Tuesday, October 08, 2013
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
CRYPTOLINK: 2013 Loch Ness Monster 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 (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. This post, however, is particularly interesting and the author should be congratulated...
CRYPTOLINK: 'Bigfoot' filmed in remote Canadian woods
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 (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. This post, however, is particularly interesting and the author should be congratulated...
Could there be a creature lurking in the woods ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Donar Reiskoffer
A new video has appeared online that claims to show evidence of a hominid creature lurking in the forest.
The footage was recorded by a man referred to only by his first name, Jim, who has been seeking evidence of the creature since 1996. The video was published around a week ago and was filmed in a ravine where he'd been searching an area of woodland with a camera in the hope of catching a glimpse of his target.
The footage begins with Jim creating a loud wood knock and then venturing in to the trees to look for any activity. After a few minutes he comes across a creature partially obscured by the foliage and records it for a while before it moves away. In the video caption he describes the creature as being approximately 7ft tall and weighing 500lbs.
"Upon reflection on the chain of events , I'm certain that this individual both heard me earlier and knew of my presence and possibly my location directly behind it," he wrote. "I've returned to the area several times and did not notice any obvious signs of it's return , however it's return is not ruled out."
The footage has, unsurprisingly, attracted a large amount of skepticism. Critics argue that the creature in the video could simply be a man in a suit and that the whole thing was staged.
Read on...
Could there be a creature lurking in the woods ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Donar Reiskoffer
The footage was recorded by a man referred to only by his first name, Jim, who has been seeking evidence of the creature since 1996. The video was published around a week ago and was filmed in a ravine where he'd been searching an area of woodland with a camera in the hope of catching a glimpse of his target.
The footage begins with Jim creating a loud wood knock and then venturing in to the trees to look for any activity. After a few minutes he comes across a creature partially obscured by the foliage and records it for a while before it moves away. In the video caption he describes the creature as being approximately 7ft tall and weighing 500lbs.
"Upon reflection on the chain of events , I'm certain that this individual both heard me earlier and knew of my presence and possibly my location directly behind it," he wrote. "I've returned to the area several times and did not notice any obvious signs of it's return , however it's return is not ruled out."
The footage has, unsurprisingly, attracted a large amount of skepticism. Critics argue that the creature in the video could simply be a man in a suit and that the whole thing was staged.
Read on...
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 are 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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS MILDLY CURIOUS
The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I have another interesting interview lined
up for this afternoon - Patrick Barkham, the author of 'The Butterfly Isles'
probably my favourite book of the past few years. For those of you who haven't
read it, it takes one of my favourite literary genres of about a century ago
(the amateur naturalist's notebook/diary) and updates it to the 21st Century
with all the trials and tribulations of rubbish girlfriends, unreliable mobile
phones and facebook, that this entails. Excellent!
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet.
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_7.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_7.html
Today's Track of the Day is by Michael Des
Barres
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-michael-des.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-michael-des.html
Grouplove Talk Recording Album in Legendary Yes
Guitarist's House
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/grouplove-talk-recording-album-in.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/grouplove-talk-recording-album-in.html
Hawkwind Postpones Logan Square Auditorium Show,
U.S. Tour
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/hawkwind-postpones-logan-square.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/hawkwind-postpones-logan-square.html
The 'Caped Crusader' Pays a Warm Tribute to Chuck
Smith
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-caped-crusader-pays-warm-tribute-to.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-caped-crusader-pays-warm-tribute-to.html
Belgian Mick Abrahams review
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/belgian-mick-abrahams-review-translated.html
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/belgian-mick-abrahams-review-translated.html
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See you tomorrow...
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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: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
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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 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From CFZ Canada:
- 5 Cryptids Cooler than We Have in Canada — The Monkey Man of India and four others...
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1943 the actor Chevy Chase was born. Chase has stared in a number of
American comic films (mostly in the 80s and early 90s because Hollywood no
longer knows how to make a comedy that is funny but not animated) which have
involved Fortean subjects like time travel, invisibility and giants. He was also
one third of the Three Amigos, which is one of the funniest American films ever
made.
And now
the news:
Dear
little buttercup: