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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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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 research facility.
CFZ PRESS
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!
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LAST UPDATED: 2nd September SLIDESHOW: Giant diamondback rattlesnake. True or False? (Story: 28th February)
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