VIDEO: Alleged chupacabras body from Cuba.

Another dead dog?

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Gerry Anderson (1929-2012)

DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot at the Crypto Crew, and Benny's Blog

Doing things a little differently today:

New at the Crypto Crew:
http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2012/12/comparison-of-different-bigfoot.html
And new on Benny's Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/nyoka-jungle-girl.html

CRYPTOLINK: Champ: Hook, line and sinker

WHITEHALL — Robert Bartholomew admits it. He really, really wanted to believe that there is a sea monster lurking in Lake Champlain named Champ.

Bartholomew grew up in Whitehall on the lake's southern shore, worked as a radio reporter in Glens Falls and Albany and spent most of his life gathering boxes of material on the possibly prehistoric creature of the North Country that scores of people claim to have glimpsed over the past century.

Now, Bartholomew's long investigation and endless fascination has resulted in a book, "The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster," published in December by SUNY Press.

It's a full-fledged biography of perhaps the second-most famous sea monster in the world after Nessie, the Loch Ness monster.

Bartholomew approaches his subject with the skepticism of an investigative reporter. He debunks and exposes hoaxes as much as he chronicles evidence of the elusive serpentine creature described as having a long, humped back and a horse-like head.

His lively and readable account starts out by puncturing the myth that Samuel de Champlain spotted Champ in 1609. He describes the egos and obsessions of numerous serpent hunters across the decades. He also lays out an almost willful complicity in pumping up reports of Champ sightings among boosterish local journalists, over-eager chambers of commerce leaders and well-meaning lake residents.

Read on...

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.

• Miracle owl survives head-on collision with pickup...
• Annual bird count gives scientists climate change 

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

As you have probably noticed, we are running stupidly late today. Is this because we don't care and have been sitting around in a lackadaisical fashion doing now't? Of course not. How could you THINK such a thing? It is merely that Corinna and I have been procrastinating a trip into Bideford to do some groceriestuff for several days now, and Prudence wouldn't let us procrastinate any further. She had run out of dog food, mother had run out of nuts and I had run out of brandy. Desperate measures needed to be taken. So we took them. (But we wanted to do it in daylight, so we are running hours late)

 

We say goodbye to Ray Collins
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-ray-collins-1936-2012.html

 

Classic Rock have announced their albums of the year -= and look who is at #28
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/classic-rock-albums-of-year.html

 

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html

 

Martin Stephenson is singing today's Gonzo Track of the Day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-martin.html

 

An insightful Chris Thompson interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-chris-thompson-interview.html

 

A roundup of Atkins/May stuff
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-lotsa-atkinsmay-stuff.html

 

*  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 loudly 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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

*  Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures, 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, which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cat?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2003 Bob Monkhouse died. Monkhouse, as well as being a rather good comedian, scriptwriter and quiz show host of great renown, was an obsessive recorder of television. Monkhouse had owned television recording equipment before it was even available to the public and it is thought that in his vast uncatalogued archives there may be several lost films and tv episodes including lost episodes of Doctor Who.

And now the news:

Some in Congress oppose wider ban on big snakes – ...

Whale washed ashore in New York

China: Shark Tank Explodes At Shopping Centre

First Goat Genome Sets a Good Example for Facilita...

Tanzania to withdraw proposal for ivory sale

TSA Opens New Turtle and Tortoise Facilities in My...

Army worms invade Zambian maize fields

Ice Seals Get Endangered Species Protection

The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse, a documentary about his vast collection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tooDIHN6o2o