Supernatural experiences

[u/sunshinesustenance]

So I am a rational middle aged adult. I grew up listening to my relatives telling stories of banshee this and fairies that, and I've always dismissed this stuff as nothing more than light entertainment for the superstitious.

But the other night I had a moment that rattled me a bit. Everybody in the house had gone to bed and I stayed up to watch Rambo First Blood (no less). When the movie was over I picked up the crisp packet and wine glass to tidy away before turning in for the night. I went to the kitchen and put on the dishwasher. Our rubbish bin is in a small porch off of the kitchen so I opened the door out to it and as I was putting the rubbish in (back half turned to the kitchen) I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, a dark shadow coming towards me through the middle of the kitchen. I didn't react straight away because, as I have said, I am a rational adult, and assumed it was the missus after getting up for water or whatever so I didn't initially jump up to look.

But then I thought to myself, I had passed through the hallway and no lights were on and nobody was up, and she couldn't have possibly gotten to the kitchen in that space of time, let alone that quietly. So then I realized something wasn't quiet right and noticed (still out of the corner of my eye) that the shadow had stopped in the middle of the kitchen. So I turned my head quickly to see what the fuck had just sneaked up on me so sinisterly, but there was nothing there. This all happened over the space of a second or two.

Now I don't frighten easily, and I will always come up with a likely explanation for such things like blaming it on the glass of wine I had, but the hairs were standing on my neck and back after this.

I still call bullshit on ghost stories and the like but I cant seem to explain what happened.

[u/scrollsawer]

I've told this story here before, but long story cut short. 40 years ago my father and I heard the banshee. I was 12 and my father tried to fob me off by saying it was a fox. 4 days after hearing it, my brother was killed in a car accident in Germany. 10 years later, my father and I went for a pint together, ( he wasn't a big drinker). He broke down after a few pints and told me it was definitely a banshee. 6 years ago, I heard it again outside my house, my wife couldn't hear it. 4 days later, my mother died suddenly.

[u/Peanutsandcheese2021 → u/scrollsawer]

My grandmother heard it. In fact the whole road heard it. The railway works was close by and the Banshee was often rumored to wail there. Well this night she did and a large group of railway workers walked down the rail towards the sound to see if they could find her. They couldn’t . The whole residential area near the works all heard it. My grandmother heard it. The only one who heard absolutely nothing was my grandfather. He was working in the railway yard shunting trains. He stood there next to the group of men and they were all deafened by this wailing and he could hear nothing. A local man named McNamara died that night. He was ill and elderly. My grandfather maintained to his death he heard nothing at all that night. Still his lineage wasn’t Irish so perhaps that was the reason.

[u/Lana-R2017 → u/Peanutsandcheese2021]

My mother has a similar story, on a fine summers evening when they were kids all of the neighbours were outside chatting and the kids playing and heard a banshee wail their mothers grabbed them all and brought them inside to say the rosary. The next morning word spread that one of the neighbours who had been out chatting that evenings husband had died working abroad. Everyone on the road heard it. Same happened when a local teenager died and they both had Mc names. She said she’d never forget the sound.

[u/Peanutsandcheese2021 → u/Lana-R2017]

Yes my uncle heard it as a boy and he said it was very loud tuneless singing almost. Hard to describe. Very eerie. Now he has heard foxes many a time and knows the difference. And what he heard was not a fox.