Owlman of Mawnan

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Natural Sciences, Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 948 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Owlman of Mawnan | Paranormal Podcast #owlmanofmawnan This week, we took a deep dive into one of Britain's most compelling cryptid mysteries this episode: the Owlman of Mawnan, a gray-feathered, red-eyed, man-sized winged humanoid that's been terrorizing the woods near a 13th century Cornish church since the 1970s, and somehow keeps showing up specifically in front of young women. We walked through the most popular documented sighting, got into the bizarre cluster of paranormal weirdness happening across Cornwall during that era — dolphin attacks, teleporting cattle, birds beating themselves to death against walls — and explored some genuinely fascinating theories about what this thing actually is. It's got shades of Mothman, it's got a possible poltergeist connection, it's got a surrealist artist who died 16 days before the first sighting and painted almost the exact scene years earlier, and more! 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 ⁠⁠Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit it here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 Subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Owlman of Mawnan, Cornwall cryptid, winged humanoid, British paranormal, Mawnan Smith church, red eyed creature, feathered humanoid, cryptid sightings, Mothman comparison, ley lines Cornwall, paranormal England, giant owl creature, humanoid bird creature, Doc Shields paranormal, Cornwall paranormal activity, cryptid witnesses, winged cryptid UK, Mawnan church haunting, poltergeist theory, interdimensional entities #cornishowlman #owlmanmawnan #owlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're walking through the Monin woods as twilight bleeds into darkness.
0:07.0	You told yourself you'd reach the church before sunset.
0:11.0	Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
0:14.0	A hissing sound stops you cold.
0:16.0	Your flashlight cuts through the gloom, sweeping across gnarled trunks entangled undergrowth.
0:22.6	Then you hear it. A heavy flutter of wings. Far too large for any normal bird, you angle your
0:29.4	beam upward and your breath catches in your throat. Perched, 15 feet above you, something massive
0:36.4	grips the branch with black pincher-like claws.
0:40.3	A humanoid figure covered in gray feathers, an owl-like head tilts slowly towards you.
0:46.3	Two enormous eyes ignite red in your flashlight beam.
0:49.3	Its head jerks downward towards you.
0:52.3	Today, we test the believability of the Owlman of Manin. You know, Oh, Oh, Oh. Oh. I'm Welcome to Believing the Bazaar, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
1:24.7	And tell you whether or not we find a believable.
1:26.6	Every Tuesday.
1:27.7	Every Tuesday. Every Tuesday.
1:28.4	I'll tell you what.
1:29.2	I'll tell you what, man.
1:30.1	It's nice to be back on this side.
1:32.0	I haven't done that intro for a while.
1:33.5	Oh, yeah.
1:34.2	It's been a month since I've manned the ship of an episode.
1:38.2	Yeah.
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