Just Another Weird Wednesday Night
Honestly? Stumbled into this whole thing totally by accident. Was hunting down some funky retro synth tunes around midnight – you know how that rabbit hole goes – when the phrase “Banshee Moon” popped up. Spotted this weird forum post talking about “Banshee Moon Age” nonsense instead of music. My brain went, “What even is that?” Clicked it. Big mistake. Or maybe not?
Drowning in Weird Garbage
Seriously tried Googling it. Total trash fire. Found stuff talking about moons I swear don’t exist, old mythology mashed up with bad astrology sites, and people arguing about timelines that felt completely made up. Like, zero consensus. None. Felt like trying to solve a puzzle where someone burned half the pieces. Got real annoyed.
Decided to Dig, Hit Rock
Pulled up like ten different tabs. Museum archive things? Fine. Obscure academic journals? Okay, why not. Even found a digitized copy of some dusty, old “folklore quarterly” from who-knows-where. Got my coffee ready and just started reading. Skipped the useless stuff. Looked for names, places, any actual dates mentioned. Wrote down anything that sounded remotely believable. It was slow. Took ages. Got sidetracked reading about cursed Irish stones at one point (another story!). Felt like my eyes were gonna fall out.
Some key things kept popping up though:
- It’s messy. People can’t even agree if it’s one long thing or a bunch of separate weird events.
- Old. Like, stupidly old. We’re talking Bronze Age vibes, way before people wrote stuff down properly.
- Not your friendly moon. Kept seeing descriptions linked to crying, loss, big emotional upheavals – felt pretty darn bleak.
- More than just scary stories? Some smarter stuff linked it to real historical migrations or big natural disasters messing with people’s heads.
Got Smarter About It
Pivoted. Stopped searching for the exact phrase “Banshee Moon Age” like a chump. Broke it down. Searched for specific mythical banshee figures connected to moon lore. Looked at archaeological stuff around that time period globally. Compared migration patterns in Europe. Even peeked at ice core data talking about climate change around those potential centuries. Tried to build the facts myself, brick by brick, even if some bricks were really suspicious.
Okay, This Blew Up
That dumb forum post? Yeah, way off the mark. The “fast facts” weren’t lying around online waiting to be copied. You gotta wrestle them out of a mountain of confusion and stuff that’s just plain wrong. Found a tiny bit of historical mention in one legit-looking record describing a “mourning moon” period after a huge volcanic event. Found another researcher suggesting links between old grief rituals and recorded celestial events. Felt like tiny puzzle pieces clicking, but super fragile ones. The main takeaway? Anyone telling you they have a neat list of dates for “Banshee Moon Age”? Probably selling something made-up. The real deal is fragmented, super old, deeply tied to sadness and endings, and likely connected to actual historical rough patches people lived through. It’s less a calendar event, more… a vibe from a really tough chapter of human history.
The Noise Complaint (Totally Unrelated)
So my neighbor downstairs started banging on my radiator pipe around 3 AM. Think my frustrated sighs got too loud? Or maybe my ancient desk chair squeaking like a dying seagull while I was jumping between sites? Either way, gotta go smooth that over. Another unexpected outcome!
