know of any good books on banshees?