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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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Friday, February 07, 2020

THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

CFZ-USA


  • LONDON TRACKWAY
  • REBOBS: RUMORED CREATURES OF NAPA VALLEY
  • BIGFOOT AND POLICE
  • SCARING OFF BIGFOOT
  • SEA SERPENTS 1914-1926
  • FILM OF NAHUELITO?
  • BIGFOOT IN ARKANSAS
  • BIGFOOT IN OHIO
  • THE X MONKEY: ASTOUNDING RUMOR
  • DUBLIN LAKE MONSTERS
  • STRANGE CREATURE ON NEPAL-TIBET BORDER
  • FLIXTON WEREWOLF
  • TUNNEL MONSTER OF TORONTO
  • FIREFLY FACES EXTINCTION
  • ARE UFO's INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVELERS?
  • ON THE TRACK #111
  • SIGHTING OF 3 BIGFOOT
  • BIGFOOT IN NORTH CAROLINA
  • IS THIS BIGFOOT?
  • BIGFOOT/WILDMAN IN PENNSYLVANIA
  • DO RAVENS HAVE A THEORY OF MIND?
  • PENTAGON AND UFOs
  • ORIGIN OF THE MERMAID
  • FAIRY LORE IN ALAN GARNER'S BOOKS
  • GIANTS IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS?
  • FLYING HUMANOID ACCOUNTS
  • HAVE DINOSAURS SURVIVED?
  • WAS THIS BIGFOOT?
  • KOALAS MASSACRED IN AUSTRALIA
  • TRAILED BY BIGFOOT
  • LAMBTON WORM
  • MONSTER OF LOCH NA BEISTE
  • OHIO: REMAINS OF GIANTS
  • FLYING HEADS OF THE IROQUOIS
  • IS BIGFOOT IN UWHARRIE NATIONAL FOREST?
  • TREASURE HUNTER MEETS BIGFOOT
  • CHINESE PADDLEFISH - 2020's FIRST EXTINCTION?
  • BIGFOOT CAUGHT ON DRONE AND AUDIO
  • HOMININ FOOTPRINTS IN MAASAI LEGENDS
  • YETIS IN SIBERIA
  • FIRST CRYPTOZOOLOGY CASE?
  • INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTALS
  • HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE UG WUG?
  • ENCHANTED POOLS BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER
  • FOREST WORKER AND BIGFOOT
  • BATCH OF BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS
  • HUNTER STARTLED BY BIGFOOT
  • DRAGONS IN SWITZERLAND
  • CHUPACABRAS IN MEXICO
  • BLACK PANTHER IN ENGLAND
  • TEACHING A DOG TO TALK
  • LITTLE PEOPLE IN WOODS?
  • BIGFOOT DISEASE
  • BIGFOOT'S GAIT
  • BIGFOOT RESPONDS
  • MAN TERRIFIED BY BIGFOOT
  • CLOSE ENCOUNTERS/ABDUCTIONS
  • MYSTERY SEA CREATURE IN FIJI
  • MYSTERY SEA CREATURE CAPTURED
  • GHOST COW OF BROWNSVILLE
  • MERMAN OFF FAROE ISLANDS
  • YOWIE ON THE GOLD COAST
  • ALMAS(TY) IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS
  • BIGFOOT'S LIVING REQUIREMENTS
  • SEA SERPENT REPORTED BY SCIENTISTS
  • HIDDEN ANIMAL SPREADING CHINESE VIRUS
  • BIGFOOT HIT BY CAR
  • DOGMAN IN PENNSYLVANIA
  • NEW ZEALAND PLANTING A BILLION TREES
  • MONSTER OF THE OBRA
  • YAHOOS AND SASQUATCH
  • CATEGORIES OF CRYPTIDS
  • OGOPOGO ON FILM?
  • STRANGE BEING IN NORWAY
  • COLORADO BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS
  • GIANTS' REMAINS IN OHIO
  • REALLY CHILLING ENCOUNTER
  • IELE - ROMANIAN WOOD FAIRIES
  • DID CORONA VIRUS COME FROM BATS?
  • LOCH NESS MONSTER
  • BENEATH THE EARTH
  • WORK BY BORIS PORSHNEV
  • GENUINE LEPRECHAUN
  • BIRD MONSTER OF RIO GRANDE
  • GOWROW - BIZARRE ARKANSAS CREATURE
  • FOSSIL MONKEY OF NORTH AMERICA
  • WAS THIS GIRL A HUMAN OR HOMINOID?
  • SKINWALKER RANCH
  • PTERODACTYL IN FLORIDA
  • DOGMAN IN MICHIGAN


  • YOWIE - LEGEND OF THE HAIRY ONES


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    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.

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    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



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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

    Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.
    Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson
  • OHIO: Bigfoot sighting
  • MARYLAND SCREAMS
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAY MAN HAS PAID HIS DEBT TO THE GOVERNMENT

    The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
    Blah Blah Blah podiatry, Blah Blah Blah storm warning, Blah Blah Blah Full Moon, Blah Blah Blah paid my income Tax bill less than a week after it was due.
    Oh Moon!
    Both you and I
    Subsist on borrowed light
    Blemished by time and age, we
    Project ourselves with grace
    And continue our journeys, alone
    There is so much we have in common
    And yet you're radiant and peaceful
    Always, where as I
    Inconsistent as I am
    Fear that I may end up
    Being just another shooting star
    In this canvas of black and bright
    Oh Moon!
    Full Moon!
    Kamran Qureshi
    The eagle-eyed amongst you will have also noticed that the Gonzo Multimedia websites have changed and are in a process of flux, so there are no individual sales links at the moment. But check out www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk for a thing of wonder.
    Life is still not easy, Corinna is still not well, my right foot is still painful, even though the infections appearto have gone, and with all this and everything else that I am having to deal with at the moment, not ignoring the emotional fallout from mother’s funeral only a few weeks ago, everything is delayed. We will get there in the end, but remember us in your thoughts and prayers, please. On which point, thank you so much to all of you who wrote to us giving kind words about Corinna and/or condolences for Mother. I will be writing back to you individually, but there were a lot of messages, and my time is embarrasingly limited at the moment. So, if you are one of the kind people who did so, please don't take offence that you have not had a reply.
    YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
    You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
    https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-…
    Blessed be.
    CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
    AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
    Our webTV show:
    https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057
    And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/CFZ
    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 eleven 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 #371/2
    THE "BLOODY HELL WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?" ISSUE
    http://www.gonzoweekly.com/
    In this frabjous issue Doug talks about how Big Sean helped him through a life crisis, Jon extolls Ransom Riggs and talks about gender, Graham looks at Hawkwind's forthcoming Hawkfest, we remember a night in Portsmouth with Pop Will Eat Itself, many years ago, Alan admires the paintings of Joie A. Pabilando, we are surprisingly impressed by the new album by Eminem, and unsurprisingly so by the new Pet Shop Boys record, and we go on Animal Rescue missions with PAART.
    And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Fronieres AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, but Mr Biffo, and C J Stone, and Neil Nixom abd Roy Weard, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, 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:
    Moore's Law, John Higgs, Ozzy Osbourne, Gorillaz, Lindsey Buckingham, Bart Lancia, The Dave Foster Band, Brian May, Pop Wil Eat Itself, Friday Night Progressive, The Merrell Fankhauser Radio Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Carmelo Esteban "Steve" Martin Caro, Chamin Correa, Guy Deplus, Hylda Sims, Dan Andrei Aldea, James Edward Heath, Robert Parker, Sunanda Patnaik, Thérèse Allah, better known as Allah Thérèse, David Charles Olney, Chris Darrow, Dennis Garcia, Terence Graham Parry Jones, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris-Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Doug Harr, Big Sean, PAART, Alan Dearling, Andy Wood, Joie A. Pabilando, Kev Rowland, Kissin' Dynamite, Faerenus, Like a Storm, Lisa Larue, Millenium, Madsen, Major Parkinson, Carl Marshall, Geordie Jackson, Zombie Cinema, Tony Klinger, Jade Goody, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, Wild Colonial Boy, Ransom Riggs, Martin Springett, A Map of Days, Pet Shop Boys, Eminem
    And the last few issues are:
    Issue 375-6 (Big Sean)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-375-6.html
    Issue 373-4 (End of the World)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-373-4.html
    Issue 371-2 (New Year)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-371-2.html
    Issue 369-70 (Christmas)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-369-70.html
    Issue 367-8 (Register to Vote)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-367-8.html
    Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-365-6.html
    Issue 363-4 (Focus)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-363-4.html
    Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-361-2.html
    Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-359-60.html
    Issue 357-8 (King Crimson)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-357-8.html
    Issue 355-6 (Elfin Bow)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-355-6.html
    Issue 353-4 (Melanie S Jane)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-353-4.html
    Issue 351-2 (Royal Affair)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CE…/gonzo-351-2-fvxuatzgf.html
    Issue 349-50 (Experimental Sonic Machines)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-349-50.htm
    Issue 347-8 (Gary Duncan)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-347-8.html
    Issue 345-6 (RDF)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-345-6.html
    Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-343-4.html
    Issue 341-42 (America)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-341-2.html
    Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-339-40.html
    Issue 337-38 (Zee)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-337-8.html
    Issue 335-36 (Raz)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-335-6.html
    Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-333-4.html
    Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
    https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-331-2.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 60 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday/Saturday

    ON THIS DAY IN -  1913 - The Turks lost 5,000 men in a battle with the Bulgarian army in Gallipoli.
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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)
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