Dale
Drinnon has pulled together a stack of individual reports on giant
bats all over the globe. We can make a few observations.
1 The
creature and its sub species have a global distribution. This was
inevitable because it has a huge flying range and is not
geographically restricted.
2 The
wing span is up to twelve feet but it has long strong hind legs and
the capacity to also walk on its hands(?). In that mode it is able
to bunch the wing skin onto its back out of harms way.
3 Body
mass is comparatively small and the head may vary considerably among
sub species.
4 It
is unconfirmed, but I think that this creature specializes in
vampirism and some soft tissue.
5 It
is obviously nocturnal and has been disturbed in caves. They are
notably aggressive.
6 This
creature is almost certainly the model for the gargoyle of the middle
ages.
As
noted here we are presented with a global distribution of reports and
a long history. They did not go unnoticed even if actual specimens
appear unnoted.
FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER
2012
While doing a
photosearch re colour photo indicated above turned up as an unue
creature from Texas. It was an anonymous piece of artwork used to
illustrate Kark Shuker's blog about an unusual "batman-big bird
creature" seen in 1976:
"Sitting in his
mother-in-law's backyard at Raymondville, Texas, on the evening of
14January 1976, Armando Grimaldo suddenly heard a strange whistling,
and a sound that reminded him of flapping bats' wings - a highly
pertinent comparison, as it turned out. For just a few seconds later,
he was attacked by a man-sized monstrosity with the face of a bat or
monkey, a pair of large flaming eyes but no beak, dark, leathery,
unfeathered skin, and a pair of huge wings yielding a massive 10-12
ft wingspan (i.e. twice that of any known species of bat).
Swooping down at the terrified man, the creature snatched at him with
its big claws, but, happily, Grimaldo was able to flee inside before
his aerial attacker had inflicted any serious injuries. Nevertheless,
his encounter was just one of several on file from this particular
region of Texas during early 1976, all documenting sightings of a
similar entity
As soon as I saw the
illustration I saw the resemblance to my reconstruction for the
Chupabat, a giant False Vampire bat reported the size of a
medium-sized dog when running on all fours on the ground, and with a
wingspan as large as the largest known bats or even a moderate-sized
eagle; six or seven, maybe even as much as eight feet ( ten
or twelve feet would be closer to half again than to double the
size) which is said to predate upon livestock occasionally in
Mexico and Central America, so finding one in Texas or New Mexico
would not be too unusual. The real resemblance in the illustration
is with the shape of the head. The black and white illustration shown
above is clip art of the known (Smaller) False Vampire bat. A
scaled-up version could easily have fanged canies more than an inch
long.
"Chupacabras-like depradations occur in the Southwest USA on occasion and could be linked to such Chupabats or Gargoyle Bats. Sheep mutilations, victims severely wounded and gutted without leaving much evidence of spilled blood on the ground, are reported from the 4 Corners region of New Mexico and thought to have been done by a large ChupaBat such as implicated in similar cases in Mexico:JC Johnson 1 year ago
Typical protocol in this situation,- the tribe insists that all of the animals be put down in case of rabies. No other recourse I'm afraid. The injured sheep were being shot as we were leaving the scene.
JC Johnson 1 year ago We don't know for sure what did this
1stofer 1 month ago in playlist More videos from cryptofourcorners sounds like the jersey devil
Heyoka Ha 2 months ago Very peculiar indeed. The hoof (foot) prints were in pairs, that is what you mean by bipedal? In any of the sheep injured, Was there any indication that the blood could have been taken first and then the animal attacked again? I am thinking there was more than one of these creatures.
brjames06 4 months ago lmao!!.. @ 3:05.. the shit didnt come out... [Ordinarily when an animal is slaughtered, the bowels dump]
OziBushMysteries 4 months ago thats not 'horse shoe prints ' i'd have to tell u? [Jersey Devil prints? the footprints were irregular ovals and I could not tell what they were. I would guess they were blurred sheep tracks]
The example above was from August 2011: the one below is from April 2010
Special thanks to JC Johnson for pointing out the videos.
Mixed in with the other reports of Giant bats are reports of an even larger but flatfaced bat, also seen in Texas in 1976. They seem to be a northen extension of the American equivallent of the Ahool, in Mythology known as Camazotz.
Monkeyfaced "Big
Bird" of Texas 1976. Obviously the artist is confused about the
arms and the legs and the wings. They have drawn a birdlike
instead of a batlike body plan A policeman seeing one of these
creatures hiding in the branches described the face as looking
like that of a gorilla
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Ahool
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Source: seananmcguire.com
Cave Demons and
Giant Bat-like CreaturesLarge bat-like creature sighting in
California
Normally, only UFO and
extraterrestrial sightings are reported to MUFON but on Saturday,
June 5, 2010 an interesting account of a bat-like creature, purported
to have been seen near Lodi, California was reported:
MUFON Case 23617
2010-05-14 at 02:45
Lodi, California
“I had taken my dogs for a run early in the morning - about 2:30 on May 14th 2010. I was southeast of Lodi on Live Oak Road where the road to the winery intersects. There are outside lights and I saw something crouched in the road which I thought at first was a coyote eating something. Then it stood up and was about 4 1/2 feet tall so I knew it wasn’t a coyote. It stooped back down and appeared to gather up whatever it had been eating; gave a little hop and soared away over the grapevines in an up down, up down motion. The wings sort of glistened in the light and did not seem to have feathers. I thought it looked like a gigantic bat, but have never heard of a bat that big. The dogs seemed to be frightened and jumped into the car. I was so amazed at what I saw.”
What are they?
According to
mainstream science, the world’s biggest bat is the Bismark flying
fox, an animal that never gets larger than six feet from wingtip to
wingtip. According to cryptozoology, mainstream scientists might be
wrong. Many sightings from seemingly reliable people suggest that
this might not be the case.
Giant Bat People or
Just Giant Bats of Lore?
Sightings of
mysterious human-sized bats have been reported in all corners of the
world. They are described as having black or gray fur, a
monkey-like face, clawed feet and a 10-15 foot wingspan.
In Brazil they are called “bat people.” The rainforests of Java echo the cries of a bat creature called the “Ahool” because of its distinct “a-hool” vocalization.
The island of Java, not very far from the Bismark flying fox’s home of New Guinea, is supposed to harbor this cryptid bat with a twelve-foot wingspan. The Ahool eats fish and has gray fur and a flattened face with huge black eyes, with its head overall looking like a monkey’s head. It is not attributed with supernatural powers, and seems like such a plausible animal that it has drawn the attention of naturalists. If a giant bat lived anywhere, the dense rainforests of Java would be a likely place.
In Vietnam they are known as “night flyers.” These winged humanoids are generally 5 feet tall with eerie feminine features. They are known to swoop down on their victims and attack several times.
Another plausible place for an undiscovered giant bat to live is Cameroon, a country in Africa where scientists have reported seeing a very similar bat. This creature is apparently called the olitiau by locals.It also has a twelve-foot wingspan with thin membranous skin and a monkey-like face, but its fur is pure black. The beings are described as terrifying to look upon, with what looks like a mixture of human or monkey and bat-like features in the face. Long, wild, disheveled, hair around the head, much like a mane, with pitch black fur covering the entirety of it’s body. The body of the fearsome creature stands about the size of a human being upon clawed feet and it’s teeth which can clearly be seen, are razor sharp, pointed daggers. It is regarded with a great deal of superstition and fear. It is not improbable that both of these bats might have monkey-like faces. Bats have a notoriously wide variety of head shapes, and many known species have heads resembling different animals such as foxes, dogs, lemurs or even horses!
Another possible African giant bat is the kongamato, which has also been interpreted as a pterosaur by some people. This creature is not quite so large, has reddish fur, and has a long snout instead of a flattened face. Madagascar, a large island just off the coast of Africa, has tales about a bat called the fangalabolo, with a wingspan larger than 5 feet, bigger than any other bat known to live in Madagascar.
The Guiafairo of Senegal in West Africa is described as a giant bat that is very smelly and often manages to terrify people by making its way indoors. It is hated very much, and its name translates to “the fear that flies by night.” The Guiafairo is mentioned in Karl Shuker’s “The Secret Animals of Senegambia” in the November 1998 issue of Fate Mag where it is described as having a human face and is said to be able to appear behind locked doors.
The mlularuka of Tanzania is perhaps the most tame and ordinary of undiscovered African bats. Like known species of giant bats, it is a fruit-eater and thus is mainly spoken of as a pest to agriculture. It is described as being the size of a dog.
Other giant bat reports sound less plausible and shade off into an area where it is nearly impossible to separate the few facts that might exist from the masses of folklore and the paranormal that these alleged facts are buried in. One such creature is the sasabonsam from Ghana in Africa. Depicted in folklore as a bearded human with bat wings, the one known body (which has sadly disappeared, along with the only photograph of it) was described as being far less human than the legends say. It was an animal like a huge bat, with a twenty-foot wingspan and stiff black-and-white spotted fur. It had huge teeth and heavy ridges over its eyes.
The Indonesian orang-bati is even more mythical. These human/bat monsters live in an extinct volcano on the island of Seram and abduct children. Still, some researchers working in the field of cryptozoology think that a real bat may be hiding behind these fantastical tales.
Giant vampire bat reports are generally kept separate from giant bat reports, mainly because the giant vampire bat is large for a vampire bat, but still medium-sized when compared to bats in general.
In Mexico, an ancient Mayan cult worshiped the “death bat.”
Around 100 B.C., a peculiar religious cult grew up among the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. The cult venerated an anthropomorphic monster with the head of a bat, an animal associated with night, death, and sacrifice. This monster soon found its way into the pantheon of the Quiché, a tribe of Maya who made their home in the jungles of what is now Guatemala. The Quiché identified the bat-deity with their god Zotzilaha Chamalcan, the god of fire.
Popol Vuh, a Mayan
sacred book, identifies Zotzilaha as not a god, but a cavern, “The
House of Bats”. Zotzilaha was home to a type of bat called
camazotz; one of these monsters decapitated the hero Hunahpú.
Camazotz has been translated as “death bat” and “snatch bat”.
It is recorded in chapter 10 of this book that the Camazotz’s call
was similar to eek, eek. A vastly different story appears
in Chapter 3. Here a demon called Camalotz, or “Sudden
Bloodletter”, clearly a single entity, is identified as one of four
animal demons which slew the impious first race of men.
In the Latin American
region, it seems that the ancient belief in the “death bat”
survives even to the present day. Several cultures have traditions of
bat-demons or winged monsters; for example, legends of the
h?ik’al, or Black-man, still circulate among the Zotzil people of
Chiapas, Mexico. Perhaps revealingly, the H?ik’al is sometimes
referred to as a “neckcutter”. Other bat-demons include
the soucouyant of Trinidad and the tin tin of
Ecuador.
Yet another similar
creature appears in the folklore of rural Peru and Chile.
The chonchon is a vampire-type monster; and it is truly
bizarre, even for a legendary creature. It is said that after a
person’s death, the head will sometimes sprout enormous ears and
lift off from the shoulders. This flying head is the Chonchon; its
sound, as recorded by Jorge Luis Borges, was like tui-tui-tui.
Could the legends of the Chonchon have sprung from the same source as
the Camazotz legends?
But what exactly was
the basis for the Camazotz legend? Most archaeologists believe that
the monster was based on the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus),
a bat traditionally associated with bloodletting and sacrifice.
Another suspect is the false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum), due to
its large size and habit of attacking prey around the head or neck.
One of the most
prominent and commonly mentioned features of the Camazotz is “a
nose the shape of a flint knife”, which could be an exaggerated
interpretation of the nose-leaf possessed by members of the
Phyllostomidae, or leaf-nosed bats. The vampire bat is a relative or
member of this group; thus we are once more forced to look at D.
rotundus, or its relatives, as suspects.
In 1988, a species of
fossil bat related to Desmodus rotundus, but 25 percent larger, was
described as D. draculae. It was described on the basis of two
specimens from Monagas State, Venezuela. A third specimen from São
Paulo State, Brazil, was described in a 1991 article by E. Trajano
and M. de Vivo. The Brazilian specimen had not yet been dated when
the article was written, but the two biologists suggest a “relatively
recent age” for the skeleton. They refer to reports circulating
among local natives of large bats which attack cattle and horses;
these reports may suggest that the bat still lives. Its recent
age and large range suggest that the bat could have co-existed with
the Quiché, giving rise to the legends of the Camazotz. Trajano and
de Vivo also speculate that D. draculae may have fed on larger prey
than did normal-sized vampire bats; possibly even humans?
Several other stories
supporting the idea of a large bat-like creature have come out of
Latin America in the last century. A 1947 report of a creature
presumed to have been a living pterosaur may in fact have been of a
large bat. J. Harrison saw five “birds” with a wingspan of about
12 feet. Harrison’s birds were brown, featherless, and beaked.
The next report of a
bat-like monster from the area is a story told by a Brazilian couple,
the Reals. One night in the early 1950s, they were walking through a
forest outside of Pelotas, Brazil, when they saw two large “birds”
in a tree, both of which alighted on the ground. Although reported as
winged humanoids, the proximity of the sighting area to the Ribeira
Valley, where the Brazilian specimen of D. draculae was found, forces
one to wonder whether the Reals’ “birds” were actually bats.
In March, 1975, a
series of animal mutilations swept the countryside near the Puerto
Rican town of Moca, and during the incident a man named Juan Muñiz
Feliciano claimed that he was attacked by a large, gray-feathered
creature. These bird-like creatures were seen numerous times during
the outbreak.
These reports didn’t
gain real notoriety until the mid-1970s, when a number of sightings
of large birds or bats surfaced in Rio Grande Valley, Texas. The
first report came from the town of San Benito, where three people
reputedly encounters with a bald-headed creature. But rumors had long
circulated among the Mexican inhabitants of the town about a large
bird-like creature, believed to make tch-tch-tch sounds.
On New Year’s Day,
1976, two girls near Harlingen watched a large, birdlike
creature with a “gorilla-like” face, a bald head, and a short
beak. The next day, a number of three-toed tracks were found in the
field where the creature had stood. On January 14, Armando Grimaldo
said he was attacked by the creature at Raymondville. He said it was
black, with a monkey’s face and large eyes. Further reports
surfaced from Laredo and Olmito, with a final sighting reported from
Eagle Pass on January 21.
The reports cited
above, as well as countless others which await careful researchers,
support a conclusion that a mysterious winged creature exists in the
deserts and jungles of Mesoamerica. The prominence of the bat in
Latin American mythology and the discovery of the recently-extinct
Desmodus draculae in South America point to the possible identity of
the creature as a large, as-of-yet unknown bat, rather than a living
pterosaur, as is generally supposed.
New Species or Ancient
Beast?
A number of bat
species that are just as big or bigger might be out there, waiting
for science to formally recognize them.
In this ever changing world, it seems as if mysteries and bizarre creatures are around every dark corner and can be found in deep bodies of murky water. They appear in abandoned buildings, colossal tracks of desolate land, spooky swamps and the vastness of our underground and cliff side cave systems.
The show ” Lost Tapes” ran a program on Animal Planet, that was all about these mysterious winged beings.
The show highlighted famed naturalist , Ivan T. Sanderson who journeyed on an expedition in 1932, to the Rain Forest of Cameroon and found an extraordinarily fearsome entity. The report given by Sanderson stated upon entering a cave, the entire exploring party were swooped down upon, by giant bat-like beings. Ivan’s exact words described them as, “Black as coal with membranous wings and long sharp teeth!”
Other surprising accounts come from soldiers who have been at war, throughout our history. A large number of men have come forward and given testimony to this creature, that comes soaring out, when the sun begins to set in the sky. Maybe it is because the soldiers are exposed to the open of the night, when hunkered down in the fields, that they have had so many sightings.
Although not as common in the United States as other parts of the world, it has been sighted on our soil numerous times. The most widely recorded account belongs to mountaineer Butch Whittaker. The sighting took place in the year 1994, when Butch was out preparing to climb Mt. St. Helens, in the state of Washington. In the broad light of day, the creature soared overhead near the volcano top and even though Butch was in a state of disbelief about what he was seeing, he managed to get several photographs of the winged humanoid, before it completely disappeared. It was later described by Butch as having blood-red eyes, purplish toned skin, wings of a Pterodactyl and the head and face of monkey mixed with the features of a bat. It was immediately dubbed, “Batsquatch.”
On the descriptions of the Cave Demon, ALL who have had an encounter and lived to tell about it, state that it is clearly a bat/something (human or primate) type of creature.
So once again we find our self asking the same question, What are they?
Sources: cryptoflorida.webs.com/apps/blog/show/3948914-large-bat-creature-sighted-in-california, newanimal.org/gbats.htm, kellyskrazynews.blogspot.com/2010/02/cave-demons.html, blueroadrunner.com/camazotz.htm
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Cryptozoology assignment. Marissa Louise.
Ahool
The ahool is a legendary giant bat, or by other accounts, a pterosaur or flying primate. Named for its distinctive call “A-hool”, it is said to live in the deepest rainforests of Java. It is described as having a monkey/ape-like head with large dark eyes, large claws on its forearms approximately the size of an infant, and a body covered in gray fur. Possibly the most intriguing and astounding feature is that it is said to have a wingspan of 3 m 10 ft. This is almost twice as long as the largest known bat in the world, the common flying fox.
Source: cryptozoology.wikia.com
The Island of Java,
formed mostly as the result of volcanic activity, is the worlds 13th
largest island, and the 5th largest island of Indonesia. Java is one
of the most densely populated regions on earth and with a population
of roughly 124 million is also the most populated island in the
world. It is because of this overpopulation that the rainforests of
Java have all but disappeared in recent times, the Gunung Halimun
National Park is one of the last remaining stretches of lowland
forest on the island. What remains Java’s once great rain forests
supports a wide array of wildlife including over 23 mammal species,
over 200 bird species, over 500 forms of plant life and according to
the native population of the forests is the home to a large
unidentified winged creature known as the Ahool.
The Ahool, named after
its call, a long ahOOOooool, is said to be a bat like creature, and
is described as the size of a one year old child with a gigantic wing
span of roughly 12 feet. It is reported to be covered in short, dark
grey fur, have large, black eyes, flattened forearms supporting its
leathery wings and a monkey like head, with a flattish, man like
face. It has been seen squatting on the forest floor, at which times
its wings are closed, pressed against the Ahool’s body, its feet
appearing to point backwards. It is thought that the Ahool is a
nocturnal creature, spending its days concealed in caves located
behind or beneath waterfalls; its nights spent skimming across rivers
in search of large fish upon which it feeds.
One account of the
Ahool occurred in 1925 when naturalist Dr. Ernest Bartels, son of
noted ornithologist M.E.G. Bartels, was exploring a waterfall on the
slopes of the Salek Mountains when a giant unknown bat, the Ahool,
few directly over his head. Two years later in 1927, around 11:30 pm,
Dr. Ernest Bartels encountered the Ahool again, this time he was
laying in bed, inside his thatched house close to the Tjidjenkol
River in western Java, listening to the sounds of the jungle when he
suddenly heard a very different sound coming from almost directly
over his hut, this loud and clear cry seemed to utter, A Hool!
Grabbing his torch Dr. Bartels ran out of his hut in the direction the sound seemed to be heading. Less than 20 seconds later he heard it again, a final A Hool! which floated back towards him from a considerable distance downstream. As he would recall many years later, he was transfixed on the sound, not because he did not know what produced it but rather because he did, the Ahool.
At one time, Bartels
had suggested that perhaps the creature was not a bat, but some type
of bird, possibly a very large owl, but this theory did not sit well
with others and was greeted with passionate denials by his friends,
who assured him in no uncertain terms that they were more than
capable of distinguishing a bat from a bird.
Bartels accounts of
the Ahool were passed down to cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson by
Bernard Heuvelmans, and after much research Sanderson concluded that
the Ahool is a form of unclassified bat. Sanderson took special
interest in the Ahool because he too had met with such a creature,
but not in Java, his encounter took place in the Assumbo Mountains of
Cameroon, in western Africa. Sanderson thought that the Ahool could
be an Oriental form of the giant bat like creature he witnessed in
Africa; this creature was known by the African natives as the
Kongamato.
Some researchers have
suggested that the Ahool may be a surviving population of pterosaur,
a flying reptile thought to have gone extinct around the time of the
dinosaurs, some 65 million years ago. Indeed the description of the
Ahool does match what we currently know about pterosaur species,
including large forearms supporting leathery wings. The majority of
investigators seem to agree however that the Ahool is more than
likely a form of unknown giant bat, looking to the creatures reported
facial features as evidence against the flying reptile theory. A
third, less popular theory, also based on the reported facial
features of the Ahool is that this beast may be the worlds first
reported case of a flying primate.
Regardless of which
theory you may subscribe to it may only be a matter of time before we
find out exactly what the Ahool is. With the continued destruction of
Java’s rainforests the Ahool’s habitat continues to shrink which
may lead to more encounters with the creature by modern man as we
encroach further on its home. Unfortunately the destruction of the
Ahool’s home may also lead to its extinction before we even get a
chance to fully understand its identity.
The Evidence
There is currently no
physical evidence to suggest the existence of a creature like the
Ahool living in the rainforests of Java.
The Sightings
In 1925, naturalist
Dr. Ernest Bartels, son of noted ornithologist M.E.G. Bartels, was
exploring a waterfall on the slopes of the Salek Mountains when a
giant unknown bat, the Ahool, few directly over his head.
In 1927, around 11:30
pm, Dr. Ernest Bartels encountered the Ahool again. Bartels was
laying in bed, inside his thatched house close to the Tjidjenkol
River in western Java, listening to the sounds of the jungle Bartels
suddenly heard a very different sound coming from almost directly
over his hut, this loud and clear cry seemed to utter, A Hool!
From Wiki:
The ahool is a flying cryptid, supposedly a giant bat, or by other accounts, a living pterosaur or flying primate.
Like many cryptids, it is not well documented, and little reliable information - and in this case, no material evidence - exists. Named for its distinctive call A-hool (other sources render it ahOOOooool), it is said to live in the deepest rainforests of Java.
It is described as having a monkey/ape-like head with large dark eyes, large claws on its forearms (approximately the size of an infant), and a body covered in gray fur. Possibly the most intriguing and astounding feature is that it is said to have a wingspan of 3 m (10 ft). This is almost twice as long as the largest (known) bat in the world, the common flying fox.
According to Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark [Quoting Sanderson], it was first described by Dr. Ernest Bartels.
Bartels published regular accounts of his work while exploring the Salak Mountains on the island of Java.
One speculation on its existence by the cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson is that it might be a relative of Kongamato in Africa. Others have suggested it were a living fossil pterosaur, on account of its supposedly leathery wings. As is known today, most pterosaurs seem to have had wings that were covered with a downy fluff to prevent heat loss; this may or may not have been necessary in a tropical environment depending on these animals’ metabolism. On the other hand, there might be an entirely mundane explanation:
Two large earless owls exist on Java, the Spotted Wood-owl (Strix seloputo) and the Javan Wood-owl (Strix (leptogrammica) bartelsi). They are intermediate in size between the Spotted Owl of North America or the Tawny Owl of Eurasia, and an eagle owl (horned owl), being 40–50 cm (16–20 in) long and with a wingspan of perhaps 1.20 meters (4 ft). Despite this discrepancy, wingspans are usually overestimated[verification needed]in flying animals not held in hand (see also Thunderbird), especially by frightened observers.
Size nonwithstanding, the Javan or Bartels’s Wood-owl seems an especially promising candidate to resolve the ahool enigma: it has a conspicuous flat “face” with large dark eyes exaggerated by black rings of feathers and a beak that protrudes but little, and it appears greyish-brown when seen from below. Its call is characteristic, a single shout, given intermittently, and sounding like HOOOH!
Like most large owls, it is highly territorial in breeding season and will frighten away intruders by mock attacks from above and behind. Its flight, being an owl, is nearly completely silent, so that the victim of such sweeps usually becomes aware of the owl when it is homes in snarling and with outstretched talons (held at “breast” height to the observer), and would just have time to duck away. The Javan Wood-owl is a decidedly rare and elusive bird not often observed even by ornithologists, and hides during day. It is found in remote montane forest at altitudes of probably around 1,000-1,500 meters, and does not tolerate well human encroachment, logging and other disturbances.
From its appearance and behavior, the Javan Wood-owl matches the characteristics of the ahool surprisingly well, despite the cryptid at first glance giving the impression of a mammal. Observer error due to the circumstances of being dive-bombed in a remote gloomy forest by a fierce snarling and clawing bird may well account for the apparent discrepancies. Notwithstanding, the wood-owls of Java are not generally mentioned in cryptozoological discussions of the ahool, and most authors of cryptozoologial works seem to be entirely unaware of the birds’ existence.
Be that as it may, it is not resolved how well the owls are known to locals, especially the local name - if any - and whether they are present in locations of ahool reports would seem to be highly relevant.
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