CRYPTOLINK: Texas Bigfoot sighting

A word about cryptolinks: We are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. However, I would like to say that Nederland, TX is where Nick Redfern lived a few years back, and I visited him there nearly a decade ago. It is also where I bought the leather jacket I have worn nearly every day since..

PORT NECHES — Chill bumps rise on David Arceneaux’s arms as he looked across Block Bayou at a line of trees about 100 yards away.

“I’m not crazy. I don’t do drugs and I’m not a drinker,” Arceneaux said before telling his tale of seeing not one but two Bigfoot-like creatures huddled together one December morning.

The Nederland native visits Oak Bluff Cemetery about once a month to clean the graves of a friend and a cousin, something he has done for years without incident. But on an overcast, windless day Arceneaux got the fright of his life.

“I heard a blood curdling scream and a lady nearby asked me if I was OK. I told her it wasn’t me,” Arceneaux said as he stood, uneasily, at roughly the same spot where he saw the creatures. “We walked over to the water and looked to the left then straight ahead.”

Read on...

LIZ BITAKARAMIRE: Wrong kind of bird food....

If the horsemeat scandal wasn't bad enough, James Watson, of Yate near Bristol, found the rotting corpse of a bird in his Tesco salad recently. It took 24 hours to get hold of someone at Tesco so James could complain but eventually the store offered James and his wife Jasmine £200 in compensation. The 13cm (5ins) body has been found to be that of a blackcap European warbler.

DALE DRINNON: Globsters, Zana, Benny's Blogs

Today I deal with a classic 'unknown' case that has a more mundane solution, courtesy of 'Marozi,' and I do something more in my own field of expertise, looking at the skull of the son of Zana the Wild Woman to check for Neanderthal anatomy on it; and Benny deals in a couple of pulp Science-fiction stories, a horror comic, a Hollywood review magazine and a classic Marx Brothers movie.

New at the Frontiers  Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/02/tasmanian-globster.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/02/zanas-child-and-old-neanderthal-crosses.html

New at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/abraham-merritt-biography-by-sam.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/horsefeathers-horse-with-two-endings.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-new-movie-magazine-september-1932.html

New at Benny's other blog, The Ominos Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-blind-spot-and-spot-of-life.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/mirror-mirror-on-wall-dr-graves-1967.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

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.

• Reward after Sproatley buzzards shot dead
• Rare birds on the rise
• Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky ...
• Roots of Language in Human and Bird Biology: Genes...

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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.

FEATURELINK: US Air Force possibly responsible for...

FEATURELINK: US Air Force possibly responsible for...

CFZ SIGHTINGS: Big cat photographed in East Peoria...

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

• The Beast-Man That Wasn't — Matt Salusbury on the Tunbridge Wells Bigfoot...
• The Cult of the Moon Beast — Nick meets a black-leather-clad modern-day Sherlock Holmes...

From CFZ Canada:

• All the Ills that Flesh is Heir to — Musings on the subject of cryptozoological diseases...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TAKES CONTROL

Last night David and Jess came round and a few bevvies were consumed. Today? There is actually nothing of importance scheduled for today, so I can just get on with clearing the backlog.It is bloody cold and the rayburn has chosen the worst time to run out of fuel. Never mind, more comes next week and we have plenty of logs!

A Real Exclusive: Part two of our interview with Merrell Fankhauser
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/exclusive-merrell-fankhauser-interview_21.html

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Karnataka
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-karnataka-your.html

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

Golly, Asia featuring John Payne are going to be busy chaps this year
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/link-john-payne-interview.html

More news about Rick Wakeman's forthcoming Gloucester gigs
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-rick-wakeman-gloucester-concert.html

A link to an interesting article on Jefferson Starship
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/link-travel-back-to-1970s-as-jefferson.html

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*  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

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1926 the legendary British actor Kenneth Williams was born. Williams played high profile roles in most of the Carry On films and voiced Willo the Wisp.

And now the news:

Necrophilia the way forwards for some frogs

Endangered sharks return to Bahamas 'home'

New Genus of Crustacean and Five New Species

Sightings soar of supposedly extinct Japanese otte...

Texas: Bigfoot sighting along Neches River? - via ...

Chimps Have Better Short-term Memory Than Humans

Hedgehog population in dramatic decline

Non-native species 'threatening UK'

An episode of Willo the Wisp, enjoy:

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