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We are active in conservation, cryptozoology education and community work with both adults and children, but in the last few years things have changed. Increasingly idiotic legislation from successive governments has produced an education system aimed at teaching children to pass exams, and very little else. Add to this the social changes which have made it almost impossible for children (and adults) to study Natural History as a hobby, and you have a situation which we believe is a tragedy.

Because without amateur naturalists there would have been no Darwin, no Linneaus, no Gerald Durrell, no David Attenborough, and no Centre for Fortean Zoology. And without the amateur naturalists of the 21st Century, from whence will the next generation of zoological savants and freethinkers emerge?

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Cryptozoology is a harsh mistress. Whilst no-one involved in the CFZ management team is paid for their efforts, running an organisation of this size is increasingly expensive.

Sadly, last year - through no fault of our own - we lost two of our main funding sources and are currently facing the worst cash crisis that we have ever had. Every dollar and every pound donated goes straight into CFZ Funds, and we would ask for your generosity.

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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

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.

We are a non-profit making organisation, and none of the directors are paid anything for their time and effort. Any monies earned or donated go straight into our work. We are also active in disability rights; several of the directorate, including the director, are disabled, and we hope that our activities give a positive view of what disabled people can achieve.

Have fun exploring our site and find out how you can join the world's biggest, fastest growing and best mystery animal research group

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The CFZ is based in an old country house in rural Devonshire, parts of which are well over 200 years old. It is home to several ghosts, a bewildering and ever changing array of animals and people, and the Director of the CFZ and his wife Corinna.

We have a nascent museum and library, as well as facilities for film making, publishing, and research. Over the next few years we have plans to continue our programme of renovations to make this the world's foremost fortean zoological or cryptozoological research facility.

CFZ PRESS
We are the world's leading publishers of cryptozoological, and cryptozoology related books with over fifty titles currently in print. One of our latest books is The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman....

Sick of werewolves, tired of zombies, will you scream if you read ay more about vampires? Well Richard Freeman’s new book ‘The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia; An A to Z of Japanese Monsters’ is the perfect antidote. No one could accuse Japanese folklore or Japanese monsters of being run of the mill.

With early public literacy, access to the printing press and hundreds of years of Shinto, Buddhist, and Taoist cultural cross pollinations, the stage is said for some truly insane legendary beasts that make the creations of H.P.Lovecraft look as wholesome as the Care Bears. Collectively known as Yokai, the ghosts and monsters from the Land of the Rising Sun are so strange that to a western mind they are like having a mental enema. The book lists a cavalcade of the weirdest monsters in the world. Gant man eating sea cucumbers that grow from girl's knickers, pervert water goblins, grave robbing giant rabbits, dragons that impregnate women, flaming pigs that steal human genitals, monsters that eat your hair, monsters that lick the ceiling, monsters that lick poorly kept public toilets, cats that animate dead bodies, dogs with shape shifting testicles, blood sucking weasels and un-dead whales, it's all in here and much, much more!

 
LATEST CRYPTOZOOLOGY NEWS
LAST UPDATED: 28th January


SLIDESHOW: Building a conservation lake (Story: 2nd February)

28th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead unearths stories of an irish Wildman and an odd rhino-like creature
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28th January: WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Corinna presents a Cuckoo Special
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28th January: FORTEAN: Gordon Ramsey Sex Dwarf eaten by Badger
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28th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon on Jadesquatch and crystal wildman skull
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28th January: FRONTIERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Dale Drinnon has posted two new articles
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28th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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28th January: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Telegraph 11.6.1958
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28th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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27th January: FRONTIERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Skull Fancy Magazine? Sounds a good idea to me...
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27th January: FRONTIERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Dale Drinnon's site looks at Neanderthal reconstruction
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27th January: CFZ PEOPLE: J. T. Downes
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27th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Nick Wadham
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27th January: WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Orioles, birdwatching and gamekeeper shame
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27th January: NATURAL WORLD: Richard Freeman looks closely at a 'giant crocodile' candidate
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27th January: FORTEAN: another newspaper clipping from the Haunted Skies archive
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27th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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26th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon's Demon Ducks of Doom (plus two longer posts on 'Frontiers of Anthropology')
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26th January: TERATOLOGY: Karl Shuker and the purple cow
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26th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Yes, it's THAT Afghan mystery cat again
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26th January: JON'S JOURNAL: Murder most fowl (or most froggy)
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26th January: REVIEWS/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold reviews 'Boggy Creek'
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26th January: NATURAL (or should that be un-natural) HISTORY: New breeds of dog
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26th January: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Mail 28.1.1958
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26th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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25th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Its the Year of the Dragon says Dale Drinnon
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25th January: FRONTIERS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Dale Drinnon explores Lemuria and Egypt
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25th January: INAPPROPRIATE CORNER: The Rifles of the IRA
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25th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Gavin Lloyd Wilson
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25th January: NATURAL HISTORY: The Watcher of the Skies (Corinna) explores the world of fortean birdwatching - from shrikes to sparrows
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25th January: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are proud to announce that the project has the support of Colonel Halt!
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25th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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A comprehensive Index - by both date and subject - of News Stories can be found HERE This is where old news stories are archived, so they no longer take up room on the front page.


CFZtv: Our YouTube Channel has over two hundred films, from short clips to feature-length movies. They are all for free and there are no adverts..
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The Weird Weekend is the biggest predominantly cryptozoological conference in the English Speaking World, and has been presented every year since 2000. The 13th Weird Weekend, will be held on the third weekend of August 2012. The whole event is being posted on CFZtv.

Issue 47 of our journal is now available.

Contents:

3. Editorial
5. Faculty of the CFZ
8. Contents
9. Newsfile
21. Obituaries: Robert Rines, Stuart Rickard
23. Aquatic monsters logbook by Oll Lewis
30. Letter from America By Nick Redfern
34. Mystery cats diary
35. CFZ Australia: Australian big cats By Ruby Lang
42. Watcher of the skies By Corinna Downes
47. 2009 Expedition report: Five go mad in Sumatra By Richard Freeman
57. 2010 yearbook
58. Mystery animals of Flemish folklore part 2 by Neil Arnold
61. Cryptoclearance
62. Never the mind the Aurochs By Max Blake
67. Gerald Durrells’ strange Corfu cattle By Jon Downes
70. Weird Weekend 2009
72. Letters to the Editor
75. Book Reviews
78. The Sycophant
79. Marjorie Braund is dead
80. About the CFZ
84. CFZ Press