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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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Sunday, December 08, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: Group Claims Bigfoot Evidence Found In Oconee Co.

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SENECA, S.C. -Evidence of Bigfoot's existence has been found in Oconee County, according to the Carolina Society for Paranormal Research and Investigation.

The group says there have been plenty of Bigfoot sightings in the Upstate for more than three decades.  But a recent sighting offers more evidence than just a witness, CarolinasSPRI explains.

"It would be the perfect place and if it's not a bigfoot, there's something in our woods," Cari George said.
According to the group, there are many things in local forests that researchers believe have been built by Bigfoot.

They have several photos of footprints, which they claim are too large and wide to be a normal human.

There are also several "wood shelters" out in the woods which contain live limbs intertwined.

"A bear has no thumbs, so a bear cannot manipulate limbs in an order or a fashion to actually stick two tops together and then weave the branches," Marty George said.
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CRYPTOLINK: Lake Norman Has Its Own Monster Myth

You’ve heard of the Loch Ness monster, but did you know that Lake Norman has its very own mythological monster? And his name is Normie.
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Normie has inspired T-shirts, boat tours, and his own children's book.
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. 
Earlier this month, filmmakers of the History channel show, MonsterQuest, visited Lake Norman to check out the myth for a new series called Boogeymen. Matt Myers has been tracking fishing tales and monster sightings for much longer. He runs the websiteLakeNormanMonster.com, and he joined WFAE’s Ben Bradford to discuss Normie.

BRADFORD: Matt, who is Normie?
MYERS: We’d like to think that Normie is the friendly lake monster who lives in Lake Norman. If you visit the website you’ll see something an artistic rendition of him, sort of a Loch Ness monster-looking, with a nice little smile but we’re trying to make it kid friendly. It’s okay to swim in the lake.
BRADFORD: So, how did we end up having a mythological monster in the lake?
MYERS: That’s a very good question. Fishing’s always been a hobby of mine and I just started hearing tales of a big fish in Lake Norman, so I just decided to put up a small website and see if I could gather information.

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DALE DRINNON: Megareptiles, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology: http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/12/surviving-south-american-megareptiles.html

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-unity-of-humans-and-multiplicity-of.html http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/puma-punku-ancient-alien-technology.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd: http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/12/watch-devils-brother-online.html New at Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus: http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/12/snowstorm.html http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-spectre-with-percival-popp-super-cop.html Best Wishes, Dale D.
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.




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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 which 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. 
  • USA SIGHTING: Businessman shoots 'big cat' : Kaiet...
  • VIDEO: Large mysterious paw prints appear at churc...
  • VIDEO: Australian Big Cats
  • VIDEO: Hunting big cats in the UK
  • VIDEO: Big Cat Diary Series 1: Episode 1 Part B


  • USA SIGHTINGS: Cougar? Glencoe urges caution after...

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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH BAND HOPS

    The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
     

    It's Sunday, I must be getting old
    cos once again I have a cold
    I don't know if its new today
    or if the last one never went away
     
    so quaffing lemsip much of the time
    as I sit down to write deathless rhymes
    it's my Sunday treat, I must not miss
    to do the Gonzo blogs like this
     
    Issue 55 of our magazine
    (I'm sure you know the one I mean)
    with Jaki Windmill and XNA
    is out there on the web today
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/gonzo-weekly-magazine-55.html
     
    Each day we visit Texas Thom
    who's been writing poetry for so long
    and before you look at me askance,
    that second line's an assonance
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html
     
    33 years ago today
    John Lennon was shot and taken away
    and a third of a century on
    not a day goes by that I don't miss John
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john-lennon.html
     
    Political plotting! I bet you can't guess
    but politicians are conspiring to help Yes
    after 44 years at the top of their game
    to get in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/political-strategists-plot-to-get-yes.html
     
    The post we have coming up next
    is a press release about Brand X
    and Percy Jones whom just talked to me
    Gonzo are releasing some rare CDs
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/gonzo-multimedia-to-release-rare-cds-by.html
     
    And finally for you to dwell upon
    an interview with Jon Anderson
    who at the age of nearly seventy
    knows how to produce a great CD
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/rockin-rich-lynch-on-radio-show-025.html
     
    [NB: Just in case you wondered why we are so late today, it has been animal rescue time again. This time an 8in New Guinea freshwater lobster)
     
    *  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: http://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. 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?
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    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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