2011: January

31st January: MEDIA: Oll looks at the new series of Primeval
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31st January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker with some very obscure, though massively intriguing, South American cryptids
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31st January: FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell tells an unpleasant story. Naomi, I would seriously suggest that you give this story a wide berth
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31st January: CFZ PRESS: Coming soon
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31st January: CFZ PRESS: Jon thanks his serried ranks of proofreaderss
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31st January: NATURAL HISTORY: The saga of the knife livebearers continues
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31st January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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30th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What CFZ Australia have been up to.
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30th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Two strange stories from the north of England, courtesy
of Muirhead's Mysteries.
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30th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An art movie purporting to show a sasquatch giving birth. Why, I'm not sure.
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30th January: FORTEAN: The new issue of Phenomena magazine is now out
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30th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An absolutely smashing article from Dale on Little Luck Gods, Billikens and Koboldes
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30th January: NATURAL HISTORY: New herp journal
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30th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Karl Shuker's mama is 90 years old
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29th January: ZOOLOGY: The current controversy over whether a species can be named on DNA evidence alone
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29th January: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Davey Curtis draws our attention to a bipedal
gorilla
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29th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Adam Davies interview
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29th January: MUSIC: Young people today have a lamentable lack of knowledge. Glen Vaudrey calls his new column `Whole Wide World`, but some readers don't understand why. Wot??? You never heard of Wreckless Eric?
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29th January: FORTEAN: Nick Redfern on timeslips
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29th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th January: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: According to Black Sabbath fairies wear
boots. According to Karl Shuker they wear armour
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28th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna reminds us about the Big Bird Watch
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28th January: TAXONOMY FAIL: A historical Taxonomy Fail from Neil Arnold
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28th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on Neanderthal snubnoses from Dale Drinnon
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28th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Minke Whale hybrids
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28th January: WEIRD WEEKEND 2011: Trevor Beer joins the lineup
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28th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Once again Glen Vaudrey does a Wreckless Eric and goes the whole
wide world
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27th January: TAXONOMY FAIL: It is Dr Dan's turn
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27th January: ARTS: Robert Schneck meets a giant metal trilobite
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27th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Polar Bear Problems Proliferate
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27th January: WW2011: Thanks to Steve Jones for pointing out a cock up in my coding
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27th January: CFZ PEOPLE: A few birthdays remembered and a few birthdays we missed
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27th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Anthony Wallis
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26th January: REVIEWS: Redfern peruses Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot
Casebook
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26th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Robert Schneck has found another invertebrate with which to
fall in love
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26th January: ZOOLOGY: How to collect and label samples without causing Lars Thomas to go on a hate filled killing spree
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26th January: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Maxy
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26th January: MEDIA: Watch out vampires. Oll Lewis has a stake in your future
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26th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th January: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker goes to Easter Island
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25th January: CFZ PEOPLE: A happy birthday to Gavin Lloyd Wilson
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25th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alabama bigfoot print
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25th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A thunderbird cartoon
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25th January: POLITICS: Oll Lewis reckons that David Cameron is showing his true colours
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25th January: CFZ PRESS: Despite the 'flu, the 2011 Yearbook is imminent
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25th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th January: SCIENCE: Rupert Sheldrake is doing an experiment
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24th January: MYTHOLOGY: Raheel Mughal looks at the frost giants of ancient Norse mythology
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24th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Jan Edwards comments on the recent giant fox story
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24th January: CFZ UPDATE: Things are still somewhat awry
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24th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A species thought extinct (in Denmark) is rediscovered by our very own Lars Thomas
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24th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A smashing blog from Dale Drinnon which proposes a solution to
one of Britain's most insoluble crypto-conundra
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24th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Part Two of Glen Vaudrey's Wreckless Eric inspired journey around the world in search of cryptids
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23rd January: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Neil Arnold begins a new series of
excerpts from The Field magazine
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23rd January: FORTEAN: Redfern has a hellhound on his trail
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23rd January: DIE OFFS: Three video reports
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23rd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren Naish asks whether the ancient Egyptians knew about pygmy
mammoths
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23rd January: NATURAL HISTORY: The first signs that spring is around the corner
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23rd January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd January: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Maxy
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22nd January: COMPLETELY OFF-TOPIC: I was recently sent this video showing ten places that are missing from Google maps. I found it rather interesting..
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22nd January: CONSERVATION: New Greenpeace campaign
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22nd January: BOOK REVIEWS: Nick Redfern reviews Paranormal America
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22nd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New from our friendly rivals, Chad Arment's Coachwhip Books
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22nd January: CFZ PRESS: The Yearbook is coming on well
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22nd January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st January: CFZ PRESS: Karl Shuker announces another new project
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21st January: CRYPTOFICTION: Lars Thomas' gripping saga continues
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21st January: ANIMAL WELFARE: Liz Clancy has good news for the birds of the North of England
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21st January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell has a snowy footprint related conundrum
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21st January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a second look at traditional Northest sea monsters
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21st January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Daniel Pace ponders upon the European Wildman
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21st January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker continues his Biblical theme and goes in search of the leviathan
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20th January: FORTEAN: How does a UFO group get Royal patronage? I would really love to know
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20th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Lizzy says thank you to Graham for helping with her tax return. Whilst on the subject, so do I
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20th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby on the kikiyaon - a flying cryptid from West Africa
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20th January: FORTEAN: A peculiar video from Mexico which purports to be the burnt body of an alien
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20th January: TAXONOMY FAIL: More mischief from Max
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20th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at Biblical Dragons, and the monsters of the Ishtar Gate
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19th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Naomi West
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19th January: MEDIA: Oll Lewis goes to the movies
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19th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Part Two of the Muirhead's Mysteries look at
historical Chinese knowledge of the giraffe
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19th January: CFZ PRESS: Proofreaders wanted
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19th January: FORTEAN WORDS: Volume Two of Haunted Skies is imminent
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19th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th January: TAXONOMY FAIL: Its back, courtesy of Max Blake
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18th January: NATURAL HISTORY/TERATOLOGY: Enormous fox photo, courtesy of Matt Salusbury
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18th January: CRYPTOFICTION: Lars Thomas starts a story
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18th January: LITERATURE: Harriet Wadham discovers George Orwell
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18th January: POLITICS: The Great American novel falls foul of the Political Correctness brigade
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18th January: WEIRD WEEKEND 2011: Neil Arnold added to the bill
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18th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th January: WEIRD WEEKEND 2011: Tickets are now on sale, and the whole juggernaut starts to rumble into life
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17th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Adam Davies gives the latest news from India
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17th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker presents a Nessie rhyme from over 30 years ago
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17th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In the first of a two-parter, Dale Drinnon looks at the traditional sea monsters of the Pacific Northwest
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17th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The launch of a new series from Glen Vaudrey. Utilising a song
by Wreckless Eric, he travels the world looking for a cryptid in each country
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17th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The bizarre big cat story of the month from Neil Arnold
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17th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Lars Thomas tells the peculiar story of a missing macacque
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16th January: EXPEDITIONS: Maya exhibition in Torrington
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16th January: ANIMAL WELFARE: Fox shoots man
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16th January: NATURAL HISTORY: For our readers in New York - lecture news
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16th January: ANIMAL WELFARE: Stolen whippet bitch and pups
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16th January: FORTEAN: Beachcombing looks at werewolves
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16th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th January: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on trolls
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15th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at the snow lion of Tibet
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15th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Holland wonders whether anyone has heard of the mysterious black foxes of Herefordshire
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15th January: NATURAL HISTORY: The return of the Bugfest Blog
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15th January: OUT AND ABOUT: Dave B-P and Jess go to Bath
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15th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this bird. The person who took the video thinks it is
a woodpecker, whcih it most certainly isn't. I think it is a woodcock..
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15th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th January: TERATOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at two-faced cats (and we are not talking about the ones who sit on your lap purely in order to steal cake)
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14th January: NATURAL HISTORY: New Herp Journal
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14th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon examines the importance of Tibetan blue bears
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14th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Oll Lewis looks at Panda Diplomacy
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14th January: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Odds and sods from Chad Arment
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14th January: CFZ PRESS: Redders reviews Richard
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14th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A forthcoming lecture by Richard Freeman
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13th January: NATURAL HISTORY: The Avicultural Weekend
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13th January: DIE OFFS: Kithra looks at the phenomenon
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13th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Raheel Mughal looks at the Trinity Alps Giant Salamander
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13th January: DIE OFFS: On Google maps
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13th January: POLITICS: The great bee conspiracy (and Wikileaks)
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13th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th January: SAD NEWS: Peter Christopherson from Throbbing Gristle has died. In fact he died months ago, but I only found out last night.
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12th January: BLOGGO: Another milestone
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12th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Guppy weekend
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12th January: NATURAL HISTORY: Lars Thomas recounts the rare visit of a Greenland shark to Denmark
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12th January: FORTEAN: Oll looks at fishy foot care
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12th January: FORTEAN: Why are we giving so much coverage to the recent die-off's?
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12th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: How often do you see a cryptid and an out-of-place animal in the
same picture?
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11th January: DIE-OFF'S: The Birdchick investigates
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11th January: NATURAL HISTORY/ANIMAL WELFARE: Bottle feeding a Florida panther
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11th January: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Gavin Lloyd Wilson visits the world's largest wooly
jumper and discovers a big cat
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11th January: FORTEAN: Vampire furniture
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11th January: PECULIAR: Matt Osborne showcases ASDA's geography fail
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11th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th January: CFZtv: We are not well enough to make OTT this month, sadly. We tried, but to no avail. But we do have this for you..
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10th January: SAD NEWS: Commiserations to Max and his family on the death of his grandmother
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10th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the Staffordshire Creature
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10th January: CONSERVATION: For our American readers - an interesting opportunity
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10th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Davey Curtis reveals the Loch Ness Lava Lamp from Outer Space
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10th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell tells the story of the `Horse Man of Bede`
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10th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th January: CFZ/BLOG: Because of this bloasted flu, things are not as good as they could be, but then again they are not as bad as they could be either
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9th January: TERATOLOGY: Karl Shuker writes about pink elephants, and as Scott Walker (my favourite singer of all time) is 68 today, there is a film clip of him singing about them
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9th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon's footnotes on Dzu Teh
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9th January: TERATOLOGY: An orange alligator
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9th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Some interesting odds and sodds from Chad Arment
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9th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: This round up of recent bird and fish kills was sent to me. I post it with no comment or changes
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9th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th January: CFZ ARCHIVING: Part 38 of `General Forteana`
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8th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: CFZ Australia on the telly
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8th January: FORTEAN: More fish kills
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8th January: FORTEAN: Beachcombing on an interesting aspect of the fair folk
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8th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Cardiff Winch Serpent
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8th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mysterious mustelid in Staffs?
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8th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: According to Karl Shuker there is a new video of the Tunceli
winged cat
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7th January: CRYPTO ARTS: Oll Lewis says goodbyte to Dick King Smith
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7th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mystery whale in California
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7th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Speculation as to the significance of the Arkansas bird kill is reaching fever pitch, and even the straightest of the straight press are getting involved
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7th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Speculation as to the significance of the Arkansas bird kill is reaching fever pitch. The occult brigade have a chance to air their thoughts.
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7th January: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The mighty Beachcombing sits on his baby daughter and goes to
Dorset. As far as I can see the two things are not related
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7th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th January: EXPEDITION NEWS: Civil War in Garo Hills - Adam Davies
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6th January: MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: What was this moth doing in Brazil?
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6th January: CFZ PRESS: Global Top Ten for 2010
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6th January: ZOOLOGY: New catfish
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6th January: MUSIC: Japan's Mick Karn dies
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6th January: Amateur Naturalist - Max is appealing
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6th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Freeman at Forty
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5th January: CFZ PEOPLE: Healing withes to Carl Portman
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5th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at Steller's Sea Bear
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5th January: CFZ ANIMALS: Sad News - Gladys has died
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5th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon presents clarifications on the dzu teh
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5th January: CFZ PRESS: The Global Top Ten for 2010
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5th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest from CFZ Australia
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4th January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the Afanc
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4th January: CFZtv: On The Track is running late - but then again, that is hardly
surprising
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4th January: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 37 of the general fortean archives
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4th January: FORTEAN: Oh we do like to be besides the Celestial Sargasso Seaside
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4th January: CRYPTOFICTION: Ronan surpasses himself
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4th January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Trevor Beer takes a look at Karl's new book
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3rd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I inadvertantly missed out this posting from Karl yesterday - a new installment in his look at little mystery manbeasts
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3rd January: BLOGGO: A brief note on the Top Tens for December and for 2010
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3rd January: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: When Bigfoot was seen by the President
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3rd January: CFZ "PEOPLE": The saga of Prudence's ears continues
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3rd January: CFZ PEOPLE: Lars Thomas waxes lyrical about Prudence
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3rd January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd January: CFZ ON THE WANT: Do any of you have some a4 magazine binders?.
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2nd January: POLITICS: Lloyd Pye sent me this. I decided to pass it on. I suggest that you do the same.
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2nd January: NATURAL HISTORY: Another mystery bug
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2nd January: CFZ PEOPLE: Blandings Castle revisited
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2nd January: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall writes...
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2nd January: FORTEAN: Nick Redfern on Owlman. Bostin our kid!
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2nd January: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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New Year's Day: CFZ: Prudence wishes everyone a successful and happy 2011 (as do we all)
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New Year's Day: CRYPTOFICTION: An elegantly nasty short story from Richard Freeman
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New Year's Day: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker says goodbye to 2010 in a suitably macabre fashion
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New Year's Day: CFZtv: OTT is delayed, but hopefully not for much longer
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New Year's Day: NATURAL HISTORY: I sit and watch as ears go by
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New Year's Day: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 36 of the General Forteana archives
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New Year's Day: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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