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Sunday 1 May 2011

2011: May

31st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker recently delighted his readers with a collection of
photoshopped chimeras. Now - in a case of life imitating art - he presents a real life analogue of one of the most grotesque of them; an alleged real-life crocodile-frog...
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31st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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31st May: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham watchers of the world unite
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31st May: TERATOLOGY: A four-legged chicken. I have seen several of these as preserved museum specimens, but never film of a living one
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31st May: NATURAL HISTORY: Robert Schneck presents an octopus with 84 tentacles
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31st May: FORTEAN: The beginning of the great UFO wave of 1967. Archive documents courtesy of
Haunted Skies
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31st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A sea monster in Brooklyn? Of course not!
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: There is a problem with Dale's blog. Let's hope that it is sorted soon
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30th May: FORTEAN: Kithra visits the 13 Treasures of Britain
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An evening of lectures at the ZSL
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30th May: NATURAL HISTORY: More on Christian the Lion from Rebecca Lang
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30th May: FORTEAN: A melange of odd subjects from Haunted Skies
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30th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New bigfoot video
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29th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Classic thylacine footage
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29th May: PECULIAR: Robert Schneck discovers artificial ears
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29th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Lindsay Selby goes swimming in a lake full of jellyfish
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29th May: CFZ PRESS: J.T.Lindroos reviews Monstrum!
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29th May: FORTEAN: A couple of interesting snippets from 1967 courtesy of those jolly nice people at the Haunted Skies Project. Today we have a 1967 Skywatch, and a warning by scientists to the Canadian Airforce that they should take the UFO menace seriously. Hmmmmm
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29th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Bad news for invasive pythons in Florida
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28th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Tania Poole
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28th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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28th May: THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Gil Scott Heron
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28th May: THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Leonora Carrington
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28th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Become a bat advocate
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28th May: FORTEAN: Penge UFO case 1967 from Haunted Skies
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28th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton takes a well-deserved pop at one of the best known
Florida sea serpent stories.
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27th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna Downes tells a complicated tale involving Jon's big toe, and a woman with ill fitting jeans
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27th May: NATURAL HISTORY: The effect of adrenaline on snake anti-venom
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27th May: FORTEAN: Doug Shoop finds something of himself in the MUFON archives
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27th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A 'homing snake' in Macclesfield? Can such a thing be? Ask Richard
Muirhead
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27th May: FORTEAN: Good and bad news from the Haunted Skies team
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27th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: The red wolf is no more, ask Retrieverman
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The great waterhorse debate continues, courtesy of Dale Drinnon
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Baby spiders in Redditch
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Free turtle poster offer from Herp Digest
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Once again its 'Identify this Bird' time
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26th May: HAUNTED SKIES: Vintage clippings from a 1967 UFO case in Newcastle
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26th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th May: TERATOLOGY: Sir Edwin Landseer and the horse-deer - a peculiar story from Karl
Shuker
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25th May: CFZ: Once again we are looking for specialist help
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25th May: NATURAL HISTORY/FORTEANISH: Liz presents a peculiar story of ancient monuments and
animal faeces
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY ETC: The latest from Dale Drinnon
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25th May: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A Japanese singing mouse
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25th May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies present fascinating material from another 1967 case
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25th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th May: BLOGGO: Over on the News Blog, Gavin has racked up 5,000 postings
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24th May: TERATOLGY: Richard Freeman sent us this pic of a mutant Thompson's gazelle
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24th May: CRAPPY CRYPTO CREATIONS: Lars Thomas' nomination for the worst crypto pic
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24th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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24th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is bigfoot making strange noises in this wooded valley?
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24th May: FORTEAN: In 1967, something described as a 'giant tadpole' was seen flying over Reading. Haunted Skies presents some of the source material today
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24th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd May: CFZ "PEOPLE": Prudence - an update (and it's good news)
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23rd May: TRAIL CAM APPEAL: Glen Vaudrey and Trevor the Trailcam are back
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23rd May: FORTEAN (I think): As Robert Schneck says, this is cute in a horrible, horrible way
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23rd May: FORTEAN (I think): As Doug Shoop says, you cannot make this stuff up
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23rd May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies present the source material from a classic 1967 case
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A new competition suggested by Dr Dan Holdsworth
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23rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd May: CFZ "PEOPLE": Prudence update
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22nd May: I DON'T KNOW WHAT CATEGORY THIS IS: Karl Shuker presents a photoshop menagerie
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22nd May: NATURAL HISTORY: Once again, it's 'identify that bird' time
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22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead presents the results of a day's cryptozoology work
in Manchester
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22nd May: OLL LEWIS' FORTEAN FIVES: J.T.Lindroos
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22nd May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies present a bumper crop of archive material from 1966
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22nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st May: CFZ "PEOPLE": Prudence is poorly
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21st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale continues exploring the concept of an unknown species of giant
salamander in ther Pacific North West
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21st May: ANIMAL WELFARE: I am not sure whether this is the cutest thing I have ever seen, or a dreadful example of allowing a juvenile member of an endangered species to imprint on a human. It is probably both! Thanks, by the way, to John Hanson, who sent it.
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21st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Animal news from Heywood in Lancashire, courstesy Liz
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21st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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21st May: FORTEAN: In an out-take from Volume Three, the Haunted Skies posse meet the Aetherius Society
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21st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a new look at Neanderthals
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A reposted article on Hibagon by Dale Drinnon
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20th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
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20th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Unprecedented rhino slaughter
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20th May: STRANGE: A Public Health poster linking dinosaurs with Venereal diseases. Where did
it come from? Robert Schneck of course...
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20th May: FORTEAN: An uncategorisable miscellany of UFO related stuff from the Haunted
Skies
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20th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th May: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGYISH: A new take on the 'Hound of the Hedges' by Karl Shuker
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19th May: NATURAL HISTORY: An animal chiropractor courtesy of Doug Shoop
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19th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Herpetological Conservation and Biology New Issue Announcement &
Bibliography
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19th May: FORTEAN (loosely, I think): Robert Schneck introduces us to authors and their pussy-cats
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19th May: WEIRD WEEKEND 2011: Reassuring words from the Curtis Clan
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19th May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies celebrate Maude's birthday with a miscellany of UFO cuttings
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19th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon continues the search for the alliterative possible
pterosaurs of PNG
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18th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon presents a particularly cogewnt piece of evidence for the unknown giant salamander of the Pacific North West
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18th May: TAXONOMY FAIL: A particularly splendid example from Mark North
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18th May: MUSIC: Oscar the anarchopunk doggie has died
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18th May: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT: A new warning from the RSPB
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18th May: FORTEAN: The latest news from those jolly nice people at the Haunted Skies Project
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18th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest from Dale Drinnon
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17th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier
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17th May: WEIRD WEEKEND 011: The first draft poster
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some giant anaconda stories from Richard Freeman
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17th May: CFZ PEOPLE: James Hore-Ruthven is very ill
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17th May: FORTEAN: A complicated story from the Haunted Skies posse, which involves a
small rabbit, Bananawoman, Nigel Wright, a police magazine, and - of course - saucers of the flying
variety
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17th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead unearths an Australian man-monkey
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16th May: FORTEAN FIVES: Andrew May is in the hotseat
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16th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold looks at O'Donnell's demons
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16th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Doug Shoop is a cat person, but he could not resist taking this picture of a spoiled dog
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16th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Problems with the Herpetology Notes website
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16th May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies present some material from the 1966 Stephen Pratt case
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16th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon explores Europe's last dragons
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15th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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15th May: FORTEAN: Lionel Beer visits Haunted Skies
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15th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Graham Inglis is on the road
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15th May: REVIEWS: Another film review from Richard "He sure as hell don't hide his light under a bushel" Freeman
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15th May: UN-NATURAL HISTORY: Dogs that think they are pandas
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15th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th May: BLOGGO: So what went wrong yesterday?
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale on the sisimite
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14th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Lars THomas has had a run-in with Mother Nature, and needs your help
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14th May: CFZ PEOPLE: A flyer for the benefit concert that Dave McMann is promoting
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Crypto Chronicles archive
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14th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Robert Schneck solves a puzzle
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14th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th May: NATURAL WORLD: Cute Killers - Pandas on the Rampage?
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12th May: OUT OF PLACE? - Robert Schneck's Unexpected Sloth
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12th May: ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana Part 43
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12th May: PUBLICATIONS: Chad Arment and the first volume of BioFortean Notes
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12th May: NATURAL WORLD: Can you Identify this Insect?
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12th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: For decades everyone has assumed that it is something else, but Dale
Drinnon asks whether the Nandi Bear is actually a bear
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11th May: FORTEAN FIVES: The lovely Rebecca Lang
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11th May: FORTEAN/NATURAL HISTORY: A strange place to find an olm says Robert Schneck
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11th May: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY/CFZ PRESS: Nick Redfern takes an in-depth look at
Monstrum! by Tony "Doc" Shiels
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11th May: FORTEAN: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
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11th May: FORTEAN: Two interesting cases from the Haunted Skies archives
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11th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th May: CFZ PEOPLE: A Tale of two Hayleys
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon and the elusive Thunderbird Photo.
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10th May: CCFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead spends a day in Oxford, and look what he's found
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Mark North needs some help regarding the Weymouth mermaid
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10th May: FORTEAN: Source material from a 1966 Cow Abduction, courtesy of the Haunted Skies
posse
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10th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th May: MUSIC: John Walker has died
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9th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A Tactile Catfish
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9th May: TRAIL CAMERA APPEAL: More from Trevor the Trailcam
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9th May: FORTEAN: News on the latest Phenomena magazine from Dave Sadler
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY ETC: A collection of odds and sods from Dale
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another Ameranthropoides statue from Dale? Plus more news from the
Frontiers of Anthropology
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9th May: FORTEAN: The ongoing ups and downs of the Haunted Skies Project
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9th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A NZ repost and an article on `Dr Shuker's Leviathan` from Dale
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As Nick Redfern points out, a monstrous anniversary has just passed
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8th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A curious cocoon
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8th May: FORTEAN: Seaham on Sea is not just strange because Davey Curtis lives there
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8th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Cassandra is a strange girl
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8th May: FORTEAN: A flyer for a 1966 UFO Conference. This has got me thinking: when was the first UFO conference in the UK? Does anyone know?
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8th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: David Attenborough on Monsters
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7th May: CFZ PRESS: Another new book - The Inhumanoids
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7th May: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold describes an encounter with the Maryland jabberwock
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7th May: CONSERVATION: Its that time of the year again - it's orchid protection time
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7th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two more postings from Dale - a sea serpent and a woodpecker
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7th May: HAUNTED SKIES: UFO over Westbury,1966
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7th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More fascinating blogposts from Dale
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6th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with words from the wild frontier
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The top ten Shukernature posts of all time
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6th May: DEMOCRACY: Jon and Graham do their bit
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6th May: CFZ PRESS: We are on the want again. Volunteers most definitely wanted
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6th May: CFZ PRESS: Paul Screeton's new book is available to pre-order on amazon
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6th May: FORTEAN FIVES: Lars Thomas
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6th May: FORTEAN: Odds and sods from the Haunted Skies posse
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6th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two French Arachnological mysteries from Karl
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale reposts an article on the Gambian sea monster
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5th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A show-jumping cow
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mystery Animals of the Sahara
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5th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Otters in Minnesota
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5th May: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies posse muse upon rocket men, owlman, and a dog called Abbey
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5th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon with some sea serpent reposts
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries and some large black eagles
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tell a Pileated from an Ivory Billed Woodpecker
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4th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this bug
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4th May: CFZ PRESS: April's Hit Parade
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4th May: FORTEAN: Archive clippings from the Jessie Roestenburg case of 1959, courtesy Haunted Skies
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4th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two aquatic monster reposts from Dale
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two aquatic monster reposts from Dale
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3rd May: ANIMAL WELFARE: The animal rescue nun - Robert Schneck has a new hero
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3rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier
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3rd May: WW2011: Latest news about this year's event
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3rd May: FORTEAN: The Haunted Skies team present the convoluted tale of strange figures at Rendlesham Foreat, a near naked man on a beach and a dog wearing a Policeman's helmet
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3rd May: CFZ PEOPLE: Molly meets Prudence and the Orange Cat (and then goes to sleep)
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3rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on the Nandi Bear
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2nd May: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Ant James
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2nd May: CFZ PEOPLE: A great pun and lashings of cake
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2nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dr Beachcombing on an early Loch Ness Monster sighting
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2nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A dubious big cat picture from Cannock Chase looks quite a bit like
one of the more dubious CFZ cats
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2nd May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies reveal an email from Don Ramkin, and a UFO seen by a Dutch
tourist
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2nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st May: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR: A canine conundrum from Liz
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1st May: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this PR beetle
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1st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY etc: Odds and sods from Chad Arment
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1st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Michael Newton tells the story of another one that got away
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1st May: NATURAL HISTORY: Another baby fox
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1st May: FORTEAN: Haunted Skies recount a flying triangle over Woolsery
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1st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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