CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 05/03/13

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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...

Friday, May 03, 2013

GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE VIDEO (Via Richard Freeman)

CRYPTOLINK: The paw was from a bear

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.

LAKEVILLE —

Big foot find isn’t Bigfoot: It’s a bear

It’s not a man. It’s not Bigfoot. The mysterious remains found last month in Lakeville are from a black bear. Police Chief Frank Alvilhiera said the thought that a Bigfoot could be lurking in the woods did excite some people. Since the 7-inch paw turned up, Alvilhiera has fielded media calls from the “Animal Planet” and as far away as Florida.

Bigfoot, also known as “sasquatch,” is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests in North America.

Read on...

CRYPTOLINK: Shipley man to show Loch Ness Monster footage

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.

Gordon Holmes is putting on an exhibition about the Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness Monster hunter Gordon Holmes is holding an exhibition on his astonishing efforts to find the mythical beast in celebration of Nessie’s 80th birthday existence.

And it will include his world-famous footage of a mysterious aquatic shape which he filmed moving through the loch in 2007.

Cryptozoologist Mr Holmes, ofShipley, has put together film and sonar studies from more than 14 research trips to create a two-week exhibition at Shipley Library from next week.

“It opens on May 2 – which is the 80th anniversary of the first mention in print of there being a monster in the Loch,” said retired Bradford University science technician Mr Holmes.

The amazing film was made when he was using sound recording equipment to listen for evidence of the creature.

He said: “It was around 9.50pm but the sun was still shining. I was about to set off for my campsite when I suddenly spotted something moving in the water and so I dashed to get my video camera.

“It took about 30 seconds to spot it again but I managed to pick it up again.

“It was very black and was travelling about six miles an hour. It seemed to be just breaking the surface,” Mr Holmes said at the time of his discovery.

Read on...

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:

Monster Files - Reviewed — Early reviews of Nick's forthcoming book...
Talking of Bigfoot — An intriguingly different Sasquatch encounter...
Concealed Creatures and Caverns — Is there an entire ecosystem, including nefarious entities, existing beneath the Earth's surface?

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS A LITTLE STRANGE

I was ill yesterday and spent most of the day in bed. I am a little better today, but still pretty wobbly, so I am not sure how much I shall actually achieve today. Thank you for your forebearance. Normal service will be resumed.....eventually

Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Ravi Coltrane
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-ravi-coltrane.html

A story featuring Robin Williamson and a penny whistle
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/robin-williamson-and-penny-whistle.html

A nice article about Mr Averell
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/mr-averells-gridlock-set-for-may-14.html

An Annie Haslam interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/annie-haslam-interview.html

This week at Rock's Back Pages
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/this-week-at-rocks-back-pages.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 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 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) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 cats?

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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.

TURNDITCH: Dead buzzard had its beak bound