Explaining The Banshee, Ireland 1986

[@Blondie101010100]

They should do re-runs of that era of The Late Late Show... in place of the current Late Late Show.

[@baxpiz1289]

they do that w johnny carson and ed sullivan on meTV in the states

[@Discover-Ireland]

Spot on

[@connienail4013]

Great idea!!!

[@edmundpower1250]

And the excellent picture quality of this era is better than American shows. Gay was superb

[@seanoriain6477]

Good idea and would be a big improvement on turbridy I can't stand him such a fake

[@freebornjohn2687]

Good to hear an intelligent and knowledgeable person talking about this cultural tradition.

[@rosemarymccarron3887]

You mean the pagan tradition ...

[@toniacollinske2518]

After my sister's death in hospice, I had to wait for a lift home. Facing a field area, I stood there and wailed uncontrollably. I've often wondered if anyone thought they were hearing the banshee.

[@vvelvettearss]

aww :( My condolences

[@SaveOurSaints]

🌹

[@elizabethconnolly8958]

I heard tge Banshee here in Australia my brother in Dublin. I heard it on Monday evening here my son in law said its only the cats i had but tuesday i got a phone call from Sydney my younger brother who told me my brother Michael in Dublin had passed away Rip Amen xxx passed away in

[@eyeq7730]

Tragic but also humorous

[@jaymcd8577]

The past is a different country, and indeed so was Ireland. God I miss it

[@HogandDice]

Patricia was one of my lecturers, great woman

[@jakmak1199]

and handy with the hurley too.

[@radharcanna]

Still going strong, researching, lecturing and publishing.

[@florenceobrien2822]

Nonsense

[@jamestyrrell4632]

My mother and her sister was sat with a dying woman in the ladies house and they heard the banshee keening outside..the old lady sat up and spit twice to the bottom of the bed..they said the wailing was terrifying so much so my aunt ran home leaving my mother alone and the old lady started with the death rattle(loud weird breathing)and was dead ten minutes later..she went and got her mother and they started the cleaning and laying out process..Balinasloe 1934.

[@oceantiara]

Ah sure now

[@lydialily846]

What a fantastic story , ❤

[@SaoirsenahÉireann1]

I've heard the banshee..on my own in the house that night. I broke out in a cold sweat out of fear. She cried outside my window..and I rang my sister under the duvet..I was in my late 30's and had never heard a cry like it. I rang my parents the following day..told them, and sure enough my Dads first cousin ( Kelly) had died. I never met the man, but my father said she cried for his cousin..I'll never forget it as long as I live..

[@shane6115]

Grow up will you.

[@SaoirsenahÉireann1]

@@shane6115 I know what I heard..and who the hell are you to say otherwise??? Keep your shit comments to yourself...

[@shane6115]

@@SaoirsenahÉireann1. Ah come on it’s 2023 you do know that I take it, and people laugh of this type of stuff, it’s entertaining if anything.

[@saorgaza6068]

@@shane6115 I don't agree. I think that most of us nowadays are more distracted or distanced from banshees and other supernatural phenomena. This doesn't mean they weren't or aren't real phenomena in my opinion

[@AnthonyAfrikaans]

It’s a fox, you bellend.

[@yvonnnelalor6162]

Beautiful to see THE Master at work ❤

[@alastair6356]

This is a tradition in Scotland to, this spans the celtic culture. We all lead modern lives now and as a result we are not connected to the land or have the spirituality that our ancestors had.

[@nervesinapattern7261]

Materially better off, yet spiritually poorer.

[@saorgaza6068]

Around 1970 my father in our home in Tyrone was awakened in the middle of the night by what he called 'an unearthly scream' and he then woke my mother up. The scream had stopped when my mother woke up, but he described it to her as like nothing natural nor like any sound he'd ever heard before. He said to her it would be what he would imagine a banshee might sound like. A few minutes later his nephew knocked the door asking him to come to a wake as a neighbour up the hill behind the house had passed away.

[@pinkzweibel985]

😮wow ..

[@brianm2881]

I don't believe this story for several reasons. Chief among them being that a banshee cries *before* a death, not after. The wailing serves as an omen in that regard. Secondly, your father woke up in the middle of the night, woke your mother, and then a few minutes later a nephew came to invite him to a wake. A wake in the middle of the night? There's no such thing.

[@Art-is-craft]

The Banshee does not scream it wails/cries.

[@bahoonies]

My family is related the O'Connors and McTernans. My grandmother was a firm believer in the supernatural and the faeries. She told me there was a banshee associated with both branches of our family.

[@ilanamillion8942]

The book by Patricia Lysaght is excellent and I highly recommend it.

[@DashDrones]

Loved this. Smart lady.

[@TT_1221]

Gay was in a league of his own as a Presenter. Superb!

[@radharcanna]

I didn’t always like his views but he was a consummate TV presenter. He had a genuine interest in peoples’ stories, unlike today’s self-conscious preening presenters.

[@mb-vf3qb]

Sooooo agree

[@davidreay5911]

In the 90's I was working as a truck driver, and one night I had a dream about a work colleague and myself. We had delivered two trucks to a site and as I walked away down a dark path with Martin following, I heard a sound that sounded like the ocean, sort of a static hiss. I sensed to my right a dark body of water as I 'heard' a voice say, ' Would you like a lift'. ( we were miles from our home town). I shouted 'yes' and turned to shout to Martin, ' where do you want to go', and to my amazement he said ' Gainsborough'. Confused in the dream I said, ' but you don't live in Gainsborough'. Then I awoke. That morning I spoke with Martin as I was driving into a quarry and he was driving out. I asked him where he was loaded for and he said Grantham would you believe, a joke because it was a regular run. I paused and considered whether to tell him of my dream, but decided not to. Another truck behind wanted the road so we continued with our work. Next morning, loaded for a delivery to a farm in the country I radioed for information as to the site. The dispatcher told me to wait, and I noticed, in my mirror, a man walking towards me from where I had driven by. The dispatcher radioed back telling me that the customer was walking to meet me, then he said, ' Did you hear about Martin'. My first thought was that he had ' dyked' the truck.'No' I replied. 'He died last night'. I believe in the dream I heard ' Charon', 'The mythical Ferryman'. 'Don't pay the Ferryman'.

[@martinacooney200]

O m g Lord rest him 🙏

[@SaveOurSaints]

🌹

[@mumsow]

Absolutely wonderful 💚💜

[@gracesanity6314]

I have never watched The late late show after Gay left. He was so brilliant at this.

[@karenoleary7262]

God I miss this man, this was entertainment and worth watching,

[@AceKiller9000]

I heard a Banshee while hill walking as a teenager in Ireland. I froze instantly, thick fog surrounded me, and I was cut off from the rest of the group. I ran and ran until I found the group, didnt tell anyone, was terrified. True story but not expecting anyone to believe me. It was a lot longer wail than a fox or any cat or owl, which I am familiar with. At least 20 seconds contant tone high pitched wailing not like a fox

[@Art-is-craft]

Banshee cries and does not scream

[@eileenahern-ku9nx]

Another person told me he too heard the banshee on his honeymoon first night in Rome. He said he froze with the sound ❤

[@fredfredburger5150]

I too have heard the long, loud constant pitched wail. I heard it right outside my bedroom window a couple of years ago. Too loud to be a natural sound. Needless to say my bedsheets went up over my head lol. This was in County Down in the middle of town.

[@jiggermast]

I wasn't born in Ireland, but my ancestors who were Irish (from Mayo I think & for some strange reason when everyone was leaving for the USA, headed East to the far Northwest coast of England. I have a massive fascination with Irelands history & I most certainly do believe in the Banshee. I wrote a short poem years ago about what my grandmother (Bridget) and her young sister (Catherine) my great aunt experienced around 1915 along Whitehaven harbour front. I'd like to think someone might enjoy it, or maybe get a shiver or two. Lol! A Banshee in Bardywell. It was the middle of the night in Bardy lane When they heard a baby cry. Three of them heard it in two different rooms Without a word of a lie. It was past the 'mount' steps up in James's place Where the whimpering voice sounded slight, Then closer and louder with some change in tone, Not a baby, but dog poor mite. "The 'Laal' things being plagued by summut" Cath said, As the wailing grew greater she sat up in bed. "I'll have to go down & see just what's wrong, It's injured, it must be. it's gone on too long". "NO don't lass, just leave it," said mother, "Come here, Knock through for your sister, so I've got you both near." The cacophony by then was below in the lane, So loud 'neath the window, like the Devil in pain. "It's no baby, or dog lass, or nout that you'd know. I've heard it just once, but long long ago." A lane paved with wet cobbles did nothing to quell That echoing siren that ungodly yell. With a howling and screaming to run the blood cold, Rattling the windows & doors I've been told. Cath peered from the bedroom, "There's a woman down there, She's on't bottom ut mount steps, sittin' brushin' her hair." "I've told you, come here! don't look at it lasses." As Bridget came through, "we'll just wait 'till it passes." It was quieter then. 'round on to the quay, Though still wailing past 'Tansy's', "It's going you see," Soft shrieking still heard from up past 'The Standard'. Not as loud then, as it must have meandered past Hamilton lane And the old Customs house, by then just a moaning as soft as a mouse. Then silence again on that cold still night when Something past up the quay & out over the sea, escorting a soul to its last destiny. Then when daylight began, to the harbour folk ran To fish out the corps of a drowned Irishman. It had came for its own on that frightening morn To take back to old Ireland his soul Gaelic born.

[@whitetroutchannel]

the hair comb and her brushin her hair is how i heard her in stories and the death wail of course, in county down

[@christianmccann9400]

I remember my Gran telling me years ago ... that her and her sister heard her crying, they both looked out the window and could see her sitting on her neighbours garden wall combing her hair .. the next day they found out their neighbour had died that night ... ...

[@patriciaquinn5975]

Heard her in London, after my land lady died in her house where I was renting a room. A week later her brother died a week later suddenly in his sleep. They were very close.

[@Discover-Ireland]

I grew up with all these stories from my grandmother

[@oceantiara]

Me the same

[@m.forrestal5893]

I remember an elderly substitue teacher reading Banshee stories when I was in infants! Wasn't scared though.

[@michaelbuckley8986]

My relatives from West Cork told stories about the banshee when I used to visit from Dublin in the late 1960’s.I Also heard that the shriek of the vixen sounded a bit like the wail of the banshee.

[@Art-is-craft]

The Banshee does not scream it wails/cries. There more than likely is something in the human consciousness that enables humans to live through these ideas.

[@Art-is-craft]

@@Glint396 Such concepts are in every culture. Did you as a child ever experience shadow people.

[@monad8880]

I saw the Banshee in Child form, when i was a teenager. I saw Her in a field across the road from where I stood. I turned to tell my friend and in the blink of an eye, when we looked back to the field, She was gone. I heard the banshee later in life when i was accompanied by my Sisters, we all heard Her cries/wails. We hitched a lift in to town together that night in the early 90's. The hair stood upright on our arms when the car driver told us His CB handle was "Banshee" Confirmation or what? She is definitely real (ethereal) lastly .. My Parents have "Mc" and "O" surname, Stay blessed

[@Art-is-craft]

The human consciousness is capable of incredible things. We enter a virtual reality every night.

[@tonycarton8054]

my granny from sligo ,ballisodare often talked about the banshees and other phenomena like the the club-footed man at the cross roads .She worked in Brownlow castle in Lurgan .I often asked her about ghosts ........she said there were no ghosts there .In my young mind i thought 365 rooms ....no ghosts ,what a waste lol ,keep up the great work kia kaha

[@ActuallyDoubleGuitars]

That's mad my Granny also from Ballisodare talked about hearing the Banshees and even said a neighbour of hers died that night.

[@tonycarton8054]

@@ActuallyDoubleGuitars did you know the McGloines ?

[@tonycarton8054]

@@ActuallyDoubleGuitars that reply was NOT me

[@ConnollyStationChicago1936]

My grandmother was born in Galway, my dad, and then me born in Chicago. I grew up hearing of the Banshee, and also the Ghost of Boughs and the Sack Em Ups. If anyone here in the comments section has anything on these other 2, I’d so appreciate to know more.

[@jonathanj.7344]

Hi, I've just checked this out on Google. I could not find anything on the Ghost of Boughs, but did find on KZbin, Mistletoe Bough, a ghostly tale. There are several results for this on Google also so it's a well-known legend .Maybe this could be the story you are after? Also found on Google that the Sack 'Em Ups were Irish body snatchers who dug up freshly buried corpses for medical researchers. Hope this helps.

[@TheScientist43]

Very interesting, and would have been better if Gay hadn't kept belittling the subject matter. I heard a banshee in my late teens. One of the things that I identified with that Ms. Lysaght said was: "You FEEL it" I've never felt fear like it.

[@Saywhatnow-o3w]

In Donegal it’s known to make a knocking noise for some families.

[@johnking5174]

I read that a "death knock" comes on the front door of the home. It happened to us before, it is scary, but it is real.

[@Saywhatnow-o3w]

@@johnking5174 yeah very scary when your at home with someone who is dying.

[@johnking5174]

@@Saywhatnow-o3w It happened to my grandmother who we know was dying from cancer. She was already in hospital. The knock came around 10pm at night, and at 11am the following morning she died. No one in the street. No kids playing around. A massive three knocks on the front door, and we opened the door within 30 seconds. No one there. The street was totally quiet, no one around.

[@zimzimma5688]

1:15 made my skin crawl. Gay Byrne was such a smug prat. In his head he really did think he was the intellectual and moral authority for the entire country. I'm sure a person of her, by the sounds of it, many personal accomplishments, never had one bigger than the honour of a condescending, verbal pat on the head from the high king of Dublin 4, uncle Gaybo, at least in Gay's mind anyway.

[@ciaranmcmahon3024]

😂😂

[@hughjass8430]

Maybe he was just being honest about his beliefs or lack thereof and wasn't intending to be smug.

[@zimzimma5688]

@@hughjass8430 Regardless of the countless other examples over the years of him talking down to his audience, his guests and the nation as a whole, in this particular instance alone, you would think that by first listing out her credentials, it would have been obvious to anyone listening she's very intelligent. The fact that he felt the need to give his own rubber stamp in a tone befitting a parent praising a child that's done well in a maths test, tells me personally everything I need to know about the man's ego, but everyone's entitled to their opinion, so think what you want.

[@hughjass8430]

@@zimzimma5688 think you're putting a 21st century feminazi spin on a man very much of the 20th century, and 20th century Ireland at that. Gay did the same "isn't she a lovely girl" shtick with lots of women who were 25 plus years younger than him. It was just his way. Didn't mean any harm and it was a very different time and a different country. They're having a serious debate about whether a supernatural being might actually exist for God's sake.

[@zimzimma5688]

​@@hughjass8430 I'm not putting any feminist spin on anything, you did. It would have been and was in fact, just as smug and condescending when he took, as he often did, that tone with men. The woke police must haunt your dreams, looking for feminists offending your sensibilities when they're not there. It's night of the living woke, they're coming to take everything you love 😂

[@johnmurphy9304]

Definitely heard of the Bow in Wexford growing up….combing her hair and screeching…

[@avlasting3507]

Brilliant.

[@margaretnesbeth593]

I second the request to bring back Gaybo, I miss his talk show, he was the Best, America wanted him but he would not go at any price

[@DrPhil-pw2to]

In Donegal and Tyrone they make a banging sound.

[@loots9821]

A friend of mine years ago worked for an elderly gentleman. His wife was dying of cancer. I used to call into my friend at her lunchtime for the chats. This day i went to her job & it was closed so walking back home past her bosses house i heard this ungodly wailing. It was spine shivering. I dont know why but i looked at my watch. We'll say it was 2.30pm. later that night my friend rang to say the bosses wife had died. I said "i know, i guess i heard her daughter or someone crying as i passed the house". " No, she died at 3pm and her daughter didnt make it to the house til 5pm. 😬. I should also say that at that age I had never heard of a banshee. When my friends family told me i was 😱. Appparently the wifes maiden name was O'Brien (i didnt know that either, only her marriage name)

[@oceantiara]

😢I howl like the banshee coz I miss my only Irish Mama RIP

[@michaeldevaney5728]

The banshee does exist i know of several people who have heard her

[@siobhancosgrove7277]

I heard her twice and I NEVER want to hear her again. The day after mammy died I was in the living room with three other people and the four of us heard a knock on the front door.

[@cathalmeenagh3898]

We were told she was translucent and that she brushed her hair with half a comb, or a broken comb.

[@Kitiwake]

Yeah... She screams on behalf of every Irish child aborted.

[@glitter_and_doom9218]

My favourite is the Scottish version of the banshee - the lady being interviewed says right; she was a washerwoman seen at streams. She too was a harbinger of death. She would wash the clothes of the person about to die - if she was washing yours you might engage with her and convince her to leave your clothes alone. If she was washing an enemy or rival’s clothes then you could leave her be and benefit from the person’s death.

[@glitter_and_doom9218]

Also - and this is true! - she was said to have enormous breasts that hung down her front and got in the way of her task. She would throw them over her shoulders to get them out of the way. If you found her washing your clothes, you supposedly snuck up behind her, put one of her breasts in your mouth in order to convince her you were one of her long lost children. This accomplished, you could then make requests of her to wash someone’s else’s clothes - rivals, enemies and the like - in order to off them. It sounds like I’m making it up, but it’s true is Scottish folklore.

[@2012AION]

In Mexico 🇲🇽 we have “LA LLORONA”, the woman cry. And it’s the most popular traditional believe. Her cry it’s beyond this world, terrifying. It’s a universal Daimon mitical

[@conorwhite2066]

"And the banshee cried and the hero died..." remember my grandmother saying this little rhyme

[@daithiisanimdom]

I heard the banshee last Saturday night. A terrifying howling noise that would wake the dead. But strangley enough I wasn't all that terrified at the time so I hung up on her and went back into the pub and ordered another pint.

[@mizzyroro]

I thank God for that episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon that introduced me to the Banshee.

Moi aussi, j'ai vu la Banshee par deux fois ! Une fois en Irlande. Elle était une très belle femme. Il faisait nuit et elle s'est mise devant mon lit. Et une autre fois, en France, aussi devant mon lit. Mais cette fois-ci, elle était petite et pas belle du tout. A chaque fois, il y a eu des prédictions qui ce sont réalisées.

[@moc9893]

I was visiting the grave of family members as i do every week but this one time i heard a loud groan from a woman and I was the only one around that day, it gave me chills.

[@ogstopper]

Superb!!!!

[@finolaomurchu8217]

Yes👍☘️

[@MrRobertFarr]

It's interesting that this clever woman can keep up this chit chat. Perhaps, it helped her through her career in all the times when she had nothing to do !

[@MrRobertFarr]

Or maybe it's Gay Byrne , as I had a friend, who was a Mr. Byrne, who I fully respected, either from over that side of the valley, or the other . But, now, he has swopped villages and, lives in ignorance. Always poisoning himself but never dying. Just a steady flow of poison.

[@davidnyc487]

You would never get that kind of content on RTE today. 😂

[@sentimentaloldme]

Correct...First of all they would have to employ an interviewer that one could understand ...Instead of ones that keep interrupting and giggling at their own silly jokes.

[@Kitiwake]

Great. I'm Irish. It's a clan thing going on. In thev early 60s in Youghal we had an abandoned dog howling around the town for a month or two. That was the banshee in those days.

[@DashDrones]

Yeah, TV has gone to sh*te

[@richiemaccarthy]

Real decent television we could identify with, now TV is dumb down ,mind numbing

[@sentimentaloldme]

@@richiemaccarthy A Fine Gael politician once stood up in Dáil Éireann and said there was no sex in Ireland before television. 😁

[@hughjass8430]

Friday night. Turned off Tubridy and this popped up on KZbin. Far better watch. Lol

[@radharcanna]

Precisely. The LLS has gone to the dogs. It’s all about Tubridy rather than being about the guests.

[@franktoledo6342]

A spirit that travels about. Strange sounds past on in finding a comb that belong to a person who past on. Interesting subject.

[@user-rd3bm7qc8k]

Interesting how the Banshee is always combining her hair. And the storyline is a way to get children to “not pick up random combs” for safety reasons.

[@mamaraah2578]

Ah jaysus….. my mam and Nan used to terrify me with tales of the banshee when I was a child 😂I still don’t go out in the dark now.

[@francismadden8561]

The starvation period in middle to late 1800s Ireland had Banshees in unison. Horror times.

[@Art-is-craft]

The vast majority that died did not do so through starvation.

[@davidyasss3484]

Years ago, I was walking with my ex by Grand Canal Dock at night. We both heard an unhuman scream and were spooked. We thought it was a banshee, but we then saw a fox strolling down the road.

[@sheilasullivan1950]

She can shapeshift, twas indeed the banshee.

[@Art-is-craft]

A Banshee does not scream or howl. It cries in a very human tone.

[@seandelap8587]

The ones I always remember are the spicy crisps

[@gobnaitaine5103]

Banshee Bones, salt and vinegar. Crisps of childhood.

[@elizabethconnolly8958]

If you heard the cry you would not think it's so funny

[@gachrudgaelach]

She is supposed to be the mother of Brian Boru, the defeater of the most powerful invaders, the Vikings, since Gaelic settlers arrived here. Brian Boru's grandsons were the first in Ireland to use a surname, Uí Bhriain, descendent of Brian, many other Irish families followed suit and the Mac/son of, also game into use, this is supposedly why the Banshee cries to people with original Gaelic names.

[@ConnollyStationChicago1936]

Thanks for this comment.

[@MikeyJMJ]

Why did the expert mention an affiliation with anglo Norman families then?

[@sheilasullivan1950]

This expert missed the part of real history where these anglo/normans displaced the real Irish off their lands and property. Forced them to drop their gaelic names to get soup after they'd stolen all the good food to ship home to the nobs in england. So naturally curses were put on the land and the people to avenge the dirty deeds done against the native .Irish. I don't blame them. I met the banshee in Kikcullen, Co Kildare 1972. I was only 4'7" at the time and she was maybe 4' max. Hunched over, black cloak, no feet, nor hands, nor face to be seen. No comb, no long hair. Was a Sunday morning. We were waiting for our mothers cousin to take us to mass. My sister ran for the road, through the five bar gate and hard left. I neither saw nor heard anything, only my sister take off at a high rate of speed and deaf to my pleas to stop (busy main road) and come back. I tore after her. Climbed the gate, turned left, barely caught a glimpse of her racing through a little woods behind our cousins house, on a bare earth path, heading for the paddock next door, with horses in it. The banshee appeared in front if me and telepathically asked me 'what do you wish for?' I climbed the 2nd big black wooden gate and was yelling at my sister to stop!! She did, on a wee mound in the middle of the path. Wasn't there a second ago? I turned back and the creature was gone. My sister took off again to the fencing around the field and the horses started racing up to her as she climbed up to pet them. I had now reached the mound and got suspended there. All noise was blocked. I was asked internally 'what do you wish for?' Being a romantic, I said...who will I marry? All noise came back, very very loud. I got invisibilly pushed off the mound. I caught my sister and held her with a death grip by the hand and marched her back next door, shook up. I can see the future and dead people, ever since. Not too pleasant. Im 64 now and it's still with me. My sisters gift was in the arts. Painting.

[@michealbreathnach2928]

She is a very educated woman fair play to her

[@margaretnesbeth593]

S the Murphy's, she has a high pitched wailing sound especially on a windy night. She can be a young woman dressed in white with long fair hair or an old woman dressed in black widows clothes with long grey hair covered by a shawl, it is now 2023 and she is out there busier than ever crying not just for Ireland but for the world.

[@louiseb3491]

My ma saw a banshee when she was young staying in her Aunty Kathleen’s in Moate

[@oceantiara]

My Mama heard her in Killmallock

[@alllovingcowherdboy4475]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy...Shakespeare

[@lourdafinn6528]

Would put total fear in you I never want to hear it again,luckily out family were in our house when we heard it. I was afraid to move during it as was the rest of my family. It was a neighbour who died 🤯

[@simonmccullagh278]

I see her when my uncle died at the same time I got woke up at 02.30 in the morning. I turned around in the bed and a woman figure was hovering in the room. She was a dark grey/white figure but you can’t see her face because of her hair over the face. My mother heard one when her brother died

[@jmccallion2394]

Is Dr Patricia related to the genealogist/herald Edward Lysaght?

[@johnking5174]

My grandmother saw a banshee crawling up a neighbour's wall when she was very young. She remembered her crying out and moaning. Within a day a death happened in that neighbour's house, and the neighbour has a "Mc" in their name, as said before, banshee comes to people with a "Mc" or "O" at the start of their surname.

[@fiddlejohn9305]

We have La Llorona here in Colorado.

[@kieranswift9427]

Ah my grannie told me all the tales of the Banshees oh what great times

[@sandrawilson9703]

The sound is too low. I can't hear what they are saying.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Fascinating. An to have accounts from the audience too.

[@Analiffey1916]

My cousin and I in 1976 on our way home at the crack of dawn in Newcastle co Dublin. heard the keening and sitting on a fence post next door was a little woman combing her hair! The gentleman next door was found dead that morning! Make of that what ye will 😉

[@ciaran4589]

Aylmer road I suspect

[@SarahSmith-nr2wj]

I always imagined it sounded like howling wind can sound.

[@Art-is-craft]

Nope it cries.

[@colinmaloneactor]

Great channel and video. But Gay just killed this with his smugness. He just kept dismissing it and making a joke of it. It would have been amazing had he just went with it.

[@edmundpower1250]

Ah come on now. He wasn't being smug. He was being real

[@carmeleustace8681]

His manner always annoyed me even as a kid. The professor takes it seriously as a folklore subject but he has to be a jerk.

[@dracarnoir7606]

Normally foxes can naturally make strange sounding cries .

[@Art-is-craft]

Foxes do not cry like a human. One of the key descriptions of the Banshee is the crying.

[@sobraine123]

Local gardai attest to the fact that they get called out for suspected rapes/assaults when foxes are mating. The sound is blood curdling and this is in the centre of Dublin

[@antipodesman]

I heard the Windigo in Alberta in November when the ice froze on the ponds before there was any snow to cover the ice.

[@catherinemgraham4886]

I want to know more about this Banshee spirit thing, is it something you hear of other worldliness? or felt or experience in a dream? I had a dream about a banshee hitting me around the head and attacking me around the time my grandmother was dying, and I have to say I thought it was a bad omen of a female spirit full of rage like the women who had bashed me often and verbally bashed me. You talk about the hair comb thing < I never heard of that before but that is interesting. I looked in wikipedia and they say its to do with the red hair and mac, mc or o' ancient true irish , can you tell me more about that. For me it felt more a spiritual dream like visitation not a wailing person or sound . It was more me sad and tearful being left all alone all the time. I felt like part of my spirit had died and I noticed secret people coming to help me in a spiritual health like way. what does that mean?

[@Theword-ju2vc]

The way to stop these dreams is to start reading the bible, suggest John's Gospel the Ephesians, Ephesians 6:10-18 iis the perfect explanation and the perfect way to sop this but you must believe in God Almighty

[@angelicnature1]

I never heard her cry but she I saw her visitation and yes, a close relative died s9on after. I do believe the woman fairy exists

[@angelicnature1]

I never heard her but I saw her visitation

[@johnlally5296]

I think I seen the banshee when I was about 12 years old I'm 44 now and I can remember it was yesterday did not no at the time what I seen but now when I look back its sounds like it was there was a couple of deaths in the family round then and what I seen terrified me woke up about 4 or 5 in the morning and there it was hovering over me selling height pointing at me and laughing I tried to call out my mother's name but I wasn't able just frozen with shock and terrified it flew around the room a couple of times and then whent up true the selling had night mares for years after stop sleeping in that room and this is where it gets scary my mother moved into that room after my father died back in 1997 and a couple of years ago she came out and said something to me that put the hair up my back she said something came to the room and flew around she wasn't making it up and around the same time I'd an uncle that died up the country.

[@Ohaodhatirfothuinn]

I heard the Banshee Crying outside my House, and about 2 months later I seen 4 black kittens…😱 We got the Priest to bless the house, and he said it would be best if we left the house to the Church after we passed away …🤓👍🏼☠️😂🍀🙏🏻

[@oonaghblack]

Hard to believe the whole country watched this beige programme in the beige studio every Friday night 😂

[@knockemstiff7584]

Apparently my granda seen one coming home from work at 3am when he worked on the trains in dunleary , it was sitting on the doorstep of a neighbours house combing it's hair and wailing , two days later the neighbour was found dead in her living room , the granda was a piss head his entire life so I'm gonna take this story with a pinch of salt although it did scare the jaysus out of me when me ma told us the story as kids 😂

[@Art-is-craft]

A Banshee never shows its self. It was something else your grandad experienced.

[@textfiles7508]

THanks Man

[@grose2272]

She only shows to the old native Irish from strong gael bloodlines-- the original Irish names- Mc, O Neill - tully and so fort! It died out with the washing of bloodlines but people of these bloodlines still experience the supernatural warnings, in my home its the disembodied knocks on wood mainly doors and nobody there when u open it! I had one or two of these experiences sadly before somebody was going to pass..

[@itabrennan7420]

My mother was an O'Neill from Armagh and not only does the Banshee appear but the O'Neill clan can give a death curse to those whom cause harm to them.

[@martinacooney200]

I have had that experience of a knock on the door and nobody there Always the sign of a death

[@grose2272]

@@itabrennan7420 I heard theres some who can do that alright..

[@grose2272]

@@martinacooney200 ♥

[@normabrien8331]

I am from El Salvador in Central America and we also have the woman who is washing clothes by a river and she has long hair.

[@Iveraghboy]

She said `people in Cork & Kerry are different ` 3:53 what did she mean ? uk

[@michellebyrom6551]

Everyone uses Cork folk as the fall guy, except Cork folk who use Kerry folk next county over. The same way the French put down the Belgians or the English put down the Irish.

[@Iveraghboy]

@@michellebyrom6551 I see, thanks michelle

[@jasonfallon4968]

Roll it there Colette

[@tiffanygrever8092]

I'm a descendant of the clarke family I wonder if I would here a cry?

[@barryscannell]

We used to “hear” it. It’s always a vixen in heat.

[@McGanjaHighpriestess29]

The banshee protects the mcs and the O's.. folklore was intended for the English.. But very true indeed they exist

[@johnking5174]

My grandmother saw a banshee crawling up a neighbour's wall when she was very young. She remembered her crying out and moaning. Within a day a death happened in that neighbour's house, and the neighbour has a "Mc" in their name, as said before, banshee comes to people with a "Mc" or "O" at the start of their surname

[@WillyDIreland]

9 year old me watched this the night it was broadcast. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards. It was on TV so it must be true right? 😂

[@seebarry4068]

So homely the walls are knitted.

[@dementednun1175]

Just to throw it out there I was in college in inchicore and a man came in and told us he seen a banshee walking around the college gounds at night the same day another lady came in and told us the same thing! Me and this person who shall be nameless also thought we seen her, but working in Performance Arts you tend not to bat an eyelid at strange figures/costumes but yes real or not who knows but that college was built on an old church.

[@Art-is-craft]

The Banshee does casually display its self. That was something else that people witnessed.

[@clairefox4640]

I really miss gay Byrne, that voice was like velvet, really miss him

[@baxpiz1289]

what does "be the hokey" mean -- he says it toward the v end

[@Blondie101010100]

It's means, Wow!

[@declanclarke2572]

Means he was a moon puncher

[@mizzyroro]

She speaks of it as if it is real. It's amazing how the Irish believe their myths.

[@PA3456]

The banshee by god haven’t heard the name in years

[@kerrysupporter]

They were at the Oscars lately in Hollywood

[@duncr]

Vixens screaming

[@pinkzweibel985]

And hear the banshee howl 😮😮

[@paulcoyle6676]

Cats in heat - you’d cry too if you understand the way the male cat mate.

[@Art-is-craft]

Yeah Irish people knew what cats were and how to breed them.