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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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Thursday, May 15, 2014

CFZ PEOPLE: Emily Taylor


Yesterday was completely overshadowed by the fact that my beloved niece Emily Taylor was suddenly taken to hospital yesterday. Her condition is comfortable, and she is currently just finished having a scan. I will let everyone know the latest, when I have more news. I 'spoke' to her for a few minutes this morning, and again just now via Facebook and she is quite bright and cheerful, which will not surprise any of you who know her. Remember her, her boyfriend Adam, and her family (Helen, Dan and Jessica) in your thoughts and prayers.
 
God Bless you child.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Untold Tales of Bigfoot: Crossing Paths page 093 | Untold Tales of Bigfoot
That's about as close as Bigfoot gets to telling Scout to shut up. We can see Bigfoot tenderly placing Michael's magnifying glass in the shrine, so we

BIGFOOT: The Beast of Kentucky: 05/14/14
Protocol concerning new investigations in territories other than our area. For clarification purposes, I define Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research 

Shared: Something is Leaving Large Footprints: The Bigfoot Phenomenon | Armchair Bigfooter
Something is Leaving Large Footprints: The Bigfoot Phenomenon ...

Mask associated with sasquatch lore returned to BC First Nation
VANCOUVER - Bigfoot sightings may be elusive, but a sasquatch mask missing for 75 years was easily found after a simple request from a British


Bigfoot Evidence: I'm convinced the Prince Edward Island Bigfoot is not a bird
Many people have mentioned the Prince Edward Island Bigfoot is probably a bird. We beg to differ. Someone just released the full unedited clip of ...

Bigfoot Evidence: Watch This Video Breakdown of Cloaking Bigfoot
ParaBreakdown takes a closer look at the world of cloaking bigfoot. Can bigoot really turn invisible? Phil examines a piece of evidence reportedly 

Cryptomundo » Revisited: Prince Edward Island Bigfoot Video
Cryptomundo Craig Woolheater
Revisited: Prince Edward Island Bigfoot Video. Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 14th, 2014. peibf. Remember this video from 2005


NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)


The famous Scottish monster has swapped Loch Ness for Camden Lock this week as part of the Camden Creates festival....

Watch "Man Claims He Found Loch Ness Monster With... Apple Maps?" Video at Waywire
Andy Dixon showed the Daily Mail a screenshot of what he believes to be the mythical beast swimming just below the lake's surface

4. Incident at Loch Ness and The Wild Blue Yonder – Herzog Blurs Fact And Fiction - TheRichest
As the mockumentary progresses, it becomes ambiguous as to whether or not Nessie exists, and tensions between the filmmakers climax in a ...

Offerings for the Loch Ness Monster—a Sign of Buddhism's Arrival in the West - Equinox Publishing
The media, which continues to be fascinated with reports of Nessie, has focused primarily on the implications of Zangmo's offering for theories of ...

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. 




THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPPING ABOUT

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
Yesterday was completely overshadowed by the fact that my niece Emily Taylor was suddenly taken to hospital yesterday. Her condition is comfortable, and she is currently just finished having a scan. I will let everyone know the latest, when I have more news. I 'spoke' to her for a few minutes this morning, and again just now via Facebook and she is quite bright and cheerful, which will not surprise any of you who know her. Remember her, her boyfriend Adam, and her family (Helen, Dan and Jessica) in your thoughts and prayers.
 
God Bless you child.
 
 
 
 
YES Reveal Artwork and Tracklist of New Album “Heaven and Earth"
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/yes-reveal-artwork-and-tracklist-of-new.html
 
 
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly is up on www.gonzoweekly.com and features a conversation between Jaki Windmill and the late Mick Farren, an interview with the mighty XNA, a feature on Crowded House, news about some recently uncovered Robert Calvert video, proof that Progressive Rockstars have a sense of humour, and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and brindled gnus (OK, no specialised ox-like antelopes, 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 in this week's episode is: Mick Farren, Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin, Morrissey, Pussy Riot, Nirvana, Monty Python, Stonehenge, Galahad, Michael des Barres, Fish, Robert Calvert, Rab Noakes, Barbara Dickson, Sendelica, Erik Norlander, Rocket Scientists, Clepsydra, Rick Wakeman, Ginger Baker, Rush, Marillion, Strange Fruit, Sub Reality Sandwich, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundell, Howard Smith, Elaine Sturtevant, Leslie Thomas, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson, Rene van Commenee, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Ian Anderson, Damon Albarn, Mike Oldfield, XNA, John Lennon, Yes, Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Michael Jackson, One Direction, Bay City Rollers, Bob Dylan,  Justin Beiber, Kataklysm, Lives & Times, Asmegi
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 76 (Rick Wakeman cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/gonzo-weekly-78.html
Issue 75 (Hawkwind cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-75.html
Issue 74 (Billy Sherwood cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-74.html
 
All issues from #70 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. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. 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
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
 
*  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?

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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