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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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Monday, October 27, 2014

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:
From CFZ-USA:

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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  • BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    A Southwest Virginia man says he has seen Bigfoot five times!
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    'Killing Bigfoot': Sad days for poor Sasquatch
    Is it possible to feel sorry for something that doesn't exist? If so, then Bigfoot deserves our sympathies. Tales of Sasquatch or "wild men" have been

    These Guys Want To Kill Bigfoot, And They Want The Whole World To Know
    Jim Lansdale, Vietnam veteran and co-founder of the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization (GCBRO) is on a very specific and controversial

    Eduardo Sánchez talks about his kick-ass Bigfoot film “Exists”
    It is a Bigfoot creature feature like no other. Eduardo took out some time to chat with Media Mikes again about his kick-ass Bigfoot film and what we 


    Was it a Bigfoot these people witnessed or was it a natural wildlife misidentification? They determine to Hunt the Truth thus their hunt continues … 

    Russian Children Attack Wounded Bigfoot! (Video)
    In this Russian (blurry as heck of course) cell phone footage, 2 young children attack (what looks like) a wounded Bigfoot. Footage includes the

    Visit the grave of Bigfoot, a victim of Mt. Saint Helens' explosion
    We feature lots of weird final resting places here at Roadtrippers, from the cursed The Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery, to a grave with a window in

    New Bigfoot From Michigan Looks Familiar
    John Freeman has been very lucky the pass couple of years capturing some interesting footage of what he says is Bigfoot living on his property.

    Watch Bigfoot Hunter "Granpa" Larry Davis Talk About His 5 Encounters
    "Now I've taken 3 reports already this year of bigfoot activity. Around Here? Twelve reports in Wythe County. I'm getting 'em out of Smith County.

    Michigan Man Shares 'Bigfoot' Video
    A Michigan resident on Friday said he believes he has captured the images of a “Sasquatch” walking on his property located in the northern part of the 

    Geocacher finds massive footprint in the middle of nowhere
    He thinks he may have found a footprint that belongs Bigfoot: Among other things ... Bigfoot Evidence: Ron Morehead Explains Bigfoot Elusiveness.






    NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



    Unseen infrared image of Loch Ness Monster Nessie to be revealed at Paranormal Festival
    As well as delving into the picture itself, the audience will be taken on a journey back into Loch Ness Monster folklore to discover similar views of new 

    Express.co.uk
    Big game hunters called in to kill Loch Ness monster almost sparked war
    Now previously unpublished documents can reveal that when London put a bounty on landing the Loch Ness Monster in the 1930s, big game hunters ...

    Unpublished files reveal British war for Loch Ness monster's
    The legendary Loch Ness Monster spotted on camera [REX] Now previously unpublished documents can reveal that when London put a bounty on 

    Daily Star
    Plot to kidnap Loch Ness Monster exposed
    AN attempt to abduct the Loch Ness Monster and put it on display at the ... The Scottish Office opened a file on the monster in December 1933 in ...

    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 IN MOURNING

    The Gonzo Daily - Monday
     
    And so another week begins. I am only here until Thursday morning because I fly off to Bonnie Scotland for a gig at the Scottish Paranormal Festival on Friday morning. I fly back on Sunday. I am not sure how Brian Allan managed to talk me into agreeing to do the gig, because I hardly do any shows anymore apart from the Weird Weekend, and am happy to keep it that way. I think I was feeling particularly full of bonhomie that day (and no that doesn't mean I was drunk). 

    I also wonder how the assembled audience will take my assertion that the words 'Paranormal' and 'Supernatural' are both redundant and both mildly irritating to me at least. As far as I am concerned this stuff (monsters, ghosts, UFOs etc) is perfectly natural and perfectly normal, and more common than many people like to think. However, they are all governed by rules of physics that we don't understand as yet. That all maked perfect sense to me, but some of the 'I want to Believe' brigade treat it as the most dreadful apostasy.
     
    There are several people at the festival that I am looking forward to meeting in the flesh, and at least two others that I would like to avoid. I sould make for an interesting weekend. We shall see.
     
    Jack Bruce's death over the weekend has saddened us all. He was a remarkable musician and songwriter, and will be sorely missed.
     
     
     
    Tommy James, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, Scott Walker, Queen, Merrell Fankhauser and Daevid Allen fans had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#101) is now available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
     
    It has Tommy James on the cover, and features an interview with him about his life, work, political campaigning back in the 1960s and what it was like having a manager with more than a few links to the Mafia. But there's more! There is a message from Daevis Allen, and Merrell Fankhauser responds to some strange signals off the Malibu coast. ET? One never knows. Doug Harr critiques the new Queen DVD, we send Thom the World Poet to a Desert Island, and Jon discusses the new Scott Wakler/Sunn o))) coillaboration and much to his surprise finds that it is Scott's best work for decades. Carl Portman is outr guest book reviewer, and he takes a look at the new Ozzy Osbourne biography. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and turtles having a snooze (OK, no soporific chelonians, 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!!!
     
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
     
     

    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!
     
    You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
    http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
     

    *  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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1960 - Ben E. King recorded his first solo songs. They were "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand by Me." 

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  • 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)