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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, February 06, 2019

JOIN THE BLOG MAILOUT LIST

As some of you may, or may not, be aware, every day when I have finished the blog posts, I send out a notification to an automated email list of people and organisations. There are only about twenty people on it, but I have been doing this for most of the last ten years. It has only just occurred to me that I should throw this list open to all comers.

If you would like to receive an email notification of the day’s blogs, five days a week, please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk.

This service is free, and – in line with the godawful GDPR legislation – we would like to say that not only do we not use your emails for anything else, but you can remove yourself from the list at any time, just by emailing me.


There is no catch, just us trying to extend the CFZ experience.

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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.


CRYPTOLINK: Yowie report

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.

Photographers Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin made this image Oct. 20, 1967, purportedly showing a female Bigfoot, during a horseback search in ...

A man in an ape costume is seen outside a hotel where a media conference is held announcing the claim that a deceased bigfoot or sasquatch ...

BIG FOOT NEWS...THAT MOVIE




It wouldn't quite be accurate to complain that The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot fails to live up to its outrageous title. The movie delivers ...

Sam Elliott happily strikes a pose on the red carpet with his wife Katharine Ross by his side while attending the premiere of The Man Who Killed Hitler ...

A big, outlandish concept makes for a very fine small film in The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot, which stars Sam Elliott as a very lonely, ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Couple Tackles Controversial Bigfoot Theory
There are a lot of different theories when it comes to bigfoot, but one of the most controversial, and argued, is if bigfoot have special powers or not.

The Great Georgia Bigfoot Hoax and Beyond
Things got more dramatic still when they claimed that as they trudged through the wilderness with their find, at least three other Bigfoot could be seen ...


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ON THIS DAY IN -  1900 - The Holland Senate ratified the 1899 peace conference decree that created in international arbitration court at The Hague. 
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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)