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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...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

WEIRD WEEKEND 2014

Remember kids under 16 (no matter how much they consider themselves to be sophisticated adults, they’re still kids to me) get in for free

If you get there early enough there is free alcohol on my lawn on the Thursday night and because we are worried about childhood obesity we are doing our best to help; there is a cake eating competition for the kids on Saturday afternoon.

If you don’t take advantage of this fantastic offer you are even madder than I am...
All sorts of exciting things are happening at the Weird Weekend this year.  And whereas a lot of the things that you all enjoy will remain the same there have been some changes.  The first, and biggest, is that after having done the food almost since we started holding the event in Woolsery, and raised a lot of money for the village children’s charities, Sharon Bennett and her friends have stepped down.  This is nothing to do with the CFZ and we are all still friends, but is to do with internal village politics with which I have no intention of getting involved.

I hope that Sharon and Simon will still come to the cocktail party.  They have both sent their good wishes, not just for the event, but to all the people with whom they have made friends over the past years.

The food over the weekend is now being done by The Small School in Hartland.  The Small School has a long tradition of providing organic catering services.  The school itself is a charity, providing a unique independent education for 11-16 year olds, attracting many who have been failed by the mainstream education system or require an alternative approach to their learning.  The school thrives on creating a sense of community among all who are involved and has proved to be an extremely supportive environment for children and adults.

We also have the return of an old friend of us all, the legendary Hunt Emerson, probably Britain’s leading underground cartoonist of the last half century.  He has been to the Weird Weekend a couple of times, either as a punter or as my personal guest, but this time he is presenting an exhibition about Fortean themes in alternative comics. Remember, he has been Fortean Times’ house cartoonist for more years than I care to remember.

Another completely new attraction is live music from the inimitable Miss Crystal Grenade who channels the zeitgeist of her alter ego – an existentialist Victorian artist, and freak show performer with a peculiarly deformed hand…

The year is 1892, the place Victorian England. Dim gaslamps lend a cobwebbed ale house a sepia glow. The sound is dull murmurs from blunt mouths, the scent unwashed sweat and sawdust. In the back room of the bar, a strange performance is unfolding, one of horror and beauty as yet to come...
Singer, pianist, freak show personality and melancholic muse, Crystal is a woman wading through existentialist dreams whilst living hand to mouth.

Born with a rare hand deformity that statistically makes her one in a million and logistically means a life of peculiar charm, Crystal scrapes a living through song and chance. In a world where the past is revoked in all its putrid glory, she clings to piano keys with all seven lucky fingers whilst opening the emotional floodgates. A voice of gentle pain or unapologetic rage, her honesty shall ever prevail. Join her in the search for salvation.
 
Tickets for this year's Weird Weekend are now on sale. So far confirmed for this year's event are:

Nigel Mortimer: Opening Portals
Ronan Coghlan: Bogus Bibles
Lee Walker: Urban Legends of Liverpool
Lars Thomas: Tales from the CFZ Laboratory
Jon and Richard: Introduction to Cryptozoology
Nick Wadham: Alien Abductions
Tony Whitehead (RSPB): O.O.P birds
Carl Marshall: Out of Place animals at Stratford Butterfly Park
Judge Smith: Survival after death
John Higgs: Chaos, Magick, and the band who burned a million quid
Richard Freeman: Tasmania 2013 Expedition Report
Matt Salusbury: Baron Rothschild's Deinotherium caper
C.J. Stone: a MODERN King Arthur
Results of nature walk (Lars/Nick)
Ronan Coghlan: The Amphibians from Outer Space
Jon Downes: Keynote Speech

PLUS
Miss Crystal Grenade
The CFZ Awards
Silas Hawkins
Raffle
Kids Nature walk with Lars and Nick
Kids Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Speaker's Dinner at the Community Centre

and of course:
The Tunnel of Goats
The event takes place from the 15-17 August this year in North Devon. Find out more HERE.Tickets are available at a special discount price of £20/head for the whole weekend as long as you buy them in advance. Buy online HERE.
The tickets for this year's event are selling, slowly but surely. However, it would be much better for my blood pressure if they sold a little faster. So, ladies and gentlemen; do your bit to save my arteries...
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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Bigfoot HOAX In Pennsylvania? Tipster Says 'Two Bigfoots' Were Tree Stump
Hiker John Stoneman says he caught two Bigfoots -- or at least two massive creatures -- on camera in Pennsylvania several weeks ago. A tipster tells

Annual Bigfoot Convention in Ohio Attracts Hundreds of People
Bigfoot trackers and enthusiasts gathered at the annual Salt Fork Lodge & Convention Center for the 26th annual Ohio Bigfoot Convention over the ...

Sasquatch Week: Curse of Bigfoot - The Cinema Snob
04/28/2014. 15 Comments. Sasquatch Week has begun! Could things only go up from Curse of Bigfoot, or is the worst yet to come?

Willow Creek Gets DVD Release
Bigfoot horror Willow Creek is getting a DVD release on May 26th from Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (God Bless ...

Bigfoot Evidence: Stacy Brown Jr. Shows-Off Bigfoot DNA Dart Gun
Stacy Brown Jr. calls this the "show stopper". The winner of the SpikeTV $10 Million Bigfoot Bounty show thinks he has the ultimate tool to end the 

Sasquatch Lecture - Eyewitness Drawings of Bigfoot | Bigfoot Research News - Blogger
Wildlife Biologist John Bindernagel gives a presentation on the different eyewitness descriptions of Bigfoot. John has been studying the Sasquatch for ...

BIGFOOT'S bLOG: 04/29/14
The guy is lost in the woods and dreaming paranoid fantasies of massacres and flowing bloody streams with Bigfoot corpses piled high. Absurd.
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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 are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 


The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 
  • NEWSLINK: Snow leopard too full to walk after eati...
  • NEWSLINK: Tiger-part adverts declining

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    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


    What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

     Well, everything actually!

     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. 
  • Turtle Dove Trap Found & Hunter threatens to kill ...
  • Eagle crashes into boat shrink wrap on Interstate
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Approves $3.6 Milli...
  • Rise in discovery of dead raptors in the Highlands...
  • How to Stop Solar-Power Plants From Incinerating B...
  • Yurok tribe works to protect a raptor it reveres: ...
  • Long-extinct elephant bird comes alive in book

  • Conservation agents narrow search for goose killer...
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    IT'S THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

    The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
    I got up unfeasibly early (for me) today, and at 10:00 I telephone Patrick Campbell-Lyons of the original Nirvana at his home in Greece. We had a most enjoyable conversation, and the resulting interview will appear soon in Gonzo Weekly. But that's not all. I have been a busy little beaver over the last 24 hours, and also interviewed David and Adam from XNA, and Kev from The Groundhogs, all of whom are really sweet people and a pleasure to talk to. This week I am eagerly awaiting a clutch of eggs from Pleurodeles waltl (the Spanish sharp-ribbed newt), a species of which I intend to found a dynasty in our newly refurbished and rather swish looking conservatory. This afternoon mark Raines comes over again to tend the lawn, and I don my conceptual mortarboard and once again tutor Jessica for her English Lit GCSE. No peace for the wicked...
    Rick Wakeman review – swept up by sheer, ludicrous ambition
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/rick-wakeman-review-swept-up-by-sheer.html
    And just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (which can be read at www.gonzoweekly.com), It features - amongst other things - Hawkwind's Hawkeaster weekend in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Corky Laing of Mountain, and Gary Green of Gentle Giant, Steve Ignorant, the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and giant otter shrews (OK, no Central African insectivores which feed largely on freshwater crabs, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
    The full list of artists covered this time is: Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Libertines, Damon Albarn, Morrisey, Paul McCartney, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Barbara Dickson, Circulus, Iona, Merrell Fankhauser, Karnataka, Genre Peak, Steve Hackett, Steve Ignorant, Asia, Mick Abrahams, Clearlight, John Greaves, Hugh Hopper, Alain Blesing, Galahad, Rick Wakeman, Andy Colquhoun, The Prog Collective, Clepsydra, The Deviants, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Captain Beefheart, Pink Fairies, Corky Laing, Three Friends, Gentle Giant, Justin Beiber, One Direction, The Beatles, Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, Abba, Elegant Simplicity, Epica, The Fierce and the Dead, Generation Kill, Moonsorrow
    These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
    To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
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    *  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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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    Jonathan Downes,
    Director: Centre for Fortean Zoology
    Director: CFZ Publishing Group
    Editor: Animals & Men
    Editor: Gonzo Weekly magazine
    Editor: Still on the track
    Editor: CFZ Blog Network
    Editor: Gonzo Daily (Music and More)
    Presenter: On the Track (Of Unknown Animals)
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    Bideford, North Devon
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    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

    Yesterday’s News Today
    http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

     On this day in 1943 a British submarine planted the body of a homeless man off the coast of Spain. The body had been dressed to look like a British Intelligence Officer and had documents on his person that, when decoded, stated that the Allies were planning to invade the continent in a completely different place than where they landed on D-Day. The Axis forces fell for the deception and led the bulk of their forces away from the Allies true landing place in Normandy, which saved thousands of lives on both sides.
    And now the news:
  • Chinese retailer removes ivory from its shelves
  • Naked mole rats and the secret to longevity
  • How the koala retrovirus genome evolved
  • Tiger-part adverts declining
  • 18 new species of molluscs identified
  • Support claimed for Scottish beaver reintroduction...
  • European Bison to Be Released into Wild
  • More coral babies staying at home on future reefs

  • Wildlife Aid provides free online resource for pri...
    • The film “The Man Who Never Was” was loosely based on the subterfuge (known by the codename “Operation Mincemeat”) here is the film's trailer:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXyFkINMcI8
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    Tuesday, April 29, 2014

    CFZ NEWSLETTER #5

    The long awaited weekly newsletter from the
    Centre for Fortean Zoology
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    #5 - April 28th 2014
    Since 1999 we have been collecting addresses for our mailing list, and occasionally sending out newsletters. We always meant to do them regularly, but life - as it has a habit of doing - got in the way. Now, finally we are doing what we should have done a long time ago. You are receiving this because at one point or other you opted in to our NotifyList account. If you do not wish to receive them for any reason you can unsubscribe at the bottom of this page...
    Welcome to issue #5.  I am not exactly sure what I can write in this little text box today; filing, answering the telephone, spreadsheets and such like are not really interesting to anyone - including me!  But as you can see below, things are moving apace in various other areas of the CFZ.  And On the Track got finished eventually, although at one point I thought I was going to get completely suffocated by two eager extras (Pru and Archie) whilst trying to deliver the monthly news on vagrants (vagrant birds that is).
    The CFZ Newsletter is edited by Corinna Downes, administratrix supreme, and the wife of the ringmaster of the CFZ Circus.
    NEWT CONUNDRUM
    In all the years I have lived in North Devon I have only come across one species of newt – the palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus).  However, according to the species distribution maps, Woolsery should be within the range for the smooth newt (L.vulgaris).  A couple of years ago, however, Jess the elder found a small, and very dead newt in the road outside our house.  It appeared to be a smooth newt.

    This weekend, the ever resourceful Charlotte, whilst moving stones around our waterfall, found this newt.  I can’t tell whether it is a female helveticus or a vulgaris of indeterminate gender (probably female).  Is there anyone out there who can help me? (I’m thinking Lars, or possible Darren)

    And while you’re at it, the lovely Andrea has just come up with a very good question: What does palmate mean?
     
    BIGFOOT BLURB
    Both an advantage and a disadvantage of the internet, as far as being a journalist who chronicles events in the world of cryptozoology, is the sheer volume of information available.  And when a particular subject grabs the attention of newspaper editors across the world, and the great unwashed who read them, this can get almost overwhelming.  This is what has happened in the world of Bigfoot in the last six months.

    Bigfoot is now a major media property. It is the subject of several fatuous reality television programmes and – as such – has spawned a ridiculous amount of newspaper coverage.

    This is why, a few weeks ago, instead of posting Bigfoot stories as ‘CRYPTOLINKS’ we have been posting daily ‘BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF’ daily digests, and dealing with the build up of Bigfoot news that way.

    However, something which has become particularly noticeable in the last couple of weeks is that since the egregious Rick Dyer finally came out and admitted that his Bigfoot corpse is a hoax (something that no one with more than a few brain cells to rub together had actually doubted for a minute).

    However, the number of daily news stories from newspapers from around the world has visibly dropped off.  I have a sneaking suspicion that this tells us more about the brain cell quotient of those whom society has deemed responsible for making and changing the opinions of the people. Scary huh?
    Tickets for this year's Weird Weekend are now on sale. So far confirmed for this year's event are:

    Nigel Mortimer: Opening Portals
    Ronan Coghlan: Bogus Bibles
    Lee Walker: Urban Legends of Liverpool
    Lars Thomas: Tales from the CFZ Laboratory
    Jon and Richard: Introduction to Cryptozoology
    Nick Wadham: Alien Abductions
    Tony Whitehead (RSPB): O.O.P birds
    Carl Marshall: Out of Place animals at Stratford Butterfly Park
    Judge Smith: Survival after death
    John Higgs: Chaos, Magick, and the band who burned a million quid
    Richard Freeman: Tasmania 2013 Expedition Report
    Matt Salusbury: Baron Walter Rothschild's Deinotherium caper
    C.J. Stone: a MODERN King Arthur
    Results of nature walk (Lars/Nick)
    Ronan Coghlan: The Amphibians from Outer Space
    Jon Downes: Keynote Speech

    PLUS
    Miss Crystal Grenade
    The CFZ Awards
    Silas Hawkins
    Raffle
    Kids Nature walk with Lars and Nick
    Kids Mad Hatter's Tea Party
    Speaker's Dinner at the Community Centre

    and of course:
    The Tunnel of Goats
    The event takes place from the 15-7 August this year in North Devon. Find out more HERE.Tickets are available at a special discount price of £20/head for the whole weekend as long as you buy them in advance. Buy online HERE.
    The event takes place from the 15-17 August this year in North Devon. Find out more HERE.Tickets are available at a special discount price of £20/head for the whole weekend as long as you buy them in advance. Buy online HERE.
    The tickets for this year's event are selling, slowly but surely. However, it would be much better for my blood pressure if they sold a little faster. So, ladies and gentlemen; do your bit to save my arteries...
    SO, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE CFZ?
    Over the last week we have been doing quite a lot.
    • Andrea Rider, who has recently started working in the office has been working extremely hard on Volume 2 of George Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures  as has Lizzy Bitakara'mire
    • Steve Rider has been working on the next generation of CFZ e-books
    • Saskia England (the other of our two lovely interns) has, ably assisted by her brother Riley and a young lady called Charlotte Phillipson - who is nearly 12  - been working with Richard and Graham on refurbishing the conservatory. She is doing all the designs and masterminding the work as part of her college course on Animal Management. Its not quite finished but looks bloody good.Charlotte and Graham have also been installing our waterfall into the wildlife pond area.
    • Alexandra Cook is working hard on a project about which we shall remain schtum for the next few days. Gareth Shaw has also been working on this project, and I hope we shall be making an announcement about it soon...
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    CHECK OUT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

    CFZ-USA

    I want to say a big thank you to my old friend and compadre Ronan Coghlan who tirelessly works on the CFZ USA blog, posting daily, and having notched up a whopping 640 posts since he began last October. As might be expected by anyone who knows him, Ronan's take on Transatlantic Cryptozoology is a typically idiosyncratic one, and each day bring more gems.

    Dear Ronan is a very sweet man, and I feel embarrassed that I don't give him more support. However, he realises how little time I have these days, especially with my current heal problems, and he shoulders the burden tirelessly. Thank you old friend.

    And check this out - these are the most recent postings on CFZ-USA showing quite how diverse their coverage is:

  • MOGOLLON MONSTER
  • THE FURRY ONE
  • THE WEE FOLK OF NEW ENGLAND.
  • BIGFOOT AND GIBBON - RELATIVES?
  • THIS DAY IN WEIRD
  • FLORIDA'S MYSTERY CYNICIDE
  • BILLIWHACK MONSTER
  • BIGFOOT FESTIVAL IN WHITEHALL
  • ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
  • THE WOLF-BULL OF PATAGONIA
  • HUECHELITO
  • WOLF WOMAN
  • BIGGER THAN BIGFOOT
  • ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
  • BIPEDAL BLACK CATS
  • AMERICA'S LOST LAND
  • ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
  • WORLD PENGUIN DAY

  • NDE EXPERIENCES OF BLIND
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Paranormal Central Bigfoot Report 4-27-2014 | Art Bell
    Tonight's bigfoot pictures on Dark Matter Radio Network at 5p pdt and 8p edt. ... California Fish & Game Wardens Bigfoot Sightings, Released After His 

    Eastern Bigfoot / Neanderthal Skull Comparison | Science and Technology - Before It's News
    I did an overlay comparison of the face with the famous Neanderthal skull, the Old Man of La Chapelle-Aux-Saints . The fit is unusually close as you ...

    This Rare Photo of a “Dead Bigfoot” is Older Than We Thought - Supernatural UFO
    Stanley sat across from me, leaning in and sipping his coffee. “David, the guy who told me about it, says it was a Bigfoot.”…… Full Article Source

    Bigfoot Evidence: Are Bigfoot Related to Gibbons?
    Bigfoot Evidence ⋅ Matt K.
    People often wonder what bigfoot actually is. Are they more human or ape? Some even believe they may be somehow related to the gibbon, claiming

    MPI Discovers Bigfoot In 'Willow Creek' - - Bloody Disgusting!
    Bobcat Goldthwait has discovered Bigfoot. MPI announced today they will be releasing Goldthwait's found-footage Willow Creek, starring Alexie ...

    Bigfoot Oklahoma: Who Believes in Bigfoot? Excellent Article in Oklahoma Today
    Published back in 2005, but still relevant today with stories from locals. Worth the time to ready if you're interested in Oklahoma Bigfoot. Good read!

    The Honey Island Swamp Monster | Bigfoot Research News - Blogger
    The Honey Island Swamp monster is a legendary Bigfoot-like creature reported to have been seen in the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana since the ...

    Possible Bigfoot Outside Squamish BC Analyzed | Bigfoot Research News
    British Cryptozoologist Simon Hicks has recently analyzed the Squamish Bigfoot Video and has come to the conclusion that it is not a real Bigfoot, but 

    BIGFOOT: The Beast of Kentucky: 04/28/14
    Today 04/28/2014, I received a letter in the mail from a witness, detailing her sighting March 2013, This is what she wrote in her letter to me. Dear Mr.

    Bigfoot Evidence: East Texas Bigfoot Researcher Writes Children's Book
    Bigfoot Evidence ⋅ Matt K.
    and of course the really tough question "Is bigfoot real?" Thanks to bigfoot researcher Michael Mayes, we now have help! "Patty: A Sasquatch Story is ...

    Zack Files 19: The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot by Dan Greenburg - Penguin Books USA
    Zack's first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire 
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS SLEEPY

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
     
    Damon Albarn's new album, the first to be released under his own name, came out this week. And it is a complete gem of well crafted melancholia. Imagine the avant garde end of hiphop mixed with bits of classic soul, bits of folk and all sorts of other odds and sods. Add samples from Lord Buckley, a gospel choir and bits and bobs of West African musical DNA, stir well, and add guest appearances from Natasha "Bat for Lashes" Khan and Brian Eno, and you have the best record of the year so far. An absolute masterpiece.
     
     
     
     
    ‘I was so proud’: The time Yes guitarist Steve Howe played on a Queen record
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/i-was-so-proud-time-yes-guitarist-steve.html
     
     
    “Son of God” Movie Producer and Actress Roma Downey Endorses ASSIST News Service Founder Dan Wooding’s Latest Book “Mary, My Story from Bethlehem to Calvary”
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/son-of-god-movie-producer-and-actress.html
     
    And just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (which can be read at www.gonzoweekly.com), It features - amongst other things - Hawkwind's Hawkeaster weekend in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Corky Laing of Mountain, and Gary Green of Gentle Giant, Steve Ignorant, the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and giant otter shrews (OK, no Central African insectivores which feed largely on freshwater crabs, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
     
    The full list of artists covered this time is: Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Libertines, Damon Albarn, Morrisey, Paul McCartney, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Barbara Dickson, Circulus, Iona, Merrell Fankhauser, Karnataka, Genre Peak, Steve Hackett, Steve Ignorant, Asia, Mick Abrahams, Clearlight, John Greaves, Hugh Hopper, Alain Blesing, Galahad, Rick Wakeman, Andy Colquhoun, The Prog Collective, Clepsydra, The Deviants, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Captain Beefheart, Pink Fairies, Corky Laing, Three Friends, Gentle Giant, Justin Beiber, One Direction, The Beatles, Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, Abba, Elegant Simplicity, Epica, The Fierce and the Dead, Generation Kill, Moonsorrow
     
     
     
    These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
     
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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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    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 are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

    The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 
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    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


    What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

     Well, everything actually!

     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. 

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