WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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 Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), 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...

Search This Blog

WATCH OUR WEEKLY WEBtv SHOW

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON
Click on this logo to find out more about helping CFZtv and getting some smashing rewards...

SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER



Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...




Sunday, July 12, 2009

NEIL ARNOLD: THE CFZ CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVE

I have known Neil for fifteen years now, since he was a mod schoolboy with ambitions for adventure and I was an earnest young hippy who merely wanted to start a club for people interested in unknown animals. Nothing much has changed over the years; we are just both a tad older....

I recently spoke with Jon as he knows of my large collection of paranormal-related documentaries and films and I mentioned about it becoming part of the CFZ Museum/archive as such. For many years I’ve collected documentaries, news clips, tv shows, films and series pertaining to monsters, ghosts, UFOs, etc, etc. I did this because I felt that too many great programmes from many years ago were simply forgotten and would no doubt be wiped from T.V. archives etc. I thought it a great idea that maybe the CFZ could have dvd copies, which kids, and whoever else was interested, could maybe view at the museum etc.

If anyone has any material they’d like to share, or wants to find an old crypto-documentary then let me know. Much of what I have will be put to disc and eventually Jon and co. could store these copies at the CFZ. I have a big list of material, from ‘big cat’ docu’s and news clips, to rare lake monster footage, to zooform shows. If you think it’s a good idea, let me know.

SOSTRATUS WINSTON IS BACK IN TOUCH

Dear Mr Downes

I apologise for not having been in touch for some time. I gather you enjoy receiving my correspondence. Are there any ichthyologists among your band of merry men and women? I wonder if they may be able to help.

When a human contracts scombroid poisoning he usually suffers for a few hours before becoming well again, from what I have read of the disease, but what if a merperson, hypothetically, were to contract it from their own tail? I understand you believe such creatures to be ‘zooform’, but say they were flesh and blood and the fish part was of the scombridae family. Said merperson was too long out of water and the tail began to die off, so to speak. The tail could release toxins into the living human half of the creature, could it not? Whereas a human who ate a dodgy piece of mackerel would get better once the fish was out of his system, the poor afflicted merperson would be perpetually ill, one must assume, since the fish tail remains attached to the body. Could that theoretically be the case? And if so, how would one, theoretically, cure the merperson of his ailment without recourse to amputation?

I imagine you will think I am mad after this but do bear with me. It is something to think about if we ever were to discover such a creature, don’t you think?

Yours truly,

Sostratus Winston

ANOTHER MYSTERY INSECT

Hi

My cat brought us this bug. I live in Mass & have never seen this in over 50 years that I've been here. Please help if you can.

Tom

I think that it is a hawkmoth (sphynx) of some species, which has not developed full wings, either because it was still emerging when the cat caught it, or because of some injury, or developmental disorder.

But what do YOU think?

Hideous Man-Beast Washes Up On Shore Of Municipal Pool

Hideous Man-Beast Washes Up On Shore Of Municipal Pool
July 10, 2009 Issue 45•28

SEWARD, NE—Responding to complaints about an awful stench, local lifeguard Matt Frieze, 26, discovered what appeared to be the bloated body of a repulsive man-beast that had mysteriously washed up on the shore of the Dowding Municipal Pool Monday.

Frieze, who found the unidentified monstrosity sprawled out on the concrete at approximately 2:30 p.m., said he attempted to inspect the bizarre creature but was repelled by the sight of the putrid mass of flesh and hair.

"I've never seen anything like it before," said Frieze, adding that he first assumed it was just a pile of rotting sewage until he noticed its lower extremities were partially covered by what appeared to be a denim garment. "It looked like some kind of decomposing manatee with
these horrible teeth and a face like...."

"Oh my God, I think I'm going to be sick," Frieze added.

Rest of story at:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/hideous_man_beast_washes_up_on

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

Sunday, as you know, is Stereo-scopic Sunday, so red and blue 3D glasses at the ready for today’s photo. This week Orange Cat (aka Spider) pays homage to a Mexican dragon/snake god carving. If you’ve read Jon’s book Only Fools And Goat-Suckers then the carving will need no introduction as it features in the book. If you haven’t read Only Fools And Goat-Suckers then you now have a reason to buy a copy don’t you? Oh and while you’re at it, buy Island Of Paradise too.


And now, the news:


Poaching boom is once again threatening the world’s rhinos


Travelling far means absent fathers


Toxic Substance Allows Birds to "See" Magnetic Field


Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered


Cold winter may have hit harriers


Blue Lobster Is 1 in 2 Million Find


Why did the Lobster blush?


Because the sea weed.


(an old joke, but a good one)