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New Year's Eve: FORTEAN: Shuker's gotta Pooka. I do love ending the year with facetious word play
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New Year's Eve: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold gives us a sneak preview of his next book
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New Year's Eve: BLOGGO: A brief note
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New Year's Eve: CFZ PRESS: Haunted Skies Vol 2 is the latest victim of our little flu epidemic
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New Year's Eve: NATURAL HISTORY: What do you think this is?
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New Year's Eve: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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30th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on Roc feathers, presenting the worst pun of the
year (and that is saying something)
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30th December: FORTEAN: Legendary Fortean Ion Will has apparently died
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30th December: MUSIC: I have just discovered an Australian band called 'Tame Impala'. Note to Neil Arnold - if you have not already heard of them check this out...
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30th December: CFZ PRESS: The 2011 Yearbook is delayed
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30th December: FORTEAN: `Beachcombing` has done it again! A blog about the land of Fusang
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30th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Tuesday night was completely farcical
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30th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th December: CFZ PRESS: A sneak preview from Dr Shuker
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29th December: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 35 of our general fortean archives
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29th December: CFZ: A few parish notices (mostly flu related)
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29th December: WEIRD: Bat bombs of WW2 (don't read this Naomi)
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29th December: MUSIC: Following on from our vague thread about weird cover versions of
Silver Machine last week while Graham was away Hawkwinding, here - believe it or not - is a
Barbershop Quartet tribute to Bob Calvert
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29th December: ANIMAL RESCUE: Dog rescues Christmas kitten
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29th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold recounts a battle with a sea serpent
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An ancient map covered with sea monsters has fascinated Max Blake
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A fascinating Egyptian mystery from Karl Shuker
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An interview with Richard Freeman
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Did the Chinese of days gone by know about giraffes? It is a question that could only have been asked by Richard Muirhead.
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28th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton looks at Loren's new book
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28th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th December: CFZ PEOPLE: We are sorry that today's blog is so delayed. Jon and Corinna have swine flu.. Click here for further details...
27th December: FORTEAN: Look at this psychedelic batik owed by Karl Shuker. He wants YOUR help to decipher it..
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27th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Sasquatch and Bergman's rule - an excellent piece of writing from Dale Drinnon
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27th December: NATURAL HISTORY: If I understand it right, this little fish turned up in a shipment of gravel from Florida. What is it?
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27th December: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: An Owlman in Texas
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27th December: MEDIA: The new issue of Phenomena magazine is out, and once again I forgot to do our column.
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27th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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Boxing Day: CFZ "PEOPLE": Prudence models her new collar and then goes to sleep on top of
Olivia and Ivan
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Boxing Day: CFZ ANIMALS: We may or may not have fairies at the bottom of the garden. But we certainly have badgers!
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Boxing Day: CFZ PEOPLE: How did you spend your Christmas. If it was any weirder than Rick's we want to know
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Boxing Day: MUSIC: Part two of my top ten, if that makes any sense..
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Boxing Day: CFZ PEOPLE: Thank You to Neil Edmond for his generous Christmas Present to us
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Boxing Day: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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Christmas Day: CFZ PEOPLE: A Happy Christmas to you all from Jon and Corinna Downes
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Christmas Day: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker gets all Christmassy, and tells the historic story of Santa
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Christmas Day: MUSIC: As always, I present my highly subjective Top 10 of the year's music. As I have embedded youtube vids from each of them (except Pete Brown's bloody fantastic album) it takes up a lot of room. So Numbers 10-6 today, and the top 5 tomorrow.
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Christmas Day: PECULIAR: Weird Japanese Christmas stuff from Robert Schneck
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Christmas Day: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dear Lindsay asks is Santa Claus a cryptid?
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Christmas Day: SILLINESS: A Christmas Ghost Story (with apologies to M.R James) from Alan
Friswell
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Christmas Day: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Karl Shuker wishes hisreaders a Happy Christmas
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24th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another bit of potentially really exciting news
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24th December: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some odds and sods from Chad
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24th December: POLITICS: This government reveals its true colours
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24th December: CFZ IN WINTER: Another small story, this time featuring chickens
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24th December: CRYPTOMEDIA: A classic comic strip from 1962
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24th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd December: FORTEAN: It was apparently pre-ordained that Karl Shuker would have a career
in cryptozoology. Check this out, it truly is remarkable.
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23rd December: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker on Werewolves
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23rd December: SEASONAL SILLINESS: Apparently one West Midlands hostelry has venison on the
menu, according to Carl P
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23rd December: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Andrew Gable presents a remarkable story from the
archives concerning a swamp monster
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23rd December: CFZ IN WINTER: Amphiumas in the kitchen
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23rd December: CFZ IN WINTER: The use of bulldogs as hot water bottles
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23rd December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd December: CFZ PEOPLE: A Happy Christmas to you all
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22nd December: CFZ "PEOPLE": Lest we forget
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22nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Irish seaserpent addendum from Dale Drinnon
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22nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold looks at the cryptozoological implications for the
classic children's novel Stig of the Dump
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22nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Arabian Unicorns
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22nd December: NATURAL HISTORY: This has got to be the best headline of the year
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22nd December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st December: CFZ PEOPLE AND "PEOPLE": Jon and Graham have an anti-climactic non-adventure,
whilst Prudence discovers that she enjoys snow after all. Warning: contains pictures of a buldog rushing about in an enthusiastic manner.
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21st December: ARTS: Robert Schneck admires the animal paintings ofd Kawasaki Kyosen.
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21st December: FORTEAN: Polish painting pony - pretty peculiar, pals.
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21st December: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker announces a new project and Jon makes a stupid cinematic reference
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21st December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at Tony Harmsworth's new Loch Ness book
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21st December: NATURAL HISTORY: Extraordinary footage from Africa of female elephants rescuing a baby elephant that is drowning in a waterhole. All together now Aaaaaah!
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21st December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th December: TERATOLOGY: Karl Shuker on multi-headed snakes
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20th December: FORTEAN: The abominable smokeman of Essex
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20th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at John Napier's writings on bigfoot and yeti
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20th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren Naish on mystery Asian pigs
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20th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Doug paints Irish sheep
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20th December: CHRISTMAS: Mistletoe stuff from the RSPB
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20th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon popped into Bideford. He might have been some time
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19th December: NATURAL HISTORY: A fascinating study on animal bereavement. Warning: contains poignant little video clip
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19th December: LOOKING FORWARD A YEAR: If anyone wondered what to buy the CFZ next Christmas
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19th December: BLOGGO: Thanks to Syd for pointing out a recent cock-up on my behalf
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19th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton describes how one of the classic globster accounts from Heuvelmans has now been solved. Watch out for his forthcoming book on globsters from CFZ Press..
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19th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mystery cat in Ohio
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19th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th December: VERY SAD NEWS: Captain Beefheart has died
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18th December: VERY SAD NEWS: The CFZ remembers Captain Beefheart
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18th December: CFZ "PEOPLE": The first proper snow of the winter, and Prudence is not impressed
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18th December: FORTEAN: Robert Schneck asks why the American military have become interested in flying snakes
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18th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY etc: More odds and sods from Chad
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18th December: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana Part 34
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18th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Probably the most pointless news item that I have ever received, and that is up against some serious competition
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17th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A video report from Canada
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17th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at recent news reports of the Chinese Wildman
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17th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some more strange animal stories from Hong Kong courtesy of Muirhead's Mysteries
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17th December: MUSIC: Graham didn't know what he started when he mentioned in a blog posting last weekend that he was off to a couple of Hawkwind gigs this week! Syd disliked the original version of Silver Machine which we posted yesterday. He will loathe this!
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17th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY etc: Odds and sods from Chad Arment
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17th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th December: FORTEAN: Andrew Gable gives us a new world centaur
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16th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham thinks that we should explain Hawkwind properly
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16th December: CONSERVATION: Wolverines under threat
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16th December: CFZ MEDIA: New from Coachwhip - Caribbean monk seal book
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16th December: TERATOLOGY: Two-headed tortoise
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16th December: CFZ ARTS: Out of the mouths of babes and webcartoonists
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16th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th December: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen gloats gloriously!(and so he should)
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15th December: NATURAL HISTORY: An interesting reintroduction project needs your help
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15th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: CFZ Australia continue to be busy little bees
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15th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the recent Loch Ness story from Lindsay
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15th December: FORTEAN: The connection between NASA and mothman (blimey)
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15th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Hair Sample Update from Lars
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15th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th December: FORTEAN: Kithra follows up Oll's post about the 'slender man' hoax
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14th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland has a query regarding Australian mystery cats
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14th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (loosely): The top ten new species of the decade (according to the BBC)
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14th December: CFZ PEOPLE: It's a gas (sort of)
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14th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Is Naomi telepathic?
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14th December: CFZ PEOPLE/ARTS: Graham is off on his annual four day pilgrimage to worship at the altar of Hawkwind. For those of you old enough to remember both them and The James Last Orchestra here is something truly remarkable
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14th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th December: NATURAL WORLD: Solar desert schemes set ecowarrior vs ecowarrior
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13th December: INDIA EXPEDITION: Mystery deer investigation
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13th December: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Daemons of the Dreamtime #8... Richard wrestles with the Nyols
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13th December: UNIDENTIFIED: This time, it's a bird that's in the spotlight
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13th December: CONSERVATION: Godzilla versus the Japanese whalers
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13th December: SILLINESS: Robert Schneck and unusual zoo signs
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13th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th December: NATURAL WORLD: Nat Geo's Ten Weirdest Animals of 2010
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12th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna's diary shows that not only Wednesday is an "anything can
happen" day
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12th December: FUN AND GAMES: The CFZ Science Fiction movie competition!
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12th December: BIGFOOT: Dale Drinnon and the Khmer (Cambodian) Bigfoot - repost
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12th December: CFZ PEOPLE: A scene from Alien? No, it's Graham in the Crawlspace
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12th December: FORTEAN: Encantado: The Dolphin Men of the Amazon (Raheel Mughal)
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12th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th December: BOOK REVIEW: Haunted Skies by John and Dawn gets a UFO Matrix lookover
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11th December: MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: a rare poem - rare for his blog, that is...
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11th December: UNIDENTIFIED: Western Kentucky creature on a trail cam
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11th December: UNIDENTIFIED? this week's "something weird is out there" media pic
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11th December: UNIDENTIFIED: Who can identify this sandy-coloured head?
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11th December: ANIMALS AND MEN? - Jon finds a victim death counter for meat-eaters
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11th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th December: ENDANGERED: Center for Biological Diversity appeal
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10th December: ESCAPES: Nativity Reindeer stand-in goes on the loose
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10th December: FORTEAN: The Ghost Cat of the Grotto - Mike Hallowell
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10th December: MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: shark exhibited in Manchester (1798)
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10th December: CRYPTO-MUSIC: When Ogo-Pogo was going for a song... - Karl Shuker
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10th December: UFOs: Andy Robert's last book reviewed by UFO Matrix
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10th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon's not very well at the moment
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9th December: GHOSTS: Neil Arnold's all-new monster/ghost walks
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9th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Raheel Mughal MSc: Lesser Known Mystery Beasts of the Congo
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9th December: ALIENS: style and substance - NASA's arsenic-munching microbe
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9th December: PRESS: Jon and Corinna in the Bideford Post
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9th December: BIGFOOT: Dale Drinnon and the Khmer (Cambodian) Bigfoot
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9th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th December: FORTEAN: Carl Portman... chess players are weird
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8th December: CONSERVATION: A tree-mendous Harapan Rainforest appeal
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8th December: OUT-OF-PLACE ANIMALS? - intruders in electrical gear
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8th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: five Bigfoots in the woods?
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8th December: CFZ PRESSURES: a question of male micturition
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8th December: FORTEAN: Weird Creature at the Fence
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8th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th December: NATURAL HISTORY: When a seven-year-old finds an oarfish
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7th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: More footprints in the snow. These ones woke Graham up at some ungodly hour of the morning
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7th December: CRYPTOBOTANY:
A man-eating tree?
Could such a thing be?
But please don't ask me,
Ask my dear friend Lindsay
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7th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Are these Orang Pendek hairs? 'Dunno yet', says Lars
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7th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY ETC: CFZ Australia - blimey they have done well
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7th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY ETC: Some odds and sods from Chad Arment
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7th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th December: TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY: Darren on giant salamanders
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6th December: FORTEAN: The new issue of Phenomena magazine is out
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6th December: FORTEAN: A modern myth - the slender man
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6th December: CFZ "PEOPLE": The office assistant
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6th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/TERATOLOGY: A giant skeleton in Bosnia
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6th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest from Chad Arment's Biofortean Review
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6th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This has got to be the weirdest story that Richard Muirhead has
ever unearthed (and that is saying something)
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5th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon asks whether Nessie could really swim up the River Ness.I always knew that photograph I took in Inverness five years ago (almost to the day) would come in useful!
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5th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The final part of Oll Lewis' series about how the west first learned about the yeti
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5th December: CFZ PRESS: November's hit parade - the top ten best sellers
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5th December: NATURAL HISTORY: News of a new reptile journal
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5th December: NATURAL HISTORY: Glen Vaudrey sent these photographs of footprints found in the snow in Cheshire. Can you identify them?
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5th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th December: ANIMAL RESCUE: Jan Edwards and her Farplace in the snow
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4th December: CFZ BLOG: parades and saucepans are justified...
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4th December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Top 20 Crypto books - Loren's List
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4th December: CFZ PEOPLE: Robert Schneck writes
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4th December: CAUTIONARY TALE: tons of manure and no camera
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4th December: QUESTION: Do You Like Kipling? ANSWER: I don't know, I've never kippled..
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4th December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd December: BHM: Dale Drinnon - Amendment to the basic Sanderson ABSM map
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3rd December: NATURAL WORLD - Identify the wild dog puppy?
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3rd December: FERRYBRIDGE EVENT CANCELLED
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3rd December: INDIA EXPEDITION COVERAGE
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3rd December: INDIA EXPEDITION: Last Video Report
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3rd December: CFZ BLOG: 5000 posts!
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3rd December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd December: NATURAL HISTORY: Sadly, the charity fish auction in Redditch has been cancelled due to the weather
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2nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The current position on the Sumatra hair samples
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2nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby brings us the latest Loch Ness picture
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2nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The fifth video report from India
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2nd December: NATURAL HISTORY: Unusual bird behaviour reported by Syd Henley
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2nd December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The last batch of photos (for now) from the India expedition
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2nd December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at river monsters
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1st December: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday Olivia
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1st December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Episode 39 of On The Track is now online. Warning: contains a snoring bulldog
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1st December: NATURAL HISTORY: Can you identify this caterpillar, at least to Genus?
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1st December: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More pictures from the India expedition
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1st December: CFZ "PEOPLE": Orange Cat is unwell
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1st December: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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