Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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



    Bigfoot Different Species – Is it Possible or not?
    Huge shaggy wolf-like creature, white fangs, – Bigfoot Different Species DM. July 1958. Greggton, Texas The witness who was alone at home had ...

    Bigfoot howls in Canada
    Mystery howls spark Bigfoot hunt in Canada - Unexplained Mysteries [MEDIA] Residents of a remote island community have been plagued by ...

    UFO and Bigfoot Sightings in ALABAMA: A listing and examination of selected sightings Read
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    Tulsa World


    Harvey Pratt, forensic sketch artist, will tell how he sketched likenesses of Bigfoot based on witness descriptions, as he would for a crime suspect.

    Bigfoot Sighting in Maine
    A 12-year-old boy captured this footage of a Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, in Turner, Maine. This prompted one investigator to have a look for himself.


    Bigfoot runs from train! Enhanced photo!
    Bigfoot runs from train! Enhanced photo! Massive Sasquatch Who took this photo? When was it taken? Are there more photos? These questions and ...

    KCET


    Though the majority of biologists agree that the large, hominid-appearing creature known as "Bigfoot" is a flight of fancy, the cryptic creature has its ...

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday/Wednesday
     
    And so things are just about back to normal. Jessica has returned to work, Danny is back in the garden and Graham is crawling about on the roof. Business as usual really. I wish that I could think of something more interesting to say, but I cant so there!
     
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: ATKINS MAY PROJECT "A ...
    Zappa Plays Zappa revives sounds of the future, Dw...
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    Gonzo Weekly #149
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    Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield, Heart, Captain Beefheart, bootleg, Poco, M Destiny, Dog and the Universe of Swine Dirt, anarchopunk, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
     
    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#149) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield and Buzz Aldrin on the front cover together with an interview with Tony Palmer about the legendary 'Space Movie' inside, Doug looks at Heart, Jon muses about Dog and the Universe of Swine. We review a controversial book about bootlegs, and Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem by a mad composer of piano music from the early 20th Century. John B-G looks at West Coast psychedelia on Youy Tube, and Jon presents a round up of anarchopunk news. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the last of four Strange Harvest radio specials from the folk wot bring you Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons wanting a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed up too late last night, 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!!!
     
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    Suede, ELO, David Bowie, The Who, Janet Jackson, Ronnie Wood, James Burton, Albert Lee, Karnataka, Keith Richards, Barbara Dickson, Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Raymond "Ray" Kenneth Warleigh, Peggy Jones, Ben Cauley, Jame "Brooklyn" Prefontaine, Jackie Collins, Yogi Berra, Group Captain Allan Richard Wright DFC & Bar, AFC, Brian Sewell, Hugh Hopper, THe Pirates, Ducks Deluxe, The Pirates, Wilko Johnson, Dr. John, Johnny Winter & Uncle John Turner, Billy Cobham, Brand x, Pete Sears, Frank Zappa,Tony Palmer, Mike Oldfield, Heart, Dog and the Universe of Swine Dirt, John Brodie-Good, Spirit, Captain Beefheart, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Poco, Roy Weard, Sex Pistols, Crass, Vi Subversa, The Poison Girls, Chumbawamba, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Hawkwind, Hawklords, Xtul, Bay City ROllers, Wham!, Freddie Mercury, Queen, Elvis Presley, 1D, Ringo Starr, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Alan Whiate, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Neil Nixon, Mark Bebbington, Tiarra
     
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
     
    Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
    Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
    Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
    Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
    Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
    Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
    Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
    Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
    Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
    Issue 139 (Raz cover)
    Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
    Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
    Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
    Issue 135 (FNP cover)
     
    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!
     
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    * 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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, and the adventurous kitten?

    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.



    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday/Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


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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)