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This is an audio reading from my substack page. The page is titled Mike Klelland and
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that's me. And this is an essay that was posted March 14th, 2026, read by Mike Klelland
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and that is me and I am the author. This short essay is titled Owl Sink and the subtitle
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is the mention of alien abduction and a simultaneous owl and me. And now the essay. I'm living in a big
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house in a beautiful spot in the Pacific Northwest. We have chickens in the yard and each night as the
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sun sets either I or one of the roommates will go outside and close up the coop after they've
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all gone in for the night. A few weeks ago I was the one who closed them in, then I left the
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pen, closed the gate, stepped out onto the driveway, and was walking towards the house. I saw my
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roommate, Lucretia, and that's a pseudonym, and she was standing in the front porch, and I told
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her the chickens are in for the night. She looked at me and said, I was taken again last night.
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Then she looked past me and said, an owl just flew by you. It passed right behind you. These two
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things were spoken without a pause, like one quick statement. I spun around but saw nothing.
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She was maybe 15 feet away from me and described what she saw. She said, a big owl just flew left
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to right. It came out of that tree and she pointed to the tree. Then she said, and it flew over the
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lawn behind you, and it looked like it flew into those trees over there. Then she pointed to the
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forest on the opposite side of the chicken pen. Then she added, from where I'm standing, it passed
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right behind you. Okay, I should explain some things. When she said, I was taken again last night,
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she meant abducted by aliens. Lucretia is a lifelong experiencer. She worked with bud hopkins in
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the 90s and has been chronicling her experiences for well over a decade on an amazing blog titled
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at Spirals End. We did a really strong interview on my podcast back in 2010 and she has been having
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a lot of contact in the previous weeks and she's been keeping me updated. My room is on the opposite
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side of the house and I haven't heard or sensed anything but I trust her. Now she can tell her story
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a lot better than I can, so I'm linking her version of her blog here on this sub-stack page.
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So on that evening, on the porch, she said, I was taken again last night and this was simultaneous
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with an owl passing right behind me and I'm the owl guy and I have spent almost 20 years obsessively
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exploring the connections between owls and UFO contact. Now let me say this again.
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She had been abducted the night before and she told me as an owl flew directly behind me
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and I'm the owl guy. This is a perfect example of exactly what I have been trying to understand.
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Okay, back to that night. After La Crecia carefully explained what she saw, we walked over to the
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spot where the owl entered the forest on the opposite side of the chicken pin. She described the
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size and the color and I thought it might have been a bar doll and part of the reason I said this
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is that I have seen a handsome bar doll around the property a handful of times over the last year.
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Now at this point it was getting dark so it would have been difficult to see anything in that dense
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forest but I really was hoping that I could get a glimpse of this thing. I walked alone
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down a path that ran along the edge of the forest. The trees were inky black against the gray
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glow of the twilight sky. I was doubtful I would find anything but then I saw the outline of what
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looked like a giant owl perched on the top of a dead fir tree. I tried to make some sense of what
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I was seeing. The silhouette of this big owl clearly had two eartuffs but it seemed too big and
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too still like some abstraction of an owl. I waited a long time staring at this thing but it never
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moved. The next morning I went out and stood in that very same spot and in the daylight I clearly
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saw a Douglas fir with its top broken off about 30 feet up. The scraggly top was plainly owl shaped
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complete with little eartuffs so no mysterious four foot tall owl.
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I referenced a few links in this essay and those are all on my sub-stack page. I also have a
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Patreon page and like this sub-stack page it is always free to join. There's no fee and I don't
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plan on ever putting a fee on either of these pages. I want to make sure that this information is
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easily available and I don't want to hide it behind some paywall. And my podcast is titled Hidden
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Experience and that is easily available on any major streaming platform like Spotify or Apple
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Podcasts. Peace and strength and thank you so much. Bye now.