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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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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WAITS FOR HIS AMANUENSES

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
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At the beginning of the year I promised CFZ people across the globe that this would be a year of change. Well, so it is proving to be. Yesterday, after months of faffing about, with Dr Andrew May cheering me on from the sidelines, I finally got the CFZ website (www.cfz.org.uk) upgraded for the first time in some years. We also announced the long awaited changes to the CFZ membership package (http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2015/02/changes-to-cfz-membership-package.html) and - remember - last week we released our first digital edition of our long running magazine Animals & Men (http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/animals-and-men-52-online-edi.html)
 
There is a lot more to come, so watch this space...
 
 

The Gonzo Weekly #115
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Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream, John Lydon, Grateful Dead, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#115) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream on the front cover. As you may know he died about ten days ago. Inside there is a retrospective by Doug Harr and Rob Ayling remembers his relationship with the man who defined electronic music. I critique the extraordinary new John Lydon autobiography, and also burble on about The Grateful Dead. We have news about the Drones for Daevid concert in Brighton next week, and we send the legendary Roy Weard to a desert island. Xtul are on the road to Norwich, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy 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!!!
 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 

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/
 

* 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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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?
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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:




4 Alleged Bigfoot Sightings (With Videos!) from January 2015
Image: Screencaps from the following Bigfoot sighting videos. January was a big month for Bigfoot, or so it would seem. Last month, we saw at least ...

Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Forest People in Tennessee
I could possibly get on board with a bigfoot, however implausible, as some sort of ape. Now, tribes of people who live in the woods and scare grizzly.

Man recounts sighting of Bigfoot in Scotland
A man from Fife has broken a ten-year silence by revealing his encounter with a mysterious hominid. While sightings of Bigfoot in the UK remain 

Is Bigfoot In Britain Mysterious Figure Lurking In Lincolnshire Woods Is Claimed To Be Mystery Beast
Could these startling pictures be evidence that Bigfoot is lurking in the British countryside? The eerie image appears to show a large shadowy figure ...

(Possible) Bigfoot tormenting penned dogs. (The Blinky footage.)
Interesting, in the comparison when she goes behind the trees, you will notice three white places where a branch has broken or been trimmed off, she .

Something Is Knocking In The Woods; Could It Be Bigfoot?
Could it be bigfoot? The Texas Cryptid Hunter takes a look at "'Drumming' Chimps and the Wood Knocking Connection." Thwok! Thwok! The sound of 
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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.


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ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

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

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1815 - The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland. 

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  • Why is a dolphin not a cat? Repurposing non-coding...


    • 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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    Monday, February 02, 2015

    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:



    'Bigfoot' filmed traipsing through swamp
    'Bigfoot' filmed traipsing through swamp. Posted on Thursday, 29 January, 2015 | Comment icon 16 comments. The creature was lurking behind the 

    Texas Photographer Snaps Picture of Bigfoot
    Tag archives for Texas Photographer Snaps Picture of Bigfoot ... believes may have snaped a picture of Bigfoot after having rocks thrown at him
    Bigfoot expert: 'Sasquatch' video 'too good to be true'
    A leading Bigfoot expert says that video evidence of a Sasquatch skulking through Prospect Park on Tuesday morning was probably fabricated — but ...

    The Courier
    Bigfoot investigators have revealed a Fife man has broken a 10-year silence and reported seeing the mythical beast just off the Tay Road Bridge in ...
    A lady in Oregon wanted to do something special with the dying fir tree in her front yard. The tree had stood on her property for over 100 years! So she ...

    'My reports of seeing a monster were not taken seriously'
    A Bigfoot hunter believes the mythical beast could still be roaming the Angus countryside. Charmaine Fraser, 41, claims to have seen a Bigfoot near a ...

    Ohio Bigfoot Hunters to Conduct Workshop on Evidence Collection
    At Annual Creature Weekend Conference, Local Ohio Bigfoot Group Conducts Workshop for people wishing to become Bigfoot Researchers. 

    Arsene Wenger photobombs Arsenal photo shoot - manages to look like famous 'Bigfoot' picture
    Sanchez unlikely to play this weekend. Whilst the mythical Bigfoot reputedly inhabits forests, Wenger was simply outside Arsenal's training centre.

    A Search for Ohio Bigfoot
    Bigfoot hunters/researches Doug Waller and Shawna Parks were deep into a remote wooded section of Salt Fork State Park when Waller was ...

    5newsonline.com
    Regardless of if the mythical creature has been sighted in Arkansas, a meeting is scheduled to take place in Charleston to discuss all things Bigfoot.
    The RMSO checks out the location of a recent bigfoot sighting. It's mid-winter and the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization is still out there putting ...

    Bigfoot family discovered? Texas woman leaves them 'buckets of food'
    The family of Bigfoot creatures just had a baby, she shares on the air. She has seen where they live and she has known they've been living there since  
    KXRM
    Enthralling footage: Is this proof that 'Bigfoot' exists?
    NEW YORK -- A video that was recently uploaded to YouTube claims to show “Bigfoot” in a wooded area in Brooklyn, New York. According to Russell ...
    This Manitoba Bigfoot Footage Has One Great Story Behind it
    This interview is really impressive and captures every detail of the sighting. Could this be the elusive white Bigfoot, or something else? Check it out: ...
    This Costume From Exists Is One of The Most Realistic Looking Costumes Ever
    Exists, a filmed by Eduardo Sanchez showcases one of the most terrifying Bigfoot chases ever. This little featurette shows up what it takes to bring the ...

    The Inquisitr
    New Bigfoot Video Emerges From Florida: Does This Clip Show A Real Skunk Ape?
    A new video has emerged, purporting to show a Bigfoot as it meanders through a Florida swamp, and though some have questioned its authenticity, ...

    The Inquisitr
    Man claims to have video of 'Bigfoot' walking through park in New York City
    NEW YORK — A video recently posted to YouTube claims to show “Bigfoot” walking through a park in New York City. WPIX reported that Russell ...

    Phil Breaks Down ThinkThunker's Bigfoot Stalking Buffalo Analysis
    Here's ParaBreakdown conclusion on the "Bigfoot vs. Buffalo" video posted by ThinkerThunker. In this breakdown, Phil points out several problems ...
    Theories for their demise range from natural disasters to a government or military cover up and even to an encounter with aliens or the Russian bigfoot ... 
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    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.
  • Do Mysterious Big Cats Prowl the British Countrysi...
  • -NEWSLINK -U.S.A-Big cat, big fright: Cougar caugh...
  • -NEWSLINK- NORTH WALES-Call to find out the truth ...
  • -NEWSLINK-Circus Tigers
  • Namibias wild cats live on
  • VIDEO-BBC Natural World Documentary 2015 THE JAGUA...


  • VIDEO-National Geographic Wild 2015 Large Cat Sigh...
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