RICHARD HAS MADE IT INTO 'THE SUN' (Page Three, no less)

Today's Page Three Stunna is perky Richard Freeman (43) whose hobbies include drinking, science fiction, shrimping, more drinking, wearing frilly shirts, being the Dark Lord of Gothdom, and drinking. Oh, by the way, he also hunts mystery animals in his spare time. Phooaaar....

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CRYPTOLINK: 'Yeti is real': Holiday picture of footprint is proof that Bigfoot exists claims climber

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. 

Mike Rees snapped the 'Yeti footprint' while climbing Everest [SWNS]

Intrepid Mike Rees, 73, innocently took the picture while trekking in the Himalayas after his wife spotted the imprint and pointed it out as "something interesting".

But it was not until he got home and began to read books on Everest that he noticed the footprint exactly matched one discovered by a team of explorers six decades ago.

It is the same size and shape as the one pictured in 1951 and was found in the same remote region.

The retired computer engineer has gone public with his evidence after boffins last week claimed to have solved the mystery of the Yeti.

Mike, who has been trekking in Nepal four times, said: "It didn't really register with us at all what we had taken a picture of, my wife just thought it was something interesting.

"It wasn't until we got home and developed the film that we realised what it could be.

"We got books on Everest and they all contained the stories about the Yeti, the closer we looked we just thought 'wow' our photo looks exactly the same as that footprint.

The 1951 footprint in comparison to the photo taken by Mike Rees [SWNS]

"I compared the two closely and it had to be the same, it's the same size and shape, there's no doubting it, it looks almost identical." Mike and wife Joyce, 69, were on their second trek to the stunning area in 2006 when they made the discovery.

They were trekking in the Khumbu region of the Himalayas, near the village of Machermo, when they spotted the footprint

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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 took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

• Increase in US woodpecker populations linked to fe...
• Birds On Repeat: Do Birdwatchers Playbacks Hurt Fo...
• Blind chicken brought back to life

KARL SHUKER: The Missing Yeti Mummies

Karl Shuker investigates the mystery of the missing yeti mummies.

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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 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.



AUSTRALIAN SIGHTINGS: Australian Big Cats: HUGE bl...

DALE DRINNON: Aggressive bigfoot, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs, Cedar & Willow

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-crypto-crew-hunter-encounters.html

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/10/410-meter-asteroid-may-collide-with.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-atlantean-pre-sanscrit.html

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/10/anti-zombie-assault-squad-part-3.html

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/10/anti-zombie-assault-squad-part-5.html

New at Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/magic-agent-legion-of-darkness.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-witness-john-sheldon-man-who-failed.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/superteen-betty-cooper-superteen.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GOES TO WEST BROMWICH

The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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And so another week begins. The weekend was enjoyable because Mike Davis and I were cooking on gas and finished three new songs. Meanwhile, Richard is preparing for the CFZ Australia expedition to Tasmania in a week's time. Graham is still on holiday with his mother and sister, and we still have no car. I would like to apologise to Barbara Dickson - we had planned to go as her guests to Yeovil last week to see her show, but our current transport-less state precluded this. Sad but true.

However, we are getting a hire car and travelling to Manchester on Thursday. We will be meeting up with the lovely Miss Crystal Grenade, and later going to see Peter Gabriel (hopefully visiting the skeleton of Maharajah the elephant, and The Manchester Moth in the Natural History Museum along the line). What an exciting life we live....

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

Today's Track of the Day is by John Shuttleworth
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john.html

Three new songs from Mike Davis
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/three-new-songs-from-mike-davis.html

CSN: A welcome feeling of déjà vu as legends carry on
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-welcome-feeling-of-deja-vu-as-legends.html

Grace Slick – An American Treasure
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/grace-slick-american-treasure.html

Michael Des Barres stars in Zappa classic
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/michael-des-barres-stars-in-zappa.html

A conversation with pioneer of rock culture Eric Burdon -- The Existential Truth of Rock and Roll
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-conversation-with-pioneer-of-rock.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: www.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 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?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1966 144 people (mostly primary school pupils) were killed in the Aberfan disaster. The coal board had been happily dumping huge soil tips above springs overlooking Aberfan and eventually these gave way, sending an avalanche of mining debris towards the local primary school, burying it and everyone inside. Now you could argue that the government-run coal board might have done this by accident or incompetence but the fact that Westminister went on to bill the charity set up to provide a memorial and compensation for the victims for the removal of other dangerous spoil heaps in the area (an act that has been ruled as unlawful now) shows exactly what the government and the coal board's attitude was.

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A short documentary from near the time of the disaster:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/aberfan-valley-of-sorrow