Posts tagged
‘banshees’

Fearing the Walking Dead, The Undertaker’s Revenge, and the Lost Art of the Coffin Threat A compendium of popular posts.

Creature Feature: The Woman in Black of New Orleans. A macabre entity that terrorized the citizens of New Orleans, believed to be an omen of death.

While exhuming bodies from a Kentucky graveyard, a mysterious knocking from inside a coffin spooks the diggers. What lay inside was the key to the mystery. Or was it?

We return again to eighteenth-century France in the first of a two-part story of post-mortem obsession, of an ongoing banshee-like persecution, and of a phantom shooter.

A Prolonged Wail of Horror: A Banshee in England As a rule, however, the Banshee is not seen, it is only heard, and it announces its advent in a variety of ways; sometimes by groaning, sometimes by wailing, and sometimes by uttering the most blood-curdling of screams, which I can only liken to the screams a woman might make if she were being done to death in a very cruel and violent manner….