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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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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



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Naish says, 'Without giving too much away, I want to say that the famous Hugh Gray Loch Ness monster photo of 1933 is not a swimming dog, or a ...

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.

  • PHOTOS/VIDEO: Photographer captures incredible ima...
  • ART: Lions And Tigers And Leopards, Oh My! At Bruc...
  • 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



    Possible Bigfoot Caught On Infrared Video
    We recently shared a video of a bigfoot investigator discussing his recent encounter and what he believed to have captured on his FLIR camera during ...

    (VIDEO) Wow...Tourist Visiting North Carolina Encounters Bigfoot
    All I can say is wow! If this is a true Bigfoot video, we are not alone. Believe it or not, this looks like the perfect wilderness to find a Bigfoot.

    Woman Sees Man Shaped Figure Standing In Swamp
    From the Trail To Bigfoot team: We were taken to a creek location that the couple heard a large congested breathing sound that urged them to leave.

    PAYSON — A new video posted to YouTube this week claimed to show a Bigfoot in Payson Canyon. According to the video's description, the footage ...

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS WHIMSICAL

    The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
    We were going to have Danny - who amongst other things is our Gardener - today, but the weather outside is so nasty that Graham has decided to pull the plug on that idea for today/ I don't think I have ever known such a wet and soggy winter. The lower lawn is basically a morass and will either have to be reseeded or returfed, because at the moment it looks like the aftermath of a particularly grotty rock festival, or perhaps an art installation of the Battle of the Somme. However the snowdrops are out in better flower than they were last year, and that is despite the ground not having been frozed this year.
    The hedgehog has apparently not hibernated at al this winter and comes out in the daytime eagerly anticipating food whenever she hears Graham's footfall in the vicinity of her run.
    THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Edith Piaf - La Vie En...
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    HAWKWIND DETAIL THE MACHINE STOPS CONCEPT ALBUM
    Project/Object Feat. Frank Zappa Alumni Ike Willis...
    City Winery Welcomes Back Eric Burdon
    Gonzo Weekly #169
    www.gonzoweekly.com
    It's the Outsider Music special! Wild Man Fischer, Peter Gabriel, Outsider Music, Record Fair, Pink Fairies, Paul McCartney, Veep, Dr Who, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,  Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
    Wild Man Fischer is on the front cover, together with an interview with Neil Nixon about Outsider Music in general and Fischer in particular inside. John Brodie-Good writes about Record Fairs and the forthcoming Pink Fairies album, whilst Rob Ayling was behind the scenes of a recent PF rehearsal, camera in hand. Doug writes about Peter Gabriel, while Jon gets all intense about an American political comedy, and reviews a book about Paul McCartney. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressable 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:
    Dr Who, KLF, Ken Campbell, Tony Shiels, Kelly Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Duncan Jones, Paul McCartney, Donovan, Elton John, Frank Zappa, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Corky Laing, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Daniel Ivan Hicks, Joseph Francis "Joe" Alaskey III, Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell, Inner City Unit, Brand X, Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selecter,
    Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Neil Nixon, Wild Man Fischer, Peter Gabriel, John-Brodie-Good, Pink Fairies, Richard Muirhead, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul,The Who, Elvis, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pat Boone, Cultus Ferox
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
    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)
    Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
    Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
    Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
    Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
    Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
    Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
    Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
    Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
    Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
    Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
    Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
    Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
    Issue 139 (Raz cover)
    Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
    Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
    Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
    Issue 135 (FNP cover)
    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: Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1933 - "Newsweek" was first published. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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  • Toxic chemicals found in beached pilot whales in S...
  • The scaled king and his knight: Two new giant bent...
  • Fossil reveals humans, gorillas split two to three...

  • Cryogenically frozen rabbit brain restored in near...



  • 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)