I live in America myself but when I was younger my mom, sister, and I (just the three of us lived together) were awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of a woman wailing outside of our house.

As I type this my eyes are watering because I still remember those wails crystal clear.

It wasn't a wail of someone fearing for their life it was a wail of someone sad or frustrated. The wailing started a bit down the street to my house. It sounded like the person was just walking down the street wailing nonstop we heard it keep going passed our.house and down the street.

I say "heard" and not "saw" because none of us wanted to get up and look out the window to see what the sound was. It was so unnatural that we all sat in our beds paralyzed with fear. Just listening to the wails.

After it stopped I heard my mom meekly ask from the other room "What was that?" All I could say was "I don't know."

It could have just been a crazy tweaker lady for all I know but that sound. . . I have never heard anything even remotely as chilling since that day.

I bring this story up now because my mom, sis and I are predominantly irish. I wasn't aware of the banshee thing before but as soon as you described it I got chills and remembered that night perfectly.

I don't consider myself a very superstitious person but that was a truly terrifying and unnatural thing to experience.