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The Ghost Story Guys

The Owls Are Not What They Seem

The Ghost Story Guys

Brennan Storr

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Owls have long had their place in esoteric symbolism, but when was the last time you heard about them actually getting up to weird stuff? On this episode we dive into stories of exactly that - owls will change form in front of someone's eyes, occupy 2/3 of a tree, and terrify children in the night. As the man once said, "the owls are not what they seem." Also on this episode: bath bomb buddies, spider dreams, and whistles in the dark. Media on this episode: Giant radish man "The Messengers", by Mike Clelland (book)  The Third Man (movie)  Battle of the Planets (cartoon)  M&M Episode 168: Just Another Tinfoil Hat, with Zelia Edgar  Music on This Episode: Main Theme:   "Radio (Into the Darkness We Go)" by Podzontommusic Stories Theme: "The Future Belongs to Them Now" by Hexxagram Bumpers:      "Crystal Gloom" by Rand Aldo "Radio" and "The Future Belongs to Them Now" are used with permission, all other music and sound FX are licensed via Epidemic Sound.  Want more show AND ad-free episodes? Come find us on Patreon! We have bonus podcasts, our monthly movie night, and so much more. Click on over to Patreon.com/GhostStoryGuys to check it out! Grab yourself some Ghost Story Guys merch at our Red Bubble and TeePublic stores! Comment? Suggestion? Story you want to tell? E-mail us at ghoststoryguys@gmail.com or call The Ghost Line at 1-888-588-6920 to leave us one, or a series of questions. The Ghost Story Guys are: Brennan Storr - Host, Writer, Producer  Paul Bestall - Co-Host  Luke Greensmith - Researcher  Sarah Kent - Support  Anthony Germaine - Researcher  Rachel GW - Facebook admin Pins and signed copies of "A Strange Little Place" are available via Big Cartel. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-ghost-story-guys4724/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hold hands, close your eyes. It's half past midnight, and you're listening to the Ghost

0:24.6

Story Guys. Welcome to the Ghost Story, guys. I'm Brennan Store. I'm Paul Bestol, and this is a show

0:33.7

where we talk about Spooks, Spectres, and all the other things watching us from the shadows beyond

0:38.1

the campfire. Some conversations only make sense after the sun has set, and this is most definitely

0:44.6

one. Thanks for tuning in. This is episode number 132, and we're coming from that tiny mountain

0:50.1

cabin you dream about, but can never quite reach. How are you, Paul? I'm okay. I'm just dealing with

0:57.4

the ground-shattering news about the world's largest potato, not being a potato, but as with anything

1:03.3

in life, these challenges are sent to testers, and it's how we deal with them that I think makes us

1:07.7

the people we are. And if nothing else, giant radish guy that I sent you prior to recording,

1:12.2

he's out there watching over all of us. Folks, I'll put a link to that in the show notes so you

1:16.2

can see this man grew a giant radish in Japan in 2003, I think, and Paul and I were marveling

1:22.3

at this, because that's what we do when the microphones are not on. You're welcome for us not

1:26.9

turning them on so you have to hear it. I went to a craft fair last week at last week. I went to

1:36.0

a craft fair last year, where one of the stalls was painting self-portraits using vegetables.

1:42.8

As in, vegetables were matched into paint, or they sort of did like macaroni paintings

1:48.5

using bits of vegetables. You used the vegetables to paint with?

1:52.9

Okay, that seems like it's going to smell. No, it was all right, it was all fresh veg.

1:58.8

Oh, okay. So yeah, I was quite a dab-hand with a leak, quite a pliable veg,

2:05.4

made a nice self. You have to do a self-portrait so you could use potatoes and carrots and,

2:10.1

you know, a bit of broccoli for your hair. Well, not so much for me, but, you know,

2:13.9

more than people. People with hair. Yeah, so yeah.

2:18.1

Do photos exist of this? Is what I want to know? I'm trying to think if we took some. I think we did,

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