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 31 January 2017

BIGFOOT AND DOGMAN IN OKLAHOMA

A video report.



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BIGFOOT PATTERN

Investigators believe they have found a pattern in the behavior of Bigfoot.



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DENMARK'S FIRST UFO

Recorded with beings on board in 1600.



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WINGED MAN

Report of a flying man from Brazil.

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WEREWOLVES IN THE SEWERS

Linda Godfrey investigates the story of werewolves in Minot, North Dakota.




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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 31...

1927: World-renowned paranormal investigator and "demonologist" Lorraine Rita Warren (née Moran) born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. To date, her controversial career (with late husband Edward) spans 65 years, including more than 10,000 investigations.


Monday 30 January 2017

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

One cosmologist's speculation based on evidence.

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VAMPIRE CATERPILLAR

Reported in Edinburgh in 1904.



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TENGU - HUMANOID OF JAPAN

Interesting creature of Japanese folklore.



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HUGE MANURE COCKEREL

This piece of artwork was made in Russia.

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DOG WALKER AND BIGFOOT

Have you met Bigfoot while walking your dog?



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SEA CREATURE AT PAIGNTON

What was this plesiosaur-like creature, able to change color?



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STRANGE BEING IN RUSSIA

Apparently an otherworld,y being.

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TAHOE TESSIE - MONSTER OF CALIFORNIA

Lake tahoe has its own monster.



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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD



On This Day in Weird, January 30...

2010: Ed Ragozzino, director of the 1976 film Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot, dies at age 79 at a medical center in Springfield, Oregon.



Sunday 29 January 2017

DID HOMO ERECTUS REACH SOUTH AMERICA?

An interesting look at this question.



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DID MAN COME FROM PARALLEL UNIVERSE?

If not, where exactly is Taurid?

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GROOTSLANG: GIANT SNAKE

One of South Africa's legendary creatures.  Disappearances have added to the legend.



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MAD GASSER OF MATTOON

Who was he?  Did he really exist?

Mattoon


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LEGEND OF MOTHMAN

Famous creature of West Virginia.



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RAT-DOG OF CAMBODIA

This story is an urban legend.

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BIGFOOT: SCARY STORIES

A number of anecdotes.



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BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER IN OREGON A father and three children and Bigfoot.

A father, three children and Bigfoot.




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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 29...

1970: New Mexico's Gallup Independent reports a Bigfoot sighting near Whitewater, in Grant County, by four men traveling in a car. They claim the creature ran beside their vehicle, matching its speed of 45 miles per hour, until one of them fired shots at it and the thing veered off.


Saturday 28 January 2017

VELVET WORMS

They use slime to catch their victims.



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COLONY OF ROANOKE

One of America's historical mysteries.

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HOG GOD OF HAWAII

Extraordinary being once worshiped by Hawaiians.

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REPTILIANS

Another piece on these creatures.



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BIGFOOT IN CALIFORNIA

Or, encounter in Gasquet.



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HUGE LIZARD IN BORNEO

Can this species be identified?  A case from 1918.



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WHAT WAS THIS REPTILE?

A case from 1897.

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DOGMEN IN PENNSYLVANIA

More sightings of these creatures.



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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 28...

1980: Missouri's now-defunct Kansas City Times reports a Bigfoot sighting by a workman at Nevada's Nuclear Test Site, also the home of notorious/mysterious Area 51. The article describes a dark-haired biped six to seven feet tall, crossing a desert road and disappearing into sagebrush, leaving no tracks behind.


Friday 27 January 2017

MAN ENCOUNTERS DOGMAN

He also has other anomalous experiences.



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BIGFOOT IN CALIFORNIA

Encounter by boy and mother.



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HUMANOID IN CAVE

What was this humanoid creature?



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BLACK-EYED BOYS

These ones growl.

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SHAPESHIFTING FAIRIES

Are Fairies shapeshifters?



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MEN IN BLACK: ARKANSAS

The MIB reported in rural Arkansas.

Image courtesy Lon Strickler


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MYTHOLOGICAL AZTEC SNAKE

A very unusual reptile.

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BIZARRE CREATURE IN MEXICO

What exactly is this?

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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 27...

1963: A male caller, unnamed in published accounts, alerts the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department to an alleged Bigfoot sighting at Cold Springs, California. The sheriff and a deputy investigate, reportedly hearing "horrible screams" in the forest, but fail to sight the creature.


Thursday 26 January 2017

WATER CREATURES OF MYTHOLOGY

Be careful when you go swimming.



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LITTLE BEINGS IN IRELAND

In 1996, a group of teenagers were camping in the Curlew Mountains.  As they were erecting tents, they became aware of creatures nearby, which they took for animals.  Then they suddenly found themselves the target of stones being thrown at them by little beings, knee high to them.  They fled.

Although my source for this is a book in Irish UFOs*, there is no direct mention of a UFO being involved, only it does mention lights having been seen for years in the area.  There also seems to have been an element of missing time.  However, stone throwing seems a bit primitive for alien activity.  

*The book in question is Conspiracy of Silence by Dermot Butler and Carl Nally.


FAKE GHOSTS

In the 19th Century, people dressed up as ghosts for pranks.



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FAIRY WOMEN AND DEER

In Argyll, Scotland, deer are said to be the cattle of the Fairy Women.



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WAS THIS A PARANORMAL PONY?

Did it come out of the sea?

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BIGFOOT AT SUMMER CAMP

A 1970s encounter.



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NEW MOTHMAN DOCUMENTARY

A new documentary dealing with 1960s Mothman encounters.



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BIGFOOT AND THE BERRIES

An encounter with Bigfoot while berry picking.



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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 26...

2013: Jean-Jacques Barloy, renowned French ornithologist, cryptozoologist, and biographer of Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, dies in his sleep at age 74.


Wednesday 25 January 2017

HUGE OTTER DISCOVERED

A giant species of otter has been discovered in China.



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FLOATING HUMANOID

Creature seen in Mexico, 1996.  It emerged from a UFO.




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REPTILIAN IN ROMANIA

It wore boots.  Witness was an army officer.



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DOES BIGFOOT EXIST?

An author argues that it does.



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MYSTERIOUS CLAWMARKS IN ALABAMA

Made, no doubt, by mysterious claws.

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IS THIS BIGFOOT'S FOOT?

Video of what is said to be a severed foot of a sasquatch.




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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 25...

1947: Notorious Prohibition-era gangster Alphonse "Scarface" Capone dies from the effects of tertiary syphilis at his lavish estate in Florida. Contrary to popular belief, Capone was not afraid of treatment when he contracted the disease in the early 1920s, but in fact was likely deceived by the normal disappearance of outward symptoms soon after infection. Historians now believe he passed the disease to his only son, who suffered lifelong health problems as a result.


Tuesday 24 January 2017