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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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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS


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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  • 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.


    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Retired Couple Spot Bigfoot In Northern California
    The Fortean Slip Bedtime Stories 50 In 2006 a retired couple while metal detecting in Northern California had an encounter with a 'hairy man' that they ...

    Possible Bigfoot Scream Captured On Video During Ohio Investigation
    During a regular investigation into one of his research areas, the Squatch Master captured a possible bigfoot vocalization in the distance. If you wear ...

    DENVER — The legend of 'Sasquatch' or 'Bigfoot' has been known far and wide for centuries now. In Northern Colorado, a newly released photo ...

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS AGAIN AND AGAIN

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
     
    Yesterday was a full moon, and as I don't always keep touch with such things it came as somewhat of a shock. According to Andrea,it was a particularly strong one "It's because they are currently straddling two signs (Virgo and Leo). So they increase they are in one sign and just as they become full they switch into another so in effect you are feeling two different full moon energies over the three days".
     
    I felt like I had been hit by a truck yesterday, and so - as far I can gather - did various other people I know. It is interesting how ten years ago I was the only person I knew affected by the moon, a true lunatic if you like, but now I am one of many. However an afternoon in bed and extra chocolate and quetiapine, and I feel surprisingly good today. So, apologies to anyone who tried to get hold of me yesterday, and on with the show.
     
    Daevid Allen Weird Quartet – Elevenses (2016)
    Drummers Corky Laing, Kofi Baker Rock Bay Street T...
    STEVE HACKETT TO HOST CULTURAL EVENING
    THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Heavy Drinkers by The ...
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
     
    Gonzo Weekly #170
    www.gonzoweekly.com
     
    Dave Bainbridge, Iona, Beach Boys, The Strawbs, Patrick Barkham, Electric Light Orchestra, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,  Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
     
    Dave Bainbridge from Iona and The Strawbs is on the front cover, together with an interview with him inside.
    Doug writes about ELO, while Jon gets all intense about the new Brian Wilson biopic, and reviews a book by Patrick Barkham. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressable Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
     
    Brian Wilson, Don McLean, Tyga, Eagles of Death Metal, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Prince, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Project/Object, Marillion, Eric Burdon, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Nelle Harper Lee, Denise Katrina Matthews ("Vanity"), Viola Beach, Lee Chester Ulmer, Margaret Forster, Paul Christian Gordon, Inner City Unit, Brand X, Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selector, Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Rick and Adam Wakeman, Dave Bainbridge, Electric Light Orchestra, Neil Nixon, Wild Man Fischer, Gavin Hughes, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Day's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Barry Booth, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher, 1D, Furor Gallico
     
     
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
     
    Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
    Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
    Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
    Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
    Issue 165 (David Bowie)
    Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
    Issue 163 (Lemmy)
    Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
    Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
    Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
    Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
    Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
    Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
    Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
    Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
    Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
    Issue 152 (4th Eden)
    Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
    Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
    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.co.uk
     
    * 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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

    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:
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1820 - The Cato Street conspiracy was uncovered. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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  • 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)