The legend of Owlman

The Legend of Owlman!!!

1926

In 1926 The Cornish Echo described how two young boys were attacked by a "strange bird" in the area. The boys saved themselves by running into a grate. As they cowered in the grate in the back the creature let out screeches of frustration, unsuccessfully pecked at the bars of the grate, then flew off.The bird was killed, but nobody who examined the body could specifically identify it.

1976-78

In 1976 on April 17, two young girls claimed to have seen a giant owl hovering over the local church tower, as did two other young girls on July 3. In the second encounter, 14-year-old Sally Chapman was camping with a friend, Barbara Perry, in woods near the church. According to her account, as she stood outside her tent, she heard a hissing sound and turned to see a figure that looked like an owl as big as a man, with pointed ears and red eyes. The girls reported that the creature flew up into the air, revealing black pincer-like claws. Sightings of this figure continued to be reported on the following day (when it was described as "silvery grey") and on two occasions two years later, in June and August of 1978, all within the vicinity of the church (Bord, 1980).

1989

A further sighting took place in 1989, when a young man and his girlfriend saw a creature "about five feet tall...The legs had high ankles and the feet were large and black with two huge 'toes' on the visible side. The creature was grey with brown and the eyes definitely glowed."

1995

The most recent apparent sighting is from a single witness in 1995. She reported a "man-bird... with a ghastly face, a wide mouth, glowing eyes and pointed ears" as well as "clawed wings". The woman, a student from Chicago, described her experience in a letter to a newspaper in Turo

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