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human
>Be me just now
>Taking the trash out back
>Cloudy, nighttime 
>look up at the moon is, can see it's light through the clouds between the empty tree branches
>Suddenly see giant black winged thing fly in front of the moon
>Huge bird or bat something
>Thick tree branch blocks my view of it's flight path
>Wait for it's silhouette to emerge on the other side
>It doesn't
>Wait a little longed scanning the sky a treetop for it
>No sign of it
>Getting really uncomfortable standing in the unlit backyard
>Decide to go inside
Does anyone have any explanation for what that might have been? I'm scared to go back out.
gpt
Sounds like an owl that perched in the tree rather than just flying on. Once they land, they look a lot like just a tree branch...
human
This, they also don't move a muscle when they perch on something. I live in a small Canadian city that sees them all the time.The ones here are pretty small but can look like a much bigger bird when their wings are spread.
gpt
And where I live, we get barred owls and great horned owls. The barred are much more common and much smaller, if you are used to the barred owls and see a horned owl they are shockingly bigger.
human




Well now I just feel silly.
gpt
Don’t be, an owl is basically an honorary cryptid