Jonathan Downes

Jonathan Downes

Biography:

Jonathan Downes spent much of his childhood in Hong Kong surrounded by age-old Chinese superstitions and a dazzlingly diverse range of exotic wildlife. He soon became infected with the twin passions for exotic zoology and the paranormal. He began writing professionally in the late 80s and has written seventeen books. In 1992 he founded The Centre for Fortean Zoology, with the aim of coordinating research into mystery animals, bizarre and aberrant animal behavior and his own particular love of zooform phenomena (paranormal entities which only appear to be animals!). He has searched for Lake Monsters at Loch Ness, pursued sea serpents and birdmen in Cornwall, chased big cats across westcountry moorland, and in 1998 went to Latin America in search of the grotesque vampiric Chupacabra.

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  • Cryptozoology Update

    Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes, who's traveled the world looking for all order of strange creatures, shared his observations and insights.More »
  • Fortean Zoology

    Jonathan Downes and Richard Freeman of The Centre for Fortean Zoology, discussed various cryptozoological creatures such as the Chupacabra, and the Loch Ness Monster.More »
  • UFO Crash Retrieval Conference

    George Noory and Linda Moulton Howe hosted a special broadcast live from a glass enclosed studio at the Sunset Station Hotel in Las Vegas, interviewing presenters at the UFO Crash Retrieval Conference. Stan Gordon, the primary investigator of the 1965 Kecksburg UFO crash...More »