2009: August

31st August: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold tells the macabre story of the little furry demon
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31st August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The probable music for next year's Weird Weekend

Wouldn't it be nice to get on with my neighbours
But they make it very clear they've got no room for ravers..

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31st August: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this lizard from Texas..
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31st August: POSTBAG: Nice things in Jon's postbag
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31st August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2009: Julian Vayne's talk and cabinet of curiosities is now on CFZtv
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31st August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2009: Max Blake's talk is now on CFZtv
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31st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The return of the Beast of Ossett.
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The return of the Beast of Ossett.
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30th August: ANIMAL WELFARE: Syd Henley draws out attention to another bit of beaurocratic idiocy by the increasingly neo-Stalinist powers that be.
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: It has been alleged that a short video clip has been taken of a BHM in a deserted part of Poland. Although, after my own experience at Bolam Lane a few years ago, I am sympathetic to such stories, it looks like a bloke in a monkey suit to me
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: No sooner had the story about the Polish wildman broken in the press, than a UK talk radio show approached Jon to appear. However, they had another agenda...
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30th August: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis brings us not only Stereoscopic Sunday, but Yesterday's News Today.
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29th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: North Devon is getting weirder. So far this year we have had the Devil's footprints, the beast of the bay, the pub poltergeist and other shenanigans. Now we have a piranha in the river Torridge.
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29th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Yesterday Jon wrote about `white firemouth cichlids`. Today Max goes in search of them with unexpected results
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29th August: CFZ INDEXING PROJECT: The latest - July is now up
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29th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Darren has bitten the bullet and gone onto Facebook. But why and who are responsible?
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29th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon presents a brace of gloriously surreal cryptozoological fakes
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29th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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28th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In three and a half episodes, Jon tells the story of his afternoon yesterday, and his abortive attempts to have a snooze. In this first episode he is interrupted by strange news from Loch Ness
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28th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In the final part of the saga of how the director of the CFZ unsuccesfully tried to have a snooze, he promises that we are now returning to what is euphemistically described as `normal`, and there is some good news
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28th August: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold has a disturbing story of a toadman
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28th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland is back, and he has some teensy-weensy elephants with him
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28th August: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The second trenche of BHM cuttings is now available online
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28th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News today (and some more nonsense about Charles Hawtrey)
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27th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: If your village is experiencing a sonic attack, erm weird weekend. Follow these rules. Do Not Panic!!
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27th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Wolf report from Scotland. But is it kosher?
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27th August: NATURAL HISTORY: The Ryedale Aquatic Society have an auction and mini-show coming up.
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27th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Those (who like us) followed the bald eagle webcams last year, will be pleased to know that the Hancock Wildlife Foundation have an exciting new project.
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27th August: CFZ POSTBAG: In a scene reminiscent of something by P.G.Wodehouse, Uncle Jon dips into his postbag, and then has a jolly good moan...
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27th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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26th August: CFZ: Jon puts his (and the CFZ's) cards on the table about some of the present problems at the CFZ
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26th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Were there any follow-ups on this high-profile British ABC case from earlier in the year?
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26th August: CFZ: Updates on the CFZ postbag
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26th August: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold on the vampire dwarf of Essex
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26th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Joel La Rocque follows on from yesterday's controversial post about venomous snakes
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26th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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25th August: CFZ: Jon needs help with his postbag
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25th August: CRYPTO CULTURE: Richard Freeman looks at Monster Movies
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25th August: NATURAL HISTORY: A new blogger looks at man's relationship with poisonous snakes
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25th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Kithra gives us a plug
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25th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Fleur has found a sea monster on eBay. But it is rather expensive.
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25th August: CRYPTOCOMIX: Webcomic with a yeti-like protagonist. It is bound, however, to provoke a reaction from Gothboy.
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25th August: CFZ: Alan Friswell on cyclops, Harryhausen and Jon's birthday
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25th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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24th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Beast of Ossett
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24th August: CFZ OUTREACH: News from the fishy outreach project
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24th August: HIGH SILLINESS: Porky Pig Swears
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24th August: ANIMAL WELFARE: Richard Freeman is disgusted with the staff at Pretoria Zoo
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24th August: CRYPTOFICTION: Oll Lewis with a tale of derring-do
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24th August: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: BHM part One
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24th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Florida Muck Monster
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24th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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23rd August: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead on snake stones in Yorkshire
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23rd August: NATURAL HISTORY: Totally fantastic humbacked whale picture, included for no other reason than it is a totally fantastic humpbacked whale picture
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23rd August: CFZ ONLINE: Tim invites you to follow the CFZ on Twitter
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23rd August: POLITICS: Creationism - Jon nails his colours to the mast
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23rd August: POLITICS: Scottie Westfall joins in the debate about creationism
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23rd August: JON DOWNES AT 50: Nick Redfern pays tribute to the CFZ Director
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23rd August: JON DOWNES AT 50: Jon wears a silly hat and cuddles Corinna
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23rd August: JON DOWNES AT 50: Jon gets all emotional and says thank you to everyone who made his birthday yesterday such a happy one
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23rd August: CFZ NEWS ALERT: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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22nd August: CFZ PEOPLE: Birthday Alert!
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22nd August: JON'S BIRTHDAY: Jon muses on his half-century.
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22nd August: NATURAL WORLD: A search for lost birds (from Fleur)
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22nd August: CFZ: BABY FISH IN A HAUNTED PUB
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22nd August: MUSIC: GONG's 'How to stay alive' video
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22nd August: CONSERVATION: the Deer of Cayuga Heights
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22nd August: FORTEAN (well, some would say so): Reptilian Cow
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22nd August: NATURAL WORLD: the biggest fishes ever caught?
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22nd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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21st August: WEIRD WEEKEND: An apology
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21st August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Why the videos have not appeared yet
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21st August: POLITICS: Mike Hallowell takes a look at the debate between Creationists and the rest of us, with jaundiced eyes
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21st August: ANIMAL WELFARE: Richard Freeman gets incensed about mass dog "murder" in China
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21st August: FORTEAN: Owlman in crop circle? That's what Redfern thinks
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21st August: CONSERVATION: New advert highlights two extinct birds on video
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21st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today<> Click here for further details...
20th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on an ancient Chinese book of wonders
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20th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: In which Corinna implies that her husband is some sort of subhuman apey thing, and Max looks inscrutible
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20th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Caprimulgiformes on the Chase? All part of the Case
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20th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Max has passed his A Levels
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20th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Breeding success for one of Britain's rarest butterflies
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20th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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19th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Durrell Wildlife press release: Mountain Chicken
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19th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey looks at Weird Weekends and Skunk Apes
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19th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Thank you from the kids
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19th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: News from Russia, including DNA results from the 2008 Expedition
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18th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Ladybird invasion
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18th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Richard's Random Recollections
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon comments on recent crocodile and thunderbird posts.
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New video gives support to the stories of eagles carrying off small children. There could be a `kid` pun here but it would be beneath me.
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An interesting collection of papers on recent discoveries from today's Herpdigest newsletter
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18th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Mark North meets Hunt Emerson
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: The last word
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Max'z WW scrapbook
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Sunday's pictures
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17th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Whatever happened to the Nandi Bear?
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17th August: TRISTAN SANDERSON-DUCKETT: A summer at the bird rehabilitation centre
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Olly did next
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Lizzy did next
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Graham did next
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Picture gallery saturday
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Picture gallery saturday
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Group photo
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Olly did on Saturday
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Corinna's saturday adventures (and caption competition)
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Corinna's friday adventures (and caption competition)
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Lizzy did on Friday (and yes guys, her hangover has dissipated)
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Friday picture gallery
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: What Oll did on Friday
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Cocktail Party picture gallery
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Thursday's Cocktail Party
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14th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Crocodiles in Europe
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14th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay unearths a new thunderbird sighting
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14th August: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: Dinosaurs a go go
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14th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: What Oll did next
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14th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Marjorie Braund is very ill
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14th August: WEIRD WEKEND: What happened on thursday
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14th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis loses his glasses, and - surprisingly - brings us Yesterday's News Today
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13th August: FORTEAN: Lindsay goes after the Dover Demon
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13th August: FORTEAN: Lindsay goes after the Dover Demon
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13th August: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Millie the fox
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13th August: CFZ: Woolsery gets into The Guardian
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13th August: FOWL FUNNITY: Black grouse - that's the way I lek it (uh huh uh huh)
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13th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Did you know that the last person to die of adder bite in the UK was in 1975? I certainly didn't
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Richard on Wednesday
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Introducing the `Weird Weekend Scrapbook`
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13th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis presents what will probably be the last bout of Yesterday's News Today for a while..
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12th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead unearths new evidence for the ropen - the winged monster of New Guinea
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12th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Over in New Zealand, CFZ head honcho Tony Lucas has a new website
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12th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Jolie, one of our sponsors, wishes us luck
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12th August: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: A chilling tale of robots that has damn all to do with cryptozoology. Ha!
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12th August: CONSERVATION: Why did the Mountain Chicken cross the road? Therein lies a tale...a froggy tale Click here for further details
12th August: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Millie the hedgehog has had babies again - will it be third time lucky?
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12th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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11th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Only a few days to go
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11th August: ANIMAL WELFARE: Charming piccies of Millie the fox, and an apposite Jimi Hendrix pun
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11th August: OUT OF PLACE: Feral parakeets in California
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11th August: TERATOLOGY: Mike Hallowell with the tale of a double duck
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11th August: ARCHAEOLOGY I SUPPOSE: A poignant little story from Stonehenge
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11th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Fleur Fulcher looks at Devon nature reserves
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11th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Wonders will never cease! There is a website about Richard and the deathworm. And it is French!!!
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11th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: It has been claimed that the contents of this blog is crap. In this story, yes it is. But who is responsible?
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10th August: MARINE BIOLOGY: Truly extraordinary film of a six-gilled shark doing something rather unexpected
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10th August: CFZ ANIMALS: Oll Lewis mourns the loss of his favourite eel
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (ish): Lizzy goes searching for eels down the Snig Hole
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another bigfoot spoof (but this one's funny)
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10th August: CFZ NEWS: Desperately Seeking Tristan
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10th August: CFZ NEWS: We are back, and Jon is in a bad temper
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10th August: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today (and the day before today - the `day before yesterday's news yesterday` is a little cumbersome)
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9/10th August: Just in case you wanted to catch up on the drama..
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8th August: THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE MONTH, KNOCKING JON'S BIRTHDAY, LIZZY'S BIRTHDAY, AND EVEN THE WEIRD WEEKEND INTO A
COCKED HAT: Biggles is one year old today!!!
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8th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Big Cats in South Cheshire
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8th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Aubrey looks at giant snakes
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8th August: POLITICS: It appears that a Cheshire nature reserve is under threat
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8th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra asks whether the Falmouth beast has returned
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8th August: POLITICS: Syd Henley draws attention to another disgusting breach of trust by the British Government
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8th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas examines theories on Bigfoot diet. Stand and de liver
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8th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th August: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: The armadillo farm - this is weird.
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7th August: CFZ: Some long overdue changes.
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7th August: FORTEAN: Nick Redfern on weird corvid synchronicity.
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7th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: In the press.
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7th August: FORTEAN: Possibly the weirdest taxidermy site we have ever seen, and that is saying something.
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7th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Bog Turtle disease alert from US F&W S.
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7th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday Lizzie.
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7th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us a ridiculously convoluted story about Dorset and citrus fruit, and also Yesterday's News Today .
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6th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman eventually finds his missing lake... and two more (and guess what? They all have monsters)
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6th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with a vintage sea serpent report and a new resource..
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6th August: MEDIA: Apparently `everyone` saw this beer coimmercial some years ago. Well I didn't, and it makes me laugh, as well as being very much on topic
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6th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Southern fried bigfoot at the weird weekend
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6th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Ivory billed woodpecker lecture - fascinating stuff Click here for further details...
6th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Is this the definitive running order? We certainly hope so
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6th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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5th August: WEIRD WEEKEND: With only a week to go, we put out another press release
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5th August: CFZ PRESS: Updates on production schedule
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5th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Fleur has discovered an amazing resource about taxidermy of extinct creatures
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5th August: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Part 18 of Timmo's serial
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5th August: FORTEAN: Redfern - Big In Japan (now with added alliteration)
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5th August: FORTEAN/ARTS: More Shiels music
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5th August: FORTEAN: Colin Higgins continues the thread on `False Memory Syndrome`
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5th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Letter from Sir Nicholas of Redfernshire
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4th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Dale Drinnon and Passenger pigeons in Indiana Click here for further details...
4th August: CFZ PEOPLE: From Tony `Doc` Shiels... Ewan and Tracey are his son and daughter-in-law
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4th August: URGENT: WEIRD WEEKEND SHUTTLE
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4th August: ANIMAL RESCUE: Oll Lewis: I Told You I Was ‘Eel’
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4th August: CFZ PRESS: book and video
commentators miss the point
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4th August: CFZ PEOPLE - Tony Shiels: "IT'S ALIVE!!"
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4th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis
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3rd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on the track of an unknown lake
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3rd August: CFZ PRESS: Glen's book is out
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3rd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: /Is this the first film of a living oarfish?
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3rd August: CONSERVATION: New population of nearly extinct frog discovered
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3rd August: CFZ PEOPLE: More from Matt and Emma's wedding
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3rd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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2nd August: CFZ PRESS: Richard Muirhead's new book is now available
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2nd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A unicorn in Iceland? (Why does that remind me irrisistibly of a P.G Wodehouse book A Pelican at Blandings?)
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2nd August: FORTEAN: Sostratus is back
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2nd August: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell with saome mystery animals from Geordieland
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2nd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the latest dubious bigfoot image
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2nd August: CFZ PRESS: The Hit Parade for July
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2nd August: CFZ PEOPLE: Meet The Osbornes
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2nd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Episode 23 of On the Track is now online.
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1st August: NATURAL HISTORY: We have some surplus animals up for rehoming
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1st August: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman looks at false memory syndrome and its relevance to cryptozoology
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1st August: CFZ PEOPLE: Matthew and Emma get married
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1st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis lets the side down with a spectacularly feeble pun, and Yesterday's News Today
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