ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

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

From CFZ-USA:

• SIGHTINGS OF CENTAURS (Image above courtesy Lon Strickler)
• GNOMES OR LITTLE PEOPLE
• THUNDERBIRD IN MARYLAND
• SEARCHING FOR BIGFOOT
• TINY CHINESE HORSE
• ATTACK BY BLACKBIRDS
• CROPAN'S BOA STILL EXISTS
• WERE THESE EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
• BEAST OF SEPT CHUTES
• BEASTS OF ENGLAND
• TLILCOATL - MEXICAN SNAKE
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• WERE DENISOVANS GIANTS OF LEGEND?
• BIGFOOT IN EUROPE
• WILDMAN: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
• NINKI-NANKA: DRAGON OF GAMBIA
• KAKAMORA - DWARF HOMINIDS
• MALAYSIAN BIGFOOT
• DOGMAN AND BIGFOOT
• BIGFOOT AT SUMMER CAMP
• ASTONISHING TIMESLIP ACCOUNT
• TRACES OF LITTLE PEOPLE
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• CAN JINN AND HUMANS INTERMARRY?
• DINOSAURS DESCRIBED 2016
• ANCIENT SIBERIAN DOGS
• PINK SLUGS
• UNLIKELY HYBRIDS
• UFONAUTS IN BRAZIL
• MONSTER OF THE ANDES
• BLACK-EYED BEING AND PREGNANCY
• STATE BIGFOOT CAPITAL
• FOLKLORE OF UTAH
• NAMES
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

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.

• Swarms of parakeets — yes, parakeets — are now a g...
• Rare Arctic bird spotted on river in rural Lincoln...
• What part of blackbird don't you understand? Coupl...
• Why Some Birds' Names Have Changed
  Threatened seabird successfully breeds using artif...
  Forest 'islands' offer refuge to wintering bird
   

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Further stories of unusual Hong Kong animals Part One

In June 2014 and February 2017 I posted a question on the `Hong Kong Was,Is and Forever Will Be My Home!` Facebook group and the `I Grew Up in Hong Kong in the 1970s-80s` group asking members to reply to my query as to anomalous animals/cryptids that they had had experience of. This blog is a summary of the most interesting observations.None or very little of this information has been shared in public before.The February 2017 responses will appear in part 2 of this
blog.

1. June 2014.

Andrew Garrett. Big land crab on Mt Butler, near the Cable & Wireless station in 1988.

Joy Aitman Apes ( N.B. as opposed to monkeys?) lived on slope behind Fairmount Gardens on Conduit Rd in the 1980s. Used to perch on nullah.

Rob Milnes. Rumours of occasional tigers swimming to Mai Po marshes ( `70s-80s?). Hushed up by Ag and Fish Department to avoid a hunt.

Sarah Lang-Heath. Black panther Sek-Kong. Well along catchment road.1982-85.

Lynn Spencer O`Donnell. Large albino cobra (this is the only albino cobra in the wild in HK I have heard of.) Pack of all pedigree feral dogs abandoned on Peak.
Type of fish that only lived in hot water ,outflow from Aberdeen power station.

Jaime Stirling. Escaped gorilla or baboon from Botanical Gardens.

Anne Ozoro. Tigers during 1941-45 War ate dead refugees.(And they were in plentiful supply - R!)


Same contributor - Her father shot a strange duck at Mai Po like a grebe. Stuffed, it looked like a duck but flatter feet almost 1/2 size of body.(I am following this
one up.)

Dave Clark. Massive boa swam across Silvermine Bay,Lantau and ate a quadruped.

Paul Corser Tiger paw faked in Sai Kung (1988?)All paws were front left!.

Jennifer Bowskill. Small black cat-like creatures in tress on Peak, 1960s-70s.Two tigers in Kowloon, 1990s.

Normie Webb. "Growler monkeys" left by Japanese during World War 2.Growler monkeys are not usual natives of Hong Kong.

To be continued....

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Bigfoot Killing livestock in WA State?

The Paracast

If this report is real, it would be the first report of its kind I've ever heard of.... What Beast's Killing Washington Cattle?

Bigfoot expedition inspires New Mexico ban on state-funded searches for mythical creatures

WRIC

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – 8News affiliate KRQE first exposed a UNM expedition to find Bigfoot back in October — a foray into the forest paid for by ...

Bigfoot Research - The Other Cyrptids

The Bigfoot Field Journal

The unintended consequences of Bigfoot research are other creepy, nasty looking cryptids that show up uninvited. This is a look at some of the ...

Unreal Footage Of Bigfoot Caught In Recent Snow Storm! [VIDEO]

WJJK

BIGFOOT LIVES! Check out this video of a reporter with WWLP doing a live shot during a recent snow storm in Massachusetts…when all of a sudden ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN AND HIS GALLINACEOUS FRIENDS

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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TODAY FEATURING: Brand X, Binky Womack, Hawkwind, Pink Fairies

And so, another week begins! Have you ever had one of those days that you really wish that you hadn’t got out of bed? Nothing particularly crapulent has happened, but there has been a stream of small irritations, and I'm really not in the mood for any of them but, that's life I suppose. Moaning about it isn't going to get us anywhere, so I shall stop, and just get on with it!

And here is the news:

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Brand X: And So To F

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-brand-x-and-so.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

Hawkwind interview by It's Psychedelic Baby Magazi...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/hawkwind-interview-by-its-psychedelic.html

Binky Womack "Womack Style" Belgium review transla...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/binky-womack-womack-style-belgium.html

Pink Fairies UK review

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/pink-fairies-uk-review.html

Gonzo Magazine #221

THE MOONMADNESS ISSUE

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In this week’s issue Jeremy says goodbye to the legendary Deke Leonard, Doug goes to see Adam Ant, Alan reminisces about Runrig and other heroes of Scottish Rock and Roll with Ivor Johnston,Christopher goes to see Julian Cope, Jeremy goes to see Black Sabbath, and Martin Springett enthuses to Jon about A Series of Unfortunate Events. Plus Hawkwind, The Gardening Club, and all sorts of other things. Good huh?

Groovy huh?

It’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and Strange Fruitwhereas Jeremy Smith's new project The Seven Deadly Sins will be back next week. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. 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:

Lemony Snicket, Black Sabbath, David Cassidy, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Davies, Roundhouse, Sigur Rós, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Svend Asmussen, Emmett Peter "Sonny" Geraci, Steve Lang, Noel Bartholomew Simms, Robert, Dahlqyist, Ritchie Yorke, David Axelrod, Granddad, Supertramp, Tony Ashton and Friends, Lutz Ulbrich featuring Nico, The Pink Fairies, Jeremy Smith, Deke Leonard, Adam Ant, Alan Dearling, Ivor Johnston, Christopher Johnson, Julia Cope, Kev Rowland, Loonypark, Mindfields, Moonrise, Moloken, Ophidian Forest, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Roy Weard, Xtul, Martin Springett, Grateful Dead, Brian Jones, Beatles, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Elvis, Quentin Crisp

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo220.html

Issue 219 (Martin Stone)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo219.html

Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo218.html

Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo217.html

Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo215-6.html

Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 212 (Greg Lake)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo212.html

Issue 211 (Phil Collins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo211.html

Issue 210 (Nico)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo210.html

Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo209.html

Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo208.html

Issue 207 (Tibet)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo207.html

Issue 206 (Raz)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo206.html

Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo205.html

Issue 204 (Gas Tank)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo204.html

Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo203.html

Issue 202 (Gong)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo202.html

Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo201.html

Issue 200 (Deep Purple)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo200.html

Issue 199 (Yes)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo199.html

Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo198.html

Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo197.html

Issue 196 (Paul May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo196.html

Issue 195 (Dave Brock)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo195.html

Issue 194 (Auburn)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo194.html

Issue 193 (Genre Peak)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo193.html

Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo192.html

Issue 191 (Karnataka)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo191.html

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

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:

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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII. 
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.)