NEIL ARNOLD: Tin Foil Man!

During June 2003, at 10 pm in West Sussex, two friends were travelling by car from a friend's house back home along a dark country road. They’d travelled this route many times but on this occasion got the shock of their life. As they came round a tight bend they both saw a movement in the trees ahead. Travelling at only 20 mph, both occupants could clearly, although for a brief time, see a bizarre humanoid ‘monster.’


A creature, standing over eight-feet in height stood in the woods and the car headlights reflected off what appeared to be a foil-like skin or clothing. The beast stepped upwards through the trees; its features were not discernible in the darkness and it moved away quickly uphill into the undergrowth, consumed by the shadows of night.


The witnesses were stunned by this peculiar entity and so the driver bravely reversed the car back to the spot.


There was no sign of the weird figure and no sound in the night air.

The passenger commented many years later, “I don’t personally believe in extraterrestrials, so for my own part I’ve ruled out anything like that, and being a fairly practically-minded person I’ve come up with various explanations, such as kids mucking about. But the problem of size keeps coming back – I even checked the Internet the following week to see if 8-ft plus people were more common than I’d thought, rationalising that it was some weirdo in a foil suit. It certainly wasn’t any kind of model, because it was definitely animated. I’m still puzzling over it.”

It’s difficult to comprehend some of the bizarre encounters that people report, and some of these perplexing mysteries are experienced by seemingly level-headed people. From zombies to hellhounds, from aliens to hairy humanoids, Sussex folklore is peppered with such accounts, leaving us to wonder just what kind of ‘spirits’ are lurking in the woods and darkest corners of this ancient county.

Neil Arnold is currently writing MYSTERY ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES: SUSSEX

THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST BOOK TITLE OF THE YEAR

I am very proud of CFZ Press, but I shall go to my grave disappointed. Because we have been pipped at the post by the RSPB for the award (which I have just made up) of `best title of the year`. How can we beat this? I wish we had published a book with this magnificent title.

Check it out...

COMING SOON FROM MIKE HALLOWELL AND DARREN RITSON

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IT IS HARD NOT TO LAUGH

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_lapland_new_forest/html/1.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7758112.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-12349398



"A newly-opened "winter wonderland" Lapland-style theme park has been described as a "joke" and a "scam" by hundreds of angry visitors. Many people have demanded a refund of the £25 they paid to enter the Lapland New Forest, at Matchams Leisure Park on the Hampshire-Dorset border. "



It is pretty much off-topic, but rather amusing...

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2005 Hunter S. Thompson died.
And now the news:

Searching for Bigfoot
Peculiar geese deaths baffle wildlife officials
Rare butterfly 'at risk' from Sutton playground pl...
Weymouth welcomes giant Japanese spider crab

Close enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM

ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana Part 41

As you know, Oll has been working on the archiving project since early February 2009 and he is now working on a general mish-mash of a section known as `General Forteana`.

This 41st collection once again really is a collection of completely uncategoriseable stuff, including a penguin at the wrong pole, miniature weasels or minivers, a five mile walk for a bloodhound, bats with regional accents and tons more. It doesn't get much better than this. Good stuff.
HERE

GLEN VAUDREY: Something daft for the blog

Jon,

On a trawl of youtube I found The Automatic's 'MONSTER' in Lego. It is very funny and conjures up an image of a CFZ expedition. It is well worth tracking down

all the best

Glen