"A sudden impulse came over me--never to that moment had I ever mentioned the head--and, leaning forward, I said: "'I have seen a ghost; I saw the most terrible head when I was a child, looking over the staircase.' "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: "'But as well as the Banshee do you know that we have a _headless coach_ attached to our family; it is proceeded by men, who lead the horses, and none of them have heads.' "Like a flash came that never-to-be-forgotten vision of that awful procession I had seen as a child, and of which I had never made any mention till then. I remember now that after I saw the headless coach we heard that our grandmother was dead. I believe that the headless coach belongs to her family. "PETRONELLA O'DONNELL." The headless coach referred to in the foregoing account comes to us, I believe, from the Vize family. My grandmother before her marriage was Sarah Vize, daughter of John Vize of Donegal, Glenagad and Limerick. Her sister Frances married her cousin, David Roche of Carass (see Burke's "Landed Gentry of Ireland," under Maunsell family, and Burke's "Peerage under Roche"), their son being Sir David Roche, Bart. The great-great-grandmother of Sarah Vize was Mary, daughter of Butler of the house of the Earl Glengall Cahir. Sarah Vize's mother, my great-grandmother, before her marriage was Sarah Maunsell, granddaughter of William Maunsell of Ballinamona, County Cork, the fifth son of Colonel Thomas Maunsell of Mocollop. In the accompanying genealogical tree, tracing the descent of the O'Donnells of Trough from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the O'Briens of Thomond and the O'Rourkes of Brefui, may be found the basis upon which my family's claim to the dual Banshee rests.