21st April 2017

Following Caru’s apparent (and we repeat apparent) reappearance - see below - there have been a number of developments.
In November the Foundation received a printed note stuck to the bottom of a pizza box we had sent out for. It is unsigned but clearly it refers to Caru's missing years. Again there are no clues as to whether it is from Caru himself, or part of a hoax. The rhyming is not up to Caru's exacting standards, but perhaps he is out of practice. This must just be a distraction from what really happened. Then just after the new year reports came in of Huw Puw Caru sightings - all on New Years Eve and across all of Wales. He apparently checked at small bed and breakfast  establishments in Caernarvon, Prestatyn, Welshpool, Abergavenney,  Cwmbran, Maesteg, Llandeilo, Carmarthen, St Davids and Aberystwyth - and perhaps others too. How is this possible? The description of the man booking in all fit Caru - a bit too perfectly to be true. He paid cash at each. Some still operate with a hand written guest book, but on asking for a picture of his signature, for  verification purposes, we were told that he used his own pen and presumably 'magic ink'; it had disappeared by next morning. Rather uncharacteristically he chose establishments without licenses for serving drinks, though 'he' did leave a few empties behind after checking out. 'He' was well-behaved at each, never drawing attention to himself,and he ordered kippers for  breakfast at each place. It seems the hotels were chosen because they did serve kippers as a breakfast item.
Later that month the Foundation’s laptop was hacked. This may be just coincidence, but just a few days later we received a perplexing e-mail. Is it a puzzle or just rambling? We just don’t know and are awaiting a follow up.
Another e-mail, and this time it refers to incidents that few know about - apart from those ladies who helped Caru on what was quite a feat for a man of his age, in such short time, even if the weather was clement. He/they were lucky to avoid arrest but at least that would have provided some  outside verification of the claims. There was still not a chance that  the Guinness Book would have condoned such activity in a public place.

The question we were asking ourselves now was whether Caru had really reappeared after nearly fifty years away - he would be 146 years old. And if so, when did this happen?
A trawl through the Welsh local press has revealed a likely report of Caru from June last year. This photocopy from the Gower Gazette has a good physical description of Caru and shows that he is still performing his 'party pieces'. But is it Caru or an imposter. We do need a photograph. There was one sent in allegedly of Caru wearing a false beard, and drinking a pint while balancing a two-pound coin on his nose. All very fine except that the man himself was invisible to the camera and all we could see was beard, pint and coin. We will not bore you with and obvious fake.

25th October 2016

The Foundation apologises to followers of the Great Man for the  prolonged period of silence. Truth be told, unravelling Caru's notes can send you round the twist - some are written in mirrored script in ancient Welsh, and others in Egyptian heiratic! Twice we had deciphered half a bundle of papers, only to find the second half was the conclusion of a totally different tale. It is almost as if he he is challenging us to piece together his stories. Consequently we have been ordered to not undertake any  stressful activity to prevent any further 'episodes'.

However, our dormancy has been broken by rumours of Caru's resurrection. Earlier this year an elderly but hefty man, wearing a charecteristic false beard and glasses, checked into a small Mumbles hotel using the name Huw Puw Caru. He ordered a quart of port, a drum of rum, a grandee of brandy, and a quarter of porter (plus a sausage roll - for the vitamins he said) to be sent up to his room. His banter and habit of interrupting the desk clerk bamboozled him to the extent that the guest was not asked for a deposit for the room. On his second night’s stay CCTV showed someone of the guest's height and build raiding the bar. Only single malt Welsh malt whisky and the one bottle of decent vintage wine was snaffled. Later the guest was seen leaving (without settling the bill) reciting nonsense verse from a book. He did not return.

Caru has not been seen since his well publicised disappearance on a country walk in 1967, though his body has never been found. He would be 143 years old now. However if anybody is capable of self induced suspended animation it would be Huw Puw Caru - he was rumoured to have had a Tibetan monk stay with him for a year in the 1920s who taught him many mystical practices. One of these was to be able to drink a bottle of gin and still be able to balance a half crown on his nose. He earned more from that trick than he did from his writings during his lifetime.

The Foundation is well aware that this may be an impostor, but if so he has captured Caru’s personality to a T. Meanwhile we await reports further incidents, and will visit the local libraries of Wales to peruse the newspapers from the last few years for any suspicious reports. It is inconceivable that an appearance by Caru would not warrant at least a paragraph or two. Hopefully we can track him down, and put him to work unravelling his notes suitable for publication!