Wednesday 30 November 2022

NUCKELAVEE - SCOTLAND'S HORRIFIC MONSTER

A creature of Scottish folk belief.





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Another article on this subject.


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KRAMPUS - THE CHILD PUNISHER

In European folklore, in December he punishes recalcitrant children.





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Tuesday 29 November 2022

BARNUM'S WHITE ELEPHANT

White elephants are not really white - they can be pink, brown or gray, but not really white.  Yet showman P.T. Barnum was able to display a truly white elephant.  How had he managed this?


P T Barnum


The answer he confided to an acquaintance/.  He had had the elephant covered in whitewash or paint.  This possibly was not good for the elephant, but Barnum got away with it.

 

OBITUARY OF LINDA GODFREY

Someone who will be much missed in Fortean zoology.  Barton Nunnely writes.





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BALTIC SEA MYSTERY

What is the strange object down there?  Why was it entrusted to Swedish and Norwegian special forces?


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ENCOUNTER WITH A SEA SERPENT

Vivid newspaper report of an incident off the coast of Madagascar from  1908.





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Monday 28 November 2022

LINDA GODFREY PASSES AWAY

We at CFZ are extremely saddened by the death of Linda Godfrey, one of the stalwarts of cryptozoology, whose outstanding contributions to the study of Dogman will be long remembered. 


Linda Godfrey (1951-2022)

NEW ZEALAND GOATMAN

Stories about him go back to Maori folklore.





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SRAYUDA

With the head of a snake and body of a human.


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TULPA

A look at this curious manifestation.


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WERE EINSTEIN AND LEONARDO ALIENS?

According to Father Lionel Fanthorpe, they may have been.


Albert Einstein



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Sunday 27 November 2022

TINICUM CAT

An unidentified felid of North America.





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SOMETHING LIVING BENEATH ANTARCTICA

Scientists discover something huge, perhaps 5 million square kilometers, may be living beneath Antarctica.





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Saturday 26 November 2022

LOUGH WASKEL MONSTER

A strange creature has been reported from Ireland.  There had been a number of stories about a water horse in the lake in former times.  In one case a small lake nearby had been drained.  Before this was completed, a trail of slime had been found leading from this lakelet to Lough Waskel.  Some time about the 1960s,  Cathal Murray was an eyewitness who saw the creature.  The creature had come ashore.  It was 14 feet in length, colored black and had little legs.  Could it have been some sort of eel with attached legs?



 
Source: R. Cornes and G. Cunningham Irish Aquatic Monsters
 n.p., 2019.  

DIB

Unknown creature of Ethiopia and Somalia.


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JUNGLE WALRUS

What is the animal in the petroglyph?





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NON-HUMAN SPECIES THAT ARE ALL TOO HUMAN

A look at non-human species with suggestion they are closer to us than animals.


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Friday 25 November 2022

CHESTNUT RIDGE

Called the Twilight Zone of Pennsylvania.





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18,000 YEAR OLD MYSTERY ANIMAL FOUND FROZEN

It is neither a dog nor a wolf and its species cannot be determined.


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Thursday 24 November 2022

DEVIL MONKEYS IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION

The Native Americans have something to say about this cryptid.

(Article in German with translation engine.)





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MYSTERY CREATURES OF SENEGAL

Data collected by Owen Burnham.  Includes Sabertooths, Giant Bush Baby, etc.





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ZANKALALLA

Folklore creature among the Hausa of Nigeria.


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SPECIES DISCOVERED OR REDISCOVERED IN 2022

Includes the Blanket Octopus, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, etc.





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Wednesday 23 November 2022

OTT #207

The latest CFZ television episode.





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SLIMY CASPER

Creature of the Nith River, Ontario.


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Tuesday 22 November 2022

21 BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS BORN

This species was so rare it was actually declared extinct in 1979, but then some surviving specimens were discovered.  The 21 ferret kits referred to above were born in Phoenix Zoo.