CRYPTOLINK: Your Grandpa's bigfoot

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The Bigfoot saga has been around a long time…and there are hundreds of accounts to back it up. I have posted 3 newspaper reports describing Bigfoot from yesteryear:

Savage Attempts to Kidnap Women

McNairy County, Tennessee – April 13, 1871 — “We learn that between Sobby and Crainsville on what is called Piney, in McNairy County, TN a strange and frightful savage has been observed for several weeks.

He is said to be seven feet high and possessed of great muscular power. His eyes are unusually large and fiery red; his hair hangs in a tangle and matted mass below his waist, and his beard reaches below his middle. His entire body is covered with hair and his whole aspect is most frightful. He shuns the sight of them but approaches with wild and horrid screams of delight every woman who is unaccompanied by a man.

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CRYPTOLINK: Norm Glasser Bigfoot Hoax - The interview that started it all

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This is the meat and bones of the Interview I did with Norm Glasser. Of course, later we determined it was a hoax with the help of Adam Bird. This is a look into the mind of a well rehearsed hoaxer. I may or may not release the entire interview but this will give you an idea of how much thought was put into this. 

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CRYPTOLINK: Bigfoot Hiding Behind Log- FB/FB

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TODAY'S 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: Teacher Meets Bobcat Face-to-Face

NEWSLINK: Everything You Need to Know About the Li...

UK SIGHTINGS: Big cats are out there: Fresh sighti...

CANADA SIGHTINGS: Despite online claims, don't exp...

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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. 

So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

• Bird is the word: Four swans a-surfing
• Turbine company hire bird expert
• Gannet chick-eating championships provoke anger fr...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS

The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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I have once again been recording with Mike Davis, and another two songs are pretty well there. One of them is still awaiting some vocals from Liz but with a little luck and a fair wind the other will be up on YouTube later today. I have several musical projects on the go at the moment, which considering my rapidly increasing deafness is mildly ironic, and I think that this forthcoming year will be when I finally start my long considered project of a musical equivalent of CFZ Press. Later today I am interviewing the massively talented Don Falcone from Spirits Burning, and sometime this week (but for the life of me I can't remember when) I am interviewing Mark Murdock. And tomorrow Max arrives for the ring in the new ring out the old bit. Sometime before then I have to write my CFZ Annual Report for 2013. Who said this was a relaxed time of year?

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Auburn
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-auburn-shame-on.html

 

Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka: Review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/vangelis-and-journey-to-ithaka-review.html

 

JOEY MOLLAND: Danish Review (translated)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/joey-molland-rtm-danish-review.html

 

Crystal Grenade review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/crystal-grenade-us-review.html

 

Blodwyn Pig review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/blodwyn-pig-us-review.html

 

 

 

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*  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/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

* 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 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) - 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 orange cat?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2006 Saddam Hussain was executed. Undoubtedly the world can do without a dictator who embezzled most of his country's finances to build a solid gold house, gassed any troublemakers and tortured his enemies by feeding them into a wood chipper alive, but the war that ousted him was illegal, based on lies and probably resulted in more terrorist-related deaths and injuries than Saddam could have dreamt of in his wet dreams.

And now the news:

Endangered species could be screwed by rising seas...

Watch out for cat burglars Denis ‘The Menace’ and ...

Here’s where to go if you want to find a deformed ...

Fungus discovery offers pine-wilt hope

Just like that! Meet Mother Nature's magicians

Australia to monitor Japan's Antarctica whale hunt...

Charity Appeal: Kenya's daily battle between human...

Madagascar's forests vanish to feed taste for rose...

Saddam Hussain was apparently a fan of the Coen Brothers; who knew? (grim clip warning) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWFhDvURLg