On this episode, Relics series author John Vandeventer joins Jessica to explore La Lechuza, the witch-owl of Mexican and Southwestern folklore, and the Ishkitini, the horned owl of Native American legend, believed to prowl about at night, stalking and murdering men and animals. The Ishkitini is believed to be a Skinwalker. They also discuss strange encounters with owls in the woods and Jessica shows a picture of a strange human-looking, or giant owl, figure in a tree, taken by a camper in the deep woods.

John Vandeventer is originally from Plano Texas. He is a sixteen-year veteran of the United States Air Force. His lifelong love of military aviation history and his interest in UFOs has always made him an avid reader. His other hobbies include target shooting and more recently writing has become an enjoyable pastime for him.

The author’s first novel RELICS was first published in 2017 after he spent a little over two years writing the novel and researching the topic of Sasquatch as he wrote. In 2018 the author and his wife moved to Honobia Oklahoma in the heart of Oklahoma Sasquatch Country. John has been a guest on several Bigfoot and Paranormal Podcasts. He was also a guest speaker at The Honobia Bigfoot Festival in 2018, he also served as MC for the 2021 Honobia Bigfoot Festival and will return to MC again in 2022.

In 2021 John became an active writer again, after meeting and signing with Empire Publishing. RELICS: The Dark Autumn, (Second Edition), and RELICS II: The Honobia Remnant, both published in the last quarter of 2021. In February of 2022, John decided to retire and devote himself to being a fulltime author. He started a Young Adult Series title SHADOW CHASERS, the first offering of this series The Rock Creek Wildman, published in June 2022, to great reviews. RELICS III: Lair of the Ancients, will be John’s second new book of 2022, and the finale of the RELICS series. John hopes to have the next SHADOW CHASERS book, Haunted Sky released in time for Christmas 2022. John released his third Shadow Chasers book "Curse of the Ishkitini" in June of 2023. In December 2023 John released his seventh book was released in December 2024. It is the flagship for his next trilogy. NAPHAL "The Channeling" The story brings a new spiritual warfare twist to the alien invasion genre and it will into the Relics trilogy. 

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