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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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Thursday, October 27, 2016

RICHARD FREEMAN: Oral History interview - Alison Reid (1996)

Filmed by Roslyn Sargent, Jean and Kevin Mitchells in 1997 this is an interview with Alison Ried.

This video was an oral history interview done with Miss Alison Reid. Alison was the daughter of the curator of Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania. She looked after the last captive Tasmanian wolf. In the interview she speaks of her memories of the thylacines at the zoo and her conviction that they still exist today. She also stuffed dead thylacines and raised many young animals of different species.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:



Louisiana Swamp Ape Investigation - Large Tracks Found
A group of investigators find some large tracks, and other possible bigfoot sign, while researching a wildlife management area in northern Louisiana.

Bigfoot Hiding In Plain Sight In Mississippi
From Bono Russell and M.B.E.S.T. - The Mississippi Bigfoot Diaries. This is a collection of Videos and Still Photo's , collected over the last 4 month's, ...

Bill Dranginis Presentation At 1st Annual Virginia Bigfoot Conference
Sorry for the wait folks, but here is the Fouth video from the "1st Annual Virginia Bigfoot Conference" Put on by "Sasquatch Watch of Virginia" at Hungry ...

Survivorman Bigfoot: Legend Of Klemtu Hill
Survivorman Bigfoot Les Stroud Show. Here is another past episode of Survivorman Bigfoot featuring Les Stroud. Enjoy!

Can Bigfoot Predict Our Actions In The Woods?
The Trail To Bigfoot team shares some interesting information and theories about bigfoot and how they may be able to predict our actions as humans ...

Dr. Webb Sentell Speaks At The Honobia Bigfoot Conference
Dr. Webb Sentell speaks on the firsty day of the Honobia Bigfoot Festival and Conference in Oklahoma. Enjoy. An error occurred. Try watching this ...

OI, WHERE IS THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN?

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
And so it has rolled around to being Thursday once again. Charlotte attended Professor Downes’ Academy for Young Ladies yesterday, and did very well indeed. And the best news is that after two and a half years of being a money drain, work on my Exeter house is complete and I have new tenants ready to sign a tenancy agreement on Monday. many thanks to Graham for all his hard work.
 
Our car failed its MOT terminally on Monday so we are using Julia’s until we get a new one.
 
You may well have noticed that we are running late with several things at the moment. Life is massively complicated with health issues, family issues and all sorts of other metaphorical crap on our equally metaphorical plate at the moment. But we are getting there ….. Slowly. And normal service, like they used to say on the BBC when the transmitter went belly up, will be resumed as soon as possible.
 
Ciao darlings….
 
And now for the news................
 
Peter Hammill interview - Schio, 11th May 2012
Elaine Paige, Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well...
PINK FAIRIES Live 1973
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - We Can W...
 
Gonzo Magazine #205
 
We have exciting news about the new Pink Fairies album  together with exclusive photographs of them in rehearsal, Jon burbles on about Alan Bennett and the movie of The Lady in the Van, Doug goes to see The Specials, and Alan meets Lenny Helsing, whilst we run a book review a century and a half late.
 
Good ‘ere innit?
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive, and because last week was a full moon, Canterbury Sans Frontieres. 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:
Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, The Who, Boy George, Rolling Stones, The Last Shadow Puppets, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Chuck Berry, John Lydon, Leonard Cohen, Bart Lancia, Alan Dearling, Clowns, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robert “Big Sonny” Edwards, William Nelson "Sonny" Sanders, Robert Bateman, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack, Arthur Brown, Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee, The Pink Fairies, The Specials, Lenny Helsing, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Little Richard, Michael Jackson, Elvis, Gizz Butt, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Martin Springett, The Gardening Club, Jules Verne, Neil Nixon, Keith Christmas
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
 
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:
 
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 57 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?