In recent times, a very striking photograph has attracted appreciable attention on the Net, due to the fact that it ostensibly depicts a gecko of truly gargantuan proportions - not so much a mega-gecko as a veritable giga-gecko! In reality, however, as I swiftly realised when observing it, what this photograph truly depicts is something very different from what it may initially seem to do.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
KARL SHUKER: EXPOSING THE INDONESIAN GIGA-GECKO – A Hoax of Monstrous Proportions!
In recent times, a very striking photograph has attracted appreciable attention on the Net, due to the fact that it ostensibly depicts a gecko of truly gargantuan proportions - not so much a mega-gecko as a veritable giga-gecko! In reality, however, as I swiftly realised when observing it, what this photograph truly depicts is something very different from what it may initially seem to do.
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.
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Thermal Video Shows Bigfoot Peeking Over Log
a LOOK BACK AT Bigfoot
researcher Kirk Brandenburg'S thermal footage which shows what appears to be the head of something, possibly a bigfoot, moving up and down from behind a log in the distance.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum isn't buying this latest Russian Yeti footage from Kamennomostsky
Every
year, around this time of year (September - November), the Russians comes out
with new footage of what they claim to be the Russian Yeti.
Analysis
of Bigfoot Evidence from Summer 2014
Analysis
of Bigfoot Evidence from Summer 2014. Posted by: Adam Davies on September
22nd, 2014.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TAKES ON SURROGATE FORM...
Graham still manning the computer banks today, as
Jon and Corinna are still roaming around the Norwich area of Eastern England.
So it was safe for me to fill the kitchen with cooking fumes and have a fry-up,
which perhaps isn't a healthy way of eating... but I really do like fried eggs
and chips! Especially with tomato sauce dolloped on top.
Meanwhile, today's menu of items on Gonzo blog
is:
British bluesman John Mayall at Payomet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/british-bluesman-john-mayall-at-payomet.html
Teenager designs cover for Pink Floyd's new album, 'The Endless River'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/teenager-designs-cover-for-pink-floyds.html
Bugs Make Music, Lured by Light - a Music and Art Project
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/bugs-make-music-lured-by-light-music.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/gonzo-track-of-day-passenger-iggy-pop.html
Mash-up.. musician creates new music from existing YouTube videos
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mash-up-musician-creates-new-music-from.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/british-bluesman-john-mayall-at-payomet.html
Teenager designs cover for Pink Floyd's new album, 'The Endless River'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/teenager-designs-cover-for-pink-floyds.html
Bugs Make Music, Lured by Light - a Music and Art Project
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/bugs-make-music-lured-by-light-music.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/gonzo-track-of-day-passenger-iggy-pop.html
Mash-up.. musician creates new music from existing YouTube videos
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mash-up-musician-creates-new-music-from.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 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?
* 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.
Soldier has encounter with big cat
US SIGHTINGS: Save the cat? Some want boy-attacking cat spared
CARTOON ADVERT FOR MYSTERY CATS -BY MARK ANTONY RAINES
UK SIGHTINGS: Wild cat sighting on Cannock Chase
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.
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - WEDNESDAY
ON THIS DAY IN 1776
The oldest British classic horse race, the St Leger, was run for the first time at Doncaster Racecourse. It was won by a horse that had no name at the time, which would have been awkward for any event commentators!
Nature of war: Chimps inherently violent; Study di...
Japan defies IWC ruling on ‘scientific whaling’
Spider app launched by ecologists
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day) ... Boris the Spider!
The oldest British classic horse race, the St Leger, was run for the first time at Doncaster Racecourse. It was won by a horse that had no name at the time, which would have been awkward for any event commentators!
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day) ... Boris the Spider!