"Creature Chronicles" - "a pioneering newsletter on Bigfoot and other critters" (Ron Schaffner, USA, 1980s-1990s)

"Creature Chronicles" was a newsletter published by Ron Schaffner in 1980s to early 1990s. Matt Bille has referred to this newsletter on his website as "a pioneering newsletter on Bigfoot and other critters". and commented that it is "a lot of fun to read these accounts from the days before the Internet had sasquatch reports, speculation, and just plain trash seemingly flooding the world".

Ron Schaffner gave Blake Mathys permission to make "Creature Chronicles" available online over a decade ago, and Blake made scans of 11 issues available on his website. I asked Blake whether I could add a copy of "Creature Chronicles" available in the online Fortean archive that I have been helping to develop. Blake has kindly agreed.

The AFU has scanned 4 missing issues, so I think the collection online is now complete.

This newsletter joins other Cryptozoological journals/newsletters that I have obtained permission to upload so far, including:

(1) the ISC's "Cryptozoology" journal and the ISC Newsletters - following indications by the former president of ISC and another former director that they had no objection to the upload,

(2) over 150 issues of Rip Hepple's Loch Ness "Nessletters" (with his permission),

(3) Mark A Hall's "Wonders" (with the blessing of Loren Coleman, who had been given the "sign off" by the late Mark A Hall),

(4) the first 45 issues of the UK's "Animals and Men" (with permission from Jon Downes of the Centre for Fortean Zoology )

(5) Various "bigfoot" newsletters,

(6) Many more general Fortean magazines/newsletters containing further cryptozoological material (after getting permissions from relevant editors/publishers)

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder.