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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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Saturday, October 11, 2014

CFZ PEOPLE: "It's not tuesday, it's not thursday...IT'S GRANDDAUGHTER SATURDAY!

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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Water Truck Driver Encounters Bigfoot at Deadwood River
WATCH: Bigfoot Research And I Finally I tell Of My Encounter. Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization: 2nd of three Bigfoot sightings in 24 hours at ...

Bigfoot encounter a tree peeker,knocks and other sounds
Unbelievable Return howls to a Tree Knock · Listen Up: Day Time Grunting Incident Raw · Bigfoot Sightings Re-creation with Barb & Gabby. Tagged in ...

MKDavis Discusses Some More Photos From The Siberian Bigfoot Collection.
M.K.Davis discusses some more photos from the Siberian Bigfoot collection. Uploaded by Paranormalo on Oct 10, 2014; Hits: 4. Here explains why 

Oklahoma Bigfoot Evidence
This is a Bigfoot cast that Dr. Jeff Meldrum has shared that he seems to have obtained from the Honobia Festival. Meldrum says he had a great time at 

Bigfoot Caught on Video by Snowboarder on Mountain in Pacific Northwest?
Snowboarders always shred with their buddies. Since there was no one else on the slope, that must have been her buddy in the suit. Bigfoot just stand 

Edmond Sun
Janelle Stecklein, columnist: Bigfoot confab draws enthusiasts, no ape-man
This past weekend, he was in Oklahoma's small community of Honobia, sharing his knowledge with Bigfoot enthusiasts of all ages and from all walks ...
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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.


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THE GONZO FROG BING BONG MAN IS CONFUSED

The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
 
Once again it is stupid o'clock in the morning, but we are putting the finishing touches to another fine issue of the Gonzo Weekly which will be out later today. Bloody magazines don't write themselves y'know!!!
 
 
Judge Smith, Peter Hammill, Edgar Allan Poe fans, Wings fans, Carl "Blue" Wise fans, Hawkwind fans, Gong fans and all sorts of other people, had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#99) will soon be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
 
It has Judge Smith on the cover, and features an article by him about the latest performaance of his celebrated opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". There is also an interview with him about it. But there's more! We have an interview with Carl "Blue" Wise about Denny Laine, Wings, Joey Molland, Badfinger and playing alongside some of the sopul stars of Stax records (amongst other things). Doug Harr goes to see King Crimson, and Jon asks whether repackaging and remixing and remastering music is morally acceptable. The new album by Aphex Twin is critiqued and there are exclusive words Hunter Ayling is backstage at Hawkwind's Hawkoktoberfest. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is a new show from Canterbury Sans Frontières, but sadly it will be the last for a while. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and doves making coos (OK, no musical members of the Columbinidae, 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!!!
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 

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:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 

*  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/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 an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa 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?
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN 1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses. 

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  • Chinese chamber of commerce at heart of wildlife t...
  • Possible disease outbreak kills bison in Romania
  • California's pumas threatened by urbanisation
  • Bosnian Mountain Horse herd grows in the Velebit M...

  • Russia: Escaped raccoon prompts two-week chase

    • 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)
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    Friday, October 10, 2014

    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    MK Davis Breaks Down The Siberian Bigfoot Photograph
    He guides us through some of the enhancement techniques that are applied to these amazing photos from Russia. Is this a real Bigfoot or Almasty?

    Boy Takes Pictures of Bigfoot From 10 Yards Away
    I saw some Newfoundlanders a month or so ago in Golden, BC, is Newfoundland Canada's version of section 8?

    Bigfoot confab draws enthusiasts, but little sign of the ape man
    A costumed Bigfoot hands out candy at the Honobia Bigfoot Festival and Conference. The festival draws more than a 1,000 experts to the small ...


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    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:
    From CFZ-USA:
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