While my personal research / affliction is focused on UFOs, I work with many colleagues with wider, or different, Fortean interests - including cryptozoology.
To help some of those colleagues, I recently contacted Ben Roesch about my potentially uploading scans of his "Cryptozoology Review". (I did attempt to contact Ben a few years ago without success, but felt that enough time had passed that trying again now would not amount to spamming him...). He kindly responded that he personally had no objection, but Ben also stressed that he could not, of course, speak for every illustrator/author of material in each issue. If any illustrator/author objects to the inclusion of any of their material, just let me know (at
isaackoi@gmail.com) and I will promptly remove it.
Scans of 11 issues of "Cryptozoology Review" are therefore now available by clicking on the image below:
Ben has asked me to note that copyright remains with him and authors of the material. The PDFs can be shared freely but not reproduced in other formats without Ben's express permission. Use must be non-commercial unless Ben's permission is given.
Most of the scans were made by the AFU in Sweden (which, as most readers of this blog know, has a very large physical archive of material relating to the "unexplained" from around the world). Two other issues being scanned from
the archives of the late Gary Mangiacopra by Hammerson Peters. (Hammerson has kindly permitted me to upload some of his scans to my archive to fill in those gaps).
This publication joins various other cryptozoological publications in my online archive, including the following:
(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) Ron Schaffner's "
Creature Chronicles" (with the agreement of Blake Mathys, a researcher given permission by Ron Schaffner to make "Creature Chronicles" available online)
(6) "
Flying Snake" (with permission from Richard Muirhead)
(7) "
Exotic Zoology"(with permission from Matt Bille).
(8) "
Cryptozoology Newsletter" (with permission from Matt Bille)
(9) "
Bigfoot Abstract" (with permission from Mark Opsasnick)
(10) "
Bigfoot Bulletin" (George Haas)
(11) Chad Arment's "
North American BioFortean Review" (with Chad's permission)
(12) Chad Arment's "
Biofortean Notes" (with Chad's permission)
(13) Many more general Fortean magazines/newsletters containing further cryptozoological material (after getting permissions from relevant editors/publishers). See, in particular, material in the folder for
magazines/newsletters from the USA.
