Richard Freeman - Modern Day Dragon Sightings
Thu 08 Jan
|Hot Shots
Cryptozoologist Richard Freeman kickstarts the new year by exploring claims of dragon sightings around the world


Time & Location
08 Jan 2026, 19:30 – 23:00
Hot Shots, 100 Crosswells Rd, Oldbury B68 8HH, UK
About the event
Entrance Fee: £5.00 (No advanced booking necessary)
Richard Freeman is a working cryptozoologist, author and explorer. He searches for and writes about unknown animals. The melodramatic may call him a monster hunter. He is the Zoological Director at the Centre for Fortean Zoology, the world’s only full time mystery animal research organization. Richard is also a regular contributor to the magazine Fortean Times. He has written books about cryptozoology, folklore and monsters and has recently branched out into horror and fantasy novels.
We'll be kicking off 2026 with flying objects of a different kind to usual! The dragon is the great, great grand-daddy of all monsters. Forget about demons, vampires and zombies, the dragon predates all of these and indeed all other monsters. The earliest dragon legends have been traced to South Africa and date back some 75,000 years! This most powerful, ancient and widespread of monster appears in every…