MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A strange fish in Macclesfield Canal

It`s always pleasant to be able to report a cryptozoology or Fortean story from  my home town of Macclesfield. You may well quote the sceptics comment to Jesus “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” or “can anything of Fortean worth come out of Macclesfield?” Well,obviously,yes,as in the mystery black helicopters scare of the 1970s, and wallabies near by etc.

So the Macclesfield Express of June 22^nd 2016 contained a letter from R.W. Hughes of Congleton under the headline CANAL FIND WAS A GIANT (FISH – word missing )

Recently my wife and I were travelling along the Macclesfield canal on our narrowboat `Aurthora Celtic Prince.` At bridge 64 near Macclesfield I noticed a massive dead fish in the water which I managed to pull to the bank,and my wife Susan took a photograph which I enclose ( paper contains the photo which shows a brown fish with a hint of orange – R).

Not being an angler I don`t know what breed of fish this is, but I am sure some of your readers can enlighten me. The size of the fish was 24 inches by 8 inches wide, weight 26lb. This monster had been in the water for some time as it was beginning to decompose, I would be interested to also know what age a fish like this could reach. As an observation, from Bosley locks until Marple junction there is (sic) over 20 miles of canal without locks, a vast length of water capable of supporting a fish of this size*.

I thought this may be of interest to your readers.

RW Hughes

* I happen to know the Macclesfield Canal supports quite large crayfish. I asked for more information on the Macclesfield Express Facebook page but got no replies.

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

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• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• IS THERE A HIDDEN CITY IN DEATH VALLEY?
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• BIGFOOT AT CAMPSITE
• HUMANOIDS IN ARGENTINA
• DISCOVERY OF CRYPTID GECKO
• NICK POPE ON REAL X-FILES
• DAVID ICKE INTERVIEW IN AUSTRALIA
• BIGFOOT SEARCH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• SIGHTINGS OF ORANG PENDEK
• SOUTH DAKOTA BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS
• MORGAN'S RIDGE MONSTER
• SHADOW MAN IN APARTMENT
• DOGMAN ENCOUNTERS OF THE SCARY SORT
• MAPINGUARI
• MONSTER KILLED IN FLORIDA
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

SAVE THE HENS

My name is Lucy and I’m 14. When I started a petition earlier this year asking Tesco to stop selling eggs from caged hens I never imagined that 280,000 people would sign it or that I would get a face to face meeting with Tesco's Head of Agriculture. But it all really happened and now the supermarket giant has pledged to stop selling eggs from caged hens!

This is an incredible moment and I can’t thank everyone that backed me enough. Now with this victory secured, I believe we can get all UK supermarkets to stop selling eggs from caged hens: 

Morrisons and Asda, still intend to sell caged eggs without any obvious intent to change. So I have started a new petition calling for Asda and Morrisons to stop selling eggs from caged hens. Please join me.

Caged eggs come from hens that spend 72 weeks cramped in restrictive cages, unable to spread their wings or experience the outside world. After this time, many of the hens are barely feathered and close to death. No animal deserves to live like this. 

The fact that Tesco, the biggest supermarket in Britain, has decided to stop selling caged hens’ eggs proves that no matter how big the company, the prospect of a free-range future is not impossible.

The power to make this change is in our hands, now it is clear that supermarkets really do listen to public pressure I know we can make this change happen again.

Please join me on the next step of my campaign by signing this petition calling on Morrisons and Asda to go caged free.

From
Lucy Gavaghan

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.

• Feature: Saving Rare Birds of Pakistan
• Rare macaws confiscated in first seizure of live b...
• Rare Romanian pelican spotted in Devon

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS QUIETLY IN A CORNER

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

Yesterday I wrote "What a weird year this is turning out to be". But yesterday took the biscuit. The car packed up (fixed for a tenner this afternoon but hairy while it lasted), I got bitten by a snake (the Mexican black kingsnake in the sitting room) and someone very dear to me who has been unable to drive for health reasons got her driving license back. Add to that two teenage girls giggling maniacally on my sofa, and you will see it was a very weird day. And I wasn't even drinking.

 

And now I am on the want again. Ticket sales for this year's Weird Weekend are the slowest ever. I strongly suspect that it is because of the financial insecurity that so many people are feeling at the moment, but I hope that it will turn itself around in the next four weeks. This year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

 

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

 

And now for the news................

 

SAVE THE HENS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/save-hens.html

Nightwish interview - Troy (part 1)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/nightwish-interview-troy-part-1.html

Dave Brock Interview

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/dave-brock-interview.html

Eric Burdon & The Animals on "The MIke Douglas Sho...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/eric-burdon-animals-on-mike-douglas.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Melting Euphoria - Ley...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-melting-euphoria.html

 

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Don't Le...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-beatles-dont-let.html

Brand X interview with Phil Collins & John Goodsal...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/brand-x-interview-with-phil-collins.html

Arthur Brown gives an interview.

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/arthur-brown-gives-interview.html

Eric Burdon - Interview 2010

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/eric-burdon-interview-2010.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #191

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

We interview Ian Jones from everyone’s fave Welsh rockers Karnataka, Doug muses on Rush, Alan grieves for music venues under threat, John goes to see Santana, and Jon expounds on hippydom and reviews a book by John Lennon’s mistress, while Biffo goes Ghostbusting!0

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

The RAZ Band, John Shuttleworth, Yoko Ono, Dolly Parton, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Randy California, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Steven Young, Danny Smythe, Gladys Hermiston-Hooper (née Nash), Arthur Brown, The Beatles, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Karnataka, Ian Jones, Rush, Alan Dearling, John Brodie-Good, Santana, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, John Lennon, May Pang,  Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Glastonbury, Paul McCartney, Neil Nixon, Cantona,

                                                                                  

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo190.html

Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo189.html

Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo187-8-the-summer-holiday-special.html

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo186.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

 

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/

 

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

* 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.co.uk

 

* 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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Scotland Now

Loch Ness Monster hunter marks 25 years of trying to uncover the mystery of Nessie

Scotland Now

The 53-year-old is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil of Loch Ness and says he had one ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Campers Have Several Bigfoot Encounters In Washington State

Sasquatch Chronicles

Via the Bigfoot Evidence "campers make up a large percentage of bigfoot eye witnesses. In this interview a story is told about several campers in a ...

New York Residents Experience Bigfoot First Hand

Squatchable

Some call it the Yeti or Sasquatch, but it's best known as Bigfoot. And some residents in Whitehall, New York say they have seen it first hand.

Pennsylvania mountain is hot spot for Bigfoot sightings

Reading Eagle

Those who study Bigfoot and other mysterious creatures are called cryptozoologists. One of them is Stan Gordon, a researcher from Greensburg, ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1553 - Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Euro 2016 moths take wing from Paris and head to B...

Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M&Ms in bid to sav...

Cougars could save lives by lowering vehicle colli...

Why do islands give rise to such unusual creatures...

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)