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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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Thursday, June 12, 2014

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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    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



    Learn To Speak Bigfoot Language
    Bigfoot Evidence Matt K.
    In case you happen to ever run across a bigfoot, and you would like to communicate with it, R. Scott Nelson has provided a phonetic key for their 

    Bird hunters come upon Bigfoot
    Two geese hunters who are from Bethel are the most recent eyewitnesses of a large, hairy, Bigfoot-like creature on the tundra near the community of ...

    Unknown Vocal Sounds - Could it be Bigfoot
    We are not saying for sure this is a bigfoot, we do not know for sure what is making these sounds. Some say it is a bigfoot, but we are not sure.

    Book review: 'Bigfoot and the Baby'
    Bigfoot and the Baby,” written by Ann Gelder and published by Lake Tahoe's Bona Fide Books, is a creative and complex dark comedy. Gelder has ...

    Bigfoot Research Needs a Reboot
    Bigfoot is Broken The field of bigfoot research is broken. Stuck in a single, repetitive loop like a scratched record. The debates, the evidence, the

    The Other Alaskan Bigfoot: Reviewed
    Its title: In Search of the Kushtaka: Alaska's Other Bigfoot. This is an excellent read for anyone fascinated by cryptozoology in general and Bigfoot in

    Are These the Eerie Wails of the Ohio Bigfoot Called Grassman?
    Bigfoot Evidence Matt K.
    Ohio is a hotbed of bigfoot activity. They even have their own nickname for the beast, the Grassman. Researcher Jeff Patterson captured these 

    Finding Bigfoot's Best Bigfootage
    This is some of the most famous Finding Bigfoot footage to date: an apparent baby Bigfoot swinging from the trees 100 miles away from New York City

    A Bigfoot Encounter Kenya
    The Discovery Channel brings an all new special on the Bigfoot creature. We follow world renowned Wildlife Biologist Deer Park as he tries to find the

    Festival for Bigfoot
    There are two kinds of people in this neck of the woods: Those who believe in Bigfoot, and those who just haven't seen him yet. Or at least that's how 

    NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



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    The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS LUSTILY

    The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
     
    Saskia had her arm X-Rayed this morning. It doesn't seem to be broken, but there is bad tissue damage, and the poor child is in a lot of pain. She will still be here on and off but it will take some weeks to heal. Healing vibes please. Mark Raines turned up this afternoon having made a jolly WW promo video he wanted me to top and tail for him. It is now up on YouTube, Yesterday I worked for about 17 hours, but finally I can announce that I have finished the first draft of Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures Vol 2. Yay!!!!
     
     

    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly is here to read at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the lovely Pam Windo on the front cover and features an interview with her by yours truly. We also have news of Galahad's new bass player (who is actually their old bass player), Corky Laing gets an award, and a lot of people panic about Yes' lead singer's throat.  There are also new shows from the peculiar multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich, from Friday Night Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and high heeled shoes (OK, no specialist footwear, 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!
     
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    *  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 orange kitten 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 orange kitten?

    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

    Yesterday’s News Today

    On this day in 1920 the actor Peter Jones was born. Jones was a regular contestant on the panel game Just a Minute but is best remembered for his iconic voice overs in the Radio and TV series of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where he voiced the eponymous book.
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