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Tuesday 1 June 2010

2010: June

30th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: A baby kestrel in Canada is saved by Aubrey
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30th June: NATURAL HISTORY: More Office Window Wildlife
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30th June: CFZ: Oll L gives an overview of last weekend's festivities
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30th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey chucks another dart at the atlas and comes up with an unknown animal from Tanzania
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30th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A forthcoming bunfight at Ryedale A.S
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30th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Dan Holdsworth solves the mystery
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30th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th June: JONATHAN DOWNES: A tribute to Ray Harryhausen. Today the man whom Richard Freeman quite fittingly describes as the `Grand Old Man of Monsters` turns 90. As a tribute to the man, today's bloggo is dedicated to him.
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29th June: CORINNA DOWNES: Turn to Stone
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29th June: ALAN FRISWELL: Happy Birthday Ray
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29th June: MIKE HALLOWELL: Memories of the Empire cinema club
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29th June: MAX BLAKE: 'Azza
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29th June: LIZ CLANCY: Happy Birthday Mr H
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29th June: RICHARD FREEMAN: Ray Harryhausen - a tribute
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29th June: GLEN VAUDREY: The Golden Voyage of Harryhausen
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29th June: OLL LEWIS: Release the Kraken
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29th June: RONAN COGHLAN: My Harryhausen Experience
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29th June: CFZ NEW SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: what have the boys found now?
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren Naish has a peculiar photograph on his blog. What's it all about Alfie?
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon Downes looks at his definition of cryptozoology and measures the success of the CFZ against it
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Modifications to Heuvelmans's classification of sea serpents by Dale Drinnon
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28th June: FORTEAN: A rather wonderful fortean tinged advert
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A crocodile head in Belgium, a `satyr` and a weird dog - all from MUirhead's Mysteries
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28th June: CFZ: The second day of the Open Gardens weekend
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28th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th June: CFZ: Yesterday was the first of two open days at the CFZ
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27th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey discusses animals running wild in the country
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27th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale looks at melanistic pumas
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27th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: A bizarre tale of fire engines and animal rescue
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27th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: an extract from Mike and Ruby's new book
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27th June: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: There are less than two months left
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27th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Richard Freeman is in this month's edition of `Phenomena` online magazine
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26th June: CFZ PEOPLE: kithra is back online
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26th June: ARCHIVING PROJECT: More bizarre stuff from the `General Forteana` file
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26th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Revisiting the giant earthworm story of a few days ago
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26th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More claims from the Warners
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26th June: CFZ: "Communication Breakdown, It's always the same, I'm having a nervous breakdown, Drive me insane!"
(Jon's email was down on friday so if you wrote to him then please send it again)
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26th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Liz is out of hospital
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25th June: FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell with another torrid tale of Geordie strangeness
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25th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Buff ermine moth
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25th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Irish sea serpents
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25th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The cold lake mystery
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25th June: CFZ PRESS: A sneak preview
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25th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th June: FORTEAN-ISH: A horse-headed man in Scotland
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24th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A spectacularly clumsy sparrow
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24th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Yet another youtube video of an animal they cannot identify. Today - fish
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24th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with the Okoboji lake mystery
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24th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another account of Mike and Ruby's book launch
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24th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar story from the boy Freeman, whereby giant Australian earthworms are masquerading as Mongolian deathworms
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24th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mystery bird in Massachusetts
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The artwork for the launch of Mike and Ruby's book really is smashing
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23rd June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman takes his third look at the legends of Lincolnshire
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey muses on the hitherto taboo subject of black pumas
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's mysteries have once again come up with three very strange stories - a mystery bear, a mystery fish, and a hitherto unknown Hong Kong wolf
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23rd June: NATURAL HISTORY: There are things in this auction to fulfill a naturalist's wildest dreams
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23rd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd June: CFZ: A big hooray for CFZ Australia
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The return of the night parrot
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey introduces the Coje ya Menia
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the Augusta Sea Serpent
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22nd June: NATURAL HISTORY: Is this an example of Aesop-like altruism in a tortoise?
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22nd June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Meet Greg's pygmy goats
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22nd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman revisits the legends of Lincolnshire
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21st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the Lake Hodges monster
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21st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a look at the Valhalla sea serpent
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21st June: CFZ: Jon explains some stuff
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21st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton takes what I am sure will be a massively controversial look at the Lake Champlain creature
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21st June: CFZ PEOPLE: Last week we went to the opening day of Beth's Charity Shop
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21st June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Oll talks about a new CFZ project
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20th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Kaye and the kids want to go moth hunting again
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at the Pauline sea serpent
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby on the Cowichan river monster
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20th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Liz is in hospital
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20th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon is a Happy Chappy
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20th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at a new paper on warm blooded sea dragons
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead examines a mysthical golden tadpole in rhyme
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19th June: CFZ PRESS: Coming soon - the new book by Ronan and Gary
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: Now Morgawr's a ride!
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19th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Mars flies free
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19th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon Downes is a role model for young minds much to Emily's amusement
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19th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th June: SIGHTINGS: GLEN VAUDREY: If you don’t look you are unlikely to find
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17th June: RICHARD FREEMAN: The Legends of Lincolnshire #1
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17th June: CFZ: Old cat returns
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17th June: CFZ PEOPLE: JON AND DAVE B-P ARE ON THE ROAD
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17th June: NATURAL WORLD: The Big Wildlife Garden scheme
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17th June: NATURAL WORLD: identity of mystery fuzzy-leg flyer sought
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17th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th June: FORTEAN: What we believe is the final segment of Richard Freeman's look at the Monsters of Prague
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A skunk ape video? Or another dude in a monkey suit? What do you think?
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead looks at black foxes
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16th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham Inglis is cleaning our wabe
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16th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham Inglis is enjoying the World Cup, and Dr Holdsworth isn't
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16th June: NATURAL HISTORY: The Rev Gerald Smith has goldfinches at the bottom of his garden
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16th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Giant steps maybe what you need when walking on the moon, but what about this helmet?
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15th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: My best guess is that this particular mystery creature is now't but a mangy squirrel
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15th June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 19 (yes count 'em) of the Monsters of Prague
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15th June: NATURAL HISTORY: We have babies!
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15th June: FORTEAN: Alan F on a vampire book that doesn't suck
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15th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at Caddy
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15th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th June: NATURAL HISTORY: It is another `identify that video` day. I think I know what it is. Do you?
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14th June: NATURAL HISTORY: It is always nice to welcome a new blogger. So a big helloooo to D.R Shoop who has triffids growing in his back yard
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14th June: NATURAL HISTORY: It is always nice to welcome a new blogger. So another big helloooo to Steve Cummins, who has an account of a visit to Banham zoo
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14th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a look at longnecked sea monsters
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14th June: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: A timely reminder
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14th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with the Loch Hourn monster
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14th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th June: CFZ PEOPLE: There is now a charity shop for Beth T-K's Hartland Wildlife Rescue
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13th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Corinna's mum (Jon's Mother-in-law)
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13th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar story of odd fish and mermaids from Mr Muirhead
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13th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with the story of the San Clemente sea creature
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13th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Seven sexy shark species (sounds like a song by Willie Nelson)
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13th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Comrade Curtis Cogitates
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13th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Genuine fake thylacine pelts for sale
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12th June: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest trenche of odds and sods
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12th June: NATURAL HISTORY:
My eyes are dim, I cannot see,
is this a moth in front of me?

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12th June: FORTEAN: Part 18 of Richard Freeman's look at the Monsters of Prague
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12th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Mark Bushell
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12th June: ENVIRONMENTAL: More on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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12th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th June: FORTEANA: Liz revisits Uganda, and finds the story of the hare and the leopard
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11th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A toad. But there's something wrong
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11th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at sea serpents that aren't
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11th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another CCTV monster, which would - once again - appear to be a CGI fake
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11th June: CFZ ANIMALS: More new fishies
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11th June: CFZ: "It's only metal, what a bore!"
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11th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Nick Redfern's mother has died
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10th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Johann, the long-term partner of Lynn Inglis, mother of CFZ Deputy Director Graham has died
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10th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This video of a strange creature running across a motorway is probably a CGI fake. But it's a damn good one!
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10th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman points out what looks like a recent sighting of the master otter
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10th June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 17 of The Monsters of Prague
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10th June: FORTEAN/MEDIA: Alan F looks at the disturbing legacy of Eerie Publications
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10th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Max meets his match
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9th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The elusive Hong Kong badger
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9th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Gavin Hughes
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9th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Graham Inglis asks whether a cure for Dutch Elm Disease is really in the offing
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9th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some interesting comments on the recent Loch Ness posting, have put Jon in a quandry
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9th June: BLOGGO: Yesterday we had our millionth visitor. Oliver thinks we should have given him or her a prize
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9th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th June: CFZ: Two important landmarks for the CFZ bloggo!
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8th June: CFZ: Today we have been in Woolsery for five years
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8th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A look at knife livebearers, currently living on Jon's desk
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8th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay on the Loch Awe monster
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8th June: FORTEAN: Lizzy continues her trawl through the forteana of Uganda and finds a `human goat`
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8th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Richard F visits our oldest member
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8th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Jon, Max and Dave B-P sing:

"Didn't we have a luvverly time,
the day we went to Redditch,
We brought some fish
(even more than we'd wished),
And heard about Killies
That live in a ditch"

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7th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna encounters a (relatively) giant bat. Oh the children of the night, what sweet music they make.
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7th June: FORTEAN: Part 16 of Richard Freeman's series on `The Monsters of Prague`
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton asks whether it is time to say `Nessie RIP`?
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7th June: FORTEAN/FOLKLORE: The latest in her series of Ugandan Fortean articles, Lizzy C brings us a very Ugandan jackalope
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Chad Arment has a new book out - and it looks smashing
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7th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th June: CFZ PEOPLE - CORINNA DOWNES: While the cat's....
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6th June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 15 of the Monsters of Prague
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6th June: PUBLICATIONS: In this month's Phenomena Magazine...
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6th June: FOLKLORE: Lizzy looks at Ugandan 'were-creatures'
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6th June: MAIL-ORDER JUSTICE: Robert Schneck: Revenge of the crabs
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6th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay and the story of a giant crab
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6th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th June: CFZ PEOPLE: A big thank you to Paul Vella
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5th June: CFZ PEOPLE: A big thank you from Paul Vella
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5th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A sasquatch caterpillar from Robert Schneck
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5th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: The latest from Jon's sister and her family
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5th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More claims from the Peruvian Giant Snake project
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5th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A rare appearance by a quoll
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5th June: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The 12th trenche of General Forteana clippings
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5th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th June: CFZ PRESS: May's hit parade
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4th June: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: A miscellany of stuff including a giant Egyptian frog
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4th June: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 14 of the Monsters of Prague
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4th June: CFZ GARDENING: On the want. Anyone have any succulents?
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4th June: CFZ PRESS: A quick taster for `The Amateur Naturalist` #8 which is imminent
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4th June: FORTEAN: Liz Clancy looks at a particularlu unpleasant mystery beast from Uganda's folkloric zoo
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4th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Does anyone know ow't about the Hartland Point sea serpent?
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3rd June: NATURAL HISTORY: Yes, its that time of the year again, and Max, dave B-P and I will be at the Charity Livebearer Auction on sunday
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby revisits one of our very favourite mysteries - the freshwater octopi of Oklahoma
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3rd June: MUSIC: Max Blake drew our attention to this
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3rd June: POLITICS: Dale gets cynical
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Lizzy Clancy launches a new series on the forteana and cryptozoology of Uganda
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3rd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd June: CFZTV: The latest edition of our webTV show
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2nd June: CONSERVATION/POLITICS: Sea Shepherd captain goes on trial
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2nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Invasive Burmese pythons
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2nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Update to Richard Muirhead's blog about the spotted otter
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2nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Andreas Trottmann spends a week at Loch Morar
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2nd June: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon remembers his best friend.
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2nd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries finds a spotted otter in the Emerald Isle
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1st June: NATURAL HISTORY: American moon moth pics from Naomi
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Oregon Bigfoot Diner courtesy Robert Schneck
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Fresno CCTV film that we posted a few days ago is prompting a lot of comment
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1st June: CFZ PEOPLE: Another kind donation towards fixing the conservatory roof. It is going to cost about £250 by the way, and Graham will be doing it in the next trenche of good weather, becase we need sunshine to help the bitumen dry
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at the Nyaminyami
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1st June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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