Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at Ahool. Native to the rainforest of Java, Indonesia, these huge, batlike creatures have been intertwined with folklore for hundreds of years. They are classed as cryptids though, and there is a single famous sighting of them. Things aren't what they seem when looking a little deeper though. What is the Ahool? Why is the sighting not reliable? What could be happening here? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

Didymus, John Thomas. “Ahool.” Fairy Tales and Myths, 7 Dec. 2023, https://www.fairytalesandmyths.com/ahool/. 

“Unraveling the Legend of the Ahool.” Reticent Earth, 10 Dec. 2023, https://reticentearth.com/cryptids/the-ahool/. 

Vaughan, Bridget. “Mysteries, Oddities, and Everything Strange: Ahool – Patriot Press.” Patriot Press, https://fthspatpress.com/23332/news/mysteries-oddities-and-everything-strange-ahool/. Accessed 15 May 2025. 

You can email Glen at [email protected] with any of your spooky stories, unexplained events, mysteries that you want him to look at, or anything you'd like him to correct or address.

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