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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...

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Friday, August 01, 2014

THE WORLD OF MARK RAINES

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.

  • UK SIGHTINGS: Is this the Beast of Bodmin? Student...
  • NEWSLINK: Leopard' on the loose in Surrey! Hunt fo...

  • VIDEO: Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from...
  • US SIGHTINGS: Big cat in Paulding County?
  • UK SIGHTINGS: Is this the Beast of Bodmin? Photogr...
  • NEWSLINK: Monkeys use researchers 'as human shield...
  • NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



    Monster Quest - Death of Loch Ness
    A review of researcher Robert Rhines\' claim that Nessie, if it existed, may now in fact be dead and its corpse is lying somewhere at the bottom of Loch 

    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


    What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

    Well, everything actually!

    In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.






    GRAHAM AND CHARLOTTE PUT THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO THE HEDGEHOG ENCLOSURE




    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    News Feed - West Richland's Bigfoot Hunter Dies At 92 - Bellingham Herald
    West Richland's Bigfoot hunter dies at 92. Bellingham Herald Elvera Laughery met her husband at the West Richland Senior Center where

    Bigfoot Caught Watching Kids Play?
    Bigfoot Project: It looks like these kids were being watched by a very curious Sasquatch while they played in their tree house.This video surfaced a few ...

    ThinkerThunker: Provo, Utah Bigfoot Video
    3. why would a bigfoot just stand there waiting for them to shine their lights? makes zero sense. (not that you can even see anything in the video).

    Bigfoot Thursday: The Craven Video from Saskatchewan, Canada
    Is that a monster prowling the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada? Or just a regular old Bigfoot or Sasquatch? Cryptozoology lovers will enjoy

    Mike Greene Captures Alleged Bigfoot On Thermal Imager
    ... the "Squeaky Thermal." Mike is currently researching Bigfoot in the High Sierras near the area where Justin Smeja claims to have shot two Bigfoot 

    Bigfoot's foot, hand & head caught on tape?
    ... or hoaxed, but I am human & I do make mistakes. We don't know, tell us what you think. Tim Peeler's Bigfoot Encounter from Cleveland County

    The Squatchers Lounge Podcast - Gone Squatchin On A Budget
    Listen in to this podcast as Rev Jeff Kelley and David Batdorf discuss, Squatchin on a budget. They start off the show discussing recent Bigfoot news 

    Family Sees a Grey Bigfoot Between Happy Camp & Yreka California
    Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization: Bigfoot sighting report near the location with Kelly Shaw. Island Bigfoot Investigation – follow up on Cass  

    ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

    News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

    From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
    From CFZ-USA: