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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, March 22, 2016

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




A Young Woman Has An Encounter With A Skinwalker
Many stories of encounters with skinwalkers sound very similar to encounters with bigfoot. Some even believe that sasquatch are actually skinwalkers.

Aggressive Texas Bigfoot Puts Man To Sleep With Infrasound (Video)
Sasquatch or Bigfoot in Texas are real and so is infra sound. This lady and her husband were fishing and had a Sasquatch throw rocks and scream ...

Sasquatch Seen Hunting Rabbits With A Rock - Webcast
Utah Bigfoot tried to kill me; Sasquatch seen hunting rabbit with rocks. "Ms Claire was terrified when Bigfoot came running at her breaking trees.

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.




ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

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

From CFZ-USA:

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN LISTENS TO TRAVELLER'S TALES

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I have all sorts of stuff on my mind at the moment: good, bad and indifferent, but today's events in Brussels knock it all into a cocked hat. We are living in very dark and disturbing times, and they are getting worse. The only way that we shall survive this is by working together and building defences of trust and love. But as the human race is basically selfish and anti social... God help us all.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart with Dave N...
ME1 TV Talks To... Hawkwind
WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Judge Smith
Interview with Steve Hackett: Milan, 21 September ...
Gonzo Magazine #174
Keith Emerson's death broke about half an hour after we went to press last weekend. As promised this week is a tribute iossue dedicated to him, and we would like to extend our condolences to his loved ones.
Keith Emerson, Erik Norlander, ELP, Patrick Moraz, Greg Lake, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
Keith Emerson is on the front cover, and inside Erik Norlander and Richard Stellar remember the Keith Emerson they knew. There are also statements from Greg Lake and Patrick Moraz. Doug writes about what many believe was ELP's finest hour, while Jon remembers the influence Keith Emerson had on his life. There is an open letter from Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Gregg Kofi Brown tour dates. We review a book about Anarchopunk. John looks forward to a revolutionary spectacular at the V&A museum. Biffo looks at poo graffiti. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Maloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible 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:
Keith Emerson, Prince, Pete Doherty, Stevie Wonder, Iron Maiden, Phil Collins, Madonna, Eagles, Elton John, Don McLean, Gregg Kofi Brown, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Newton Edward Daniels (Paul Daniels), Lee Andrews, Arthur Clifford "Cliff" Michelmore, CBE, Sylvia Beatrice Anderson, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE, Thomas "Tommy" A. Brown, Joe Ascione, Joan Bates, Gregg Kofi Brown, Billy Cobham, Kevin Ayres featuring Ollie Halsall, Country Queens, Robert Calvert, Greg Harris, The Kentucky Colonels, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Michael Livesley and Brainwashing House feat Rick Wakeman, Neil Innes and Susie Honeyman, Erik Norlander, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Greg Lake, Patrick Moraz, Richard Stellar,Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Amy Phillipson, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Mr.Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul,The Beatles, Wilson Pickett, Ozzy Osbourne, Cher, Neil Nixon, Richard Brautigan, Boisson Divine
                                                                                        
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
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)
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?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • Inbreeding impacts on mothering ability, red deer ...
  • New golden frog species discovered in Colombia
  • Alien of the Deep: 'Winged' Green-Eyed Creature St...
  • SeaWorld to stop breeding orca whales
  • Whip spiders only look terrifying
  • Marine protected areas can benefit large sharks


  • 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)