Dr Lars Thomas, who today joins the bloggo community, is one of the CFZ's oldest friends and most long-standing members. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and has helped us in the past by having our expedition samples' DNA tested. He is a leading expert in the cryptozoology of Scandinavia and is currently working on a book on these cryptids for the CFZ that we are eagerly anticipating.
A couple of days ago I got a phone call from a very nice but slightly hysterical lady who wanted me to come and catch a very strange creature, which had suddenly appeared on her kitchen floor. Seing the beastie, the lady had slammed the door and runneth to the telephone. She had remembered my name from a lecture I had given at her local library last year, so went for the phonebook. Luckily my surname is rather rare in Denmark and only one other Dane is called Lars Thomas besides me, so she made contact rather quickly. Could I PLEASE come and get that horrible black creepy thing crawling around in her kitchen?
Off I went, bringing nets and gloves (I thought it might be a bat) but boy was I in for a surprise. What I did find was the creature you can see in the picture: an oil beetle. Nothing wrong with that except for the fact that the lady lives on the sixteenth floor in a group of high-rise buildings in the southern outskirts of Copenhagen - and oil beetles can't fly!
How, pray tell, did that happen?
I suppose a bird might have brought it but that would have meant a bird should have visited the good lady's kitchen and she was positive nothing of the sort had happened; besides she never opened the kitchen windows more than a couple of inches. Any suggestions? Personally I haven't got the faintest idea how that one happened.
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