Friday, October 14, 2016

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:




Dr. Samuel "Webb" Sentell Discusses Big Thicket Bigfoot
Nite Callers Bigfoot Radio begins the 2016-2017 season with a very special guest tonight. We welcome our dear friend Dr. Samuel "Webb" Sentell of ...

Native American Bigfoot Stories About Human Abductions (Video)
Kathy Strain talks about some of the more interesting, and sometimes horrifying stories of Native Americans about bigfoot. Often times tribes have ...

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.

  • SIGHTING, PHOTOS, UK: Dog suffered horror wounds a...
  • SIGHTING, UK: Panther on the prowl? Harpenden man ...

  • SIGHTING, AUSTRALIA: Illawarra 'panther' spotted a...
  • THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN VERSUS THE MAN IN THE MOON

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    Yesterday I had a telephone call from a woman with a most unattractive accent: "Hello, is that Mr Downes?"
     
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    Robert Browning said it best:
     
    Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!
    'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.
     
    'Thinketh He made it, with the sun to match,
    But not the stars; the stars came otherwise;
    Only made clouds, winds, meteors, such as that:
    Also this isle, what lives and grows thereon,
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    And now for the news................
     
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    Badfinger "Without You" 2002 doc
    THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Sensational Alex H...
    COMING THIS WEEKEND
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    Gonzo Magazine #203
     
    This week, we discover the extraordinary art and music of Martin Springett of The Gardening Club, John investigates Cary Grace, we find that Scott Walker can still ...gasp... write tunes, Alan writes about Banksy and other street art, and we are not very impressed by the latest slice of Harry Potter marketing.  And there is lots more besides.
     
    Good ‘ere innit?
     
    And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside 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:
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    Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
    Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
    Issue 199 (Yes)
    Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
    Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
    Issue 196 (Paul May)
    Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
    Issue 194 (Auburn)
    Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
    Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
    Issue 191 (Karnataka)
    Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
    Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
    Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
    Issue 186 (Beatles)
    Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
    Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
     
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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.co.uk
     
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday

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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.)