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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals. The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine!

The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy C, scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Numbers are limited and we would hate you to be disappointed.. SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED SO FAR: Richard Freeman: 20 Cryptids you have never heard of; Neil Arnold: Mystery Animals of Kent and LondonRichard Muirhead:The Flying Snake of Namibia; Richard Thorns: The search for the Pink Headed Duck; Silas Hawkins: Bedtime stories; Jon Downes and Richard Freeman: Intro to Cryptozoology; Nick Wadham: TBA; Carl Portman: TBA; Harriet Wadham: Book signing; Kevin Goodman: Is UFOlogy a new religion? Glen Vaudrey: Scottish sea monster carcasses; Book Launch: Scottish sea monster carcasses; Jan Bondeson: Greyfriars Bobby; CFZ Awards; Richard Freeman et al: Sumatra 2011; Paul Screeton: The Hexham Heads; Lars Thomas: Danish Cryptozoology; Ronan Coghlan: Sinbad the Sailor; Jon Downes: Keynote Speech

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today

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On this day in 1531 Saint Juan Diego is said to have seen the first of his visions of the Virgin Mary, which has become known as ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe’ on a hill near Mexico City. Also on this day in 1965 the Kecksburg UFO incident occurred when a fireball was seen streaking across the skies of North America. The object crash-landed in woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, USA and witnesses reported that it was almost as big as a Volkswagen Beetle and had funny writing like Hieroglyphs on the side. The original explanation given by the American Air force was that it was just a meteor and no debris was ever found; however, in December 2005 NASA released a statement confirming that it had actually been a downed Russian satellite and they had examined the debris at the time.

Interesting, eh? Now for something else just as interesting: the Fortean zoology news headlines, which contains the 2000th news story posted on the news blog, so three cheers for Gavin for all his hard work:

Cougar seen roaming Vadnais Heights; residents advised to be cautious in a.m.
Jack Black Hunts Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster With New Animated Movie
NASA tests Aberdeenshire find for life on Mars clues
Exotic pets seized from high-rise
Polish Police in Panther Prank
Pictured: Mythical white stag found in the forests of Gloucestershire
Moko trapping young women, dropping in on surfers
Dinosaur-killing impact set Earth to broil, not burn
Cat passport has Brand feline fine

To be honest I’ve always found his ‘brand’ of comedy somewhat lazy and unfunny, so I do hope he settles in the States so British telly will be rid of him.

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