One Tree Hill Season 9 Confirmed, Possibly Without Nathan Scott?

One Tree Hill fans will be ecstatic to hear that the hit CW show has been picked up for another season! The gang of Tree Hill will come back for its 9th season, although some of the series’ most popular characters may not be returning for the final hurrah.

So who can fans expect to see back for the 9th – and most likely last – season? Brooke and Julian (played by real-life couple Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols) will be returning, alongside Haley Scott (played by Bethany Joy Galeotti). It’s also been confirmed that Alex Dupre (played by Jana Kramer), Clay (played by Robert Buckley) and Quinn (played by Shantel VanSanten) will all return.

Mouth and Millie are expected to reprise their roles – and Dan Scott (played by Paul Johansson) will return to stir things up – but there’s a question mark beside one of the most popular faces on the show. Aoparently James is still renogotiating his contract and isn’t sure if he’ll be returning for the final season.

Nathan Scott (played by James Lafferty) has been a staple of the show since Season 1. How will One Tree Hill return for a season without Nathan? What will happen to Haley and Jamie and their new baby?

So, there you go guys: Season 9 has been confirmed as a go. The question is, can the show really go on without Nathan Scott?

I don’t think so.

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Banshee Screams and St. Patrick s Day History

Banshee Screams

Banshee Screams - I once had a roommate who would claim, when his bladder was full to bursting, that he had to “pee like a banshee.”

He had conflated “pee like a racehorse” with “scream like a banshee” and his mistake was charming enough to be forgiven.

But when others talk about “crying like a banshee” or “lying like a banshee,”or “fighting like a banshee,” it’s just embarrassing. A banshee screams (and only sometimes at that).

Since it’s still St. Paddy’s day for a few more hours, it’s a good time to figure out this banshee business.

According to Irish legends, banshee (or bean-sidhe), are fairies or an ancestral spirit appointed to visit members of certain Irish families to warn them of their death.

The banshee typically appears in one of three guises — a beautiful young woman, a matronly middle-aged one, or an old hag. She wears a gray hooded cloak, a flowing twisted sheet or a gray robe. In some version, she appears as a washer-woman and appears to be washing blood from the clothes of the almost-dead.

Oh, and these pre-death announcements? The banshee only perform the services for five Irish families: the O’Neills, the O’Briens, the O’Connors, the O’Gradys, and the Kavanaghs.

The good news is there’s been so much intermarriage, probably any ol’ Irish name qualifies at this point.

Now for the screaming part: it’s not a requirement of a banshee! But that’s sometimes her method of conveying coming death and it’s more of a mourning call than and all out nerve-shattering shriek, which is what we’ve come to equate “screaming like a banshee” with.

For your tween readers, an excellent book which frequently references the banshee — and takes place during the Irish potato famine — is “Nory Ryan’s Song,” by Patricia Reilly Giff.

If you’re going the read-aloud route, may I suggest a box of tissues because by the end, you’ll be crying like a banshee. Oh, you know what I mean.(http://blogs.babble.com)

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