Ok....I never believed in the lechusa. I heard stories all my life about it...a huge bird with the face of a man. Completely ridiculous!

One month ago this is what happened...

I was in my hometown (Taft, Texas) at my friends apartment. He lives towards the back part of town where the "backroads" are. Next to his complex are two fields on either side. The whole night i had been outside arguing with my girlfriend outside, so i decide to go inside and talk to him for a while. As im about to call her back, i walk outside, and i see in the air a HUGE white bird! I think nothing of it at first, it flew completely quiet very graceful, flapping its wings. It was larger than a vulture....then i looked at the head and saw that it had the face of an owl. Thats when i snapped....i knew what it was that i was looking at...la lechusa! It lands in the field behind the apartment complex. I run inside and tell my friend what i saw. We go to the field to find nothing! He tells me how his mom has heard them whistling down there all the time so he knows im not lying.

So we go back inside...as i sit and play xbox he walks outside to use the phone. He runs back inside after 30 seconds and tells me to come outside. He says to listen and i hear whistling coming from the field across the road! A very eerie whistle....its pretty much constant...stopping from time to time. Suddenly the whistling shifts from one side of the field to the other.....so we walk down the apartment complex. It whistles for a little bit then stops completely. We are whistling back but no response. All of a sudden we hear a VERY loud whistle come from where it was orginally at! VERY LOUD AND VERY FAST! It almost made me tear! It scared the living sh** out of me!!! It knew that we were there...it was toying with us! We run inside....

I didnt see the human face or anything supernatural. Ive heard that la lechusa is nothing but a barn owl....ive seen a barn owl and it is nowhere near the size of the bird i saw that night! I have also heard that it comes out when u do something bad....it makes sense considering that i was arguing with my girlfriend all night before that incident happened!

Gimme some imput guys! What do yall think about my sighting?

Movements and Life Span: Like other artic breeding raptors the Snowy is very irruptive and irregular in its movements depending on the availability of food. During years when there is a crash in the numbers of lemming most all leave the breeding grounds. Thus, there are major incursions into Canada and the Northern US (N & C Europe, NC Russia & N China & Japan) about every 3 - 5 years. These incursions often bring Snowys as far south as N. California and South Carolina with records as far south as Bermuda. It is also interesting to note that the smallest and lightest, the young males, tend to move the furthest and the largest, adult females, tend to move the least. source

Maybe some type of giant owl?

Yeah thats what i thought....a giant owl that hasnt been discovered. But think about it, an owl doesnt whistle. How could it been messing with me and my friend like that? It knew that we were listening and following it!

That's what lechusa means in Spanish: owl

Here's the sound of the snowy owl. Sounds like a whistle to me.
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Very interesting story. If you ever hear the whistling again, necessarily take a camera and try to take a good photo of this animal. If it really is an animal...

Mind you that i live in Taft, texas...Very SOUTH texas. These owls live in canada and the boardering states. The "bird" that i saw was also bigger than the snowy owl and plus the whistle didnt sound like that. It was a way lower pitch!

Ive been going there from time to time so see if i could catch a glimse of it...but no luck. But if i do see it ill be sure to record the thing on my phone or something!

Does anyone else have any REAL experiances that they can share? I wanna hear yalls stories!

How about a barn owl?

Freaky, yet cool Barn Owl call

Also, are you sure the whistling you heard came from the bird?

Hey. That rhymed.

LMFAO damn! Thats like a scream! Yep im 100% sure that it was a bird that was whistling! It was coming from the middle of the field...unless someone decided they want to go walk the fields at 2 o'clock in the morning haha!

'Kay, my money's on the giant barn owl.

Okay, here's a link to the Texas Bird Sound Library. There's a contact at the bottom of the page. Maybe they can help you out.

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Nope I DEFF know that it wasnt a barn owl! It was too HUGE to be a barn owl!

About five years ago or so, i go to the backyard to do some thinking about the slump that I was in. I stand next to the fence, and look towards my neigbor's house, when I see this human sized bird with the head of an owl! This thing looks to be at least five feet tall, maybe more. I have a side view of it, and it was facing away from from me. I stare at it for ten to twenty seconds, then it starts to turn and looks right at me. A human face with hispanic features! I'm freaked out, but not scared. We look at each other for a second or two then he turns back around and starts to fly away! With the wing span of about twelve feet, they made clear swooping sounds. I watched until he was out of sight and then waited to see if he would come back, but no. I tell my friend what I saw and she tells me i saw the Lechusa. I had never heard of a Lechusa before. She explained what it was and so I asked if I was cursed or something but she didn't know. But it had to do something with witchcraft, I don't know. I hope I'm alright. A few weeks then pass, and I'm in the backyard again, when I look up at the same neighbor's tree, which is right next to my fence, and this lechusa is there perched on a branch towards the top of the tree. This time I just saw him for a few seconds, but it was the same one. He then sees me and just flys away, the same direction as before. I had believed in God and ghosts, but I don't doubt anything anymore.

Also, I live in San Antonio which is in south Texas. From reading the first few posts on here it looks like Lechusa is a Texas phenominom? Are they spotted anywhere else?

wow that sound so similar to my moms story it was about 7 years ago that she used to live in a small town pop 39 in Sonora Mexico and she was with some of her friends around 6am she stranded hearing the horses running around and supposedly she and one of her friends saw a huge flying like thing with really huge wings fly over the horses and dissapear into the mountains.
btw first post WOOT

It might've ben the 'bighoot' they've been talking about.

And uh...may I come over and play Xbox with you sometimes, OP?

I think you are talking about the mothman.

yeah my bet would either be the mothman, bighoot, or just a massive barn owl. but who knows

So you see it a couple times and hear it repeatedly, yet don't bother to get a camera or recorder?!?!? That sounds VERY fishy.

I thought I had saw something swoop over head on a bright night in Mission, tx when I was a little kid. Like 9 or 10 years old and I remembering my buddy telling me what it was and it has freaked me out since. We put up a tent in the backyard and I remember hearing noise. I remember if it was a whistling persay, I just remember being freaked out. Thats when I decided to act like a puss and book it back to the house running as though I knew something was watching me.

I hate that feeling of being in the darkness with nothing but moonlight because I don't care what people say there are things that go bump in the night and it ain't dad stubbing his toe trying to get water

La Lechusa is very real. If you ever hear a whistle that is very unusually loud, never whistle back unless you know what you are whistling at. Whistle at your own risk, you will just be calling them to you .They are usually found in very wooded areas near water. The ones that people have encounters with in a bad way (believe it or not) is the work of a curandera/dero up to no good. These usually take humanlike shape. Almost ghostlike. There are two ways of killing them and
this may sound weird......1. Is reciting the 12 truths of the world. and you'd have to be quick very quick.
2. Catch and burn with (lena verde) a very specific green wood.
Don't ask it's not worth trying ................
As for killer666 yes it sounds kinda like mothman which gave me the hebe gebees when I saw it,but it's not. it's similar only not black it's more like a ghostly white
and it doesn't fly through vehicles or people. That's all I'm going to say here.....L8TR