Our first episode... and already we are taking a vacation... to the Bahamas! We talk about the owl-like cryptid-pixie-imp thingy named the Chickcharney, such a magnificent beautiful creature, not at all weird looking...no really, don't offend it! It will curse you! This thing caused World War II, so it means business!

Along the way we also discuss its doppelganger, the extinct owl species Tyto pollens, and how scientists are wrong just because I said so!

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Intro sampled from "Something strange lurks in the shadows" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez)

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SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Chickcharney

Wikipedia: Tyto pollens

Wikipedia: Bahamian hutia

Cryptid Wiki: Chickcharney

Cryptid World: Journey to Find the Chickcharney

Owls, Part 3: Giant Fossil Owls and Chickcharney, by Lisa G. Buckley

Amino: Chickcharney, Caribbean Folklore

Warriors of Myth Wiki: Chickcharney

Linda S. Godfrey (2014). American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America. Penguin Publishing Group

T.S. Mart, Mel Cabre (2021). A Guide to Sky Monsters: Thunderbirds, the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Other Flying Cryptids. Red Lightning Books

Desmond Morris (2009). Owl. Reaktion Books

SUÁREZ, WILLIAM & OLSON, STORRS. (2015). Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae). Zootaxa. 4020. 533-553. 10.11646/zootaxa.4020.3.7.