- Until the mail slot in her door slowly swung open.
Hey, I'm Sapphire, wanna hear something scary?
(eerie music)
And now we close this volume
with a story from Megan, in Scotland.
Megan never believed in the paranormal
until it begged for her attention.
Megan and her boyfriend Mikey had just moved
into a flat in Aberdeen, Scotland.
It was small but cozy.
There were two large windows,
one in the kitchen that faced the garden,
and one in the bedroom that faced the street.
They usually kept the blinds closed
to hide their expensive musical equipment.
One night Mikey was attending a concert in Glasgow
and wouldn't return home until four
in the morning, leaving Megan all alone.
After he left she spent the night
catching up on her favorite TV shows.
She fell asleep with her TV on but a sound
jolted her awake around 11.45PM.
It was a slow knocking. (eerie knocking)
She got out of her bed thinking that it was
her upstairs neighbor asking to turn her TV down
as it was still blaring when she woke up.
She readied her apology in her head
and walked to the front door.
But when she looked inside the peephole no one was there.
She shrugged it off thinking
she must have been imagining the sound
and walked back to her bedroom.
And then she heard it again.
(eerie knocking)
It was coming from the kitchen.
She must have forgotten to close the blinds that night
because when she turned on the light
she was face to face with a woman in the window.
She was wearing a dark overcoat
and her long red hair hung around her face like seaweed.
Her mouth was twisted up into a terrifying grimace
showing the few rotten teeth she had left.
Megan knew what this was.
Her grandparents told her the stories when she was little.
That was no woman, that was a banshee.
In Irish mythology a banshee
is a female spirit who lives by the river.
They usually have the appearance of an old hag
but are capable of making themselves
as young and beautiful as they choose.
In Ireland and Scotland it is traditional
for women to wail, or keen, at funerals.
So if you hear the keen of a banshee
she's alerting you that death is nearby.
- [Banshee] Let me in.
The banshee croaked, her strained voice
echoing in the walls.
- [Banshee] I have been hurt.
- [Sapphire] But Megan didn't believe her.
She was now tapping louder on the glass.
- [Megan] I'm gonna get you some help.
- [Banshee] What kind of fucking woman are you!
- Megan ran to her bedroom
and dialed the police. (woman wailing)
She sat on her bed shaking
and praying to every god she could think of.
It was the most horrifying experience of her life.
The banging on the window had stopped.
"Is she gone?", Megan thought to herself.
But then she noticed a shadow
from behind her bedroom curtain.
- [Banshee] Little bitch, you think you're too good?
- There was nothing Megan could do
but wait there while the banshee taunted her.
Then she saw red and blue lights flash outside.
Finally, the police were here.
She went to the front door where she could hear
the mumbled voices of the officers outside.
She was just about ready to let them in
when she heard (knocking).
"It's her, it's her."
Megan didn't know what to do.
She stood there frozen in place
until the mail slot in her door slowly swung open.
- [Policeman] Miss is everything alright?
Megan told the police everything that happened
and described the woman in detail.
They thought she just might be a violent drunk
and so they told Megan that they would check
the CCTV cameras in the area to see if they could find her
and prevent her from harassing anyone else.
Days later Megan got a call from the officer.
- [Police Officer] So we checked the security cameras
in your area and yes we did see a woman
who matched your description.
What was strange though was that she only appeared
in the one camera, right outside your building.
We couldn't see where she came from or went to.
Like she vanished into thin air.
- For the next few days Megan tried not
to think about that night.
Maybe it was't a banshee, maybe it really was
just a strung out old lady because if it was a banshee
that meant that someone close to her
was going to die very soon.
About a week after the incident
Megan's friend called her to tell her
that her mother had passed.
Whether or not it was just a coincidence
Megan didn't want to tell her friend about what she saw.
What if there was something she could have done?
Ever since that night strange but subtle things
continued to happen in that flat.
Megan's windup music box would suddenly
begin playing when no one was near it.
Lights would flicker on and off.
The water in the bathroom would randomly turn itself on.
Centuries ago when a well would overflow
it was a sign that a banshee was near.
It didn't help that these things only happened
when Megan was home alone, leading Mickey to believe
that she had a wild imagination.
And maybe that's exactly how the banshees want it to be.
(eerie screaming)
Have you or anyone you know had any run-ins with a banshee?
Let me know in the comments.
And a very special thank you to Megan Matheson
for sharing this story with me.
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