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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, January 06, 2015

MATT ON THE AIR

I'm on BBC Radio Suffolk on New Year's Day, 12.30-4, in (pre-recorded)
conversation with Jon Wright on Suffolk's big cats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiosuffolk/programmes/schedules/2015/01/01

I am assured it will linger on i-player for a month after that.

It will include an appeal for more info on mystery animals in the county
briefly known as "The Curious County" for Mystery Animals of Suffolk, to
be published some time in 2015 by CFZ Press. If anyone has any more on
the  big cat sightings at Hadleigh, Debach and "running across the A12"
at Holton St Mary, sometime between 1995 and 2010, this would be
particularly appreciated. (Flyer follows shortly.)

Twitter: @MysteryAnimals

mysteryanimalsofsuffolk@gn.apc.org

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:



'Bigfoot' Sighted By Tampa Fisherman?
Alligators and manatees aren't the only awe-inspiring creatures to call the Hillsborough River home. Bigfoot also resides in the Tampa area. That's the ...
Phoenix New Times (blog)
"Family of Sasquatches" Traffic Camera Photo by ADOT Causes Buzz in Bigfoot World
The picture, taken by an Arizona Department of Transportation highway camera recently, has caused a buzz in the pseudo-scientific world of Bigfoot ...

Examiner.com
Bigfoot caught on video in Turner, Maine
A father and son have recorded two separate Bigfoot videos on their property in Turner, Maine. According to a Jan. 4 report by channel Q97.9 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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  • US SIGHTING: Big-cat sighting startles drivers nea...
  • NEWSLINK: This Lion Tiger Hybrid Is The Biggest Ca...


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  • THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS INTENSE

    The Gonzo Daily - 6th January
    And so it is tuesday, no poetry, and I even have my workforce drinking tea in the next room. Thanks to Andrew May we have finally figured out the e-book conundrum. One of the most difficult hurdles to overxome is that many of our books are heavily illustrated, and have non-standard typography with things like end notes, foot notes and other asides, which are - as far as I can see - nigh on impossible to reproduce as an epub or mobi file. Now they can. There are applications for children's books with fixed graphics which, I believe, will work perfectly well with some of our more complex titles. It is not a perfect solution but it is a pretty damn good one which will work for both CFZ and Gonzo books.
    The Gonzo Weekly #111
    www.gonzoweekly.com
    Mice on Stilts, Kate Bush, Three Friends, PFM, Yusof, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, King Crimson, Elbow, The National, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#111) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Mice on Stilts on the front cover, and an interview with the band, Doug's totally subjective top ten gigs of last year, we send Lee Pomeroy, prog bass player to the stars to a desert island, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are lost at sea, whilst Xtul are still causing havoc in the forest. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and anteaters wishing to snooze (OK, nothing to do with dozy edentates, 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit
    * 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?

    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

    DAVEY MAKES A ROD FOR HIS OWN BACK

     Dear Jon,
    Whilst visiting the beautiful city of Durham.
    I took time out to take a few snaps of the castle and inadvertently snapped a rod!
    Lucky old me. Do I win a prize? (best ask Jose about that)

    All the best for 2015 my old chum.


    Regards

    Davey C



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