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Welcome to Dark Matters, a mini-series from the Haunted UK podcast.

Here we examine stories already etched into the public record,

disturbing incidents, unexplained events, enduring mysteries,

and accounts that continue to trouble the boundary between truth and belief.

These are the cases that remain unsolved, not because they were forgotten,

but because no one has ever managed to explain them away.

What if I told you that one of Britain's strangest winged creatures

were said to appear not over

some remote mountain or deep inside some forgotten forest, but above the tower of an ancient

Cornish church? Some places seem to invite stories, not because anything can be proven there,

not because every whisper attached to them is true, but because the place itself seems to make room

for them. The landscape, the silence, the old stone, the feeling that something about it all belongs

more to another age than to the one we live in now.

St. Mourning Church in Cornwall is one of those places.

It sits among trees above the Helford River, old and weathered and slightly removed from the world around it.

It's the kind of place that already feels like it has a memory.

The kind of place where if somebody told you they'd seen something impossible above the roof line at dusk,

you might not laugh straight away. And for years now, one story in

particular has clung to that church more tightly than any other. The story of the Owlman.

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