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Sunday 1 August 2010

2010: August

31st August: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday Kara
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31st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More English Pine Martens
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31st August: CFZ PEOPLE: Mike Hallowell writes to the North Devon Gazette
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31st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A vintage tale of a thunderbird killed in Canada?
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31st August: WW2010: Ronan Coghlan on the Holy Grail
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31st August: WW2010: A tribute to a special lady
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31st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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31st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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30th August: FORTEAN: Mark North visits Bournemouth in search of Mary Shelley and Gerald Durrell
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Odds and sods from Chad Arment
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30th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Dr Mike Dash on stage
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30th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Lars Thomas on stage
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Modern sightings of trolls in Sweden
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30th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan Friswell adds weight to Max's theory about sweet potatoes and the Loch Ness Monster
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30th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Once again we utilise the CFZ time machine (made out of stuff Graham nicked from a skip)
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29th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Oll Lewis on Stage
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29th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard sends in a fake lake monster video from New York State. He reckons it is a model with a swimmer underneath it
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29th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna complains of Spousal Abuse
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29th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A couple of interesting cryptoherp stories from Chad Arment
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29th August: CFZ MUSEUM: More structural issues
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29th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lars Thomas on the subject of leopard hairs at Huddisford Woods
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28th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Carl Portman muses on the subject of moustaches
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28th August: ANIMAL WELFARE: In the wake of the disasters in Pakistan, the animals need your help
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28th August: WW2010: Richard Freeman in Sumatra
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28th August: WW2010: Australian Big Cats with Mike Williams and Ruby Lang
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28th August: WW2010: When Harriet met the Colonel
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28th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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27th August: SAD NEWS: Jerry the Jackdaw has died
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27th August: WW2010: The Golden Baboon awards
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27th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Caecilians giving birth
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27th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Could the Bali Tiger have survived?
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27th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max Blake presents a new hypothesis to explain lake monster sightings worldwide
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27th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest news on the Peruvian giant Snake project from the Warners
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27th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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26th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An aquatic monster from Singapore suggests Richard Muirhead
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26th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar conundrum from Dr Shuker - a blue spider
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26th August: WW2010: Mike and Ruby say nice things
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26th August: WW2010: Richard Freeman on Yokai
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26th August: WW2010: An unscheduled appearance by Silas Hawkins
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26th August: WW2010: The editing of the WW video is nearly complete
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26th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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25th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A scholarly discourse on C. megalodon from Lars Thomas
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25th August: WW2010: Ronan Coghlan and Gary Cunningham launch their book on the Mystery Animals of Ireland
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25th August: WW2010: The processing of the video is well underway
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25th August: WW2010: The quiz
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25th August: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: another trenche of forteana
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25th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Various odds and sods from Chad Arment
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25th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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24th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Carl Portman has been seriously ill
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24th August: CFZ: Defining CFZ Press
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24th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Return of an old friend to the CFZ garden
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24th August: WW2010: Unscheduled Guest John Hanson
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24th August: WW2010: A trip in the CFZ Time Machine
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24th August: FOLKLORE: Richard Freeman's Yokai of the Week
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24th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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23rd August: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon is overwhelmed by all the nice messages he had on his birthday
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23rd August: CFZ PEOPLE: My beloved nephew David leaves home today
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23rd August: NATURAL HISTORY: The Ryedale A.S Twinning Day
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23rd August: WW2010: Col John Blashford-Snell on stage
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23rd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on the Sussex Lion hoax
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23rd August: WW2010: Mike Hallowell on stage
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23rd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd August: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon is 51 today. He is sitting in the office listening to Crass and sipping lemsip. Just like any other man of his age.
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22nd August: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna gets incensed
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22nd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Ootsa Lake Monster
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22nd August: NATURAL HISTORY: Moth identification time
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22nd August: WW2010: Loch Ness Monster drawing competition
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22nd August: WW2010: Lionel Beer on stage
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22nd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The leopard hair saga continues
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21st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on cryptobugs
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21st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: When Harry met Ruby (sorry, I couldm't resist)
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21st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren Naish on the Monster Talk podcast
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21st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lars Thomas examines what we very much hope are Orang Pendek hairs
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21st August: NATURAL HISTORY: Name this grasshopper
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21st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Close-up views of the Huddisford Woods leopard hair
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20th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Danish scientists extract DNA from CFZ hair samples
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20th August: WW2010: Our Australian friends had a wonderfull time
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20th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: With all the furore about the Huddisford leopard hairs, Oll Lewis looks back at another fine piece of evidence
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20th August: CFZ PEOPLE: A big thank you to Donnie Porter
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20th August: WW2010: Mike Hallowell looks back
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20th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th August: CFZ: I inadvertantly rattle a couple of cages
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19th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Max Blake on stage
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19th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Andy Roberts on stage
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19th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Max solves the mystery of the Hawiian "seasnake"
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19th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Changes to the Permanent Directorate
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19th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lars and Emily found more possible leopard hairs on monday
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19th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th August: WW2010: Kara Wadham looks back
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18th August: WW2010: Carl Portman's talk
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Puma prints
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18th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Leopard hairs from Huddisford Woods
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18th August: WW2010: A group shot
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18th August: CONSERVATION: An impressive new charity
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18th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Over the next few days we will be posting the entire conference. Here is Matt Williams on the Friday night
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17th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Over the next few days we will be posting the entire conference. Here is the opening on the Friday night
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17th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Out of place seasnake in Hawaii? Or a zebra moray eel?
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17th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Orang Pendek news
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17th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna muses on stuff (Warning: contains large toad)
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17th August: HARRIET WADHAM INVESTIGATES: Harriet starts a new series on the Weird Weekend
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17th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: There are indeed Big Cats in Britain - and we have found the
proof
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: A slideshow of pics from the saturday
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16th August: CFZ ANIMALS: Max is deservedly chuffed with our latest breeding triumph
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16th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Baby hedgehogs in the Midlands
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Oll Lewis with his third WW Scrapbook. What a momentous event this year's conference was to be sure
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16th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: I am not sure who "Sean S" is, but I am sure that it is a pseudonym, and methinks he jesteth too much
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16th August: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th August: CFZ PEOPLE: It appears that (Sir) Laurence Gardner may have died
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15th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this Chinese bird
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15th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton with the third part of his look at the Patterson/Gimlin bigfoot film
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SLIDESHOW: Friday
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Oll Lewis
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15th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Mark North
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15th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: What happened on Friday
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14th August: FORTEAN: Another weird one from Argentina
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14th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A cat film which is entirely believable
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14th August: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: More forteana
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14th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Aubrey looks at the Paignton sea monster
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14th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest version of the programme
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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13th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The conclusion to Dale's look at mystery primates
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13th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Max looks at giant eels
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Max drinks cocktails
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13th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: Cocktails and rumours
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13th August: FORTEAN WORDS: In the press
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13th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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12th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY. Karl Shuker solves the riddle of a classic crypto painting
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12th August: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall looks at the aquatic exhibits at Bristol Zoo
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12th August: WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: A strange tale of twisted angles and inside-out marquees
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12th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Naomi wants you to identify this bug
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12th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell wries about researcher Cliff Crook
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12th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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11th August: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: More fortean stuff
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11th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Cassandra Morrison writes
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11th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A flying snake in Ontario
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11th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on giant crocodiles
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11th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the yeren expedition
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11th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (BROADLY): A Dorset wildman
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Pictures from a recent expedition in search of the Chinese wildman (more tomorrow)
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon in a blink or you'll miss it role in a US TV show about `The Beast of Dartmoor`.
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10th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I first met Lloyd Pye eleven years ago, and whilst I sincerely doubt whether the starchild skull has anything to do with aliens, I am convinced that it is an important cryptozoological specimen. Today Lloyd gives us the latest on the project..
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10th August: FORTEANISH: A few days back Robert Schneck sent us a revolting medical journal paper about eels going where no eel should ever go. Now in a piece of revolting synchronicity it has happened again..
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10th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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9th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Daniel Taylor (15) says goodbye to his cat
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9th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Part Two of Michael Newton's look at the Patterson bigfoot film
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9th August: CFZ "PEOPLE": An investigation into doggy birthdaycakes by Biggles (Warning: contains barking and snuffling)
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9th August: ANIMAL WELFARE: So last week's story of the urban foxhunters was just a hoax...
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9th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Many Thanks to Tony Lucas for this news of a stranded Giant Squid
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9th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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8th August: FOLKLORE: Richard Freeman's yokai of the week
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8th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Disrupting the village shop
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8th August: NATURAL HISTORY: In 1971, a local naturalist told Jon that these were Lappet Moths. They ain't
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8th August: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday Biggles
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8th August: CFZ STUFF: Apologies, though it wasn't our fault
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8th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th August: CFZ PEOPLE: A very happy birthday to our favourite sub-editor
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7th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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7th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar little film which is either complete drivel or a clever satire on media attitudes towards cryptozoology. As John Verney wrote, there is often a fine line between being a wit and being a nitwit.
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7th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A whole hunk of crypto history from CFZ Australia
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7th August: CFZtv: Technical glitch
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7th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Swallowtails were once common in England. But what were they?
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7th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th August: CFZtv: And finally; Episode 35 of On the Track
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6th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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6th August: CONSERVATION: Richard Freeman looks at threats to the giant fish of the Mekong
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6th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Redfern photographs a butterfly "as big as a sparrow"
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6th August: HARRIET WADHAM REPORTS: on her burgeoning TV career, impersonating a horse, and why she is looking forward to the WW
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6th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Two new species of snake
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6th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th August: CFZ STUFF: OTT still delayed but not for much longer..
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5th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: latest News
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5th August: CFZ PRESS: July's Hit Parade
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5th August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker has a conundrum for you!
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5th August: ZOOLOGY: My greatest hero has one of my favourite mammals named after him. It doesn't get much better than this..
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5th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Butterfly migration and out of place species in Brittany
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5th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th August: CFZ: Normal service will be resumed blah blah blah
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4th August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news from this year's event
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4th August: FOLKLORE: Richard Freeman's final look at the legends of Lincolnshire
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4th August: NATURAL HISTORY/TERATOLOGY: So white macropods are not just a myth
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4th August: NATURAL HISTORY: So white macropods are not just a myth
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4th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Could it be that the Nymphalids are making a comeback?
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4th August: NATURAL HISTORY: Lazarus Long once said: "Never underestimate the power of Human
Stupidity"
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4th August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd August: WEIRD WEEKEND: The latest news
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3rd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra examines the Paignton monster
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3rd August: WEIRD WEEKEND: Jon and Corinna in the Bideford Post
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3rd August: NATURAL HISTORY: The sad tale of a long-eared bat
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3rd August: CFZ: A Public Information broadcast
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3rd August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The downside of living in a village with two names
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3rd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news - at last we have a programme
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2nd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An overview of the blue dog phenomenon by Andrew Gable
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2nd August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon continues his survey of mystery primates by looking at sasquatch
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2nd August: FORTEAN: Is this the last of the Lincoln Imp postings? Somehow I doubt it
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2nd August: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this caterpillar
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2nd August: NATURAL HISTORY: A story which is of great interest to those, like me, following the ongoing saga of the Mexican wolf
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2nd August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with another dose of Yesterday's News Today
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1st August: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: The latest news
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1st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon continues his look at mystery primates with a look at the rock apes of Vietnam
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1st August: NATURAL HISTORY: The Oldest living things
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1st August: FORTEAN: The Impography continues, with Mike Hallowell and Geordie imps
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1st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mystery predator in Ecuador
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1st August: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Paignton sea monster
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1st August: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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