CFZ's Next Generation Initiative

The third volume of David Weatherly's Wood Knocks: Journal of Sasquatch Research is available now on Amazon.com. This one looks to be quite good, with a lot of great contributors. Volume 3 features the following articles: "Bigfoot in Arizona" by David Weatherly "The Company they Keep" by Timothy Renner "The 'Demon' Bigfoot of the U.K." by Nick Redfern "The Florida Skunk Ape" by Robert Robinson "An Analysis of Relic Hominoid Sightings in the Desert" by Bruce Champagne "The High Strangeness of Bigfoot" by Joshua Cutchin "Oklahoma's Boggy Creek" by Marvin Leeper Overall this one looks quite good. Check it out here .  -Tyler Houck

Last night, Colin Schneider had Tim Renner and Josh Cutchin on his Crypto-Kid show for a 2-hour special discussing fairy lore and how it could be connected to cryptozoology. They discussed what fairies are, how fairy experiences could be similar to UFO and cryptid reports, fairy folklore from around the world, and much, much more. You can listen to it below: Find Tim Renner's books here . Find Josh Cutchin's books here . For updates on Crypto-Kid, check out Colin's Facebook page. NOTE - I will be on the show with Colin next Monday! -Tyler Houck

In January of this year, Tim Renner published his book   Bigfoot: West Coast Wild Men .  The book is a collection of old newspaper accounts from California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1800s to early 1900s. It is a somewhat follow-up to his 2017 book  Bigfoot in Pennsylvania . The majority of the book is taken up by the old newspaper accounts themselves. The author focuses on one state at a time, and each state is split up into several chapters, each focusing on a certain time period (ex., Washington 1900-1920). At the end of each chapter, Renner gives a list of the articles and papers they originally appeared in and comments on some of them, either to compare them to modern bigfoot accounts, rule them out as hoaxes or humans, or examine them in some other way. If you are someone interested in historical accounts of wild men or Bigfoot, definitely check out Tim's book. It's not that long of a read but the stories are interesting and some of them are very enter...