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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: MONSTER SHOT IN GALWAY PART TWO


Bob Skinner kindly passed on to me the conclusion to the “sea monster” story from Galway in 1935 that I blogged about two weeks (-ish) ago.

Western Morning News May 7th 1935 p. 9

SEA MONSTER

Fifty-Feet Galway Fish A Basking Shark

From Our Own Correspondent

Galway, Monday.

In the opinion of Professor Dinan, of University College, Galway, the 50ft long sea-monster which was killed on Saturday in Galway Bay is an extraordinary species of basking shark.

The professor accompanied a “Western Morning News” representative to Mutton Island Lighthouse to-day and when the tide had ebbed was able to get a closer view of the creature, which was on a shelf of rock.

He said that the oil was valuable and there sometimes a hundred gallons, worth from £50 to £100. The last record of a basking shark in Galway Bay was in 1922. Efforts are being made to tow the giant shark to the docks for exhibition. (1)

Bob added the following note: 'Basically same story in Nottingham Evening Post 7 May 1935 p. 9 Monster A Basking Shark. Western Daily Press 7 May 1935 p.13  50-Feet Long Sea Monster Turns Out To Be A Basking Shark'


1. Western Morning News March 7th 1935. 
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TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012, Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.


  • NEWSLINK: Tiger spotting
  • SIGHTING USA: Rhode Island cougar
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    KARL SHUKER: IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TIGER-MEN AND WERE-TIGERS

    Here is another appetiser for my forthcoming book Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2012):

    The tiger is such a spectacular, awe-inspiring creature that we should not be surprised to discover that it has inspired legends of some truly extraordinary entities in which tigers and other species, notably humans, have become inextricably interwoven.

    Read on...
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    DALE DRINNON: Moha-moha, Cedar and Willow, Benny's Blog


    New on Frontiers of Zoology, first of two short features by Scott Mardis centering on suggested re-evaluations of some "Classic" evidence as representing Plesiosaurs.
    http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/11/alternative-moha-moha-by-scott-mardis.html
     
     Next comes a MicMac Petroglyph of a "Horned Serpent"
    New at Cedar and Willow
    Posting on a side issue that had also come up recently
    http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-note-on-captain-action.html
     
    And New on Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:
     
    Best Wishes, Dale D.
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    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)

    In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.




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    I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

    We are in the midst of a plethora of annoying computer issues. I won't bore you with them because I have only the vaguest idea of what BIOS actually means, and even less ides of why it needs to be updated. However, this is all stuff which needs to be done so I guess I have to grit my teeth and get on with it. On more pleasant matters, we went down to the estuary yesterday, and the winter waders are back, as well as a bigger flock of shelduck than last year. A mixture of that and 'The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus' on BBC iPlayermeans that life isn't as bad as it could have been..

    An interesting article about the life of Jefferson Starship's Paul Kantner

    I know it is off topic, but there is some interesting Roger Waters news from those jolly nice people at Neptune Pink Floyd

    It is Thanksgiving, and Paul McCartney is campaigning for turkeys

    Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet

    Michael Des Barres and band play 'Hot and sticky' in rehearsal

    This is something I wish that I had done - ask Rick Wakeman about his top 10 prog albums

    The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
     
    The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

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    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today



    On this day in 1877 Thomas Edison announced the invention of the worlds first device that could record and replay sound; the phonograph.
    And now the news:

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    • One of the first people to see the potential of the phonograph was P.T. Barnum, who recorded his voice so that future generations would be able to hear how he sounded, here is one of his recordings:
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