At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is - we believe - the largest professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. Since 2009 we have been running the increasingly popular CFZ Blog Network, and although there has been an American branch of the CFZ for over ten years now, it is only now that it has a dedicated blog.

Tuesday 12 October 2021

A FERAL MAN IN CHINA

Ye Editor has been perusing The Soviet Sasquatch, the recent CFZ publication of MSS. left by Boris Porshnev.  It contains a fascinating account from before World War I of an apparently feral man in China.

He lived with a Chinese hunter called Fu-Tsai in Manchuria, who claimed to have found him in a wolf den.  His name was Len-Zhen and Fu-Tsai claimed he was his nephew who had been carried off by a wolf when thrown over a fence - an account which Porshnev dismisses.

Len-Zhen ate his food raw - birds, animals, squirrels and grouse - and only dwelt with his alleged uncle by day.  By night he would fare into the forest with the wolves and whatever he did there was anyone's guess.

You can order The Soviet Sasquatch through the usual outlets.





 

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