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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

CRYPTOLINK: Rare Animal: Humboldt Marten Said To Be Seen on New Bigfoot Film

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. 


Recently a group that had posted cameras in a northern California creek area seeking to prove or disprove the existence of Bigfoot gathered two shots ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




THE TRAIL TO BIGFOOT: Skunk Ape Watching Us
THE TRAIL TO BIGFOOT: Skunk Ape Watching Us posted by The Trail to Bigfoot. Share on Facebook. Tuesday, October 06, 2015. You will see it rise ...

The Greasy beast! Bigfoot!!
Bigfoot!! Oct. 4, 2015 posted by Paranormal Central. Share on Facebook ... LIKE Bigfoot Evidence on Facebook for the latest Bigfoot sightings and ...

New Bigfoot Footage Emerges
A man has released footage of a bipedal creature running in the woods of an undisclosed location. The video was originally submitted to the cryptid ...

Three cast members of the “Killing Bigfoot” television show received some support, but more open hostility Saturday at the Honobia Bigfoot Festival ...

Bigfoot Hunters Find Something Unexpected In Del Norte County
Though the majority of biologists agree that the large, hominid-appearing creature known as "Bigfoot" is a flight of fancy, the cryptic creature has its ...

Ok, so it sounds stupid... Would you arrow Bigfoot if he was in range?
What would you do if you actually saw the real deal Bigfoot within bow range (let's assume/pretend he's real for conversation sake), kill it or let it walk?
The Russian Sasquatch Searching For Bigfoot Discovery
3 Bfro Reacts To Russian Yeti Claims Finding Bigfoot ... 5 Russian Bigfoot: The Soviet Sasquatch - Paranormal/supernatural/conspiracy Documentary.

Who would you report a Bigfoot body to?
Before you answer, there are some things you should know about me. I'm currently interning for a government position. I'm an army reservist and one ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SCREAMS ELDRITCHLY IF THAT IS A WORD AND EVEN IF IT ISN'T

The Gonzo Daily – Wednesday
There are times I despair of the human race. “What is the old bugger banging on about now?” I can imagine you asking indignantly. Am I talking about Russian and Chinese incursions into Syria which some folk are predicting will be the start of WW3? Is he burbling about the fact that the United Nations are investigating the British government to see whether Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms have caused “grave or systematic violations” of disabled peoples’ human rights? Is it the fact that an American God Botherer has claimed that today marks the beginning of the end of all things?
I am appalled by the human race, most significantly the subsector of which makes up my nearest and dearest. This morning my friend, lifestyle guru and head honcho of Digitiser2000, Paul Rose also known as Mr Biffo published something which made me laugh so much that I almost had some sort or seizure. And nobody else has laughed anywhere near as much as I did. Like I said I despair of the human race. Check it out for yourselves: http://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/31-beautiful-works-of-human-art
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
40 Years Ago: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart Un...
How High Did the Byrds Fly?
Yes Guitarist Steve Howe Says Band's Cruise to the...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Edgar Broughton Band - Death of an Electric Citizen (1969)
Gonzo Weekly #150
www.gonzoweekly.com
Roger Dean, Geoff Downes, Mew, The Farm, The Raz Band, David Gilmour, Anderson Ponty Band, Barbara Dickson, New Order, Joe Vitale, Joey Molland, anarchopunk, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#150) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has legendary artist Roger Dean on the front cover together with an interview with him inside, Doug looks at Danish Alr Rockers Mew, Lee muses on The Farm and WW1, Jon intrerviews Michael Raz and critiques new albums by Jon Anderson, David Gilmour and New Order as well telling the story of the night we met Barbara Dickson. We review a delightful book about butterflies, and Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show Strange Fruit and another from Canterbury Sans Frontieres. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons wanting a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed up too late last night, 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:
Kurt Cobain, Lush, Taylor Swift, Keith Richards, John Lennon, David Gilmour, Chic, David Bowie, Steve Hackett, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Phillip Wells Woods, Frankie Ford, Wilton Lewis Felder, Denise Lor, Brand X, The Raz Band, Johnny Winter, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, Nucleus, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Roger Dean, Mew, Michael Rescigno, The Raz Band, Joey Molland, Joseph Vitale, Lee Walker, The Farm, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Nik Turner, Xtul, Nirvana, Beatles, Jermaine Jackson, Jim Morrison, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Geoff Downes, AndersonPonty Band, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire, New Order, Barbara Dickson,Neil Nixon, Beck, SatanaKozel
And yes, we reach our Century and a half.
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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 infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?

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.


NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Adorable sea turtles don poop-catching swimsuits f...
  • 24,000 elephants killed in 2015
  • Bizarre hog-nosed rat discovered in Indonesian jun...

  • Endangered salamander habitat saved in Guatemala


  • 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)