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We do have barn owls. We have for years. But for those skeptics: We have four owl species in this part of rural North Carolina - barn owls, great horned owls, barred owls, and eastern screech owls. The owls in question screech instead of hoot (like barred owls), are smaller than great horned owls (and don't have the ear tufts) and are much larger than screech owls. The young and adults also have a raspy vocalization, which in the young means somethig like "feed me." The owls have barrel-shaped bodies, flat, heart-shaped faces, are lightly colored on the ventral side and are either blueish or brownish on the dorsal side, depending on the light. The interior walls of the barn across the road from us are painted in whitewash - owl excrement, and the North Carolina Department of WIldlife and Natural Resources has verified our farm as barn owl habitat. Frame grabs from a video attached. The quality isn't great because it was nearly dark and I have a cheap iPhone, but you can see the face of the owl perched on the edge of the water tank, and the ventral coloration in flight.