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Banshee

Senor Willy

First of all a question.
Does anyone here believe in the Banshee ?

My wife got a call yesterday from her brother telling her of a terrifying
experience both he and his girl friend had the other night.

Apparently his girlfriend woke up at roughly 3am to what she thought was their
baby boy screaming. She got up and went into the Nursery.
The baby was sound asleep. She returned to the bedroom and there was an
old woman screaming at their window. She panicked and woke her boyfriend
( my wifes brother ) up. He looked at the window and saw the old woman
screaming at them. They said the noise was defening. Both of them were
s******g it. His girlfriend hid under the duvet crying her eyes out.
My brother in law got up out of bed and went to the window to close it.
As he approached the window the woman backed away. He also noticed that
there was a really dense fog around the woman. He closed the window and
ran back to bed.
At this time the woman returned to the window and kept up her screaming.
Both of them lay terrified under the covers.

The thing is they live over a shop. So unless this woman was hanging from
a Crane there was no way she could have moved as she did.
This went on until 4:10am.
They said their ears were ringing and that they never ever heard screaming like it.
They swore blind they were not drinking or are making it up. The guy only told
my wife and her sister as he fears he will be ridiculed if he told anyone else.
Neither of them could sleep the following night.

I dont believe in Banshees, UFO`s, Bigfoot etc but the guy and his girlfriend
are really shaken.
We told my mother and she believed me straight away. She is originally from
Corporation street Buildings and she told me that she heard it many times
as a child. Apparently the was a family there named Kavanagh and every
time they heard the wailing a member of this family would be found dead
in the morning.
I looked up Banshee on Wiki and it mentioned the names of the old Celtic
families that she follows and Kavanagh was one of the families.

I just wanted to know what everyone elses take on this is and is there a
difference between hearing her and seeing her. That is if she exists at all.

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kylith

It's the only one that I could bring to mind at the time. I'm sure there are more examples out there.

Are you having trouble understanding it because you don't think it's true or because their shared false memory was about aliens rather than banshees?

jonbravo

i understand the thinking behind whats being said however i disagree, maybe theirs another case study{other then betty and barney} which would make more sence to me!?
Im not sayin your wrong i just think its the wrong case study to highlight.
thats just my opinion....

kylith

jonbravo wrote: »

second thing, is the betty and barney hill story which is totally out of context in this post to what actually happened in the report, maybe the skeptic who wrote it should explain the reason it appears in the subject of the banshee!??

I mentioned Barney and Betty Hill is that it is believed that their 'abduction' memories were caused by Betty having nightmares after which she would wake her husband and describe them to him in detail. He, having been woken from a deep sleep, was not fully awake while listening to his wife's descriptions and so his unconcious, suggestable mind led to him having similar dreams, and from there the couple's shared beliefs that they were victims of alien abduction.

I brought this up because I believe it is a possible explanation for this 'banshee sighting'; one of the couple had a nightmare (perhaps influenced by the yowling of foxes or cats, or even a car alarm) and woke the other to describe it. The second person, being barely awake, is thus influenced to think that they too had the 'banshee' experience and each believes that the other's memory gives credence to their own.

HTH

amacachi

They've been watching too many horror films, not because of what they think they saw but because they stayed in the ****in house!

wonderfulname

jonbravo wrote: »

Lets begin at the start; first of all the question was ,does anyone believe in the banshee?? i think this is the only post that answered that question.

Actually I would deem any post offering an alternative explanation, on a skeptics forum, to be one written by someone who does not believe in banshees, just because its not explicitly stated doesn't mean it wasn't said.

maccored

not matter if the banshee exists or not, I'd say that if you traced this story back would you find the same story?

Im not trying to diss the OP in any way, but surely sometimes these kinds of stories grow in the telling (im assuming the post was copied from an email going by the formatting)?

jonbravo

kylith wrote: »

I do not believe that the banshee exists.

I don't know what your family members may have seen, but is there a fire escape outside their window? Do they have any friends who may have set this up as a hilarious 'joke'? Is it possible that they're making it up or mistaken (foxes screech like you wouldn't believe)? Barring this I would think that it's most likely a case of one of them having a nightmare and waking the other to describe it. The second person, being half asleep, then integrates this into their own dream and believes that they've seen it too, as is believed to have happened in the Barney and Betty Hill 'abductions' in the 60s.

Lets begin at the start; first of all the question was ,does anyone believe in the banshee?? i think this is the only post that answered that question.

second thing, is the betty and barney hill story which is totally out of context in this post to what actually happened in the report, maybe the skeptic who wrote it should explain the reason it appears in the subject of the banshee!??

Cunning Stunt

If they really saw a woman screaming outside their window and this went on for over an hour, why didn't they ring the guards?

wonderfulname

Just going to go through a possible explanation:

A fox cub has found itself alone and is crying like mad for its mother, who is off hunting.
This crying half wakes a woman who, being mother to a young baby, is used to waking at obscene hours due to a similar sound.
Not being quite fully awake the woman is confused to see it was not her son that woke her.
She returns to bed, still half asleep.
Stangely the screaming continues, the woman notices the movement of a branch/light/insert-random-object-here at the window, she does as i often have, and sees a person.
She grabs her boyfriend to tell him. He sees what hes told (interestingly enough this is exactly what people do, look at this picture. calcite formation you say? why no its a face! look again, you'll see it now i've told you to look for it)
The girlfriend hid her face from this point, now regardless of whether or not shes fully awake she is no longer a witness.
Her boyfriend on the other hand is so asleep he is effectively dreaming.
He truly believes he is seeing this mystical woman, does as you describe, and runs back to bed.
Both man and woman are now in hiding, they see nothing and only hear the cubs cries for attention.
The cubs mammy comes back from the hunt at 4.10.
The screaming stops.
The couple feel safe again.

They get up the next morning and confirm each others story.
They ring your mother who further confirms their story.
They now fully believe they saw a banshee.

The fear of this "sighting" leaves them unable to sleep the following night.

Like i said just one possible explanation of what happened that night, minus the banshee!

munsterdevil

All I know is, if there was somebody outside my window roaring into me, I would open the window and tell them to f*ck off, and if the window was wide enough punch them in the gob:D

Senor Willy

He must have been watching too many horror films.

Elbi

If they were so scared why didnt one of them go in and get the baby..

I dont believe it was a banshee at the window but whatever it was did frighten them but if I was that terrified first thing i would do is go get the baby to make sure it was safe.

sensibleken

i was woken up only a few nights ago by the sound of someone walking up my stairs followed by soemthing casting a shadow accross the ceiling. i got up, armed myself and carefully walked around the house checking for a burglar.

nothing there. completely made it up but i was absolutely convinced of what i saw and heard before checking and confirming it wasn't. when youre half asleep you can take a sound and a sight, put them together and a quick reference to the deep references of your memory usually results in a false positive

Zombrex

I am very sceptically of anything people experience in the middle of the night because when you just wake up your ability to determine reality and imagination is quite diminished. I'm constantly waking up convinced there is someone in my room. I'm perfectly wake but what ever bit of my brain that is supposed to say "that is a shadow not a man" isn't working.

My guess would be what your brother-in-law experienced was a fire alarm going off and in their sleepy state interpreted shadows and shapes outside the window as a woman.

kylith

Morphéus wrote: »

so in an hour and ten minutes they never thought once of phoning anyone else up or taking photos or some other method of finding out what the f**k was happening?

I too find it odd that they didn't so much as take a photo. I know that if I woke up to see an elderly lady apparently floating outside my window I'd be out like a shot to see how she was doing it, or at least call the police.

Morpheus

so in an hour and ten minutes they never thought once of phoning anyone else up or taking photos or some other method of finding out what the f**k was happening?

kylith

I do not believe that the banshee exists.

I don't know what your family members may have seen, but is there a fire escape outside their window? Do they have any friends who may have set this up as a hilarious 'joke'? Is it possible that they're making it up or mistaken (foxes screech like you wouldn't believe)? Barring this I would think that it's most likely a case of one of them having a nightmare and waking the other to describe it. The second person, being half asleep, then integrates this into their own dream and believes that they've seen it too, as is believed to have happened in the Barney and Betty Hill 'abductions' in the 60s.