Posts tagged
‘banshee’

Dead as a Doornail -The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by recurring visits from a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.

The Quick and the Red. Ghostly visions of old women in red cloaks–what do they mean?

The Old Lady with the Nails An old lady with a hammer and nails menaces a dormitory of schoolboys in a nightmarish vision.

The Ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots Wails of Death on Christmas Eve A Christmas ghost story from the Tower of London with an omen of death for Queen Victoria.

Rocky Mountain Cry – A Colorado Banshee Two girls in Colorado follow a strangely human wailing, which leads them to a bizarre giant apparition.

Creature Feature: A Banshee at Sea The crew of a windjammer far from land hears a “howling out of the darkness a most frightful, wailing cry, ghastly in its agony and intensity.” Was it a banshee?

Burying His Toes in the Sand: A Strange Funeral A complicated tale of premonitions of death, amputation, uncanny prophecy–and a cure for corns.

Dead as a Doornail: The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.

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.