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.

Thursday 31 December 2020

A LOOK AT SOME "LITTLE PEOPLE"

Evidence for diminutive beings.





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THYLACINE

Cryptozoologists suspect it still survives, but what was it actually like?





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BAT-LIKE FLYING MONSTER

Report from Texas.




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BIZARRE MONSTER OF HOUSTON

This monster was so weird I couldn't find an appropriate picture.


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FLYING HUMANOID OF TEXAS

Incident in Friendswood.


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DRAGON-WORM

A creature reportedly seen in Switzerland in 1498.  It swam out of Lake Lucerne and into the River Reuss.  Details of size and speed could not be determined.



 

AGTA AND KAPRE

Creatures of Philippine folklore.  Did one evolve from the other?  Features video as well as article.





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DOGMEN IN BRITAIN

They are not very well known.





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USE OF SOUND BY MONSTERS

Used to deter humans.





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BLUE BEE OF FLORIDA REDISCOVERED

For a long time it had been lost.





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503 NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED

Includes scarab insects, a new type of monkey, etc.


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YUCCA MAN ENCOUNTERS

Very strange creatures of California.


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Wednesday 30 December 2020

SIBERIAN CATS TAKE OVER FARM

A large feline irruption.





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PREHISTORIC ART AND HUMAN WRITING

Did the first contain a code that led to the second?


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BIGFOOT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

A history of sightings.





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MYSTERY CARCASS IN IRELAND

Washed up in Donegal.


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MOTHER, DAUGHTER AND LOCH NESS MONSTER

Did they spot it or were they mistaken?





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FIVE DOGMAN ENCOUNTERS

In USA, UK and Africa.  (Video)





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EARLIER UNIVERSE BEFORE BIG BANG

Nobel Prize winner Sir Robert Penrose asserts this to be the case.


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CREEPY TRAIL CAM PHOTOS

Including felid with tusks, three-antlered deer.


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THREE BIGFOOT OBSERVED

Seen in California.





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A VERY PECULIAR EXPERIENCE

It is a sort of out-of-the-body experience.


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Tuesday 29 December 2020

SPROAT LAKE MONSTER

Is there a monster in this Canadian lake?





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TA-ZAM-A

Mystery creature of Lake Shuswap, California.  It is to some extent like a bear.


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NEW SPECIES OF SNAKE

Discovered in laboratory collection.


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HUGE SEA TURTLES

Are they out there in the ocean?





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PLANT INTELLIGENCE

Plants more intelligent than otherwise thought.





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CREEPY CREATURE IN UTAH

At the site of the missing monolith.


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LOST CITY OF THE GIANTS

In the jungles of Ecuador.





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BLACK-EYED KIDS

In the woods.


Image courtesy Lon Strickler



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Monday 28 December 2020

STRANGE KINDS OF GNOMES

From the folklore of Madagascar, France and the Amazon Rainforest.  (Site in Spanish with translation engine)


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ANOTHER SIGHTING OF LOCH NESS MONSTER?

Is this a film of Nessie?


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WATER HORSE

In Scotland, Gaelic speakers refer to the each uisge or water horse.  This term may, in fact, be applied to various different lacustrine creatures.  One of them at least was reportedly paranormal.  This was the creature of Loch Evort, seen in 1856.  It was said to have a slimy black skin like a porpoise.  It submerged. Afterwords there rose from the loch a huge man who had the same kind of skin as the monster and it was inferred that the monster had turned itself into a naked human. 




BIGFOOT THROWS ROCK

At Dallas man.





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NAVAJO RANGERS AND BIGFOOT

They're investigating Bigfoot and UFOS.



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WHAT WAS THE BIS-COBRA

Or did it exist?





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12 NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED

In the Atlantic Ocean.


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NEW MAMMALS DISCOVERED

Two of them, in Australia.


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THEY WEREN'T THERE

People outside gas station.


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Sunday 27 December 2020

NORDIC ALIENS?

 Encountered in Detroit.





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THE YUCCA MAN

Strange creature of the desert.





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SOME MONSTERS DEEMED MYTHICAL

But might they exist?



 

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LAKE ERIE MONSTER

The legend of Bessie.





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IS THIS A BIGFOOT VIDEO?

Have a look.





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EARLY ACCOUNTS OF BIGFOOT?

There were legends of giant hairy humanoids before the term "Bigfoot" was invented.





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MAD GASSER OF MATTOON

Who was this mysterious person?  (Video)





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ORIGIN OF THE PTEROSAURS

It's taken a long time to discover it.





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GHOST LADY IN NEW ORLEANS

A man claims regular encounters.


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Saturday 26 December 2020

SEA SERPENTS AND DRAGONS

A compendium of sightings.





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AMERICA'S WEIRDEST ANIMAL LAWS

Some of these may cause you to raise your eyebrows.





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LA SAYONA

This being of Venezuelan folklore is said to attack adulterous husbands.





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KAW KAW

Creature of Maltese folklore, formed out of gray slime.


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CUELEBRE - SPAIN'S SNAKE-DRAGON

A creature in the legendry of Asturias.





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SEA SERPENT OFF MAINE COAST

Seen in 1779 in Casco Bay, which was also the locale of other sea serpent sightings.






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GRYLA, ICELAND'S CHRISTMAS WITCH

Christmas folklore includes this unpleasant being.





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WEREWOLF IN WALES

Wales was said to have a werewolf problem in the 18th Century.





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Thursday 24 December 2020

CHRISTMAS GOOD WISHES

We wish all our readers a happy Christmas, but we also bear in mind those of you who may not find Christmas a joyous time of the year.  We will not be doing a blog tomorrow (Christmas Day) but should return on St Stephen's Day (December 26th).





 

SIGHTING OF SANTA CLAUS?

So the witnesses claim. 





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BIGFOOT (?ALMAS) FILMED IN RUSSIA

It moves fast.





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BAT-LIKE CREATURE

Report from the Philippines.





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ILIAMNA LAKE MONSTER

Report of a sighting.


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BIGFOOT IN THE TENT

Now, that's scary!





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BIGFOOT - QUANTITY OF FOOD

How much does he need?





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YOWIE SIGHTINGS MAP

Where the Yowie has been reported.





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UNKNOWN POPULATION OF BLUE WHALES

They're not unknown any more.





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