CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 10/25/13

WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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, October 25, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: Oarfish and earthquakes? Or just irritating?

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.

CRYPTOLINK: Search continues for bigfoot spotted in the NorthState

Tehama Co, Calif. -

Big foot has found a home in Tehama County. And only about 20 miles west of Red Bluff. Ken S., who asked us not to use his last name, says a sasquatch has taken up residence in the woods behind his home in rural Tehama County.

Strange things began happening about 2 weeks ago, starting with two rocks flung over Ken's head from a mysterious source. Then piles of wood were moved around his property, sometimes blocking roads, for no apparent reason.Ken’s house is completely off the grid and his nearest neighbor is over a mile away leading him to believe that it’s not a person’s doing.

He had his doubts until his brother came for a visit and spoke with the Bigfeet.

“He yelped like 'whoop, whoop, whoop' and after about five minutes of the whooping there was two or three whoops that came from here.” Says Ken pointing to the woods behind his house, “and then a few days later they took my couch and dropped it and dragged it 20 feet towards the house.”

After that, Ken called the bigfoot experts at Searchingforbigfoot.com who sent out a team to do a reconnaissance mission.

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:

Exposing the Cattle Mutilators — A new theory from Chris O’Brien...
The Wallaby of the Cemetery — An out-of-place animal in London, England...

From CFZ New Zealand:

Another Encounter with the Canterbury Panther — A new sighting of the elusive black cat...

NICK FLINTOFF: A new theory for the Devil's Footprints

Hi Jon,

Hope you are all well down in Devonshire!

I'm now full time at the National Theatre but do miss my foray into filming with you all. I'm having thoughts about a second documentary about EVP which fascinates me but probably not in your field of expertise.

Somebody posted this on my website about the Devil's Footprints that I thought you may be interested in reading...

The shape fits that of the clasper of a male giant dragonfly-like entity. The clasper is a horseshoe shape appendage located at the end of it’s tail for grasping the female during mating. If the male giant dragonfly is low on energy in cold weather, then it could hop on it’s tail as opposed to walking on it’s legs to save energy. Strange but true? See here for a photo match; (http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6638&d=1380878914)

The very best to you and team, Nick Flintoff.

CRYPTOLINK: The Loch Ness monster, 1934 - a picture from the past

This photograph reporting to be of the Loch Ness monster was published in the Daily Mail newspaper in 1934. It became known as the 'Surgeon's Photograph' after Colonel Wilson, who offered the picture to the paper, refused to have his name associated with it. The image is, in fact of a Woolworth's toy submarine with a sculpted wooden head attached and was made by Chris Spurling. Spurling later confessed that the conspiracy was hatched by his father-in-law, the hunter Marmaduke Wetherell, who was hired by the Mail to find the monster and after faking his own sighting, was publicly humiliated by his employer. He allegedly hatched the elaborate plan to get his revenge on the paper

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/oct/23/photography

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.

Concern mounting for missing rare owl from North Y...

Civil Societies help to protect Amur falcons in Na...

‘Endangered’ Label Restricts Sales of Blue-throate...

Dead Condor Found in Tehachapis Had Rare Upbringin...