"Captain Howdy" is a play on Howard, which is Regan's father, and Chris' estranged husband's name. We learn from the shot of the tabloid magazine at the beginning, that Regan is looking at, which says "Howard Walks out on Chris and Daughter", that Mr. Macneil has just left them; and it logically follows that Regan is devestated by that and is looking for a substitute "father figure". The demon, after being contacted by Regan (inadvertently) through the Ouija Board, knows this, so he introduces himself as Howdy to emulate her father and become the father figure she is hungering for at this point in her life.

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