KARL SHUKER: The Uncommonness of Unicorns

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2011/10/uncommonness-of-unicorns.html

MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO NEIL AND JEMMA ARNOLD WHO GOT MARRIES ON FRIDAY

With love and best wishes from all at the CFZ

ANDREW GABLE: The Beast of Bowman's Hill

A few days ago, I received a message from Johnathan Lackey describing a sighting, which took place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, of something that seems similar to many of the descriptions of the famous Jersey Devil. It's interesting that several reports of the Jersey Devil made during the infamously active week of January 16-23, 1909 were made in Bucks County (in Bristol, Wycombe and Morrisville).

The actual sighting took place in 1977, when Lackey was a resident of Levittown. While driving south of Bowman's Tower (a landmark on the border of Upper Makefield and Solebury Townships) a creature leapt from the right side of the road. The creature was about the color of a deer and roughly the size of a medium-sized dog. It had a body similar in build to a greyhound, a monkey-like face (which seemed to have a sheen to it), a long tail with a black tip, and rather long legs. It seemed to have a pair of owl-like wings, which were kept motionless as it moved across the road, leapt, and glided down the hillside opposite where it had emerged.

The area where this was seen has its own share of weirdness. Although the derivation of the Bowman name is unclear, one of the theories is that it is named for a Dr. John Bowman, a crewman of the notorious Captain Kidd who was believed to have settled in eastern Pennsylvania and supposed in legend to have buried a treasure on the hill the tower is on (there is a longstanding folkloric correspondence between buried treasure and phantom doglike creatures). There was also a copper mine of unknown provenance, but believed to be of German construction, found on the hill by accident in 1854.

INTRODUCING GRAIDI AND TIM

My appeal for volunteers during the keynote speech at this year's Weird Weekend was answered by an enthusiastic young couple Tim and Graidi Taylor-Rose. Every other sunday they wind their way to Woolsery and do CFZstuff that has been long overdue to be done. You will be hearing a lot more from them in the very near future.

HAUNTED SKIES: Various cuttings from October 1968

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/09/october-1968-two-cuttings.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1957 a fire started in the nuclear reactors of Windscale in Cumbria. Thanks mainly due to differences in design between the UK reactors and the reactors used by the rest of the world most of the radioactive material was contained and there wasn’t a huge explosion like in Chernobyl. These days though everyone uses the more dangerous design because it’s cheaper, capitalism in action, eh.
And now the news:

Elephant causes safari park traffic jam after taki...
A New Species of 'Gigantic' Mollusc Has Been Disco...
Blue whales at risk off LA Harbor
Large Field of Dinosaur Tracks Uncovered in Southw...
111 pangolins seized on a boat off Sumatra

Close enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz07TaTDEA

CFZ NEW ZEALAND: Musings upon Bigfeet

http://cfz-nz.blogspot.com/2011/10/big-feet-musing.html