Tracing Owls

A sneak peek at our behind-the-scenes research and chat with Christina! While preparing a potential collaborative episode... we got carried away, got lost in the rabbit hole of crazy monsters and aliens for 2 hours 😂

We had so much fun discussing monster artwork, we decided to share the funnies with you! P.S. Apologies for the audio quality, this was my first time using Zoom, or even doing a live collab!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for making me ROFL for over 2 hours 🤣, and for letting us feature her magnificent "Trick or Treat" art piece, featuring the cutiest barn owls you will ever lay your eyes on!!! This awesome art piece may be purchased HERE

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display these cutiepies, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even a sexy Braxxie, all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Episode artwork by The Crescent Hare @thecrescenthare

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Serbia, 2005: A black, cloaked, flying figure spreads panic within an unsuspecting town! A small, peaceful town where nothing ever happens, where people are bored out of their minds, struggling to live through their mundane existence, yearning for the most minuscule distraction which would focus their attention up at the skies.

Suddenly, a wild helium [REDACTED - CORRECTION: MOTHMAN!] appears, forever imprinting the town of Ljubovija in the annals of paranormal history... with some small assistance from us, because hey... how else would you learn of awesome international [MOTHMAN] sightings, when those larger podcasters cannot even read unusual alien languages? 😃

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

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

(Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)

SOURCES:

Serbian Wikipedia: Ljubovija

Superman Spotted In Serbia?

Archived Imageboard Thread

Misteriozni fantom uzbunio građane Ljubovije

Tajanstveni leteći fantom nakon 38 godina viđen nad Srbijom

Banjaluka Forum: Betmen čuva Srbe

IMDB Page for Movie: Ljubovijski Fantom (2007)

Albert S. Rosales (2009). International Catalogue Humanoids Encounters. Digital Mirage

Misterije, Neobjasnjivi Fenomeni - Knjiga III

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)

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

(Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)

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. 

This is a re-upload from my other podcast Darwin's Deviations. The episode inspired me to start this new podcast and serves as the basis of this show. In it, I expand upon my concepts and theories of the Cosmic Joker and Hierarchies of Nature and Reality... and talk some more nonsense regarding high strangeness, abstract realities, the Flatwoods Monster (Braxie), owls, mythology and my own awkwardness!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for inspiring this whole conversation, and for letting us feature her magnificent Braxie artwork!!! This awesome art piece may be purchased HERE

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with the very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies, all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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For more on the Hierarchies of Nature and Reality, check out Episode 12. Volvox: Corporate Unification of Systematic Multicellularity

For more on the Cosmic Joker, otherworldly entities and the psycho-social aspects of the paranormal, check out Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities

For more info on the book I mentioned, titled "Quest for the Unknown: Bizarre Phenomena" check it out on Amazon

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FURTHER READING:

Cosmic Joker

Trickster

Psychosocial hypothesis

HighStrangeness (Subreddit)

Charles Fort

Forteana

Anomalous Weather

Entombed animal

Flatwoods monster

Mothman

Fresno Nightcrawler

Indrid Cold

Gray Barker

Flatwoods Monster Solved!

On Tracing Owls, we will be discussing cryptids, UFOs, paranormal phenomena, high strangeness, anomalies, obscurities, natural curiosities and general weirdness, as we attempt to catalogue the overlooked, spotlight the disregarded, and remind that the cosmic expanse is much greater than our understanding of it!

This is a quirky, introspective, and oftentimes satiric, audio-blog exploration of fortean philosophy, emphasizing the impact of Mother Earth, the Cosmic Trickster and the experiencer in shaping the phenomenon. Every episode is an entity for itself, as I love to experiment and improvise with different formats, approaches and viewpoints. I also gravitate towards stream of consciousness content so the end result is an audio photograph of my mood, interest and thought process at a point in time and space!

If you are interested in bizarre biology, with wacky characters, absurdist adventures and offensive toilet humor too, then check out my other podcast Darwin's Deviations

Episode artwork by The Crescent Hare @thecrescenthare

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for creating this amazing podcast artwork! The idea was to have a barn owl cast the shadows of Braxie and Mothman... with its wings! Thus the outline of a mundane little cutey animal is traced onto monstrously eerie silhouettes... which are open to further interpretation 😀

I cannot thank Christina enough for this wonderful artwork which conveys all my ideas of unity between high strangeness and the natural world, so I highly encourage you to check out her work!

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with a very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies (jackalopes), all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for creating this amazing podcast artwork! The idea was to have a barn owl cast the shadows of Braxie and Mothman... with its wings! Thus the outline of a mundane little cutey animal is traced onto monstrously eerie silhouettes... which are open to further interpretation 😀

I cannot thank Christina enough for this wonderful artwork which conveys all my ideas of unity between high strangeness and the natural world, so I highly encourage you to check out her work!

Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare

If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with a very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies (jackalopes), all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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If you are interested in bizarre biology, with wacky characters, absurdist adventures and offensive toilet humor too, then check out my other podcast Darwin's Deviations

Send us suggestions and comments to [email protected]

Follow us on Instagram @tracingowls or Twitter @TracingOwls

Check our Linktree: linktr.ee/darwinsdeviations

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com