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| The CFZ Newsletter is edited by Corinna Downes, administratrix supreme, and the wife of the ringmaster of the CFZ Circus. |
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DYER ADMITS THAT 'BIGFOOT' IS A FAKE
Of course it was a fake. It was always going to be a fake.
I don't think anyone worth his or her salt doubted that for a moment. But sadly, antics like his do a lot to bring cryptozoology into disrepute.
It is stories like 'Hank' the bigfoot, and the so-called Montauk Monster, which was nothing more than a dead racoon, that make the newspaper headlines, and when they are disproved (as they always are) many commentators tend to throw out the baby with the bathwater and dismiss the whole of cryptozoology as being equally fallacious. The fact that Dyer had been involved in another high profile bigfoot fake a few years ago, didn't deter the "I Want to Believe" brigade from swallowing his claims hook, line and sinker.
Unfortunately, some websites and media pundits who should have known better, gave this idiotic joker more coverage than he deserved and the story garnered an amazing amount of interest online.
If the cryptozoological community does not do more to police itself, it will lose all credibility, and that would be a crying shame.
Probably the best overview of the whole sad affair is given by Sharon Hill over at Doubtful News; a lady for whom I have the utmost respect. |
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SCOTTISH LAKE MONSTER?
NO, SPANISH SHARK
The recent alleged ‘Loch Ness Monster’ carcass displayed on the ‘Mulder’s World’ Facebook page is nothing of the sort. It is in fact, as anyone with a basic knowledge of anatomy could tell, a decaying basking shark carcass. It’s not Scottish either; it’s from Spain.
http://www.livescience.com/39087-spanish-sea-creature-identified.html
To top it all off it’s not even new. It washed ashore in Andalusia on August 15th last year.
It’s well known that after death, the gill rakers and lower jaw drop away leaving the skull and what appears to be a long neck.
The illusion is given of a long-necked, small-headed animal. What looks like two small horns on the head are in fact the pectoral girdle. The animal also appears to have claspers, modified fins used by male sharks in mating.
Many supposed sea monster carcasses are just dead sharks. You can find out more in the following books.
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Tickets for this year's Weird Weekend are now on sale. So far confirmed for this year's event are:
Nigel Mortimer: Opening Portals
Ronan Coghlan: Bogus Bibles
Lee Walker: Urban Legends of Liverpool
Lars Thomas: Tales from the CFZ Laboratory
Jon and Richard: Introduction to Cryptozoology
Nick Wadham: Alien Abductions
Tony Whitehead (RSPB): O.O.P birds
Carl Marshall: Out of Place animals at Stratford Butterfly Park
Judge Smith: Survival after death
John Higgs: Chaos, Magick, and the band who burned a million quid
Richard Freeman: Tasmania 2013 Expedition Report
Matt Salusbury: Baron Walter Rothschild's Deinotherium caper
C.J. Stone: a MODERN King Arthur
Results of nature walk (Lars/Nick)
Ronan Coghlan: The Amphibians from Outer Space
Jon Downes: Keynote Speech
PLUS
Miss Crystal Grenade
The CFZ Awards
Silas Hawkins
Raffle
Kids Nature walk with Lars and Nick
Kids Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Speaker's Dinner at the Community Centre
and of course:
The Tunnel of Goats
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| The event takes place from 15-17th August this year in North Devon. Find out more HERE. Tickets are available at a special discount price of £20/head for the whole weekend as long as you buy them in advance. Buy online HERE. |
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| The tickets for this year's event are selling, slowly but surely. However, it would be much better for my blood pressure if they sold a little faster. So, ladies and gentlemen; do your bit to save my arteries.... |
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SO, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE CFZ?
Over the last week we have been doing quite a lot.
- Andrea Rider, who has recently started working in the office, has been working extremely hard on Volume Two of George Eberhart's monumental Mysterious Creatures.
- Saskia (one of our two lovely interns) (ably assisted by her brother Riley and a young lady called Charlotte - who is nearly 12) has been working with Richard and Graham on refurbishing the conservatory. She is doing all the designs and masterminding the work as part of her college course on Animal Management.
- Richard Freeman was here for a few days, and on Saturday worked with the kids on the conservatory project as well as working on several new book projects for CFZ Press
- Graham Inglis, together with Saskia, dismantled and collected a shed from Kilkhampton, and brought it back to Woolsery where they painstakingly put it back together again to hold some of the extraneous impedimenta that had built up in the conservatory
- Alexandra Cook has taken a hatchet to the first edition of Richard's book of Japanese themed horror stories, and is working hard on a 2nd edition.
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ON THE WANT
In another piece of governmental idiocy it has now become illegal to import apple snails. This is apparently because they have been found as an invasive species in Northern Spain, about 1,100 miles south of the UK.
They are still legal to own but people being the profiteering capitalistic scum that they are, are beginning to charge stupid prices for them. I want some more for a project I am doing with some of the local kids. So if you have surplus of any species, especially Canas snails, please email me. |
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