“To my astonishment my sister, who was sitting near me, said:
“‘I saw a most terrible head, too, looking over the staircase.’
“I said:
“‘When did you see it? I saw it when our father died.’
“And she said:
“‘And, I saw it when our mother died.’
“In describing it, we found all the details agreed, and learned not long after that it was without doubt our own Banshee we had seen.
“People have said to me that Banshees are heard, not seen. This is not correct, it all depends if one is clairvoyant or clairaudient.
“I remember when my mother was alive, how I came in from a walk one evening and found the whole house in a ferment, the most terrible screaming and crying had been heard pass over the house. Our mother said it must be the Banshee. Sure enough we heard of the death of a very near relation directly after. If I had been present, no doubt I should not only have heard the screams but I should have seen something as well.
“A few years ago in Ireland I was talking about these things, and a relation I had not met before was present. He said to me: