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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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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

CRYPTOLINK: I DID see Nessie. I just forgot my camera: Monster hunter gutted after missing opportunity

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. 

DEDICATION: Steve is on the loch every dayDEDICATION: Steve is on the loch every day [CATERS]
"Ever since I have dedicated my life to seeing Nessie again and this time I am ready with my camera. For the past 23 years Steve has carefully studied the waters of the Loch in the hope of catching a glimpse of his beloved Nessie.
But Steve couldn't believe his eyes when he caught a glimpse of Nessie after just 18 months of living on the banks of Loch Ness.
Steve said: "I was sitting on the shore near the Fort Augustus end of the Loch when something went past the bay, through the water.
"It was like a torpedo shot and it had some weight behind it, hitting through the waves.
"Nothing in Loch Ness could create a disturbance like that – apart from Nessie. "I just sat there in amazement. It was the moment I had always been waiting for and I am kicking myself for not taking a photo.
"Since then I have been by the Loch with my camera poised, every day, come rain or shine. I won't let an opportunity like that pass me by again."

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



BIGFOOT: The Beast of Kentucky: 04/14/14
On 04/13/2014, the 3 primary investigators returned to the Trimble County habitation area to continue our investigation. Thomas Shay and Rodney 

bigfoot | The PPJ Gazette
"The Bigfoot Chronicles": The field notes of Mike Palecek from years of walking in the woods of Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota in search of Bigfoot

Bigfoot Evidence: Listen: Sasquatch Chronicles - Man Haunted By Bigfoot Since 14 Years-Old
I would take Trapper and the AIMS team over finding bigfoot, AIMS hunit bigfoot with guns and traps, Finding Bigfoot just knockin and screamin in the ...

Marijuana and Bigfoot - Does Bigfoot Like a Big Fatty? | The Crypto Crew
Just turn on the TV, get on the internet or pick up a newspaper and you'll see marijuana is on the mind of a lot of people, but is it on the mind of Bigfoot

Listen: we Knock, they Knock, bigfoot is here! | BigfootBlogger.Com
Rock & Knock · Huge Bigfoot footprints in snow (North Branch, Minnesota) · Drew Trafton hunts for Bigfoot in North Dakota, Minnesota · Sasquatch

Bigfoot Investigation Tree knocking gone bad | BigfootBlogger.Com
Roger Ebert says: “Unlike any Bigfoot movie you have ever imagined.” New York Times (CRITICS' PICK): “Pleasurably eccentric… the kind of ...

Bigfoot Screams Heard At Sheep Creep Northport, Wa. | BigfootBlogger.Com
A young boy grew up in the shadow of Mount Rainier Washington. His life during the 1960's and 70's was filled with the normal activities of life on a

Bigfoot Evidence: Bigfoot Locomotion: Walk Like a Bigfoot
Bigfoot Evidence Matt K.
One of the first studies of bigfoot was based on their locomotion according to the famous images taken in the Patterson Gimlin film. Since then many 

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. 





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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    Karl Shuker assesses a very curious photograph of an even more curious one-legged snake.

    Read on...

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRESTIDIGITATES

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
     
    Yesterday was a horrible day. One of the more idiotic people who works in my office managed to delete a file that had cost over £300 in wages, and three weeks work by up to three people. And it is irrecoverable. The culprit was...........me! There is absolutely no excuse; it was just me being idiotic, and nobody else's fault at all. But it has caused an immense amount of trouble and cost a lot of work, effort and money. I wouldn't cut anyone else any slack for being so asininely stupid, so I am not going to cut myself any. I will be standing in the corner of the potato shed wearing a dunce's hat for the rest of the day.
     
    On a lighter note, any of you who read our news item yesterday about Michael Des Barres receiving death threats, will be pleased to know that I IMd him yesterday; he is OK, and that the police have caught the woman responsible...
     
     
     
     
     
     
    RICK WAKEMAN: 'How many people can I fit on the stage at once?'
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-many-people-can-i-fit-on-stage-at.html
     
    The new issue of Gonzo Weekly is out now. It features - amongst other things - Julian Lennon, Clepsydra, Michael Des Barres, Sex Gang Children, Auburn, The Dalai lama, Keith Levene, The Psychedelic Warlords, Goldfrapp, Barbara Dickson, Auburn and the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and Gilbert's potoroos (OK, no ground dwelling marsupials that look like pointy nosed guinea pigs, 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!!!
     
     
    But I have an update for you all: The cover story is about the triumphant return of Swiss prog band Clepsydra last weekend. But look what I have found: If you look on YouTube there is actually some footage of last weekend's gig. 
     
     
    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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    Director: Centre for Fortean Zoology
    Director: CFZ Publishing Group
    Editor: Animals & Men
    Editor: Still on the track
    Editor: Gonzo Daily (Music and More)
    Editor: Gonzo Weekly magazine
    Presenter: On the Track (Of Unknown Animals)
     
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    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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

    On this day in 1452 Leonardo Da Vinci was born. Leonardo was one of the most accomplished artists, sculptors, architects and inventors or the renaissance.
    And now the news:

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  • Horrible Histories with some Leonardo facts:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UVfIN2NM4E