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Saturday 11 July 2009

2009: June

30th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lake monster hunting at Storsjoodjuret
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30th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Part 14 of Tim Matthews's serial: The Meeting
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30th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Lindsay Selby with a useful online resource
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30th June: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Unusual stories from the English countryside 1750-1850
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30th June: GLEN VAUDREY: A heartwarming tale of water horses, black dogs and copyright
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30th June: FORTEAN: A weird blog from Neil Arnold about zooform phenomena
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30th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: For the second timne this year the rescue hedgehogs have had babies (and this time we have pictures) - will the mother be able to rear them?
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30th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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29th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What the bloody hell is this?
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29th June: BIODIVERSITY: The latest newsletter from the Center for Biological Diversity
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29th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Congratulations to Kithra
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29th June: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The Maidstone monkey. Another Neil Arnold investigation..
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29th June: NATURAL HISTORY: What happens when a chimpanzee meets a white tiger.
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29th June: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Singing Mice
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29th June: HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To Ray Harryhausen
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29th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Vintage story of a giant, hay-eating eel
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28th June: NATURAL HISTORY: The Red Admirals have arrived!
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren Naish is a prince amongst men - he has managed to get swearing, frogs and elephants into the same story. We are not worthy.
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following Karl's thunderbird story yesterday, here is some peculiar footage of an eagle attacking a remote-controlled plane
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28th June: SYNCHRONICITIES: Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the popular press
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28th June: TROUBLESHOOTING: I.T advice wanted
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28th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A couple of interesting articles that turned up in my in-box
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28th June: AMATEUR NATURALIST: One bit of good news - the Midlands charity fish auctions are back on
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28th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today, and umm "Stereoscopic Sunday"
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27th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: The continuing saga of the jackdaws...
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27th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Another email from Sostratus. Who is this guy?
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27th June: FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jon's aquarist wish-list
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27th June: BLOGGO: Normal service will be resumed tomorrow (we hope)
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27th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on the track of a stuffed thunderbird
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27th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This craze for bigfoot spoofs on YouTube is spreading fast.
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27th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Another unidentified insect
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27th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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26th June: CFZ: Proof that we really are going to the dogs
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26th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another e-mail from Sostratus Winston. Who is this guy?
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26th June: CFZ MUSEUM: The saga of the mystery cervid is at an end:

A week ago Lionel Beer,
gave us the stuffed head of a deer,
for the CFZ collection,
where it caused some speculation,
because no matter how hard we'd try,
it proved impossible to identify,
but just as we had given up hope,
Scottie says t'was an antelope

And the bugger was right...

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26th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: Jerry the Jackdaw is released
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26th June: BLOGGO: Yay for us - the newsblog reaches the 1000th posting
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26th June: FORTEAN: A strange story of dead birds, bone fragments, and Brtain's greatest folklorist
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26th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Are black tailed prairie dogs living wild in Cornwall?
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26th June: FORTEAN: Bear attack in Kent
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26th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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25th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Are the wallabies back near Macclesfield? I'm sure there is a Macc Lads reference in there somewhere waiting to be found?
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25th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: The latest episode of Timmy's massively entertaining soap opera. Yay for Timmy!
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25th June: CFZ MUSEUM: Follow-up story on the unidentified deer from the other day
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25th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Although the headline for this piece proclaims that it is a serious cultural reference to the Mongolian deathworm, it is actually nothing more than a stupid video game. Ha!
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25th June: CFZ PRESS: Issue 46 of Animals & Men has experienced another slight delay, and again it is all Jon's fault
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25th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Shosh has finished her exams
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25th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest events in the saga of the putative British green lizard
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25th June: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: Wildlife fights back
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25th June: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Fleur is in the basement mixing up the medicine. No she's not, in fact, she is in the basement cleaning up the specimen's, one of which is the mortal remains of a whale I wrote about over ten years ago..
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25th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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24th June: FOWL PLAY: Chickens are outstanding
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24th June: TERATOLOGY: Bipedal doggies and a warning to us all
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24th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Derek Grebner with an out of place snake from Illinois
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24th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Can YOU identify this insect? We are pretty sure that we can (for a change)..
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24th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby tells us about a Texas lake monster that we previously had not heard about
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24th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Redders takes a brief peek at the biodiversity of Cannock Chase. Not really because he is into moths, but because of the monsters that live there. Warning: Great piccie of a pine hawk moth...
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24th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Darling Corinna becomes a professional writer
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24th June: ARCHIVE: A westcountry blacksmith shoes an elephant! Really? Goodness me...
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24th June: ARCHIVE: A westcountry blacksmith shoes an elephant! Really? Goodness me...
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24th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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23rd June: CFZ MUSEUM: Can anyone identify this deer?
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Final appendix to Dale's checklist of cryptozoological creatures
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23rd June: TERATOLOGY: Big yellow lobster (sounds like a song by an undersea Joni Mitchell)
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another intriguing e-mail from Sostratus Winston.
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23rd June: CRYPTOHOAXES: Alan's fake `Surgeon's Photo` revealed, plus a new conundrum. How does the man do it?
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23rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Greg and Mike Warner release their findings from the Peru expedition earlier this year. We are publishing them as a *.pdf download, although we would like to stress that, whilst having the highest regard for them as people, we still do not agree with their conclusions, and do not endorse them.
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23rd June: POLITICS/ANIMALWELFARE: Who killed Bambi? If this is true it is a shocking example of why conventional politics has failed us, and if it is not it is still an example of how we seem to have lost faith in those who have been appointed to lead us! It is time for a change guys.. Click here for further details...
23rd June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Especially for our younger readers, this latest charming report from a North Devon holiday farm features baby squirrels, and canaries
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23rd June: CFZtv: Somehow the link to the last episode of OTT was screwed up, sop we are reposting it
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23rd June: CFZ ALLIANCE: Thanks to Alan F, we are now reposting the Center for Biological Diversity newsletter each week..
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23rd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The secrets of an 11th Century Chinese bird painting
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22nd June: FOLKLORE: A visit to Kitty Jay's grave on Dartmoor
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22nd June: CFZ PRESS: Island of Paradise reiewed by Naomi.
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22nd June: CFZ PRESS: Animals & Men 46 is finally available.
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22nd June: ARTY STRANGENESS: More lobstermen
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22nd June: ARTY STRANGENESS: Cryptochick with a story from our collective youth. A story of owls, newts, a kangaroo, and a hare who lost his spectacles
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Malone is on an out-of-place alligator hunt
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22nd June: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: Invasion of the Lobstermen
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22nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New academic paper re-examines the fossil hominology of parts of Asia. Imagine the implications for cryptozoology...
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22nd June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Mostly about canaries
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22nd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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21st June: NATURAL HISTORY: And what are these unusual insects from Lincolnshire?
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21st June: WEIRD WEEKEND: Do you live in London, and want two free tickets?
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21st June: NATURAL HISTORY: Tristan has a run in with a fox and some odd trout
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21st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Lonesome Death of Mister Lizardman - was it psychic backlash, or a sign of the times?

But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain't the time for your tears.


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21st June: CFZ PEOPLE: It's final exam time for Shoshy
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21st June: CFZ ARTS: Shame on you. Or at least shame on the people who didn't recognise the poem I quoted on the site this morning, and who asked who Mike Scott was. So I'll show you
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21st June: NATURAL HISTORY: An update from Walland Farm on the whiskered bat Rossi found the other day...
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21st June: NATURAL HISTORY: Greggy has done it again - restored his old Godfather's faith.
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21st June: CFZ MUSEUM: The most stupidly arcane thing we have ever given away. If you have cardboard 3D specs then you may appreciate them. Otherwise these pictures of the new exhibits in the CFZ Museum just look a blurry mess.
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21st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A thought for the day from Lindsay Selby.
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21st June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Dear Oliver brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Compelling bigfoot evidence - could this be the real deal? Of course it could.
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20th June: CFZ MUSEUM: Please identify this crocodilian.
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on the mystery cats of Philadelphia.
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20th June: FOLKLORE: The Baum Rabbit - another tale from lovely Liz.
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20th June: CFZ WHAT DID WE DO YESTERDAY: We ain't telling you just yet
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The references from Dale's checklist
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern presents Westcountry Wallaby Weirdness
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20th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Syd Henley's rara avis
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20th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest installment of Dale Drinnon's mammoth checklist of cryptozoological animals
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another out-of-place alligator in Alabama - and this one is big! But not as big as has been claimed
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lloyd Pye with the latest `Starchild` updates. As we have said on many occasions before, whilst we don't believe that this has anything at all to do with aliens, we do believe that the `Starchild` is a specimen of cryptozoological importance, and are convinced of Lloyd's transparent sincerity. We have known him for ten years now, and there will always be a place for him at the CFZ
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19th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As the saga of the Peruvian "Giant Snake" expedition trundles towards its climax, Jon takes a look at two letters he has just received on the suvject - one touching, the other less so
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19th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Whilst birdwatching, Maxy has a Bambi experience
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19th June: NATURAL HISTORY: At Walland Farm, Kaye takes up arms against the Animal Welfare authorities in the case of a seal in distress
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19th June: FOWL PLAY: The latest video in the occasional series which panders to Jon's obsessions with chickens and their relatives
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19th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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18th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bloggo reader Jason Pratt has a bash at interpreting the last batch of data from the Peruvian expedition of Greg and Mike Warner
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18th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY:The latest batch of data from the Peruvian expedition of Greg and Mike Warner
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18th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: The latest installment of Tim Matthews's bitingly funny serial
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18th June: BLOGGO: Disruption over next few days
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18th June: BLOGGO: Temporary News Editor wanted
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18th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Amazing stingray migration
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18th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern shows us what's new on the American CFZ websites
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18th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: No updates yet today, but we take a timely look at the implications of the Peruvian snake story.
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18th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A particularly peculiar story of blackbird mimicry from Mike H.
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18th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Once again Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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17th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on tshenkutshen - a mystery cat from Ecuador
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17th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland on herring hogs and sea devils
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17th June: MUSIC: A sad day; Hugh Hopper is dead
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17th June: BLOGGO POLICY: Colin H comments on Jon's post of this morning
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17th June: CFZ ANIMALS: One piece of good news - the rabbit returns
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17th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A fantastic story of out of place alligators, misguided politicians, and vintage bigfoot. Wonderful stuff!
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17th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Today's data release from Mike and Greg Warner's Peruvian expedition
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17th June: CFZ ANIMALS: We say goodbye to some of the CFZ animals, and hello to some others
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17th June: BLOGGO: A few words on policy
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17th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us a peculiar Yesterday's News Today
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern has a new skull - and this one doesn't have hair on it either
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold with another strange story from the Garden of England
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16th June: STRANGE STORY: The most peculiar dating ad
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16th June: GREAT BUSTARDS: Britain's largest game bird is back, and guess what? The named a beer after it
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16th June: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: How to train an elephant.
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16th June: FORTEAN: Lindsay Selby on Ben MacDhui's big grey man.
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The second appendix from Dale Drinnon's checklist of Cryptozoological creatures.
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16th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another data release from Mike and Greg Warner's Peruvian snake expedition.
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16th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis does his inimitable thing, and brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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15th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Updated look at the explorations of Andre Issi, and the definitive account of his anaconda pix.
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15th June: CFZ PEOPLE: we say goodbye to Stuart Rickard.
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15th June: WEIRD WEEKEND: Proving that I always do what Karl Shuker says eventually, here are some Weird Weekend updates...
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15th June: NATURAL HISTORY: What the bloody hell are these?
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15th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: A peculiar story of an uncommon bat, and some other stuff
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15th June: CFZ ARTS: Well we couldn't let this one pass by. A stage musical about alien coverups. Goodness me!
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15th June: BLOGGO STUFF: Are you a blogger writer who doesn't remember whether to put i before e? Or maybe you end sentances with a preposition? Or maybe, like the editor, you make stuff up all the time? Be afraid, be very afraid. Dizzy Miss Lizzy is now the sub editor. No foolin'
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15th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: As always Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today, but this time it is with an added twist..
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14th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: Lars Thomas, a knight in shining armour, rides into battle in aid of a damsel in distress. His "dragon" was highly unexpected, however
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14th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Max Blake has a run in with mating grebes
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14th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold looks at a historic account of black dogs and wonders whether they were, in fact, black cats
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14th June: CFZ PEOPLE: This is seriously disturbing. Tim Matthews is hugging trees
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14th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A new blogger, one of the gang of frighteningly intelligent young people who are preparing to run amok throughout the sacred halls of academe, brings us news of a strange sparrow
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14th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest developments with the Peruvian giant snake story
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14th June: PECULIAR: Tower of Goats
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14th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today with Oll Lewis
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13th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Fleur is spending the summer as a volunteer at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. Here we have the latest part of Fleur's Internship Diary
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13th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Tim's serial continues, and gets funnier each time Click here for further details...
13th June: CFZ BLOGGO: What the hell is going on? (whooooah) An unjustifiably stupid punk rock reference for what is actually quite a serious little piece..
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13th June: BIZARRE: It is silly, it is politically incorrect, it is funny, and I want one! Look at the latest piece of product placement on the CFZ bloggo
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13th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Marjorie Braund is ill
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13th June: OUT OF PLACE ANIMALS: Scottie W on an errant Bengal cat
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13th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: The barn owls are breeding
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13th June: NATURAL HISTORY/CFZ PEOPLE: Jan Edwards reveals the answer to her last conundrum, and in doing so sparks off some Ted Nugent jokes from Jon
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13th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey puts in his ha'porth on the subject of the Peruvian Giant Snake
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13th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Once again, Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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12th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We exclusively release the second lot of "giant snake" data. However, although we do not agree with Greg and Mike's interpretation of the evidence, we applaud their decision to release all their findings into the public domain through the conduit of the CFZ...
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12th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I think we have been being a bit unfair to poor old Andre Issi
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12th June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Sad news about the baby hedgehog, but good news about a baby bat
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12th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Two videos of an invasive freshwater species in North America, give us a chance for another apposite Bowwowwow pun, and that's always a good thing
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12th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Max has exams, and Fleur has a birthday. Dear children!
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12th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We exclusively release the "giant snake" pictures from Peru, that were taken earlier this year. However, although we do not agree with Greg and Mike's interpretation of the evidence, we applaud their decision to release all their findings into the public domain through the conduit of the CFZ...
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12th June: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: In a new series for the bloggo, Alan F posts his collection of weird, nasty, disturbing, and downright odd animal stories. Today: Radioactive dogs
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12th June: FORTEAN: The first season of Forests of Mystery comes to an end and Richard F, and creator Dewey Lansing look back over it
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12th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Once again, the incomparable Oll Lewis serves up a tasty dish of odd facts and Yesterday's News Today
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11th June: CFZ: A reasonable excuse for why the posts are so late this evening.
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11th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY : What makes a monster? Richard ponders the question.
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11th June: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest trenche of big cat clippings are online.
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11th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Vintage clip of Animals X from 2004, featuring our very own Richard F on the track of the Pembroke Dock Monster.
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11th June: FORTEAN: The best story of the day. It has chickens, it has WW2 , and it has Lizzi Clancy!!! Who could ask for anything more?.
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11th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Is this the end for the Midlands Charity Fish Auction? We sincerely hope not.
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11th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The first appendix to Dale Drinnon's Checklist of Cryptozoological Creatures
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11th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mini Monkeys in Malaysia? Neil with a nice piece of alliteration
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10th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Part Ten of Tim Matthews's increasingly popular serial
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10th June: ANIMAL WELFARE: A few vignettes from Hartland Wildlife Rescue.
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10th June: CFZ BLOGGO NEWS: Let's be self-congratulatory for five minutes.
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10th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker wants your help. He has a coelacanth conundrum. Ask not what Dr Shuker can do for you, but what you can do for Dr Shuker.
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10th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on preserved specimens of Yokai - Japanese Monsters.
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10th June: JUST STUPID: Redfern sent us this, and we publish it without comment. (Warning: will mean nothing to anyone who doesn't remember 1977).
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10th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Once again, Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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9th June: NATURAL HISTORY: In a new series, we follow Max Blake around as he skives off his A-Level revision and goes - camera in hand - in search of Somerset's wildlife. Today: Two lovely egrets.
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9th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest updates to Dale Drinnon's Checklist of Cryptozoological creatures.
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9th June: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: The Herring Hog.
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9th June: FORTEAN: A theological conundrum.
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9th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Peruvian giant snake saga continues with the second of two posts this morning. Dale Drinnon looks at cryptozoological explanations for some of the damage allegedly done by the snake.
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9th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Peruvian giant snake saga continues with the first of two posts this morning. Greg Warner (the man who allegedly has photographs of a 120ft snake) asks a question.
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9th June: ALAN FRISWELL'S HOAX PICTURES: #1 The Surgeon's Photo. In the first of a new series, Alan the CFZ Photographic expert, sets out to make non-digital hoax photographs of cryptids. Can YOU work out how he did it?
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9th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Peculiar caterpillar plague..
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9th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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8th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Something is monumentally peculiar in the State of Denmark, as Dr Lars Thomas reports.
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8th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Part 9 of Tim Matthews's smashing serial.
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8th June: NATURAL HISTORY: Bugfest is back says Kara Wadham, who also waxes lyrical about exotic insects at a steam fair in Yeovil.
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8th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The other day Richard Muirhead talked about a possible seaserpent stranding in the Western Isles. Glen Vaudrey examines the claims in more detail.
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8th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The saga of the Peruvian giant snake pics continues to get increasingly convoluted.
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8th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The original Northern Irish newspaper report on the Peruvian giant snake.
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8th June: FORTEAN: Colin Higgins with a peculiar story about carp and goblins.
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8th June: FORTEAN: Peculiar and rather cute picture of a leopard and a small rodent.
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8th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today.
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The saga of the Peruvian giant snake pics gets increasingly convoluted.
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is this the finalo word on the Montauk Monster? A charming tale of clothespegs, watermelons and a dead racoon given a Viking Funeral.
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More moosey lake monster stuff from Dale D. We have to say that this is getting increasingly convincing.
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7th June: ART TERRORISM: Strange Street art courtesy of Matty.
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Giant snake photographed in Peru. Truth or bobbins? We suspect bobbins, but would be happy to be proved wrong.
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7th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Product placement time - ladies and gentlemen its the Sasqwatch Watch....
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7th June: NATURAL HISTORY: A bright green spider at Walland Farm
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7th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon clarifies his posting of this morning which was confused by the poor editing of the blogmaster...
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6th June: FORTEAN/ANIMAL MUTILATIONS: Neil gives us a useful, but horrid, resource for animal mute researchers...
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6th June: THE ADVENTURES OF BIGGLES: Biggles finds a political mentor...
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6th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: An update on Jerry the jackdaw. Why Jerry? You will have to ask Max...
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6th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon continues the debate about the Lake Champlain video with an archive account..
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6th June: ANIMAL RESCUE: How a simple journey to the pub turnes into an evening of jackdaw-related jollity and japes!
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6th June: HOAXES: Good for Al! He has identified the perpetrator of Lizzie's fairy hox pics..
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6th June: APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL: Following yesterday's re-enactment of the 1940s panjandrum experiments, Chris Clark has found us footage of the real thing!
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6th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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5th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard has a look at the latest Lake Champlain footage, and finds support for Dale's latest theory
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5th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell brings us another animal mystery or two from Geordieland past
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5th June: TERATOLOGY: Fleur does it again
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5th June: CFZ MENAGERIE: We have pheasants
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5th June: CFZtv SPECIAL REPORT: This isn't the slightest bit cryptozoological, but it is vaguely fortean, and massively odd (as well as highly entertaining).

This morning those jolly nice folks at the Appledore Book Festival, carried out a ridiculously wonderful stunt with a re-enactment of events that happened at Westward Ho! during the war years. They set off a reconstruction of a rocket powered secret weapon on the beach, and CFZtv were there to film it and talk to those responsible
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5th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Latest starchild news from Lloyd Pye
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5th June: FORTEAN: Corinna has been working her way through the new ghost books from History Press. Today a particularly nasty look at Haunted Canterbury
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5th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This is really weird. I have been receiving strange letters for the last twenty years, but this one has to be one of the strangest
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5th June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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4th June: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern on British man beasts
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4th June: CFZ PEOPLE: Details for Stuart Rickard's funeral
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4th June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: Tim Matthews with the latest edition of the story
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4th June: SHAMELESS PLUG: Richard Holland on the crypto aspects of the new issue of Paranormal Magazine
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4th June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at the Origins of the Water Horse
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4th June: CFZ: work underway on building the new CFZ ariary
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4th June: NATURAL HISTORY: help sought in identifying a chick
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4th June: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Another dose of Yesterday’s News Today, from Oll Lewis
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More dialogue in the debate over Neil's big cat research
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3rd June: NATURAL HISTORY: The latest edition of Fleur's internship diary
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell is looking for Wendigo accounts for a new book. Can you help?
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3rd June: CFZ PRESS: The crypto hit parade for May
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3rd June: CFZ PEOPLE: My stepdaughter Olivia has finished her final exams
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3rd June: CFZ PEOPLE: Emma and Matthew are getting married
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3rd June: CFZ INDEXING PROJECT: There have been more updates
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker with some cryptozoological stamps
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3rd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The second part of Dale Drinnon's monumental review of the checklist of cryptozoological creatures
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3rd June: FORTEAN BOOKS: Corinna is ploughing through the new series of regional ghost books from The History Press. Today it is the turn of Haunted London Pubs
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3rd June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Greg's dwarf hamster
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3rd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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2nd June: NATURAL HISTORY: In the UK, an old friend is in grave trouble. But there is something that you can do to help. Where is your nearest grove of stinging nettles?
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2nd June: WEIRD WEEKEND: We have been sitting on this one for ages now, waiting for him to confirm, but finally we can announce that punk rock legend Rat Scabies will be appearing at the 2009 WW talking about his quest for the Holy Grail. It doesn't get much better than this
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2nd June: THE CATS OF UPPER MINSTER: The latest episode in Tim's remarkable online serial
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2nd June: CFZ PEOPLE/LITERATURE: Bloggo stalwart Lizzie Clancy has written a book, and by golly its good!
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2nd June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We have had a number of communication problems, but finally here is part one of Dale Drinnon's cryptozoological checklist.
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2nd June: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Richard is back from Hungary with some tales to tell..
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2nd June: CFZ PEOPLE: Davey Curtis's father has died
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2nd June: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Harold the tractor and painted ladies
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2nd June: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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1st June: CFZ MEDIA: The new-look Animals & Men magazine!
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1st June: CFZ PEOPLE: Tim Matthews's bloggo serial is throwing up some surprises
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1st June: ZOOLOGY: Retrieverman's response to our British beech marten item posted a while back... see first comment.
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis ponders reversal of extinctions
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest episode of Cryptozoology Online: On the Track (of unknown animals) is online. And a smashing little episode it is too though we say it ourselves...
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1st June: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: There is a new book out about the contentious Ameranthropoides loysii the unknown South American ape, or as we at the CFZ prefer to call it, the dead monkey on a stick. Gripping stuff.
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1st June: NATURAL HISTORY: As regular readers will know I have become mildly obsessed about the ongoing migration of painted ladies into the UK, and have beeing badgering everyone for a photograph. Well I've finally got one. Was it from one of the highly skilled wildlife photographers who read the blog? Was it from a professional scientist? Nope. It was from my ten year old Godson Greg
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1st June: THE CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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