owl sync—a short essay

This is an audio reading from my substack page. The page is titled Mike Klelland and

that's me. And this is an essay that was posted March 14th, 2026, read by Mike Klelland

and that is me and I am the author. This short essay is titled Owl Sink and the subtitle

is the mention of alien abduction and a simultaneous owl and me. And now the essay. I'm living in a big

house in a beautiful spot in the Pacific Northwest. We have chickens in the yard and each night as the

sun sets either I or one of the roommates will go outside and close up the coop after they've

all gone in for the night. A few weeks ago I was the one who closed them in, then I left the

pen, closed the gate, stepped out onto the driveway, and was walking towards the house. I saw my

roommate, Lucretia, and that's a pseudonym, and she was standing in the front porch, and I told

her the chickens are in for the night. She looked at me and said, I was taken again last night.

Then she looked past me and said, an owl just flew by you. It passed right behind you. These two

things were spoken without a pause, like one quick statement. I spun around but saw nothing.

She was maybe 15 feet away from me and described what she saw. She said, a big owl just flew left

to right. It came out of that tree and she pointed to the tree. Then she said, and it flew over the

lawn behind you, and it looked like it flew into those trees over there. Then she pointed to the

forest on the opposite side of the chicken pen. Then she added, from where I'm standing, it passed

right behind you. Okay, I should explain some things. When she said, I was taken again last night,

she meant abducted by aliens. Lucretia is a lifelong experiencer. She worked with bud hopkins in

the 90s and has been chronicling her experiences for well over a decade on an amazing blog titled

at Spirals End. We did a really strong interview on my podcast back in 2010 and she has been having

a lot of contact in the previous weeks and she's been keeping me updated. My room is on the opposite

side of the house and I haven't heard or sensed anything but I trust her. Now she can tell her story

a lot better than I can, so I'm linking her version of her blog here on this sub-stack page.

So on that evening, on the porch, she said, I was taken again last night and this was simultaneous

with an owl passing right behind me and I'm the owl guy and I have spent almost 20 years obsessively

exploring the connections between owls and UFO contact. Now let me say this again.

She had been abducted the night before and she told me as an owl flew directly behind me

and I'm the owl guy. This is a perfect example of exactly what I have been trying to understand.

Okay, back to that night. After La Crecia carefully explained what she saw, we walked over to the

spot where the owl entered the forest on the opposite side of the chicken pin. She described the

size and the color and I thought it might have been a bar doll and part of the reason I said this

is that I have seen a handsome bar doll around the property a handful of times over the last year.

Now at this point it was getting dark so it would have been difficult to see anything in that dense

forest but I really was hoping that I could get a glimpse of this thing. I walked alone

down a path that ran along the edge of the forest. The trees were inky black against the gray

glow of the twilight sky. I was doubtful I would find anything but then I saw the outline of what

looked like a giant owl perched on the top of a dead fir tree. I tried to make some sense of what

I was seeing. The silhouette of this big owl clearly had two eartuffs but it seemed too big and

too still like some abstraction of an owl. I waited a long time staring at this thing but it never

moved. The next morning I went out and stood in that very same spot and in the daylight I clearly

saw a Douglas fir with its top broken off about 30 feet up. The scraggly top was plainly owl shaped

complete with little eartuffs so no mysterious four foot tall owl.

I referenced a few links in this essay and those are all on my sub-stack page. I also have a

Patreon page and like this sub-stack page it is always free to join. There's no fee and I don't

plan on ever putting a fee on either of these pages. I want to make sure that this information is

easily available and I don't want to hide it behind some paywall. And my podcast is titled Hidden

Experience and that is easily available on any major streaming platform like Spotify or Apple

Podcasts. Peace and strength and thank you so much. Bye now.