CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 06/10/19

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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...

Monday, June 10, 2019

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

Tasmanian tiger devotee Col Bailey certain Churchill's Hut was legitimate

Tasmania Examiner

The state's foremost thylacine obsessive is adamant that the recently destroyed Churchill's Hut, one of the most significant tiger-related sites in

LAKE AND SEA MONSTER NEWS

The hunt for Lake and Sea Monsters is probably the most iconic branch of Cryptozoology. Following our successful Mystery Cat and BHM Study Groups, we feel that these sightings should also be archived and published in a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead.

NEWSFILE: Mystery object found in Outer Banks brie...

IRELAND: Horse eels (and they have killed off Jon)...

EUROPE: Bulgarian Lake monster

LOCH NESS: Slightly more realistic account of the ...

LOCH NESS: Hurrah for Dr Daz

CRYPTOLINK: Another unidentified carcass...

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.

Creature with huge teeth reported in Nebraska park, giving rise to Chupacabra rumors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Mark Price//The Charlotte Observer) - It was only a month ago that India’s army said it found proof of the Abominable Snowman, so it shouldn’t be a complete shock that many on Twitter now claim a Chupacabra turned up in Nebraska, of all places.

The proof, some insist, is a pair of photos tweeted Friday by Sportsman Channel, showing half of a furry creature with a vicious looking set of teeth and canine similarities.

Read on...

I have set my Tenth Legion onto it as well, and I will let you know what they say.

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.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

The FBI Once Tested Hair to Determine If It Belonged to Bigfoot

Mental Floss

For decades, humans have pondered whether a towering, hairy, bipedal creature roams our forests. Some call him Bigfoot. Some refer to him as ...

The FBI just released their files on Bigfoot - We Are The Mighty (blog)

FBI Releases Files From The Seventies Investigating The Existence Of Bigfoot - IFLScience (blog)

Full Coverage

FBI once helped in the hunt for the Bigfoot

Times of India

The researcher, Peter Byrne, then the director of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition had a question for Jay Cochran Jr, the assistant director ...

Unsolved Mystery: FBI releases file on legendary Bigfoot

Texarkana Gazette

As it turns out, a man named Peter Byrne, who at the time directed the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition in Oregon, had some hair and tissue ...

What does a night of Bigfoot hunting sound like? Jason Nark takes you along for the ride

The Philadelphia Inquirer

On a cool, muddy night in April, I joined Bigfoot enthusiasts Jason and Michele Talmadge for a tracking night in Luzerne County. Bigfoot is big in PA: ...

Many non-existent Bigfoot sightings happen in Texas

Off the Kuff

Recently, Travel Channel published a list of the eight best places to catch a glimpse of Bigfoot using “never-before-released data” from the Bigfoot ...

In Our View: FBI's Bigfoot file: A glimpse into human psyche

The Columbian

Yes, Bigfoot. Or Sasquatch. Or any other name that means a giant ape-like creature who inhabits the forests of the Northwest. At least, according to ...

The FBI has released 22 pages of its investigation into Bigfoot - Quartz

Full Coverage

BIG CAT ROUND UP

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: Pensioner fights off a Siberian tiger with a pitchfork as it attacks one of his cows, before shooting it dead

NEWSLINK: Cougar attacks child; boy’s dogs drive big cat off

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES HIS BIT

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Bonjour mes amis. I am in a remarkably good mood today, but as Graham and I need to settle down and complete a remarkably intrusive DWP form about which I have been procrastinating for weeks, the jury is still out over whether this will last. But Carl is coming down to do a week's CFZery, and we always have fun when he is here, so that is - I think - something that augurs well.

Toodle-pip

YER EDITOR SEZ:
THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG

You guys out in readership land recently did massive amounts of praying for my wife Corinna. And that now - at least at the moment - she appears to be cancer free. I am convinced that these two things are related, with the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Having used it to such good effect - I want to try it on a larger scale. I am still trying to work out the details, so watch this space.

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Blessed be.

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BARBARA DICKSONB MEETS THE VIKINGS (HONEST)
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JOEY MOLLAND IN WHITE ALBUM CREW
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HAWKWIND EN PASSANT

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/…/a-notion-of-shopkeepers…

Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #341/2
THE HORSE WITH NO NAME ISSUE
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In this peculiar issue we meet the legendary America as they release a box set Live at the Palladium, Alan goes crazy in Lithuania, John goes to see the Sun Ra Arkestra and Chris Botti, Jeremy goes to see Sylfest and Peter Perrett, Jon is concerned about the Green Party backlash, and Graham talks about the Technicians of Spaceship Hawkwind (TOSH).

Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit there is a columns from Kev Rowland, but Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and potoroos who are fallen for a ruse (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are easily obfuscated, 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:

Green Party, Paris Jackson, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Glastonbury 2019, Marillion, Morrissey, Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell, Biff Vernon, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, José Gabriel de Souza Diniz, Jaroslav Erik Fric, Jake Black, John Gary Williams, Pier Borha, Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson, Paddy Fahey (or Fahy), Ðelo Jusic (born Ðevalhudin Jusic), Tony "Little Sun" Glover (born Dave Glover), Willie Lee Ford Jr., Lawrence “Lo” Leathers, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, Greg Kofi Brown, Norma Waterson feat. Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Danny Thompson and Eliza Carthy, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio inc John Denver, America, Alan Dearling, Lithuania, Uzupis Independence, Thomas Freer, Munich Pub Choir, Romas Viciauskas, Brayden Drevlow, Lucid Electric Feel, John Brodie-Good, Chris Botti, The Sun Ra Arkestra, Jeremy Smith, Sylfest, Peter Perrett, Kev Rowland, Follow the Cipher, The Glenn Crytzer, Graveyard, Gyre, Hatred Reigns, Ihsahn, Jean Beauvoir, Tony Klinger, Beverly Hills, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Veep, Armando Iannucci

And the last few issues are:

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!

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Monday, June 10, 2019

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

LAKE AND SEA MONSTER NEWS

CRYPTOLINK: Another unidentified carcass...

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

BIG CAT ROUND UP

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