CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 01/13/13

Sunday, January 13, 2013

PROBABLY THE BEST BIGFOOT VIDEO OF THE YEAR SO FAR

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CRYPTOLINK: Linda Godfrey looks into the face of bigfoot

While waiting along with everyone else to see whether Dr. Melba Ketchum’s DNA study and/or the allegedly captured Bigfoot code-named Daisy hold any water worth wading into, I have been looking back at some of the better ‘Squatch reports I’ve received and collected from SE Wisconsin over the years. One of my favorites is the so-called “Bad Hair Day Bigfoot” observed by Matt Wakely in September 2005 SE of Lake Geneva, near the WI-IL border.

The incident is described in full in my book Hunting the American Werewolf, and Wakely passed a polygraph exam of his story on the Monsterquest “American Werewolf ” episode. (The show didn’t mention he saw a Bigfoot rather than a dog man). This was a daylight sighting where the witness had a good long look at the creature. He called his mother and told her he had just seen a caveman, naked and covered with fur. The creature seemed totally unafraid of Matt, and its most unusual feature may have been its rather wild hairdo. My best guess is that it was perhaps an adolescent that had just risen from a midday nap in the cemetery, where it stood with 1 foot on a head stone.

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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 should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.

DALE DRINNON: Loch Ness Monster, plesiosaur, Benny's Blogs

New at Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/01/christian-spurlings-surgeons-photo-hoax.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/01/powder-horn-plesiosaur.html

New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/01/funky-flashman.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/01/richard-hughes.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-further-adventures-of-nyoka.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

It's sunday afternoon way hay

as usual I have stuff to say,
and each week at about this time
I do the Gonzo blogs in rhyme

Why? They ask with some bemusement
it's simple, t'is for my own amusement
so dear friends its time to say
I think we should get underway

Here is the new Hawkwind newsletter
when I got it, I thought I'd better
post it here, and so I did (but like a jerk)
cos its a repost the links don't work
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/latest-hawkwind-newsletter.html

And now the Gonzo Track of the Day
is a song by Spirits Burning
I interviewed them yesterday
they're really good (as I am learning)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-spirits-burning.html

And now a song by Michael Des Barres
another odball cover version
of the Velvet Underground A-Ha!!!
an interesting musical excursion
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/another-in-our-occasional-series-of.html

And now, it is a special day
it is David Allen's birthday
I'm not going to tell you his age,
but here's a groovy tribute page
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-daevid-allen-magical-history-tour.html

Barbara Dickson played folk clubs
which were usually held in the back of pubs
but she doesn't do it any more
it was way back B4 74
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/review-barbara-dickson-b4-seventy-four.html

And now I'm gonna take you down
to Texas and to Austin Town
he is very clever and never rude
he's the awesome Gonzo poet dude
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

And now I go off topic a bit
but I thought this video would fit
its a YouTube tribute review thing
of 'In the Court of the Crimson King'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/vide-review-king-crimson-in-court-of.html

And now back to Daevid again
Rob Ayling knew him way back then
he sings "Happy Birthday to You"
and Don Falcone pays tribute too
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/gonzo-people-daevid-allen.html

And finally Al from Atkins/May
has an interview with lots to say
its interesting to say the least,
he's the bloke who founded Judas Priest
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-judas-priest-ex-atkins-call-me.html

I usually do six posts each day
but this time I got carried away
I think that you'll find that there are nine
I'll be back tomorrow (but not in rhyme)

* 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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)

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 has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1938 William B. Davis, aka the Cigarette Smoking Man in the X-Files, was born.

And now the news:

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Giant Fossil Predator Provides Insights Into the R...

The X-Files theme tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlF46tZiQo