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In 1992 he founded the Centre For Fortean Zoology - now arguably the world's largest cryptozoological research organisation. Since divorcing his first wife Alison in 1996 he has become ever more involved in Cryptozoology and has only made a handful of live appearances as a musician. He intends to marry for the second time in 2007 to his fiancee Corinna. He has undertaken several cryptozoological research expeditions, including two to Puerto Rico in search of the vampiric chupacabra. He is also an activist for Mental Health issues, having suffered with Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) for many years. In 2005, after having lived in Exeter for 20 years, he moved to his old family home in Woolsery, North Devon, where he intends to establish a full-time Visitor's Centre and museum for the Centre for Fortean Zoology. Following his father's death in February 2006, he inherited the old family home and announced that construction of the museum and research facility later in the year. BIBLIOGRAPHY ''Take this Brother may it serve you well'' (1988) ''Riding the Waves'' (1990) ''Road Dreams'' (1993) ''Smaller Mystery Carnivores of the Westcountry'' (1996) ''The Owlman and Others'' (1997)
''UFOs over Devon'' (2000)
''The Blackdown Mystery'' (2000) ''Only Fools and Goatsuckers'' (2001) ''The Monster of the Mere'' (2002) ''Monster Hunter'' (2004)
In addition he has edited eight annual Yearbooks for the CFZ, and two volumes of collected editions of the organisation's journal Animals & Men. RECORDS ''You took me up'' (1984) ''Emotional Fascism'' (1984)
''Pyramidiocy'' (1992) ''The Weird World'' (2000) ''Hard Sports'' (2002) ''Lost Weekend'' (2003)
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