BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Gigantopithecus, the King Kong of Asia, went extinct for not eating its vegetables

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In "Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry into the Reality of Sasquatch," Bigfoot hunter Grover Krantz, suggests that a few thousand Gigantopithecus ...

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Indian beliefs regarding the tapir in North America

There is an interesting though racist article in the Amador Ledger of July 7^th 1905 titled Indian Superstitions, which however contains two cryptozoological snippets which reflect upon a completely separate cryptozoological story I found relating to a national park near Santa Barbara on the coast of California.

INDIAN SUPERSTITIONS

The Indian believes there are boa constrictors in the streams of North America and also that the South American tapir lives in North America. He calls the boa constrictor the iste-ach-war-nayer and calls the tapir nocas-ohmer.

The Indian believes he has a cure and preventive for rabies, or hydrophobia. He also believes he can cure any snake bite on earth, from a ground rattler to a velvet tail or diamond rattler. An Indian never was known to go mad from dog bite or die from a rattler`s bite, while other races succumb to the venom of a snake or go mad from the bite of a rabid dog.

The Indian when in battle and fatally wounded believes that if his medicine man can reach him with his bitter medicine before he dies it will give him instant relief and he will be able to escape from the battlefield. He thinks every man is honest until he finds him out, in which event he loses all confidence in him and never gets over it. The Indian never makes up after falling out with any one. He may speak to an enemy as he passes, but dies with the hatred in his heart.

Now casting the racism away, I found an intriguing story in the The Milwaukee Journal  February 20th 1943

Santa Barbara, California.  One more strange animal has been added to the long list of odd ones that have been trapped or otherwise captured in Los Padres national forest. The list includes a wild boar with a  snout like an elephant`s trunk, white coyotes, snow coloured deer and even an all-red blackbird. The latest capture in the forest was that of a monkey - and a tame one at that. Foresters are trying to locate its owner.

Someone on the Zombie Mammal Society Facebook group pointed out to me on December  13^th that the animal with a trunk sounded like a tapir and interestingly fossil tapir have been found in California. Wikipedia says:

Tapirus californicus, sometimes called the California tapir, is an extinct species of tapir that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene era. T. californicus went extinct about 13,000 to 11,000 BC at the end of the last ice age.^[1]

Tapirs have a long history on the North American continent. Fossils of ancient tapirs in North America can be dated back to 50 million-year-old Eocene rocks on Ellesmere Island, Canada, which was then a temperate climate.^[2] By 13 million years ago, tapirs very much like extant tapirs existed in Southern California.^[3]

^{I contacted Chad Arment about this and he told me that there were a lot of big snake stories in the south-west of the U.S. and boas specifically in Mexico.}

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.

• Javan Green Magpies: Extremely Rare Birds Relocate...
• Top New Bird Discoveries of 2015
• Dozens of starving seabirds grounded inland in Sou...
• 11 year-old Thomas Spencer photographed rare grey ...
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NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Press and Journal

Expert says Nessie video may be giant eel

Press and Journal

A famous “sighting” of the Loch Ness Monster may finally have been solved – but the explanation could be just as scary as a monster lurking beneath ...

JESSICA SAYS.....

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETURNS TO NORMAL

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

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Now Jessica has a cold and is at home ill. Corinna is out at work, and I am sitting quietly in the office swilling lemsip and getting on with things. Hopefully it will all come back to normal next week.

 

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: KARNATAKA - Fairytale ...

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JOHN MAYALL: Live in 1967 / Find a Way to Care

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Lemmy, right, with Hawkwind Photo by Getty DAVE BR...

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FRANK ZAPPA: ‘Old Cucamonga’ book gives flavor of ...

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Gonzo Weekly #163

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Lemmy, Hawkwind, Bridget Wishart, Twink, Brand X, Percy Jones, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Roy Weard,  Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

 

What was once supposed to be the "Ring out the Old, Ring in the New, Blah Blah Blah" edition has become a tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, together with Jon's look back at the best records of the year, Doug's look at the best gigs, an interview with one-time Hawkwind chanteuse Bridget Wishart, another with Brand X bass dude Percy Jones, a review of Hawkwind during 2015, and columns from all sorts of folk including Mr Biffo. And all this during what is euphemistically known as 'The Festive Season'. Golly!  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:

 

Jimmy Page, P J Harvey, AC/DC, Trent Reznor, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, EODM, Madonna, Wilko Johnson, David Bowie, Barbara Dickson, N.W.A., Galahad, Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Adam Roth, Mick Lynch, Mary Joan Okum, James Hill OBE, Peter Broggs, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Dee Palmer, Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Korner, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Judge Smith, John Brodie Good, Public Service Broadcasting, The Long Lost Band, Jacqui McShee's Pentangle, Spooky Ghost, Gary Duncan Quicksilver, Drones for Daevid, Pink Fairies, John Martyn, Liz Lenten, Wreckless Eric, Howard Eynon, Roy Weard, Trim Tab Jim, My Dad's LPs, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo, Ken Worthington, John Shuttleworth, Hawkwind, Alan Friswell, Xtul, Elvis, Black Sabbath, One Direction, Cliff Richard, Yoko Ono, Yes, Neil Nixon, Emit Bloch, Cave Growl

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)

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Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html

Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html

Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html

Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html

Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html

Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html

Issue 153 (Martin Barre)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html

Issue 152 (4th Eden)

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Issue 151 (Corky Laing)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo151.html

Issue 150 (Roger Dean)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo150.html

Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo149.html

Issue 148 (Wally Hope)

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Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)

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Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)

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Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)

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Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

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Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

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Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

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Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

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Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

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Issue 139 (Raz cover)

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Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

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Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

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Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

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Issue 135 (FNP cover)

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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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NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN 1558 - Calais, the last English possession on mainland France, was recaptured by the French. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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Degraded habitat alters frog microbiomes - via Her...

Super rare pink hippo makes appearance in Kenya re...

Like father like son: Epigenetics in wild guinea p...

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)