
http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/09/penge-newspaper-jan-11th-1968.html
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.
Despite what I wrote yesterday it appears that the loss of service on the Bigfoot Forums the other night was a result of a deliberate attack on the site by person or persons unknown, or some random thing we don't know as yet! Watch this space.
On Friday we received two night-sights through the post, which had been very generously donated to the CFZ by Dan Holdsworth. We could not wait until it got dark so that we could try them out and as soon as the last flecks of daylight gave up and handed over to darkness, Graham and Jon eagerly pottered around outside and eventually came into the kitchen with them. It was like something out of Terminator, each of them having just one red eye – these seemingly floating around completely devoid of any body. Then it was my turn and the first thing I looked at was Prudence sitting on her bed by the Rayburn. Quite peculiar - especially as her eyes were just large white dots. In fact they looked like two white chocolate buttons. Freaky.
This blasted recession is really beginning to hit. 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...
Richard Freeman's remarkable new book is now available. However, for some reason known only to themselves amazon.co.uk have listed it as taking 3-5 weeks to arrive.
In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.