About

Someone Here Is Possessed By An Owl refers to a comedy sketch parodied on TikTok. The sketch features two characters: Character A says, "We have to be careful. Someone here is possessed by an owl." Character B says, "Who?" and Character A reacts to him with suspicion. The TikTok grew popular after user TonyAndFriends recreated the sketch with puppets.

Origin

On August 5th, 2019, TikTok user @cowmetaphor^[1] posted a TikTok with the "possessed by an owl" sketch, gaining over 240,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

On August 15th, 2019, user @tonyandfriends^[2] posted a parody of the sketch featuring shark puppets. This iteration surged in popularity, gaining over 1.4 million likes (shown below).

The video was reposted to YouTube several times. Popular examples include reposts by Tater Thot, which gained over 76,000 views, and Your International Meme Dealer, which gained over 69,000 views (shown below).

On TikTok, other popular parodies of the sound clip include posts by zoelaverne (shown below, left) and nytonstark (shown below, right).

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