[New 2023 Cryptozoology Documentary] Giant Owls in Canada?

[@darabennett4316]

I just wanted to say that after reading the article the other day on you, Mr. Peters, I was very surprised to learn that you do your own music. Not because I don't believe in you.(We all believe in the HP!) But from day one of listening to your channel, the music brought back a sense of nostalgia for me. To when I was a small child, learning the folktales and the music from long ago. You could have looked up stock footage or stock music like most youtubers do, but you didn't. One can tell, you put love and effort into what you do. It just made a channel i love, that much more special. Thank you HP.

[@HammersonPeters]

Thank you very much! About half of the music I use is my own, and the rest is stock.

[@greg-L3902]

when i was 17 with my cousin on a rabbit hunt. We were walking back home as the sun was setting on the pole line. I thought i saw the dark silhouette of a boy standing high up in a dead tree. I pointed it out to my cousin and we walked towards the tree. We had our 22 rifles and weren’t scared to approach closer till we saw how large it was. It was definitely an owl much larger than a metre tall, sitting in the dead tree watching us. I still couldnt stop thinking how it resembled a large grade school size kid standing up in the tree. It was very creepy ! we kept our eyes on it as we passed by and our hands on our guns. I remember it like yesterday, even though 37 years has passed by

[@2012listo]

I have seen a thunderbird. It most definitely was NOT an owl. 30+foot wingspan, no keel, no flapping, no soaring. Flat as a pancake. Huge, curved beak. Blown up to Illinois from the Ozarks by a big storm system.

[@BigfootSociety]

IT’S HAMMERSON TIME. 🤝

[@ronsales9708]

Efn eh!

[@WeAreInYourWall]

That's racist.

[@pattol666]

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[@JeagerTv]

YEEEEAAAAAAAH!

[@npalmi88]

@@WeAreInYourWall lel

[@ratgirl13]

I met a huge owl when I was driving through a cemetery in Massachusetts as it was getting dark one winter day and it flew at the car and landed on the windshield with spread wings, I braked so hard had I not been wearing a seatbelt I would have probably become one with the bird. I was shocked to say the least and didn’t move the car until it folded it’s wings, hopped on the hood and then flew away. Then I drove away slowly feeling in awe of having the owl make “contact” with me. It’s an experience I will never forget, and it happened about 40 years ago.

[@ratgirl13]

@@osakarose5612 Thank you. It was a bit terrifying when it happened though, the owl came seemingly out of nowhere-and it was sudden-and there was no sound-and the wingspan was huge!

[@wactoryw7900]

Wow

[@jamesfaedtke2914]

Was it Black on outside and silver on belly with black dots on belly, by chance?

[@shable1436]

@@ratgirl13 did it have ears? Like protruding from it's head? That would be the great horned owl, and they are large. It might have been injured if it didn't take off immediately

[@dinarusso3320]

Large birds terrify me! I would've had a heart attack!

[@Wahatoyas]

You have been my favorite channel for about a year now, I've ee watched all the videos hundreds of times. This channel deserves millions of subs

[@Mishiginebig]

Glad you got to feature Guy-an-Way. Sacred Legends is such a great book!

[@HammersonPeters]

Thanks to your recommendation!

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

Back in 1975 I was dear hunting with my dad in Effingham county Ga. While walking to my stand I saw the biggest owl I have ever seen. About 25 feet up on a dead limb of a pine tree looking over a field sat a gray owl. This bird was at least 3 foot tall and was a little bigger in girth than a gallon milk jug. I got to within 40 foot of the tree it was in before it launched itself off the limb and with two strokes of its wings glided to the trees on the other side of the field and was gone with out a sound. I would guess at its wing span of 6-7 feet. I have looked up owls on the net and never found one that grew to the size of the one I saw.

[@Veldtian1]

@@osakarose5612 Their actual feathers have swoosh muffler designed edge tips.

[@ScoobieSwisher7413]

So you've been hunting "deer" 45 + years and you don't know how the word is spelled?

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

@@ScoobieSwisher7413 Omg! You got me!! You must feel so much better that you pointed this out to everyone. How can I face the world after this unforgivable oversight on my part. 😭😭😭 I bet this was the highlight of your week.

[@ScoobieSwisher7413]

@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen Far from it actually. It was a joke, I believe your story. I live in the Mojave, and have recently seen 2 that fit your description on and off since August now.

[@420kiwiwarrior]

@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen Don't you get pissed at people who point every stup!d error out like that,Only muppets do that sh!t.

[@liuqiuokiman7302]

I lived in Lincoln Maine U.S.A. for a couple of years on the property there was a lady suffering terminal cancer the as it was getting dark I had seen a Great Horned Owl roosting in a tree it was at least 4 foot tall before morning the lady had died the 2 years I lived there that’s the only owl I had seen.

[@tomflynn2912]

For about the past year, I've had an Owl hooting outside my house on many nights. I Love listening to him. Just this past summer, there are now 2 Owls. They sound like they hoot to each other. There is one close, who will hoot, then I hear the other, a bit away, giving an answering hoot. It is awesome!

[@samsalamander8147]

I have a pair in my yard and neighborhood too they hoot to each other also. I was just saying in another comment how I looked out my windows once and thought I was looking at a man sized owl it was dark and it scared me but I seen the owls the next morning and I assumed it was some kind of optical allusion because of how the eyes looked way higher than the branch it was on

[@kacieogle513]

We have a pair here where I live in east TN. They sound crazy when they get to conversing!

[@OriginalGlorfindel]

I had a pair of barred owls hoot back and forth (NE FL) and the local screech owl got big mad! I never heard such a noise, had to search audio files online to figure out it was a tiny screech owl with a big additude! I'm familiar with the noises of most night birds in that area, yet never heard such a sound in reply to the two big owls hoots... angry little screech owl couldn't help but cuss them out, lol!

[@josephmeador1529]

I walked up behind a giant owl standing in the middle of a trail in VA around twighlight back in the late 80's when I was a teenager. It spun it's head and looked at me that way they do and I stopped dead in my tracks. I was only about 6 feet away ... It looked like it was at least 4 feet tall - no joke. I stood there and it simply walked away into the woods ... It was the first owl I'd ever seen up close. I guess I assumed they were all that big.

[@Soundofwindonsand]

Or... you didn't meet an Owl....but it wanted to look like one ....

[@Old_8_gauge]

We have them in West Virginis also. Saw one back about '77/'78. We call them Big Hoots. A truly unappreciated cryptids. Anotger great upload, thank you.

[@jonhohensee3258]

Where is "West Virginis"?

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

@@jonhohensee3258 west virginia

[@josephmeador1529]

I ran into one in VA

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@josephmeador1529 sure

[@ProbablyOnLSD69]

You sure it wasn’t Mothman?

[@robmontgomery9711]

hubby and i saw one at night driving in rural Sorrento in Florida...it was just standing in the middle of the road on the dividing lines facing northwest..he slowed down when we noticed what seemed to be someone in the road, a short person it seemed until we got closer.it had huge eyes.it was as tall as the hood of the car and it was an owl.unblinking even as we past right beside it.its feathers ruffled but it did not blink.i wondered why it was so unmoving and acting as if in a trance staring out like it was..we kept going slowly and watching but it never moved.weirdest damn thing we have seen together.i didnt know they grew that big.it was like a person in size.healthy looking too.

[@michellef1660]

Good job … I myself experienced a great white owl in Alberta .. it landed in front of the campfire… to me it looked about 4 feet high … the wings were 10/12 wide… the very next night .. he reappeared to the left of me about 12 feet away..on a post.. I looked away for a slight moment.. looked back his way and he was gone without a sound .. and then paranormal stuff started happening around my home

[@josephwarra5043]

There are stories of large birds of prey in the remote regions of Fort Lewis in Washington State, USA, back in the late 1970s and mid 1980s. About 4.5 to 5 feet tall, dark coloring and sometimes mistaken for rather short soldiers on that Army base. It's reported that they would often stand on the ground next to roads and trails without much fear just watching the military vehicles drive by. Many military and naval bases in the USA are in remote areas and whatever animals reside there are protected by federal law and people are NOT allowed to molest them in any way, so it's possible that large undescribed or undiscovered species MIGHT exist in those places.

[@graceyjewels7148]

I bet they were hoping for a food supply truck.

[@lisahernandez919]

I've seen several thunderbirds, and one giant owl back in the early 80s.

[@johnfoge1742]

Whoa!

[@garrett3055]

Saw a 4ft white owl standing on a fence post in northern Alberta, didn’t think it was a cryptic.

[@alanshaw6161]

Geez remind me not to go camping there if 4ft owls are the norm.. Is there anymore to the story? I would love to hear it if you have the time.

[@karlnorgaard9447]

I live in Alberta, seen a lot of Owls while working and around my home town of Red Deer. I feel like I've encountered an Owl with a 6 ft wingspan.

[@CountDraculasrockband]

​@karlnorgaard9447 I remember being in Lacombe and always seeing lots of Owls in fall 🦉

[@Joe3pops]

A good friend's son was in the army and deployed to Afghanistan and was a gunner 25mm LAV Coyote. An armoured personnel carrier that had superior thermal night vision equipment. They, meaning his section and crew commander were often detailed to monitor possible enemy incursion routes in hours of darkness from a fixed high level position. One night during his watch late a night, no one else awake he seen into a nearby valley and copse of trees something moving in the woodline. Then it came into clear view, he described it as a kind of huge raptor bird. With a incredible wing span seemingly greater than 25 feet.

[@dinarusso3320]

I believe it, that's so interesting!

[@sabrinatscha2554]

🙄

[@jrsoper6524]

When I was about 12 , 5 ft in height , there was a owl bigger than me on the telephone pole. It was snow white , and winter time in North Dakota. I tried to tell my parents but they ignored me. It was huge.

[@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490]

Many years ago we had a self feeder in our backyard for the cattle. The feeder was about 5 feet tall. One day there was an owl perched on it. The owl was about three feet tall.

[@time2see192]

I believe you. One time I was about 3 or 4, walking with other kids down the sidewalk, in York Haven, PA. On a stone wall I saw a HUGE daddy long legger, prob 5 foot leg span, beggar it w was WAY bigger than me. I stopped at stared while the other kids continued and started yelling LOOK LOOK! Come look at this giant spider! Abs no one would look. I was SOO frustrated because they didn't believe me and wouldn't come look. True story, I remember it like yesterday. This was 50 years ago.

[@npalmi88]

Kiew

[@bhaktapeter3501]

@@time2see192 please describe the spider in more detail. Thank you

[@bigthoughts2644]

@@time2see192 5 foot... no. Insects can no longer maintain these sizes. Insects need a 2-3 atm atmosphere to attain that size. Like the preflood globe in genesis. 5 in... I would believe you. Some stuff gets much bigger than normal.

[@Dplusithicus]

When I was ~7 years old, I used to go walk around the block of my Suburban NJ home. The entire route took about half an hour to travel on foot, and a lap was a 0.6mi walk, as it was on a steep incline. One day, mid 2006 (during sometime around June), I was on an aforementioned walk. One of the houses on the opposite side of the street, 0.3mi away from my house had a bird feeder with little sparrows, blue-jays, robins, etc feeding from it on a daily basis. This was around 3PM and I had just happened to look across the street, at the birdfeeder just mere moments before a massive bird, with a wingspan of around 22ft, silently swooped down, grabbed a blackbird, all the other birds flew out of the way as this happened, and it flew right back up in one swift motion, disappearing into the trees above. How, as a 7 yr did I know it was 22ft in wingspan? That neighbor had a Promaster LB that was parked in their driveway at all times. Wingspan of the bird would've covered the entire length of the Van. I used to watch a lot of Nature documentaries back then, and I recognized the flight pattern of an owl. It was definitely an owl. The bird had a box-like head and was blacker than any hawk I've ever seen. Looking back, I think it was a Black Horned-Owl.

[@violin15895]

Mike Clelland an author has written an entire series of books regarding his experiences with large owls and UFO’s. This rabbit hole goes much deeper than you can imagine.

[@HammersonPeters]

Very cool! I didn't know that.

[@jrsoper6524]

Thanks, I will buy it.

[@lovesees4320]

Yep I saw him on CONCRETE, is it? That's what I thought this was gonna be. But I'm enjoying the First Nation stories🙏 Though don't know if it's the selection here, it's abit traumatic re the focus on Women 🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@alexblazquez2277]

This ties into David Paulides' work about bigfoot and ufo's and this other plane of reality. Clearly all linked. Great stuff

[@ThE420DbOY]

Ever see the show Twin Peaks? There is a weird connection between UFOs and owls,among other strange things. It was fiction,but still a good show.

[@gibbygrimyer4749]

when i was younger living in a heavily forested area of british columbia, in the SW area not a days drive from vancouver, I was riding in the backseat of my dads car as we were heading home, i spent many of those car rides looking out the window into the woods, there was always a giant stump maybe 30-40 feet into the woods from the side of the road, I still remember distinctly one time coming home there was what looked like a very large bird sitting motionless on the stump, i told my dad and brother who were in the car what i had seen but they didnt seem interested, after doing some research afterwards I found what i had saw was i think a great grey owl, or something visually similar to the species, although it was much larger than any example or reference ive seen, the stump itself stood maybe hip height, 2-3 feet in diameter, and yet i still have a clear image in my mind of seeing the owl sitting there, nearly big enough that the edges of its body were as wide as the stump, while standing at head height including the stumps height

[@missourimongoose8858]

I saw an owl kill a hawk this year while deer hunting, it was right before sun up and I heard a crazy screech and something fall so I waited till it was light enough and saw a adult owl and under the tree I found a small hawk lol it was pretty crazy

[@richardmyhan3369]

I live in Springfield Missouri, and I spent a great deal of my Adolescence in the Ozarks. I've never seen the giant owl, but I can absolutely see how a relic population of enormous owls would live in the more remote areas here. There are places not far from me that probably haven't felt the tread of a human in decades, if ever. There are very remote places southeast of me.

[@jrsoper6524]

I live in the Ozarks of Arkansas. In the country. My owl experience happened in North Dakota. I was about 12 , and 5 ft. Tall. This was in the winter. I saw a owl bigger than me sitting on a telephone pole just staring at me. Pure white. I ran home and told my parents and they just ignored me.

[@npalmi88]

Lol, literally NOWHERE in the lower 48 is truly “remote”, you’re never more than 20 miles from a major road/highway/interstate/small town

[@wactoryw7900]

@@npalmi88 you know a low sites

[@richardmyhan3369]

@@jrsoper6524 that's nuts. You'd probably be able to build a house out of the bricks I'd poop, if I were in your spot. Lol.

[@Veldtian1]

But they're trans-dimensional, they aren't holed up in some land of the lost giant owls.

[@misterandersson5645]

I've heard about these big birds in North America, but not in any greater detail. About ten years ago, I worked as a truck driver here in northern Sweden, and I saw a massive owl. It was winter and snowing, pitch black and very light traffic, and while driving through a mountain pass and coming around a curve, there was someting the size of a man in my headlights, just on the side of the road. It was just maybe 10-15 feet in front of me when I saw it, but I quickly turned my head and looked through the passenger side window, and it was looking right back at me! There was nothing to sit on next to the road, except for the snow, and it was tall enough to stare right at me when in my full size Scania truck! I saw it for just a second, but could tell it was massive. The largest owls here rarely grow longer than 2 feet, what I saw was much, much larger than that. I haven't told anyone about this, but searched for information and other sightings, but couldn't find anything. This video made me thing about the incident, a once in a lifetime experience!

[@justindunlap1235]

I had a similar experience in the northwest united States. My grandmother and I were driving back up the mountain valley we live in at around 10pm, all of the sudden we saw huge owl, at least 4-5 feet tall, it's head was above mine and I was sitting in a 91 Subaru wagon.

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I had a very similar experience back in the late 70s in Wyoming

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Bexx J. Korol has a great voice and delivery. And I like the way she looks.

[@Are427]

I saw one beautiful owl had to be at least 3-4 foot i stopped my car and just watched it one of the trippiest things I’ve ever saw in my life I still to this day remember it and this was about 7 years ago

[@kittentacticalwarfare1140]

My only experience with preternatural owls was in Guatemala by Atlitan's lake. Going off road I found a clear in a forest where there was a cave I had plan to use for camping the night. Then I felt something watching me from deep within the cave, I simply knew it was an owl and it's presence felt as of it was the size of the whole mountain. I simply acted respectful letting it know I was nothing but a wanderer who wouldn't upset it's dwelling and continue my way after gratefully taking advantage of the area. The feeling was the same as when you encounter a large predator in the wild, it's not fear like lesser entities that try to make you fear them. It's simply that cold realization that it can kill you if it comes to it or if you make a wrong move.

[@tecumsehcristero]

I love that Hammerson Peters includes early French, Spanish and Jesuit accounts unlike many other channels that only use American Indian and Anglo Settler’s accounts. Maybe it is because he is from Canada and not the USA or maybe it is because he is part maytee. Thank you Hammerson for including the accounts of all the peoples of this land.

[@agangstersparadise1]

Métis* and I agree. It is a great channel.

[@graceyjewels7148]

Agree, hearing firsthand accounts that haven't been whitewashed for political correctness.

[@MakerInMotion]

I think the Point Pleasant mothman was a big-ass owl.

[@AllisonHayes-jx8mu]

Me too

[@ashbirk4681]

I thought I was crazy but when I used to work at lake of the Ozarks. I DJed for years out there and lived in Fort Leonardwood about 1 hour away. I have, on at least 4 occasions, seen what I had described as a “white Turkey vulture”. Of course vultures are diurnal because they use thermal air currents to fly and so I knew it couldn’t be a vulture. I had once seen a great horned owl and this thing was bigger, interesting take on it, and comparison to an older species.

[@clobbyhops]

Great idea Mr Hammerson Peters, do a video on actual thunderbirds and giant owl encounters and interview the eyewitnesses live on your channel. Thanks I love true giant bird of prey stories. God bless you brother

[@jamesfaedtke2914]

I agree 👍💯🎯

[@zeahlessley6108]

Owls are wildly large in person. We had a great horned owl on my parents' property, and seeing it in flight was like watching a floating large log zoom over the field.

[@hoidoei941]

In my country we the call white tailed eagle “the flying door”

[@samk3lly]

My mother tells me sometimes that her mother and older sister used to get her and her younger siblings to come in at night by telling them that a scary owl would get them. After listening to this video, I'm glad it never got them.

[@WeAreInYourWall]

I have it on good authority a bargain was struck to spare her, and the owl has been awaiting your readyness for harvest.

[@naturallawprinciples]

As a long time ornithologist, owls are one bird ya don't want to be giants...the normal size ones are terrors & regularly prey on other, often larger, birds of prey....plus a giant bird with the ability to be absolute silent in flight would be bad news 🦉

[@raksh9]

In Australia, we have Powerful Owls (Ninox Strenua). They eat pounds and pounds of possum, gliders and even koalas every day and have a wingspan of well over a meter. I've never seen one, but my mother did, once. She said that it was disturbingly large and awe inspiring.

[@jacobturner861]

I love my barred owls more than I love most people minus my family and a few friends

[@jacobturner861]

I love birds my barred owls kill some bats from time to time but I gotta say the owls we have really only eat frogs and mice 99% of the time sometimes catch a re re rabbit but 90% of the time they are not fast enough to catch rabbit they absolutely devastate the frogs on the road at night here

[@JJohnson-wn9bb]

@@raksh9 They say that everything’s bigger in Texas well Everything is absolutely the Biggest in Australia. We’re talking prehistoric sized creatures, bats with a 4-5 ft wingspan, spiders the size of large plates, and cockroaches the size of adult rats (so big that you could actually hear them scurrying).. Crazy -and that’s not even getting into the planet’s most poisonous snakes and the monstrous crocs!🦇🪳🐍🐊

[@JJohnson-wn9bb]

I’ve never seen a Powerful Owl but I would Love to if ever given the chance!🦉

[@davidwestfall4336]

Riding Mountain National Park, 1992, on a horseback ride, my wife & I saw a huge white or snowy owl swoop from a tree. It had a wingspan of at LEAST 6 feet. That was just before we saw the grizzly bear cubs.

[@JudyMenzel7]

I can personally attest to a giant owl in Northern Wisconsin, seen by myself in the mid to late 70s. It flew to land in the road and I braked my car. The owl stood there, it's height was just above the front hood of my vehicle...a 1970 Plymouth valiant station wagon. The road was in Ojiba/Chippewa territory.

[@WeAreInYourWall]

I really hope that's true.

[@tminer2110]

a barn owl will stand 3 ft tall everyone thinks they have seen one till they see one! they can get huge many story's out thr of med to large sized dogs being carried away.

[@JudyMenzel7]

@@WeAreInYourWall it is indeed true. There were 4 of us in the car who witnessed it. It was a shock and scary to us!

[@JudyMenzel7]

@@tminer2110 in my opinion, it was plenty large enough for that and more! The 4 of us were astounded at its size.

[@michaelbruns449]

Too bad no dash cams back then.

[@shaddylarge9073]

I heard a story of an old native man who lived by himself and his nephew would go visit him and he would tell his nephew dont go into the back rooms where a huge black curtain was hung in the hallway, well one time he went back there looking for his uncle and came across lots of old newspapers an bones' which lead into a room that had a huge hole in the wall which he crawled threw and came to a trail that lead to a opening in the woods , he saw his uncle talking to someone by a fire' when he got a better look it was a huge owl' the size of a man' the uncle immediately begged the owl not to kill his nephew' which it flew off and the uncle got mad at him

[@levi5459]

La Lechuza

[@hoidoei941]

Sounds legit 😏

[@truman5838]

I'm Native American. Mohawk. We Have been aware of these giant birds for thousands of years. You see thunderbirds far up north in the Summer months to this day. They are the apex predators. Even Sasquatch runs for cover when they sees them. As for owls, I myself have never seen one but my uncle has. I was with him at the time but only he saw it. Algonquin park. Ontario. I was 14 at the time. I'm 44 now. So 30 yrs ago. He said it was the biggest bird he had ever seen and it was gliding silently through the forset under the forest canopy. It absolutely huge but somehow doesn't make a sound. My uncle has seen Sasquatch in Algonquin Park as well. It was running on all fours across the train tracks in his peripheral. Large, Reddish Brown, and it's front was higher than its back. That ain't no black bear, wolf, dog, or Cougar my uncle said. He spends a lot of time out in the woods. He's also seen a single white wolf standing just outside the treeline on the rocky shore during a Thunderstorm while canoeing in Algonquin Park. Oh and a massive world record snapping turtle. It was about 5 ft in diameter. Head size of a dinner plate. Up north are where the monsters roam.

[@IAmTheRealHim]

What a dumb comment 😂😂😂 “Im Scottish. Edinburgh. You can still hear unicorns galloping up north, even griffins won’t attack their magical herds”

[@IAmTheRealHim]

A Sasquatch running on all fours, reddish brown, with a bigger front then back? That’s just a grizzly bear… curious you specified it wasn’t a “black” beat instead of just bear… because it definitely was just a bear, even based on that description.

[@johnfoge1742]

@truman I seen a White Wolf. Seen a Spirit Red Tail Hawk also.

[@jaybanks2709]

I have seen a giant snapping turtle as a teen at camp in Michigan bigger than my little sister

[@Rockerrobin]

I heard a bigfoot story of someone running into one and their mind told them it's just an owl. It took them a few days to realize their mind was playing a trick in them and that owl memory turned into a bigfoot encounter with her paralyzed in fear for hours before she had come back to consciousness unaware of the lost time or why she was in a different location or was missing a sock.

[@cosmicbackwoods]

I too have had experiences with owls and ufos. if your friend has not done so already I highly recommend the book the Messengers, its all about people having experiences with this subject. its a phenomenon that will follow you around

[@dougdillon1271]

Love this channel. Not only entertaining,but educational also. Keep it up!!

[@shable1436]

Owls and aliens are connected, sort of like bigfoot and crows, we humans don't have enough knowledge on how interspecies connections work. Think of it like your pets know your feelings, but magnify that

[@Wolveblade]

My mom woke up one night and saw a massive owl fly over. She swore that it was large enough to carry away my little brother. We were alert at all times when outside.

[@jefftracy3771]

I live in Western Pennsylvania in a rural area surrounded by highways. A few years ago, my friend and i were driving back to my house after playing hockey. It was around 10 or 11 pm. Less than a mile from my house, we crossed a creek and rounded the bend in a wooded valley with some small fields that the neighbor owned. Suddenly, a massive brown owl darted across the road from right to left. It was only visible in the headlights for a few seconds but both my friend and I thought there was something weird about it. It was BIG. It's wings had to be at least 4 feet long and it's body at least 5-6 feet tall. I've never seen an owl that big, before or since. The weirdest thing about it was it looked like it had run across the road, not flew. I cant be sure but I thought I saw legs on it. The next day, i told my mom, who knows a lot about cryptids, about what I had seen. She said she had heard about a family driving down the highway only a few miles away, and they had their car attacked by a winged creature with legs. This happened only a few days before!

[@bgardner312]

Sarnia Ontario Canada at Hiawatha Horse Park in 2003 my sister and I saw a 4 and half foot owl standing about 30 feet from the front of my parked car.. as I approached my car I reached in to turn the headlights on and this thing opened up a massive wing spanned that was pure white and it flew straight up into the black sky and was gone in a flash.. at first we thought it was a kid in a ghost costume standing in a sod field at 3 am? It just stood there watching us as we walked towards my car.. My sister saw it too and a couple of months later we lost our father to liver cancer so if it was there to warn us of a up coming death we already knew so I don't think it was for that reason..

[@PUBHEAD1]

Whoot! A boring afternoon at work and then, Bam! A new Hammerson video appears to entertain me. Perfect timing. Great vid as always. Cheers

[@landofthefeehomeofyoupay8806]

Wow, been looking for information about giant owls for quite a few years now... Thank you so much!

[@jamesfaedtke2914]

Me too, bc of a giant owl experience I had in Northwest Indiana. Wish you all the luck on finding info. I've looked pretty hard myself and only got a small handful, of the ones I seen and I got a real good look at the big one to say the least. I wish I could see pictures of early extincted owls or the fossils. I know they found and cave in Cuba, I believe that had giant owl bones in it. But I think they said that one was flightless. Definitely not what I saw that night.

[@ericolsen67vw]

I seen something like this at night at 1000ft off the Columbia river that had a 15 foot or greater wing span.

[@adamadams6740]

I’ve heard a couple stories on Sasquatch chronicles about big owls,one where there were two on the ground watching a kid that was crazy.

[@canonwillette5580]

Wow, I just love these stories. And they immediately remind me of two totally different things that have happened or happen to me in the present. I live in upstate NY near the Vermont state line. One day while I was out in the yard where we lived out in the countryside, I happened to see something huge, slowly flapping its huge wings and it went from one end of the horizon to the other. I now live about 30 miles away from that home. And when I first moved into my present home, I heard owl hoots at night coming from the woods next to my home. The hoots have a penetrating quality that seem to sound throughout the valley where i live. They also do not have the exact owl hoots of any owl that I have ever heard. A few years later, I discovered the reason for that. One night while in my home, a shattering bang hit the side of my home. It was soooo hard that my cats ran under the bed in fear. The next day, I went outside and tried to see if I could see any signs of what could have made that sound. I walked the tree line alongside the lawn. And that's where I found the dead trees that were arranged in teepee like structures with smaller sticks propped up alongside them. Those are the structures that Bigfoot make. After that, whenever I would go outside and sit alone, the Bigfoot would make deafening woodknocks coming from the opposite woods on the other side of my yard. So it seems that huge owls and Bigfoot tales are intermixed in tales for a reason.

[@brotherlittlefoot2216]

I am Sabe/Sasquatch researcher,and they do seem to share a friendly relationship w owls,yet a less friendly relationship w crows,lol,who always tell on them.

[@matthewmaxcy1574]

I am half M'ikmaq.... I can tell you this is true.... ever since I were a child to this very day before someone I know or family member passes a Owl will fly to within feet of me "Day or Night" and will bring me the message of death and will let out a cry/scream unlike any heard before, I have documented the times he has come over the yrs and the deaths of those soon afterwards, many people have witnessed this around me happen and because i have been chosen to be the messenger for Owl I have him tattooed upon my throat..... what many believe to be legends to be tales to us aren't just to be looked at as such for those as myself and Like me it is Very Real....

[@DarmacQ]

It was nice having her narrate

[@gregoryunderwood4121]

We have giant owls here in Oregon. The ones I've seen have been 5' to 6' tall with enormous wing spans

[@squirrelgirl1853]

That one owl w the horse feet, that Bagda I think, at least it sounded like that.....the description kind of reminded me of the Jersey devil...in a way....these stories are fascinating!!! Thank you so much for compiling and sharing them!!!

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

LOL I was thinking the same :P

[@rustyshackleford7288]

Once when I lived out in the desert, and I was trying to call my dogs and someone else was calling my dog. same whistle sounded just like me. After I got my small and big dogs in the house I then heard" hear boy" but it sounded electronical. It sounded like it wasn't human like it was fake or something you just kept saying" here boy here boy." Next thing I knew in the front yard there was an owl, one of the biggest owls are seen before in my life. It was trying to lure my dogs outside and somehow it could make sounds that sounded like people. You don't know every animal in the world we don't know everything that lives we don't know how big they get we don't know everything. If there was giant birds which there probably is it'd be extremely scary because even dogs and lizards everything like that doesn't like to be man had all been picked up from the back. Humans do not like being picked up from the back tiger's lions house cats large dogs that weigh 200 pounds don't like it. Or people. Wonder why? Hahahaha there is giants birds and others things for sure. Some say they seen Terradactels as well as Terradawns and Terrasores.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

What desert did you live in? And can you estimate the size of the owl for us?

[@gersonhcastillo6098]

i am sasketchawan cree and witnessed a dogman carried away by one such giant owl

[@jodielynnwiley5060]

I lived in sterling Colorado and there was 2 giant owls on top of the cell tower back in November of 2022

[@Dkthearn]

Nothing better after work than a fat bowl and a new legend or story from Hamerson peters

[@edcpike]

This was fascinating! Thank you✌🏽

[@justbe1451]

Another fabulously interesting history video, great narrative, enjoyed the video which related to the narration & exceptionally appreciated the background music didn't wreck the whole story. 💛🤟

[@Myuutantobasuta]

Wow you just made this? This is quality.

[@BeliefHolePodcast]

Heck Yes! I need some Giant Owls in my life. Hammerson-style 🔥 🦉 💪

[@colleenriekert9950]

I once watched a movie ( 3rd Kind), in the movie these owls sat on the footend of this woman's bed and watched her with alienlike eyes. It was a true story. Happend in Nome Alaska. Scary!!

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

Yes. They guide you through the land of Hyrule and are in fact the sage Raru. You can find them at lake Hylia.

[@jonhohensee3258]

sure

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

@Lamashtu yes. It's from no less than Ocarina of Time.

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

@Lamashtu you are wise, kind, and good.

[@ronsales9708]

ITS HAMMERSON TIME YES!!!!!! YES!!!!!YES!!!!!!!!!!

[@SusanCrone22]

Really enjoyed these stories,: thank you. 🦉

[@thestellarator815]

That first story sounds like a time traveller from the future was having some fun.

[@justin979]

💡💡It’s an OWLUSARUS.!!🤣I ❤️ these Hammerson Peters, interesting & perfectly presented.👏🏼

[@lindasue8719]

You always pick the grooviest topics!☺️👍🏼 Gotta sleep, but looking forward to watching it tomorrow!

[@Rocketcity007]

Love the narration in this video 👍

[@mistervacation23]

I sure wish my boys knew how to cook. The other night they made a Hoot Owl pie. Perfectly good hoot owl ruined !

[@igorslocks]

Love this video. Owls are beautiful and wonderous creatures indeed.🦮🦉

[@fractalofgod6324]

I just purchased your book legends of the Nahani valley and it's so good. Thank you Hammerson. Love the channel.

[@HammersonPeters]

Thanksso much for your patronage! I’m so glad you enjoyed the book.

[@drumsmut]

I live in central Maryland which has plenty of big birds ..saw a massive owl at dusk once, from my estimate it was close to if not at least 18 inches in height..it swooped away as if it understood it had been spotted-it was so much bigger than i thought one could even be.

[@s1mpreport531]

Lived in southern Maryland for 20+ years and have seen similar things

[@dinarusso3320]

I've lived in Maryland my whole life and I hope I never see one! I'm terrified of large birds!

[@s1mpreport531]

@@dinarusso3320 don’t venture into the more rural areas then 😅

[@benridge6570]

Very much appreciated, interesting story's. Great narration. Your friends in northern Idaho. As always; Never go gentle into the good night 👀

[@SASQUATCHTHEORY]

This is very interesting! Makes me rethink an encounter i had with a white monstrous owl i seen last winter. I was walking to a bigfoot structure area one morning. I seen a shadow fly over my left shoulder. A giant white owl landed on a oak branch 20 yards in front of me. I have never seen a snow owl 3x times the size of a great horned owl. Its eyes were red/orange and it looked thru my soul. I slowly reached for my cell phone in my pocket. His eyes were instantly fixed on my hand slowly moving and the owl flew off. I looked online and snow owls don't get that big. It was spiritual for sure. One of many encounters i have had in the ozarks of missouri. Great video thank you!

[@S.L.O.P.]

Hi Miguel, @Sasquatch Theory!❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@lorchid23]

If you haven’t already, watch the movie The 5th Kind and then consider how owls have played an important part in the occult since ancient times…. you’ll never view owls quite the same again.

[@markr.1984]

Snowy, and Great Horned owls all have wingspans of about five feet and they often fly low to the ground. At night they look twice that size but they simply are not much bigger than a Red-Tailed hawk when it comes right down to it. A Great Gray owl has a wingspan closer to 6 feet but they are more out west and up in Canada. Owls just look bigger than they really are and maybe darkness and flying low has something to do with it. So I think that's what's going on here more than anything. I have seen all three species and many times they look gigantic. I grew up in Indiana but am in Utah now and we have a few Great Grays at times but usually not near the cities. They like the wilderness. In Europe and Asia they have the Eurasian Eagle owl which looks similar to a Great Horned but with wings nearly seven feet across!

[@travisturner6783]

Had an owl swoop over car almost hit it and am certain that it was wider than car because it blocked out entire windshield as it flew over. It was in central Indiana mid eighties.

[@jasonberryman1035]

Having seen a lot of GHOs and red tails in the same area I gotta say there’s def an acknowledgeable size difference between them but I get what you mean.

[@penultimatereloader]

i'm not saying you're wrong, but everything you just relayed to the rest of us is anecdotal at best.

[@alexhaywood9706]

My uncle and his sons live on Orkney island, never met them. He went there for North Sea oil.

[@vikingskuld]

Hel. Yessssssssss your the best on KZbin I love your vids and the absolutely make my day when I see one on here.

[@brassmoustache1392]

I'll never forget stumbling across a great horned owl one dark and early morning. It took me so utterly by surprise as it flew off so silently and quickly. Absolutely terrified me, and this was a regular sized one!

[@yeetyeet3522]

Two stories: My grandpa once told me about how he was once driving down a country road near his house, and he saw an enormous owl sitting on the side of the road. He described it as being close to 4 feet tall, and it looked like a great horned owl on steroids. He said that he sped home, told his dad to come with him real quick, and they both went back to that spot. It was still there when they got there. My grandpa then said it turned its head to look at them, then it took off into the night. It was then that my grandpa noticed it had an adult fox in its talons. My dad had an incident kinda like yours. He was sitting in a deer stand early in the morning, and he has a habit of dozing off for a few minutes while hunting in the morning. He said that he never noticed the owl sitting in the next tree over. It hooted, and he apparently almost jumped out of the stand. The thing is, the amount of owls in the area we hunt in has been increasing like crazy, and now it’s a mix of great horned owls, barred owls, and I’m pretty there are a few barn owls there now because I’ve heard screams that sound like them coming from deep inside the woods.

[@graceyjewels7148]

@@yeetyeet3522 Glad the Owl waited for your Grandpa to come back and that his father took him seriously. What a great experience for them both!

[@kacieogle513]

Around 2014 a friend and I saw a huge white owl out while four wheeling late at in east Tennessee. It had to be 2-3 foot tall. We got to about 20 feet from it before it flew off. It was a amazing experience !

[@jumexsuave501]

The fourth kind is what scared me of owls.

[@Andy33399channel]

Cool thx 🙂❤️

[@elijahjames8837]

For me what the owl represents when it comes to Athena Goddess of wisdom and war is intuition given that an owl can see in the dark for wisdom can perceive things that have not yet come to pass and in war it is invaluable knowing what your enemy will do before he does.

[@ignachioelsmith9053]

Thank you all for a very interesting, and relaxing, video. Fascinating to hear these old stories. It's great you're keeping them alive. As well as the more contempory, bonus story, too. Thanks again.

[@nancyM1313]

Tfsharing. Haven't heard too many of the Owl stories. ❤🕊

[@AFloridaSon]

I believe people must be seeing something large and alive, flying around our skies.

[@jonhohensee3258]

Why?

[@samsalamander8147]

I have owls in my backyard and I seen one, one night and it looked huge It’s eyes looked way higher than the branch it was on it actually scared me and made me think it was man sized but I seen the same owl the next day in the light of day and it was normal sized it was maybe an optical elusion because of how the eyes were shining in the moon or how it was standing or something.

[@naxireal869]

It's that, the downward cast of the shadow can make things at night look way bigger. No joke so much stuff lands in that category we really should probably spend the first years of education explains the strengths and weaknesses of our own senses. It would probably clear things up a bit. I suppose the other is possible, if nothing else sounded like a Skinwalker, but ultimately whatever the truth false sightings always muddy the waters. And if it were Skinwalkers I'd expect them to avoid modern man or at least those of us outsiders to their lands that would reasonably be considered hostile. I can't even blame them on that one.

[@samsalamander8147]

@@naxireal869 they are two huge owles now the one I seen must have found a mate they are definitely the biggest ones I have ever seen but not man sized it was just because it was dark but it did scare me at first, until I seen the same owl in the light of day and I even recognized the eye shape and little feathers that stick up like two horns so I knew it was the same one. I hear them every night hooting back and forth to eachother and they leave pellets all around my driveway, I find them and pick them apart to see what they ate and threw up because I’m a weirdo like that.

[@markpettie681]

Another fantastic piece Hammerson! Bravo✌

[@roddmatsui3554]

Oh! Interesting tales abound here!

[@benjamingutierrez704]

Thanks had a weird experience in Yosemite valley in my 2os and am currently looking for more info

[@Carlos-oo3ig]

Love your videos!!!!! Ive always been interested in owls and all the myths and legends that surrounds them,cant wait to hear ur stories!!!!

[@mikemenendez2046]

Couple years ago a coworker told me a story about a giant bird she seen fly over top her while she was driving home one evening she said the wing span was as wide as the road and had a white bottom this is in North Central West Virginia

[@trevormiles5852]

Funny how this coincides with the move the 4th encounter. In which under hypnoses some people recalled being visited by an owl . Ancient languages were spoken under hypnoses . A must see movie. I will just make it sound stupid if i try to tell about it.

[@cboyles84]

The Fourth Kind

[@trevormiles5852]

@@cboyles84 Thanks , I knew somebody more knowledgeable than me would have my back. If true, the movie is truly food for thought. I laugh at myself because the least extraordinary part of movie is not the UFO connection but the historical past it brought up.

[@cboyles84]

@@trevormiles5852 😁👍

[@TrollBot.]

I believe it one time in a wooded forrest in Oklahoma I saw the biggest owl Ive ever seen! It was brown and I thought it was a bald eagle but bigger! I've never seen an owl that huge!

[@MariahGeri]

I’m First Nation from sask and my mom would told me owls were a sign of death.

[@PrayItForwardAGAPE]

I live in Okanogan, was very awesome to find out some of this amazing lore. I just had an amazing experience with a Pygmy Owl the other day spent nearly 3 hours only 10ft or less from me in my yard. I loved this presentation!!

[@albertafarmer8638]

This is close to our place and we've never seen one or heard about this story.