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Daniel Barnett is a remarkable young man. At the age of 14, he has decided to take on the current populist belief in Bigfoot, both in the United States and, more importantly, in the United Kingdom. People have been claiming that there is a British Bigfoot for many years. There is certainly a recurrent Fortean phenomenon which appears to be a humanoid giant. Our ancestors called them woodwoses. I know that these things exist. I have seen one. In January 2003 an immensely tall figure ran between two marked trees in Bolam Lake Forest in Northumberland. I was one of five people that saw it. What exactly it is I still don't know.Daniel has taken it upon himself to recruit a team of like-minded individuals, and to utilise modern technology and the scientific method to investigate these, the most intangible examples of modern cryptozoology. Whether he will succeed, none of us know, but he has already garnered some remarkable results.This is his story, and it is also the story of his remarkable family, who have encouraged him every step of the way. What is going to happen next? I have no idea, but I can't wait to find out.Jonathan Downes, Director, Centre for Fortean Zoology, February 2024

Richard Muirhead is probably the best researcher that I know. He has, what I am sure Charlie Fort would have called, a 'Wild Talent' in that you can let him loose in any library or archive, and with the innate powers of a truffle-hound he will extract all sorts of pieces of arcane knowledge that one would never have suspected to be there.For example, about a decade ago, he phoned me telling me he was going to look in the archive of the Hong Kong Yacht Club. "Whatever for?" I asked and received a completely non-committal reply. That evening, he telephoned me to tell me that he had found a hitherto unsuspected sea-serpent report. That's just the kind of guy he is.Some years ago, he started his own magazine, Flying Snake, which has proven to be a wildly eclectic and thematically diverse publication that, every few months, continues to delight and amuse. Here, in book form, is the first volume of the collected editions.Enjoy,Jon Downes (Director, Centre for Fortean Zoology)

Have you ever wondered what lurks out there in the deep, dark woods of the North? This book presents a choice selection of monstrous beings and fabulous creatures from Greenland, across the North Atlantic to Scandinavia, and the Baltic States. Meet the Giant Gull of Greenland, the terrifying Skrimsl of the Icelandic wilderness, the trolls that stomp through the impenetrable Nordic woods, and the puk-dragons guarding the houses on the Baltic Coast. This is the book where zoologist Lars Thomas tries to make sense of all the very strange beings that live in these Curious Countries.

The stuff in this book is not dated.It is not annotated - and there has been no attempt to put it into any historical or socio-political context.Why?Precisely because the vast majority of this stuff is lightweight, hopefully easy to read, and hopefully entertaining. It is a mixture of editorials, some book reviews, and a few feature articles, which have been taken almost at random from stuff that I wrote between 2013 - 2016 in a magazine called Gonzo Weekly, of which I am the founding editor.If I may quote, somewhat out of context, Mark Twain:"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE".To which I shall only add that I hope that it affords you some little amusement.Hail Eris.Love and peace.Jon Downes.