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Friday 1 April 2011

2011: April

30th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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30th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Herpetofauna monitoring course
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30th April: FORTEAN: Neil; Arnold recounts the strange tale of the mothman of Hertfordshire
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30th April: CFZ PEOPLE: The wit and wisdom of Corinna Downes
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30th April: CFZtv: The new episode of `On The Track` is out, and I am particularly proud of it
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30th April: FORTEAN: Over half a century ago, the Daily Telegraph was sceptical about UFOs
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30th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th April: NATURAL HISTORY: The Woolsery Butterfly Count - the plot thickens
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29th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY: The latest postings from Dale
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29th April: FORTEAN: The RAF Topcliffe, 1962, UFO case courtesy of the Haunted Skies posse
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29th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Beth Tyler-King took a baby fox to visit Helen and Jessica
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29th April: FORTEAN: Jon rather naughtily nicknamed the Haunted Skies Project, `Haunted Pies`. Now it seems that Pukka Pies have caught up with him..
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29th April: CFZ STUFF: When Jon did his lectures in Berkshire a few weeks ago, Wokingham
library did a poster..
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29th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Central African Apemen That Are Also Water-Monsters? Can such a thing be? Ask Dale Drinnon..
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28th April: NATURAL HISTORY: The saga of Woolsery's butterflies continues, as Max and Jon find and photograph two more species that Jon has not seein in Woolsery for many years
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28th April: FORTEAN: Particularly unpleasant Scottish folklore from Kithra. I strongly suggest that Naomi doesn't read this
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28th April: PECULIAR: An African performance artist with a hat made of eggs
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28th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell tells the peculiar Geordie tale of Spaggs and the frog
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28th April: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies posse introduce us to George Filer
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28th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The African elephant-killing unicorn
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27th April: FORTEAN: UFO filmed at Rendlesham Forest
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Matt Salusbury is back From India, and his search for the pygmy elephants of Kerala
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27th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this bird of prey
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27th April: NATURAL HISTORY: The Orange Tip saga continues
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27th April: COMMUNITY: Unconvention dates
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27th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th April: FAREWELL: The day the world turned monochrome - Poly Styrene is dead
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at giant crocodiles from East Africa
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26th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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26th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Orange Tip image
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26th April: FORTEAN: The Russian alien is made of bread and chicken skin
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26th April: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies posse recount a long and complicated tale involving a chicken dance, the heir to the throne, "Shagbats" and a UFO sighting
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26th April: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold's second look at monsters that you have probably never heard of
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26th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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Easter Monday: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More African things with wings from Dale
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Easter Monday: EASTER: Two Easter-themed birds from Karl Shuker
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Easter Monday: BLOGGO: The main blog tots up 6,000 posts. Blimey!
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Easter Monday: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: David B-P discovers the fabled beast of fiction
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Easter Monday: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold with the first of a two part look at monsters you've never heard of
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Easter Monday: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies posse introduce us to Albert Rosales
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Easter Monday: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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Easter Sunday: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The first part of Dale Drinnons peek at winged things in Africa
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Easter Sunday: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT: We knew things were grim, but not this grim
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Easter Sunday: CFZ PEOPLE: A Happy Easter from all at the CFZ Blog
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Easter Sunday: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An exhaustive skunk ape update from Michael Newton
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Easter Sunday: CFZ PEOPLE: The latest from Kithra
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Easter Sunday: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies posse reveal what happens when an astronaut spills the beans
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Easter Sunday: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis has internet problems so it is Jon with
Yesterday's News Today
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23rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier
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23rd April: FORTEANISH: Places one cannot visit
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23rd April: NATURAL HISTORY: Is this an osprey?
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23rd April: NATURAL HISTORY: An invasion from the Middle East
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23rd April: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: With an unfortunate headline Davey Curtis presents a peculiar
artefact from York Museum. I think triton. Does anyone else agree?
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23rd April: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies bring you the strange story of a Suffolk UFO
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23rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd April: FORTEAN: Dead alien in Russia; Ivan is on the case
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale's slugly snake (what a lovely word!)
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22nd April: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Giant turtles in Africa. Dale argues in this
article that they are not cryptozoological. I do not necessarily agree
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot in Macclesfield. Exclusive pic from Richard Muirhead
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A round up of the latest news from Lake Hoan Kiem
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22nd April: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies team talk about their visit to Rachel, Nevada (its a place not a girl)
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22nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st April: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Andrew Gable with the untold story of the Houston bat
man
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21st April: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern on Paranormal Big Cats
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21st April: NATURAL HISTORY: Our old m,ate Steve Cummins sent this useful biodiversity resource
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21st April: CFZ "PEOPLE": Goodbye to Ragyle
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21st April: OBITUARY: Richard Freeman says a tearful goodbye to Lis Sladen
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21st April: NATURAL HISTORY: The Haunted Skies team are sidetracked from their normal pursuit of flying saccers, and instead chase peculiar mushrooms
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21st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Jon and Graham go in search of an ethnoknown creature, chase it
down isolated lanes and finally photograph it
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at the possibility of surviving sivatheres
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20th April: CFZ PEOPLE: When I was at boarding school in 1976 she sent me and my study-mates a signed photograph. I don't know if that makes her one of the CFZ People, but Lis Sladen is dead. God rest her soul...
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon with an update on sea elephants
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20th April: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies are back with the most peculiar headline since the inception of the bloggo
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20th April: ANIMAL WELFARE/POLITICS: If you live in/happen to be in New York, this is a protest which deserves your support
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20th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th April: HAUNTED SKIES: John Hanson looks back to the beginning of the project
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19th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ARTS: Karl Shuker's second exclusive from `Stranger than People`
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19th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ARTS: Karl Shuker on Yokai from the 1970s
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19th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier
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19th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Harriet Wadham is - as regular bloggotypes will know - a charming and erudite young lady, and it is always a pleasure to showcase her writings even when they are completely off topic
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19th April: FORTEAN FIVES: Hunt Emerson
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19th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker's bestest headline ever



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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: News from Dale Drinnon





















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18th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to our New Zealand representative





















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18th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Loren is - once again right - it is indeed "a freaking small world in Fortean cryptozoology"





















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18th April: FORTEAN: At last the Haunted Skies Project has its own blog





















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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Good (and bad) news from the Heuvelmans archive





















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18th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As a prelude to a new series, Dale has reposted an article by Raheel Mughal (who will be back from Pakistan any time now, with the results of his investigations)





















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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker's new publishing venture





















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17th April: JUST NICE: A heartwarming animal tale from Matthew Williams





















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17th April: NATURAL HISTORY: If you are into terrapins check out this new offer from HerpDigest





















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17th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Whilst Max is in Iceland, I am having problems identifying fish. Can anyone help with this rainbowfish?





















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17th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Richard Freeman tells the chilling story of Potol, the king of the crocodiles





















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17th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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16th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale D in search of the water bull





















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16th April: NATURAL HISTORY/CFZ PEOPLE: A Traveller's Tale from Corinna. Warning: Includes bustards and faulty braces





















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16th April: NATURAL HISTORY: What the blazes is this? I so want one





















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16th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot video analysis





















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16th April: POLITICS: If anything were to turn me into a republican it might be this knitted Royal Wedding that I photographed in a shop window in Reading the other night. Can any bloggo readers beat this for vulgarity? Send any other Royal Wedding atrocities to us, so that we can laugh at the funny people with dubious taste..





















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16th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Oll has finished his model wels. Prudence is confused





















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16th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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15th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: It's Andrew May with more words from the wild frontier





















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15th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon and Corinna are back (and in a fit of pique, Prudence ate a pair of sandals belonging to Corinna)





















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15th April: BLOGGOSTUFF: An administrative notice from Dale





















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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar bigfoot story from Neil Arnold





















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15th April: TERATOLOGY: A two-headed turtle





















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15th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Nigel Wright has a new book





















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15th April: BLOGGOSTUFF: Liz is back. Hooray!





















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15th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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14th April: PUBLICATIONS: 'Haunted Rochester' by Neil Arnold





















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14th April: FORTEAN: Missing UFO Log sought





















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14th April: NATURAL WORLD: Richard Freeman recommends this Giant Eels video





















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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: documentary planned about the JERSEY DEVIL





















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14th April: NATURAL WORLD - can anyone ID this beetle?





















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14th April: FORTEAN FIVES: Paul 'Tiny' Jackson





















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14th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker's wild American hound





















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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier (1)





















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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier (2)





















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13th April: FORTEAN: Strange fish behaviour





















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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: John Hanson's nocturnal avian marauder?





















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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Celia Hammond Animal Trust benefit concert





















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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker's hedge hound





















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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Ken Gerhard writes





















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12th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Wolves in peril





















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12th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier





















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12th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Amphibian specialist group for western Asia





















12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead uncovers some peculiar historical animal records in the British Isles





















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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman hails new developments in Russian mystery hominid research





















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12th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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11th April: NATURAL HISTORY/TERATOLOGY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Everything's gone green says Karl. Jon uses this as an excuse to play some music..





















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11th April: NATURAL HISTORY: A bovine mimicry of a popular biscuit? Can such a thing be?





















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11th April: FORTEAN: A road ghost? Or a bug on the lens?





















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11th April: FORTEAN: The second part of a two part article by Oll Lewis. Its another crypto-con, and the story of a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits





















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11th April: FORTEAN FIVES: Neil Arnold





















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11th April: CFZ COMMUNITY: Phil Mantle has asked us to inform the bloggo readership that the new issue of UFO Matrix is now available





















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11th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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10th April: BLOGGO: Ch ch ch changes





















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10th April: CFZ "PEOPLE": How Prudence amuses herself on a saturday afternoon





















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10th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier





















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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dr Beachcombing is back on one of his favourite subjects - unicorns.





















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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/TRAIL CAMERA APPEAL: The return of Trevor the Trailcam





















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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A three toed footprint





















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10th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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9th April: FORTEAN: Dale gives us the latest news from the frontiers of anthropology





















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9th April: FORTEAN: The first of a two part article by Oll Lewis. Its another crypto-con, and the story of a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits





















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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Has bigfoot been captured by a time-lapse camera?





















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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Has bigfoot been captured by a thermal imaging camera?





















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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: A new population of the Andean cat





















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9th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Raheel Mughal writes about the jackalope





















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9th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two particularly - one might say spectacularly - obscure cryptoprimates from Dr Karl Shuker





















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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A doubly intriguing mermaid-related post from Dr Beachcombing





















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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another great cryptozoological April Fool that we initially overlooked





















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8th April: WEIRD WEEKEND: Tell Tale Travel are once again sponsoring this year's event





















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8th April: FORTEAN: An intriguing note from Nick Redfern





















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8th April: FORTEAN FIVES: Oll Lewis





















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8th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















Click here for further details... 7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale revisits the Pauline sea serpent





















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7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (Broadly): Karl Shuker on passenger pigeons





















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7th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Harriet has glasses





















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7th April: CFZ PRESS: This month's top tens





















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7th April: REVIEWS: There is a new film out about dragons. Young Mr Freeman is less than impressed, and vents his spleen upon it.





















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7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Odds and sods from Chad





















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7th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at the lost Birds of Paradise





















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6th April: REVIEWS: Another film review from Richard





















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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A totally bizarre discovery in a toy shop. Well done to Patrick Noble





















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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A white Chinese unicorn





















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6th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Eagle Cam





















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6th April: FORTEAN: The UFO Matrix Conference this autumn





















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6th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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5th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGICAL: More winged cat stuff from Karl. This time the actual wings





















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5th April: BLOGGO STUFF: Now hiring...





















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5th April: FORTEAN FIVES: Oll Lewis presents a new series for the blog





















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5th April: CFZ PEOPLE: A revelation about Nick Redfern





















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5th April: FREEMAN'S FLICKS: Richard F reviews The Troll Hunter





















Click here for further details... 5th April: CFZtv: Robert Schneck presents an outtake from the latest On The Track





















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5th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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4th April: CFZ PRESS: Scott Lyall points out my irritating mistake





















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4th April: TERATOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Blimey! Jon McGowan finds a very peculiar monster in Dorset





















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4th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Remembering Jon's mother





















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4th April: SCIENCE SILLINESS: Another massively entertaining April Fool





















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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: You've heard of a bull in a china shop. Richard Muirhead presents a yeren in a (Macclesfield) antique shop. Groovy!





















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4th April: FRIENDS AND RELATIONS: The new edition of Phenomena magazine is now out





















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4th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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3rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest episode of On the Track





















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3rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon with three kinds of unicorns





















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3rd April: CFZ PRESS: Three months late the 2011 CFZ Yearbook is finally available





















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3rd April: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna presents a fearsome mother





















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3rd April: CFZ "PEOPLE": A winged dog





















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3rd April: TRAIL CAM APPEAL: The return of Glen Vaudrey, Trevor and an exploring cryptozoologist made of lego





















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3rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/SILLINESS: Two rather good Crypto April Fools from Yesterday. Our story about the winged cat was - of course - totally serious





















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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: It must be spring. The Eastern European BHM videos have started to appear





















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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Flying Lizard in Africa?





















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2nd April: BLOGGO/CFZ PRESS: Our battle against the intransigences of other people's computers continues apace





















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2nd April: CFZtv: On The Track is delayed... but its not our fault! Honest!





















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2nd April: NATURAL HISTORY: The results are in for this year's Big Garden Birdwatch





















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2nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today





















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1st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Karl Shuker enters the realms of exotic ornithology Click here for further details...





















1st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: A real CFZ exclusive - we have our own winged cat





















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1st April: CFZtv: Sadly this month's edition of On The Track is delayed





















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1st April: BLOGGO ETC: We are afraid that there are still issues with both Blogger and Amazon.co.uk





















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1st April: FORTEAN: A radioactive Japanese ghost. Could such a thing be?





















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1st April: CFZ ARTS: Robert Schneck revisits some classic pachydermous comic book art





















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1st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today