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We hope that you have fun exploring our site, but remember, unlike some of our competitors, this site is run by working cryptozoologists, not hobbyists. The research into cryptozoology across the globe, and our rapidly expanding programme of community work comes first. We are on a deadly serious mission - do you want to join us?

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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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 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 NEWS
LAST UPDATED: 2nd September

SLIDESHOW: Giant diamondback rattlesnake. True or False? (Story: 28th February)

2nd September: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Paul Cropper wondered whether this could be the earliest account of an Irish lake monster
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2nd September: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (even if she is eleven). Oh, by the way, there are Australian big cats here as well
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2nd September: NATURAL HISTORY: Mike Hallowell encounters a verdant interloper
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2nd September: CFZ PEOPLE: What Oll Lewis did on his holidays
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2nd September: CFZ PRESS: The Hit Parade for September
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2nd September: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (Sort of): Corinna thinks she knows why the Loch Ness Monster has disappeared
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2nd September: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st September: CFZtv: Episode 36 of On The Track
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1st September: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New Statue for Canberra
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1st September: WW2010: So that's it for this year
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1st September: WW2010: Jon's Keynote speech
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1st September: WW2010: The last trip in the CFZ Time Machine for this year
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1st September: PECULIAR: A Spectral Tarsier made from confecionary. Hmmm
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1st September: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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31st August: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday Kara
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31st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More English Pine Martens
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31st August: CFZ PEOPLE: Mike Hallowell writes to the North Devon Gazette
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31st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A vintage tale of a thunderbird killed in Canada?
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31st August: WW2010: Ronan Coghlan on the Holy Grail
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31st August: WW2010: A tribute to a special lady
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31st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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31st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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30th August: FORTEAN: Mark North visits Bournemouth in search of Mary Shelley and Gerald Durrell
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Odds and sods from Chad Arment
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30th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Dr Mike Dash on stage
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30th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Lars Thomas on stage
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Modern sightings of trolls in Sweden
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan Friswell adds weight to Max's theory about sweet potatoes and the Loch Ness Monster
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30th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Once again we utilise the CFZ time machine (made out of stuff Graham nicked from a skip)
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29th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Once again we utilise the CFZ time machine (made out of stuff Graham nicked from a skip)
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29th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Oll Lewis on Stage
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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 is the world's only multimedia website devoted to cryptozoology and allied disciplines
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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 eleventh Weird Weekend, was held on the third weekend of August. The whole event is being posted on CFZtv. News on WW2011 coming soon

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