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.

Sunday 10 August 2014

ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD



On This Day in Weird, August 10...

1817: Solomon Allen II reports from Massachusetts: "I have seen a strange marine animal, that I believe to be a serpent, in the harbour in Gloucester. I should judge him to be between eighty and ninety feet in length, and about the size of a half barrel…I was about 150 yards from him…His head formed something like the head of a rattlesnake, but nearly as large as the head of a horse. When he moved on the surface of the water, his motion was slow, at times playing about in circles, and sometimes moving nearly straight forward. When he disappeared, he sunk apparently down."



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