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Monday 1 November 2010

2010: November

30th November: FORTEAN: Dr Shuker presents a dress made of spider silk.
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30th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest part of the dialogue between the CFZ and the chap who calls himself `The Highland Tiger`
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30th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More pictures from the India Expedition
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30th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jessica Taylor and a friend interview Richard Freeman
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30th November: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Robert Schneck sent us this Japanese video
containing what looks like a huge underwater mammal...
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30th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Kithra looks at Nick Redfern's new book
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30th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th November: CRYPTOCULTURE: Lizzy goes to the movies
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29th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Sumatra hair samples - the dialogue between the CFZ and the person calling themselves `The Highland Tiger` continues
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29th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: India Expedition - identify this fish
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29th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: India Expedition - the fourth video report
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29th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon does a tote up of the wildmen of southeast Asia
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29th November: NATURAL HISTORY: A monster in my aquarium
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29th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th November: CFZ "PEOPLE": Poppy and Prudence do not appreciate the winter
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28th November: CFZ ANIMALS: A tale of three cane toads
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28th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The dialogue between the person calling himself `The Highland
Tiger` and the CFZ about the Sumatra hair samples continues
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28th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Video report #3
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28th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More pictures from the India expedition
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28th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Naomi West is desperately seeking Rosie. I was so tempted to
make a pun about her wanting a cup of tea (Rosie-Lea) but I thought that most of my British readers, and none of the foreign ones would get it.
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28th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A second video report from the India expedition
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27th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A second tranche of piccies from the India expedition
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27th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Davey Curtis on the green eyed monster
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27th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Jess, the lovely girlfriend of Dave B-P bet him that he couldn't write a blog about seahorses..
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27th November: NATURAL HISTORY: A video of what I think are massed turkey vultures
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27th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Simon Reames sent us this - flying squid (can such a thing be?)
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27th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Comment on the current discussions about the Sumatra hair
sample from an unexpected source
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26th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: For the next week we shall be brief video reports from the India expedition
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26th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We are particularly pleased to be able to publish the first pictures from the India expedition
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26th November: TERATOLOGY: Last night Karl Shuker wrote to me: "I know that pride is a sin, but I am exceedingly proud about my latest blog posting on ShukerNature - check it out!". His post about multi trunked heffalumps and many-humped camels is, indeed, outstanding.
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26th November: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Another trenche of general forteana
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26th November: CRYPTO CULTURE: There is a new `Bad Machinery` story, and the last one was
very crypto...
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26th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman responds to criticisms of the findings from the
hair analysis from the 2009, Sumatra Expedition
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25th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker supports the findings from the hair analysis from the 2009, Sumatra Expedition
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25th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Hell hath no fury like, well, um if not "a woman scorned" exactly, a young lady of thirteen who has her birthday noted by a picture taken of her when she was eleven
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25th November: CFZ PEOPLE: A Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers
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25th November: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mystery animals of the Netherlands part 2
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25th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The napalm serpent
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25th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th November: OUT-OF-PLACE: Stinky invader arrives in Minnesota
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24th November: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: the Cottingley fairy debunker
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24th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern and the Crypto-Rats at Roswell
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24th November: OUT-OF-PLACE: The Saddest Unicorn
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24th November: CFZ PEOPLE: happy birthday Jessica!
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24th November: UFOs: The Secret Story - a lecture by Robert Hastings
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24th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd November: CFZ PEOPLE: Richard is delayed
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23rd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The lindorm as eel in classic comic book art. Thanks Dale!
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23rd November: BLOGGO: Jon says thank you
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23rd November: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Richard Freeman pays his seventh visit to Australia to investigate the daemons of the dreamtime
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23rd November: CFZ PRESS: The Amateur Naturalist #9 is now available
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23rd November: NATURAL HISTORY: Of bogs and birds, or for British readers, for wildfowl and
wetlands
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23rd November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The news that you have all been waiting for: Lars Thomas has
finished his analysis of the hair brought back from Sumatra by the CFZ 2009 expedition
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22nd November: BLOGGO: Thanks to Karl and Oll, and all because Rebecca suggested it, we are now on Facebook
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22nd November: NATURAL HISTORY: An enormous dead fish washed up
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22nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead looks in the archives and unearths a story about a great black deer in Ireland
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22nd November: FORTEAN: It is very nearly the 30th Anniversary of whatever it was that
happened at Rendlesham
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22nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Blimey, CFZ Australia have been busy
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22nd November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st November: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall announces an exciting new fishkeeping event
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21st November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The third part of Oll Lewis's look at how the west heard about the yeti Click here for further details...
21st November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: CFZ Australia reveal that the extinction of the thylacine (if
indeed it is extinct) was a deliberate act..
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21st November: NATURAL HISTORY: A new research project on British parakeets needs your help
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21st November: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this insect from North Texas
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21st November: CFZ PEOPLE: Michael Newton has a new book out
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21st November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th November: INDIA EXPEDITION: The Boys are Back in Town
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20th November:
ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana, Part 32
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20th November:
CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll continues his look at How the West Learnt About the Yeti
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20th November:
CYBERSPACE: an offer one can't refuse?
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20th November:
FORTEAN: Talking Mongoose synchronicity
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20th November:
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: 1966 Surrey Puma
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20th November:
CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th November: FORTEANA: Muirhead's Mysteries: Khon-Pāā, the Thailand transparent ape-man
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19th November:
CFZ PRESS: Animals & Men 48 due out soon!
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19th November:
FORTEAN: Beachcombing's baby-eating eagles
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19th November:
CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll looks at How the West Learnt About the Yeti
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19th November:
CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max Blake and a Canadian lynx
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19th November:
CFZ PEOPLE: The Nighthawks blackmail corner!
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19th November:
CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: interim DNA results from the Blanco blue dog carcass
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18th November:
EXTINCTIONS?: - more on yesterday's Dancing Dodo
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18th November:
CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oklahoma chupacabra tv report, with Nick Redfern
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18th November:
FORTEAN: Neil A in TIME OUT: Walking around monstrous London
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18th November:
NATURAL WORLD: Naomi and the melanistic deer trail in America
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18th November:
CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mystery Animals In The Netherlands - Neil A and Mathijs K
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18th November:
CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th November: EXPEDITION BACKGROUND: India's Garo Hills and an endangered gibbon
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17th November:
RSPB APPEAL - reversal of Sumatran illegal logging
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17th November:
FORTEAN: Oll looks at the case of The Cambodian Jungle Girl
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17th November:
EXTINCTIONS: Glen Vaudrey and the Dancing Dodo
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17th November:
FORTEAN: The 3000-year-old toads of Hector of Troy?
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17th November:
ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana, Part 31
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17th November:
CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Rebecca and Mike unearth a video purporting to be of a
thylacine. Gosh!
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16th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We say goodbye to Erik Knatterud
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16th November: BLOGGO: A couple of fairly disparate updates
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16th November: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Waxwings invade Macclesfield (That has to be the best
headline of the month)
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16th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Because of a bird of paradise Robert Scjneck is lost for words
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16th November: SUBCONTINENTAL STORIES: We asked Ronan for something for the Indian expedition
blog, in the absence of any news from the Garo Hills..
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16th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th November: CHARITY: The Midlands charity livebearer auction is upon us
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15th November: CFZ ANIMALS: The trouble with Greenwayi
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15th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Matty O pays a visit to Prudence
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15th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Richard Freeman - Return to Sumatra
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15th November: ANIMAL ISSUES: Dog/Fire Hydrant interaction in Brazil
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15th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Interesting review of the Norfolk Bird/Mammal report 2009
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15th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th November: MUSIC: Most songs about how we are screwing up the environment are painfully twee. This one ain't, and to me there is always room for a little Roy Harper on a sunday morning
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14th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Panel - Forteana and Fiction
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14th November: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An Australian Montauk Monster
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14th November: NATURAL HISTORY: An OAP of the Cetacean Nation
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14th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Once again there is no news from the Indian expedition, so Oliver is trawling the files for snippets of Indian cryptozoology
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14th November: BLOGGO: Help wanted
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14th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Jan Bondeson - Queen Victoria's stalker.
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13th November: FORTEAN: Dick Van Dyke is rescued by dolphins. Really you cannot make this stuff up!
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13th November: ZOOMYTHOLOGY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Raheel tells of some Pakistani cave daemons
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13th November: FORTEAN: Once again there is no news from India so Oliver extemporises with a very strange story
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13th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Australian giant crocodile exhibition
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13th November: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Parrots speaking an unexpected foreign language?
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13th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th November: CFZ "PEOPLE": The vet gives Prudence antibiotics, and basically a clean bill of health. A big thank you to everyone who wrote messages of sympathy..
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12th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon is back. Yay!! He explains why the famous Patterson bigfoot ain't a bloke in a monkey suit
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12th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Has a thylacoleo been killed by a car? Ask CFZ Australia..
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12th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Jonathan Downes - Texas Blue Dogs
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12th November: ANIMAL ISSUES: Robert Schneck believes that dogs are far meeker than cats
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12th November: FORTEAN: In the absence of any new news from the away team in India, Oll brings us a perennial fortean favourite from the subcontinent - the monkey man of New Delhi
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12th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: At last there is news from the Indian expedition
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11th November: CFZ "PEOPLE": Prudence is unwell
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11th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at a terrifying Scandinavian monster
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11th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Something strange is afoot in India (and its not our expedition) says Lindsay
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11th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Gordon Rutter - A History of Talking to the Dead
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11th November: MILDLY FORTEAN: Lizzy has one of those That's Life-esque stories about a dog and a pub in Bristol
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11th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna Downes libels her poor, sweet husband
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10th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: A brief note about the Uncon videos, and why there aren't
as many as we would have liked
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10th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Paul Cornell - the fortean aspects of Dr Who
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10th November: FORTEAN: Oll tells the story of the wold children of Calcutta
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10th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Another earth shatteringly good headline from Darren N
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10th November: FORTEANA/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Redfern on Rendlesham (but this time it is spectral
beasts rather than UFOs)
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10th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna and Gavin read the news today, oh boy!
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9th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold uncovers more evidence for a hitherto unsuspected
British mammal
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9th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Raheel Mughal looks at a new classification system for dragons
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9th November: FORTEAN: Andy Roberts at Uncon revealing everything you wanted to know about the Berwyn Mountain UFO crash but were embarrassed to ask..
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9th November: POLITICS/NATURAL HISTORY: Changes in the economics of fishkeeping reveal a
glimpse of personal politics
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9th November: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell presents - The Beast of Bolam (Graphic Novel)
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9th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: From the archives, the very first crypto article ever from Karl
Shuker
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8th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot sighting
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8th November: FORTEANA: Muirhead looks at virgin birth in snakes
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8th November: FORTEANA: While we wait for news from the India expedition, Oll explores more contemporary forteana from the subcontinent
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8th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: Rebecca Lang on Australian Mystery Cats
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8th November: CFZ MEDIA: The Tintin movie - Jon's worst fears are not borne out
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8th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Our favourite sub-editor has just got engaged
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7th November: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham levitates logs
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7th November: UNCONVENTION 2010: A couple of weeks ago we were at the Unconvention. Here is
the first of a series of talks from the event - Ian Ridpath on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
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7th November: CFZ "PEOPLE": Corinna tells Prue's sad story
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7th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As we wait for news from India, Oll continues his look at Indian
cryptids
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7th November: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: More fortean archives
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7th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another scoop for CFZ Australia
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6th November: NATURAL HISTORY: A bird of prey in the CFZ garden
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6th November: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Another visit downunder for the Deamons of the Dreamtime
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6th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern reports from the Boggy Depot bigfoot conference
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6th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY etc: More odds and sods from Chad Arment
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6th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Oll Lewis continues our looks at India's cryptids, as we await news from the India expedition
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6th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th November: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some snippets of animal strangeness from Kent courtesy of Neil Arnold
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5th November: NATURAL HISTORY: It looks like a giant caterpillar, but what is it? Asks Robert
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5th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Interesting Bigfoot investigation
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5th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More background information on the India expedition from Oll
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5th November: TERATOLOGY: A six-legged deer
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5th November: FORTEAN: Which witch is which? Lizzy's friend Annie found this..
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5th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th November: CFZ "PEOPLE": We seem to have acquired a new family member
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4th November: NATURAL HISTORY: Encounters with a famous rhinoceros
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4th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Still examining the crypto curiosities of Hong Kong's past, Richard Muirhead discovers a story about stripy wolves
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4th November: FORTEAN: Another peculiar Tyneside Tale from Mike Hallowell (Warning: Contains haddock)
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4th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY etc: A collection of interesting odds and sods from Chad Arment
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4th November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis looks at what happened last time someone looked for the Indian Yeti
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4th November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: On The Track episode 38 is up
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3rd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon and Corinna in The Bideford Post
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3rd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another classic sea monster explained by Markus Hemmler. How
does he do it?
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3rd November: NATURAL HISTORY: Hibernating swallows
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3rd November: CFZ PRESS: The October Hit Parade from CFZ Press
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3rd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis looks at some of the background to the India expedition
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3rd November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd November: CFZtv: On The Track #38 is delayed
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2nd November: CFZ PEOPLE: Thank You to John Beardsley for his donation
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2nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot Buffoonery! It was all a joke says Jon
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2nd November: FORTEAN WORDS: The latest satisfied consumer of Haunted Pies
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2nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Robert Schneck does not want a giant earwig in his kitchen. Max and Jon do!
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2nd November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We have noticed for years how the same patterns of mystery animals and monsters are re[eated across the world
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2nd November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st November: ON THE TRACK: The latest episode is delayed, but not - as usual - because of our inefficiency
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1st November: NATURAL HISTORY: Harriet Wadham has just had a mouce-related holiday
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1st November: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Richard Freeman continues his look at antipodean zoomythology
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1st November: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: More general fortean zoology, and general forteana
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1st November: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The first news from the India expedition
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1st November: FORTEAN: A ghostly horse
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1st November: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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