ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• Orang-Pendek in Print — Nick reviews Richard Freeman's new book...

From CFZ Australia:

• Plight of the Orang-utan in focus — A new book about Our Vanishing Relative...
• Thylacines prey for the wrong reasons — What did Tasmanian Tigers prey on?

ANOTHER RARE VAGRANT

A silver striped hawk moth found at Alderholt in Dorset...

http://www.dorsetmothgroup.org.uk/latest_sightings.htm

HAUNTED SKIES: International Herald Tribune 26.6.97.

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/11/international-herald-tribune-26697.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1718 the notorious (but it has to be said somewhat over-rated) pirate Blackbeard was killed. There are numerous myths and folktales of a paranormal nature linked to Blackbeard including that his headless ghost is still searching for his head so that his friends and the Devil will be able to recognise him. That tale makes little sense really, as not only would Blackbeard’s ghost be spending the afterlife comically bumping into things like tea trays loaded up with ornate china but the Devil doesn’t sound like the sort of chap you would want to recognise you, even if you were a friend.

And now the news:

Loyal Dog Guards Grave Of Deceased Master
Piranhas Attack Swimmers Off Brazil Beach
Pet Hippo Humphrey Mauls His Owner To Death
Road salt's second sting (Via Herp Digest)
Red list changes highlight threats from over-explo...
Early Warning Signs Of a Dying Lake (Via Herp Dige...

Another fearsome tale of Blackbeard’s ghost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV1tvGqg96I