Thursday, October 17, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: Naked Man Claiming to Be a Descendent of Sasquatch Attacks Hunter

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. This post, however, is particularly interesting and the author should be congratulated....
A naked man claiming that he came from a long family line of Sasquatches attacked a hunter in rural Washington County, Oregon on Thursday.
Jeff McDonald is not an avid hunter, according to his daughter, and after what he experienced on Thursday it’s unlikely that he will be out in the forest any time soon. The 58-year old McDonald was in the woods behind his house when the naked 20-year old son of his neighbor attacked him with a rock while making Sasquatch references.
Read on...

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.




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. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.



  • NEWSLINK: Animal lovers ignore Nevada's big cat pr...
  • US SIGHTINGS: Newcomb mountain lion update
  • SIGHTINGS USA: Off-duty cop has harrowing encounte...
  • NEWSLINK: No outcry in Nevada when big cats attack...
  • UK SIGHTINGS: On the trail of big cats in Dorset

  • NEWSLINK: BIG CAT POLL: US charity appeal
  • THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN LEADS BY EXAMPLE

    The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
    Today is like one of those rather crappy farces from a 1960s movie, during which people rush out one door to collect someone from the station, whereupon someone else telephones saying they will be late. The handsome boyish protagonist (me) telephones the people who have just left and after a string of answerfone messages manages to reschedule everything whereupon the phone rings again. The train has been cancelled! So it goes all bloody day. On a more cheerful note Bryan Sykes' announcement re. yeti DNA this morning has had predictable results, with no-one grasping that just because one set of hairs was from an unknown bear, it doesn't mean that there ain't no yetis. People really are blinkered.
    More news about Michael Des Barres on the radio
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/michael-on-radio.html
    *  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/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 1966 Mark Gatiss was born. Gatiss is best known for writing and staring in The League of Gentlemen, writing some of the best episodes of Doctor Who since the interval and co-writing BBC's Sherlock.

    And now the news:
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  • Chimpanzees of a Feather Sit Together: Friendships...
  • Roboroach: Control cockroach with app
  • Invasive Mink Threatens South America's Largest Wo...
  • Why Do Cats Purr?

  • 'Flying ant month' revealed by social media

  • Mark Gatiss on The League of Gentlemen:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2hGRQo6H3g