Stats or...it is very hot and I bent over to pick something up and my shorts ripped

Posted yesterday morning on the Black Tower Face Book page and up-dated today.

Wow...and the  UK must have seen what I wrote!  :-)  The UK has not appeared this high up in views for...a VERY long time!

I was asked about the audience (readers as we used to call them) for CBO. Since I use Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and so on who was attracted to the site?

Well, I have said this before; the main audience for CBO has always been USA, Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany -I post this info usually once a month on CBO.

China WAS the biggest audience until a couple years ago when Google actively blocked views from the PRC.

The UK can come 5th, 7th or even 10th -Bulgaria, Chechia (former Czech Republic) and other countries filling in the top ten places.

It's rare for the UK to get into the top 5 views sources.

I checked the Anomalous Observational Phenomena blog as well as the Zine Zone blog. Same wide spread of readers with the UK pretty low down on the list. With the AOP blog the UK is 9th with Bulgaria 8th and Spain 10th.

Yes, it does seem almost unbelievable that what others have called the UKs biggest comic blog (a few million views points to that) attracts views from every country in the world yet struggles to get UK views.

Same applies with the Zine Zone and AOP blogs.

You can really only put it down to people in the UK not having enquiring minds or any real interest in anything unless it is a free download or Marvel or DC.

I have gone over this many times and just stopped worrying!

I also stopped worrying why thousands visit CBO and see the Black Tower books posts (maximum views for one of these posts in 2017 was 3454) yet none buys a copy of even the cheapest book.

The thing is even libraries are finding that Millennials do not like to get up and go visit a library and borrow books. These are the same Millennials who will eat meat but have to have "straight to pan packages" because they suffer anxiety and panic attacks if they have to touch meat.

"We need more home grown, British comics -super heroes, sci fi, horror!" I read on so many groups. Send the link to just such books...nothing. Some times they'll even delete your reply without comment.

The books are there but, sadly, Romero's Children are not the audience.

Note that the UK and British Golden Age blogs are not included as I made those private following so much of my original research being stolen from there and no credit given. Now you want the info -buy the books.

Also note that after months the Paypal Donate button is gone -no one donated so why waste space.

(Romero's Children -zombies)

All data for  15:45hrs BST today (Friday)


CBO

Entry	Pageviews
Russia	1011
United States	843
Ukraine	419
United Kingdom	204
Canada	148
France	94
Poland	90
Germany	88
Vietnam	44
Philippines	31

AOP

Entry	Pageviews
United States	149
Russia	145
France	79
United Kingdom	34
Germany	17
Vietnam	8
Ukraine	7
Belgium	6
Spain	6
Greece	5

Zine Zone

Entry Pageviews Russia 40 United Kingdom 30 Germany 18 United States 14 Ireland 12 Spain 2 France 2 Poland 2 Belgium 1 Italy 1

Maakika

Entry Pageviews United States 10 Russia 4 Germany 1 France 1 United Kingdom 1 India 1 Peru 1 Philippines 1

Alan Class Blog

Entry Pageviews Canada 75 United Kingdom 5 Spain 2 United States 2 Italy 1 Philippines 1

Nerdzig Inside/Comics 001 - Von verlorenen Helden und gefundenen Schlüsseln

Views Right NOW (15:45hrs BST)

First time the UK has broken into the top 6 all week!

Entry	Pageviews
Russia	313
United States	65
Ukraine	59
United Kingdom	26
France	25
Germany	9
Japan	6
Philippines	5
Brazil	3
Portugal	3

Blogging, Googling -same thing. Except if you are Blogging and Googling

At least part of the mystery of "where have all the CBO viewers one?" has been solved. Not bad viewing figures here but there was a drop.

Yesterday I was checking my Google+ page and inadvertently pressed the wrong button..1,523 views. I checked again because I had not idea what this was for.  It seems the CBO items had received 1,523 views via Google+.

Which got a loud "huh?" out of me. I fumbled about in the CBO dashboard and found that comments from Google+ were no longer accepted and that stats from Google+ were not included.

But...Google OWNS Blogger???

So, adding up uncounted Google+ views CBO has gone well over 4 million. So many stats seem to be blocked thanks to Google's "clean-up" this year.

I'm sticking with the last Independent (confirmed by two unconnected sources) that CBO has had over 6 million views.

None of this makes blogging fun.

You are checking out the AOP blog, too right?

oh. BUY my books!  :-)

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Pursuing The Strange And Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint

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Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.

Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird

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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

Japanese Yokai ~Preview

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I was told that it was probably a good idea not to reveal all of the contents of the new book. Fair enough. It is 324 pages with lots of photographs.  If you have read one of my previous books then I will point out that this new look at the chupacabra is expanded on.  I have managed to draw some conclusions on certain previously unidentified beasts.  

I am guessing that the conclusions in the chapter on the Shunka Warak'in and the famous stuffed and mounted specimen are going to really upset some cryptozoologists.

In High Strangeness and UFO Contact? I looked at the faults in Ufology and how the subject needed drastic overhauling and I do the same here regarding mystery animal research which seems to be full of charlatans and liars out to make money rather than look for the truth. I try to give anyone approaching the subject matter some advice and guidelines but 'cryptozoology' and 'cryptozoologist' are two words they ought not to use.

Strange & Mysterious Beasts is the smaller format book while Mysterious & Strange Beasts is the standard larger A4 format. 

IGNORE the "only ships from North America" as that is just a site message error

I need to point out that, much though I really do want to avoid this, US taxes are not leaving me much in the way of profit from sales.  I really do not want to increase book prices since I think that at the moment they are fair (considering what a purchaser gets and the amount of my work that gets plagiarized).  I am told that it has to be an option, however, I have until 1st February, 2018 to decide.

Anyway, enough publisher waffle, here are some of the contents:

  

The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere   

The Beast of Lyonnais   

The Beast of Cevennes, Gard and Vivarais      

The Beast of Sarlat    

The Beast of Gevaudan     

British Man Beasts     

Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West Midlands    

The Strange Creature in Repton Woods   

Bigfoot Returns – To Kent!       

Werewolf!         

The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf       

The Gnome of Girona     

The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs       

Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible Identification    

The Dingellchough Mystery Creature  

The Unidentified Corfu Sea Creature           

Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian Gulf     

The Devil of Gatagon      

The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids    

The Sheep Killer of Niali      

Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville   

Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction    

The Bat Creatures      

The Owl-man   

The British Pig-man and Snake-man    

The Pictish Beast              

Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?   
The Chupacabra

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With DESCENT Elmes returns to his comic roots having spent some years involved in animation. In this 104 page classic only one prisoner aboard a space craft awakes from stasis alive. All the others are dead..well, the living dead! Can the lone surviving prisoner and the guards survive the zombie onslaught? Who knows -but we can tell you this is the most zombie fun you’ll get outside of the Resident Evil movies!!

If John Erasmus is a vastly under-rated talent then not far behind him is Tom Elmes who has worked on international award winning animation outside of comics.  When Tom said: “Do you want to publish a couple books of mine?” I must admit I thought long and hard -I think 1.3 microseconds!

I did wonder whether he might still have that “edge” after all these years.  He has.

In the 1980s Tom Elmes was earning himself the title “King of the Zine Nasty” -classic, somewhat gorey, stories such as “The Man Who Ate Himself To Death” are still enough to make you go “URGH!” after all these years.

With DESCENT Elmes returned to his comic roots having spent some years involved in animation. In this 104 page classic only one prisoner aboard a space craft awakes from stasis alive.  All the others are dead..well, the living dead! Can the lone surviving prisoner and the guards survive the zombie onslaught?  Who knows -but we can tell you this is the most zombie fun you’ll get outside of the Resident Evil movies!!

Below are a few selected pages all (c)2011 T. Elmes/BTCG

Some More Things Strange & Sinister

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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister. For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general. The secret history of gorillas in the UK -before they were officially  'discovered'. 

The history of  the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"  Very pop culture and totally forgotten today! Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence?  

No sitting on the fence here -the Patterson-Gimlin film is looked at as well as other evidence.  The Author's conclusions? 

You might be surprised. Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century -one of which was actually brought to London?   Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK.  In fact, far more than even the Author had thought . And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: The Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary 'lost' photograph taken of it.

 This and much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.