CFZ Guyana Trek Begins

On Wednesday evening, November 14, 2007, a five-person party flies from London’s Heathrow Airport in search of more complete information on at least three South American cryptids (e.g. Giant Anaconda, Didi/Mapinguary, Water Tiger). The five individuals from the UK-based Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] are on the track of cryptid data and en route to Guyana.

For more information, see their previous release (which is being recycled this week), here.

CFZ misread early notices here about this being called a “publicity stunt” for the videogame company Capcom’s launch of their new video game Monster Hunter 3. In the USA, the phrase “publicity stunt” is not spoken with any negativity, but with congratulatory reality. I actually applaud anyone that can get funding for their expeditions in search of new animals, as long as the source of finances is not tied to any type of censorship of data!

Hopefully, the CFZ group was able to pack a copy of the Bullyland Megatherium replica, shown below. This is the same kind that David Oren used with his informants, as he gathered information on the Amazonian Mapinguary.

But what the CFZ may find are the more primate-oriented accounts from north of the Amazon, linked to the Didi. Hopefully they will have replicas and a field guide to cover these too.

This drawing from a cryptozoological field guide is based on an eyewitness account of the Didi of Guyana ~ a five feet tall bipedal Proto-Pygmy of the rainforests, covered in short black hair that makes “hooing” sounds.

Best of luck to the personnel from the CFZ, as they venture into the wilds of South America.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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