once , he would have been on the internet almost every evening for at least an hour or two after he had put luke to bed , either searching for increasingly obscure crypto-related sites , downloading some of the free reprints of classic bestiaries from the middle ages right through to those compiled by the nineteenth century explorers , and other works of ancient cryptozoology that were out of copyright and which some kindly individuals had taken the time to scan and make available in an electronic format , or logging into the numerous bulletin boards and chatrooms which specialized in debates and discussions of all matters fortean .