CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 03/24/17

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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...

Friday, March 24, 2017

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.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN STIFLES HIS INAPPROPRIATE SENSE OF HUMOUR

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It really doesn't seem possible that a week ago I was being hassled by security personnel in Norwich Airport prior to flying home. I had intended to have a bit of a rant about it, and I still think that they could have been more diplomatic when dealing with a disabled man who was obviously in distress. But in the wake of what happened on Wednesday, I think that heightened security procedures are bound to be in place for some time, and we shall just have to get used to it. Which is, of course, exactly what they want to happen.

I am very glad I live in a little village which I hardly ever leave.

And now, here is the news:

COMING THIS WEEKEND

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/coming-this-weekend_24.html

BOB DYLAN ON LEONARD COHEN

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/bob-dylan-on-leonard-cohen.html

Advanced Archeology Review Radio - Episode #26: Gu...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/advanced-archeology-review-radio.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Badfinger 'Come And Ge...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-badfinger-come.html

Gonzo Magazine #225/6

RITES OF SPRING ISSUE

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Welcoming in the Rites of Spring with Barbara Dickson, Rick Parfitt of Status Quo, Music of Turkey, the mellifluous keyboard talents of Roger King, Grateful Dead man Phil Lesh, Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, a look at the Jefferson Family in 2017, the launch of Mr Biffo’s Found Footage, and all sorts of other things. A wilder ride than you can imagine!

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And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and Strange Fruit. 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!!!

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Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)

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Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)

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Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)

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Issue 212 (Greg Lake)

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Issue 211 (Phil Collins)

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Issue 210 (Nico)

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Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)

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Issue 204 (Gas Tank)

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Issue 200 (Deep Purple)

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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Bigfoot brings family to Amesbury

The Daily News of Newburyport

BRYAN EATON/Staff photoThe plywood cutouts of a Bigfoot family created by Bill Drew, owner of Drew's Tire and Auto Center, catch the eyes of ...

Seattle author illuminates on the subject of Bigfoot

Moscow-Pullman Daily News

When Jules Verne released his classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" in 1870, it was billed as science fiction, speaker and author David ...

Bigfoot and its visual abilities EP-26 by Bigfoot notes from the field

SoundCloud

Chris from Alberta Canada and I have a discussion this week on several topics on the Sasquatch beginning with possible/probably visual abilities of ...

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.

NEWSLINK: 14yr old boy is savaged by a cheetah at ...

SIGHTING, UK: Father and son, 5, startled by two b...

NEWSLINK: Big cats prowling Welwyn Hatfield, Freed...