Ten years old today. Happy Birthday Pru
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A river monster which gobbled Chinamen
The following bizarre story appeared
in the Omaha Herald of Oct 8th 1881
“ A RIVER
MONSTER
The Creature in the Mokelumne River
“Upon the highest celestial
authority ,there is at the present time habiting the Mokelumne river; only a few
miles from this place, a short distance above the Big Bar bridge, between
Jackson and Mokelumne Hill, a water monster that has spread consternation and
terror among our entire Chinese population. They assert that one day this week a
number of them were on the river just below the old Boston
Not so much the yellow peril
then,but the yellow-fellow-eating-peril!
Another story from the Hartford
Daily Courant of Jan 15th 1870:
“ The Rock Island Argus has an astonishing fish story about aMississippi
river monster, eight feet long,with a head like a snake, a body
about half way between a seal and a lizard,and possessing many other marvellous
characteristics. It was captured near Gilbert-town by a couple of farmers ,but
escaped from them.”
“ The Rock Island Argus has an astonishing fish story about a
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS CONFUSED
The Gonzo Daily - Monday
Yesterday was a mildly productive one, and all of the cock ups of the
weekend were sorted reasonably easily. For example what had looked like a
serious error on the part of Torridge District Council turned out to be nothing
more than a computer glitch that had misprinted all of the payments slips, but
didn’t effect the payments themselves. Graham managed to reinstate my deleted BT
account, and we have ordered a replacement for the broken part of the oven,
which has cost less than £9, so it could have all been much worse. But it is
Tuesday, and Jessica has ridden into the office on her white charger, berating
me for the mess, and generally taking things into her own hands. I truly do not
know what I would do without her, and love her very much indeed.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: CCS - Tap Turns on th...
YES ALUMNI: DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION STREAM MACHI...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Joey Molland of Badfinger
Review: Steve Hackett, Acolyte To Wolflight with G...
Gonzo Weekly #154
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Steve Ignorant, Crass, Madonna, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Psychedelic
Britannia, Dead Boy Detectives, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A
J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack
Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#154) is available to read at
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has Steve Ignorant on the cover and an interview with him inside. Doug goes to
see Madonna,Jon interviews Martin Hudson, founder of the Classic Rock Society,
John B-G critiques the BBC's Psychedelic Britannia, and Corinna sneers at some
more tacky pop memorabilia. We review The Dead Boy Detectives, and Xtul are back
in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like,
whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his,
A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo has more
of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is
a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another
from Mack Moloney, and as there was a full moon this week we also have a show
from Canterbury Sans Frontières. 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!!!
This issue features:
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Johnny Cash, Suede, Rod Stewart, Keith Richards, Eric Burdon, Frank Zappa, Ike
Willis, Denny Walley, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Tony Van Frater, Diane Charlemagne,
Hubert Leroy "Herbie" Goins, David Rodriguez, Lee Shaw, Leon Bibb, William
Bradford "Bill" Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Brand X, The Raz Band, Johnny Winter,
Alexis Korner, Nucleus, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Steve Ignorant, Madonna,
Martin Hudson, John Brodie-Good, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind,
Hawklords, Dave Brock, Xtul, Louis Armstrong, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion,
Elvis, Marilyn Manson, Prince, Michael Jackson,Take That, Yes, Toto, Rick
Wakeman, Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Billy Sherwood, Neil Nixon, Cathy Berberian,
Aq Bure
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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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)
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* 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 young lady called Jessica. 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?
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
Nostalgia: Burnfoot youngsters on the hunt for Nessie
To the delight of almost 900 children in the Scottish
Borders, the Loch Ness monster paid a visit in November 1985.
Fourteen different schools took ...
The
Loch Ness Monster was 'invented in a London pub'
It's
a legend that's mystified people for years and brought countless amounts of
would-be Nessie hunters to the shores of Loch Ness in hope 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.
CRYPTOLINK: Hippo spotted in Teddington's Bushy Park
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
Africa's most dangerous animal has been spotted swimming through the mist in Bushy Park's boating pond.
The hippopotamus, typically native to sub-Saharan Africa, is fast becoming Teddington's answer to the Loch Ness monster, having been spotted floating through the pond on several occasions.
CRYPTOLINK: Why don't people see the yeti any more?
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
Until recently it was common for people in Bhutan to share stories of their encounters with the Himalayan yeti. But with the arrival of modernity, villagers no longer need to climb high into the mountains, where they once saw traces of the yeti - or thought they did. So a legend is slowly fading away.
Perched on a mountainside surrounded by dense, virgin forest where tigers, snow leopards, and wild boar roam, is the remote village of Chendebji.
It's so isolated that up until seven years ago, before a hydroelectric plant was installed bringing electricity to the village, children here would only go to school for half an hour a day because no-one could afford to buy kerosene to light the classroom.
In the days before electricity, much of the day would be spent searching for firewood to light stoves and walking up into the high pastures to graze their yaks and goats.
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Nick Redfern: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Wild Men of Texas
Nick
Redfern: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Wild Men of Texas. Nick Redfern is one
of my favorite authors. You can find his books here. While I
disagree ...
1980
Bigfoot sighting remembered
The
bigfoot evidence posted this article and I love older stories. Maysville
Mayor David Cartmell looks at an archived copy of the Oct. 11, 1980 edition ...
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From CFZ-USA:
- SACHARUNA - SOUTH AMERICAN HOMINID
- MAMMOTH SIGHTINGS
- IS BIGFOOT GIGANTOPITHECUS? (see picture above)
- ARE UFOs SKY CREATURES?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- FLYING MAN OVER ENGLAND
- WAS LOCH NESS MONSTER A PR STUNT?
- BIGFOOT AND SCIENCE
- MAKALAKE - BIRD OF FEAR
- AGOGWE - SMALL PRIMATE
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- HALLOWE'EN
- DOES BIGFOOT TREAD THE OZARKS?
- TIPS FOR BIGFOOT HUNTERS
- BLONDES WILL SURVIVE
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday
ON THIS DAY IN 1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.
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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)
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