He can be contacted on 07751 363198 or Cmoiser@aol.com
Biography
Chris Moiser was born, at an early age, in Berkshire. This was a great disappointment to his father who wanted him to be born in Yorkshire with a view to playing cricket for the County. This didn’t unnecessarily upset Chris as he wasn’t interested in cricket. As a result of making a lot of noise on the first day of his life he wasn’t allowed to spend the night on the ward, but was made to spend the night in the lady’s toilet together with a little girl of similar volume. Despite common interests he failed to get her name when they were suddenly parted the following morning.
Childhood was spent in various towns in the West Midlands, going to a series of the local schools. None of the schools were of great note, and two have since become Sikh temples. He ended up at Bridgnorth Grammar School, where his tendency to get locked in toilets with ladies, overnight, again appeared. The fact he was genuinely looking for an escaped ferret did not improve his credibility. Fortunately when discovered his father had just accepted a job in Plymouth, and so the family moved there. Devonport High School for Boys was attended for two years, during which he started the pirate radio club, and, celebrated sports day by dropping a twenty foot steel, Royal Navy Surplus, radio aerial down a school chimney. At the end of the first year in the sixth form he ran away to work on a pirate radio station, they sent him home again, much to his disappointment. A brief spell at the local College of Further Education got him much needed A levels and he then went back to the Midlands to read for a degree in Biology and Biochemistry.
His undergraduate days are still clouded in much mystery, but he did end up paying for a new toilet in a hall of residence, was involved in the campaign to keep Dudley Zoo open, and for a period of time, presented a Sunday morning programme on a local radio station. His involvement in blowing the heads of a large number of garden gnomes in the local mining village was categorically denied.
Shortly after graduating he went to work in the courts in Liverpool for 4 years. A part time course in Manchester led to his first legal qualification. When staying in Manchester with other court clerks the evenings entertainment used to be to go out looking for undercover WPCs who were pretending to be prostitutes when trying to catch the Yorkshire Ripper.
After qualifying he left Liverpool and returned to the parental home in Plymouth where a large number of animals subsequently arrived. After a short spell at the local Polytechnic he set up a small publishing company and started teaching at the local College of Further Education. He always considered this to be jolly sporting of the college as they still remembered him from seven years previously. During his twenty years teaching he strenuously avoided getting any teaching qualifications, but did get a law degree and a qualification in Egyptology.
Interest in cryptozoology started to grow from about 1990 onwards and in view of the fact that he lived in Plymouth, these interests focused on big cats of the South West and marine animals. A series of articles followed some initial investigations, as did some television work. His college work was spiced up with a number of trips, with students, to West Africa. The trips were moderately successful, although Chris was heard to say, on more than one occasion that it was the staff behaviour that worried him, not the students. Two short papers on sacred crocodile pools followed, as did a report of a secret late night dig on a tourist beach for monster remains.
Eventually, after a series of minor disagreements with the College, Chris decided to leave and finally, try to qualify as a Solicitor. He attended Exeter University and, to his surprise, passed the legal practice course. He is currently attempting to find a firm of Solicitors to take him on to do a training contract. As he says it is difficult trying to persuade them that they need a fifty year old cryptozoologist with an interest in crime, employment law, big cats and sea monsters. Besides he can’t start yet as still owes a lot of people articles!
Email Chris Cmoiser@aol.com