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

Check it out here


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, May 15, 2011

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A MAN-MONKEY IN NEW SOUTH WALES IN 1912

I recently found the following story in my archives whilst looking for something else. It was originally in The Argus, an Australian newspaper dated June 16th 1912:

MAN OR APE?
MONARO MYSTERY



Bombala (N.S.W.) Tuesday.- For many years past this portion of Monaro has been credited with being the possessor of a hairy man. Bushmen at various times have reported that they had seen an immense ape-like animal, but it had always managed to escape them. This afternoon word came through from Mr Sydney Jephcott, owner of Creewah Station, 20 miles from Bombala, that in the thick bush on his property yesterday he discovered tracks of an apparently immense animal. The tracks were like those of a human foot, but measured 18in in length and 8 in. across. Mr Jephcott ordered a quantity of plaster of Paris to be sent out from Bombala for the purpose of taking impressions.

Word was also received to-day that a man named Summerell, while shooting in the bush yesterday, came across an immense object resembling a man. On Summerell approaching,however, the creature picked up a stick and emitted a growling noise, and disappeared. Portions of Creewah are very rough and scrubby giving the mysterious animal excellent opportunities for hiding .(1)

1. Argus June 16th 1912.

If anyone has back issues of the ISC Newsletter or the ISC journal Cryptozoology they are prepared to see please can they contact me at flyingsnakepress@hotmail.co.uk Thanks.
Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.9
Posted by at
Labels:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dale has nearly all of the back issues of both journals, save the ones I ordered and they never sent. Dale also does not perceive your meaning in the phrase "prepared to see"

Dale has also said he is willing to devote his energies fulltime to help out a revived ISC and Dale has the necessary skills to keep the publications going. Of course nobody listens to Dale.

You have a pretty good Yowie report here with a pretty good description of the track, in the standard-Bigfoot size range, just about.Some similar reports use the Latin for "Monkey-man", Pithecanthropus, which is of course the original term for Homo erectus.

Best Wishes, Dale D.

11:44 AM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)