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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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Wednesday, September 06, 2017

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.
  • NEWSLINK: After a four-year wait, Mukundara Hills ...
  • VIDEO: Tiger cub part of illicit flow of exotic an...
  • VIDEO: Security Camera Catches Mountain Lion Walki...

  • NEWSLINK: Tourist safaris disturb Kabini’s wildlif...
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    THYLACINES IN THE NEWS




    The Thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. The last known Thylacine died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Despite hundreds of ...

    ANOTHER NEWS STORY
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    MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Snake charmers in Hong Kong

    I stumbled across these words on the Gwulo.com  Hong Kong history web site in a post by Kirstin Moritz on November 8th 2011 titled `1970s Stanley Village: Photos and memories`. I was very surprised to find out that snake charming takes place outside of India,in this case in Stanley Village,Hong Kong:

    " Then on one memorable occasion, a snake charmer came to the market about 8 in the morning on a gray winter day with his cobras.  He made them dance and then in front of the whole crowd he slaughtered them all, draining the blood and selling it in cups to the little old ladies and men in black for $80 HK a cup.  Then he chopped the snakes into pieces, wrapped the pieces in newspaper, and sold them, leaving only the blood stains on the concrete of the market place to suggest the violence of the morning."

    Apparently snake charming originated in Egypt and occurs in China



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    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.


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    THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

    CFZ-USA


  • NEW BOOK BY DARREN NAISH
  • MEGALANIA
  • DOES HONSHU WOLF STILL EXIST?
  • WEIRD GIANT BIRD IN FINLAND
  • STORIES OF THE PIGMAN
  • COW-BEAR HYBRIDS
  • ENCOUNTER WITH BIGFOOT
  • BIGFOOT STALKS HITCH HIKERS
  • INTERNATIONAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
  • ACCOUNTS OF THUNDERBIRD SIGHTINGS
  • KAIJIN - JAPANESE SEA CRYPTID
  • PUCK - LEGENDARY ENGLISH SPRITE
  • STRANGE BAT LIGHT
  • LITTLE PEOPLE - GHOSTS OR FAIRIES?
  • BIGFOOT ON THE SCARY SIDE
  • BIGFOOT IN VERMONT
  • EARLY MERMAID REPORT
  • BIGFOOT STORIES AT CONFERENCE
  • SMETTY - MONSTER OF WYOMING
  • HYPNOTIC REGRESSION AND ASTONISHING ALIEN
  • BIGFOOT IN IDAHO
  • SYKES BOOK ON HOMINIDS AND HOMININS
  • MEN WHO TURNED INTO WHALES
  • SINGAPORE MONKEY-MAN
  • APELIKE CREATURE
  • SCULPTURE OF SASQUATCH
  • SPACE CLAMS - WEIRD CRYPTIDS OF NEVADA
  • GRAY ALIENS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
  • CRYPTID PLACES
  • MUHURU - A SURVIVING DINOSAUR?
  • DOES STELLER'S SEA COW SURVIVE?
  • IS BIGFOOT TAPPING AT THE WINDOW?
  • FRIGHTENING DOGMAN ENCOUNTER
  • MOST INTERESTING INSECTS
  • 381 NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED
  • ALIENS IN OHIO?
  • GIANT ELEPHANT OF YORE
  • PETS RESCUED FROM HARVEY
  • HUMBER RIVER MONSTER
  • CHUCHUNYA - THE SIBERIAN SNOWMAN
  • SKEPTIC BECOMES BIGFOOT BELIEVER
  • MULTIPLE WITNESS BIGFOOT CASE
  • BIGFOOT - MISSING LINK?
  • LOST ECOSYSTEM
  • HUMANOID WITH GLOWING HEAD
  • BIGFOOT - REAL OR HOAX?
  • BIGFOOT WRITER INTERVIEWED
  • NEW CRAB DISCOVERED
  • MORE PLANETS THAT MAY HAVE LIFE
  • VED - HUMANOID OF CROATIA
  • MAN'S BEST FRIEND
  • BIGFOOT GETS AROUND
  • BIGFOOT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
  • FLYING SHADOW NEAR CHICAGO
  • IS BIGFOOT NERVOUS?
  • GIANT SQUID IN SPAIN
  • ARE MYSTERY SIGNALS FROM ALIENS?
  • BIGFOOT IN OREGON
  • SHITA - MONSTER OF THE HOPI
  • ELF TRADITIONS IN NORTHERN ENGLAND
  • FAERIE ENCOUNTERS IN SCOTLAND
  • DIFFERENT ALIEN TYPES
  • JACK THE RIPPER - IDENTITY REVEALED?
  • BIGFOOT IN YOSEMITE
  • FURRY HEN OF HERZEGOVINA
  • SHADOW MAN
  • MORE CHICAGO MOTHMAN SIGHTINGS
  • IS BIGFOOT IN MINNESOTA?
  • BIGFOOT PRESENTATION
  • GAJAH MINA
  • "DAEDALUS" SEA SERPENT IDENTIFIED?
  • LESSER KNOWN CRYPTIDS
  • CHICKENS AS PETS
  • SCARY DOGMAN ENCOUNTERS
  • TRUCK DRIVER PURSUES BIGFOOT
  • BLACK-EYED KID SIGHTING
  • DID ALIENS MAKE MOON?
  • BERBALANGS - MAN-EATING CREATURES
  • DOES MOA STILL EXIST?
  • ONLINE AUCTION OF RHINOCEROS HORN
  • DOGMAN TRANSFORMS DOGS
  • BIGFOOT IN CALIFORNIA
  • MERMAID SIGHTING 1894
  • SOUTHERN SEA SERPENTS


  • WHAT EXACTLY IS DARK MATTER?
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1189 - England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • What's really the point of wasps?
  • Endangered sharks, rays further threatened by glob...
  • Elucidating the biology of huge extinct cave bears...
  • Fossils reveal how bizarre mammal beat extinction

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    AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day.

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