The Derry Journal opens its list of Derry ghosts with the banshee, the bean sidhe or fairy woman, a harbinger of death in Irish tradition who normally appears as a young girl or an old woman dressed in white. It quotes Peter McCartney: Derry, not so very long ago, had a strong tradition of acceptance of the banshee myth. Many local people also believed that the appearance of crows, the howling of a dog, or the screeching of a car outside a sick person's house would herald the arrival of the dreaded wailing spectre.
The Journal says one such appearance was recorded at Fulton Place, a side street off Howard Street that backed onto one of the graveyards of the Long Tower. The headline calls them the banshees of the Bogside, but the one case given is at Fulton Place. No date is given.
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