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.
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...
On this day in 1964 Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of American president John F. Kennedy, an act which deprived the American people of a trial for Oswald which may have cleared up a number of the conspiracy theories surrounding the presidents murder (or added a metric shedload more, who knows?).
And now the news:
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby:
David has just telephoned me. He has had another blood test, but his untrasound scan will not be until tomorrow afternoon, and so the poor boy will be in hospital at least until tomorrow evening. Poor lad sounds bored and fed up.
It is a great pity that I cannot bring paramilitaries of any shape, sort or form into this story, because all yesterday afternoon as we were driving around North Devon I was doing my best to work out how to get the headline 'Guerillas in the mist' onto the blog.
The mist continues to shroud North Devon, and it is still more than a little spooky.
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