Monday, January 13, 2014

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. 


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  • THE CRYPTODANE: The cows that didn't come home


    The mystery of the dead cows (14 altogether) that have washed ashore in Denmark and Sweden during the last couple of weeks now seems to have been solved. There has been a lot of speculation about the case in the media, as the cows had their back legs tied together, the abdomen cut open, and their ears cut off.

    Closer examination of some of the dead animals only served to deepen the mystery, as they seemed to be very high quality animals, and at least two of them seemed to have been killed with a bolt gun.

    Read on...

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS HAD ENOUGH

    Saturday evening was lovely. Martin, an old schoolfriend of mine whom I have only seen fleetingly once or twice in the last 30+ years, came to dinner. It was peculiar but heartwarming to see how we effortlessly picked up the threads of our friendship. And we hadn't actually hung out regularly together since 1976! He filled me in on the current status of friends and teachers half forgotten. I was particularly saddened to hear that Paul (the singer in my first band) had died of a particularly grotesque form of cancer, and surprised to hear that one particular teacher (of whom I have written elsewhere) was actually gay! That explains quite a lot.

    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

    MICHAEL DES BARRES ON THE RADIO
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/michael-des-barres-on-radio.html

    Rick sets off on a new journey
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/rick-sets-off-on-new-journey.html

    ‘Everything is moving forward’: Yes, Jon Davison is still working with Glass Hammer
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/everything-is-moving-forward-yes-jon.html

    JOEY MOLLAND: RTM US review
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/joey-molland-rtm-us-review.html

    THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gary Windo - Now is The time
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-gary-windo-now.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?

    ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

    News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

    From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
    From CFZ-USA:

    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

    What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

    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.