Ahool report associated with Java

Record summary

Cryptozoological literature attributes a 1925 encounter in West Java to a large batlike creature called the ahool, often said to have been seen near a waterfall or river. The case is useful for comparing local supernatural categories, colonial-era natural-history expectations, and later claims about giant surviving pterosaurs or bats. Its documentation is exceptionally thin: the named witness and original field record are difficult to establish, and much of the familiar narrative appears in later secondary sources. It should remain a bibliographic lead, not an incident established by evidence.