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3. Animal apparitions Last week, we tackled spectral dog stories from around London. But animal apparitions are not exclusively of the canine persuasion. Animal spirits are often considered harbingers of doom, omens of misfortune, eerie forewarnings to a coming tragedy. Here, in the first of …

First there was the Surrey puma, and then there was the Shooters Hill Cheetah. The millennium brought us the Beast of Bexley, and now almost every borough seems to have its own salivating, Baskerville-esque so-called “beast”. This week has seen the second sighting in as …

Anyone turning up for lunch at Claridge’s yesterday ran the risk of ruining their nice shoes and enduring waft of poo due to a shitload of horse manure deposited on Gordon Ramsay’s doorstep. Animal rights organisation PETA resorted to poo-poohing Ramsay in protest at his …

When Londonist told friends that we were going to see Kiss of the Spider Woman, they immediately got very excited. “Awesome!” they said, “with that hot Sonia Braga chick?” They were thinking, of course, of Hector Babenco’s 1985 film, which was itself based on the …

Why, those crazy scamps over at This is Local London, messing with our Monday morning minds: The first planes have landed at Heathrow’s Terminal 5… Really? So soon? – plane trees that is. Masterful wordplay. We laughed until we stopped. Forty London plane trees were …

Chan Marshall, the enchanting enigma otherwise known as Cat Power, bravely strides onto the stage of the Kentish Town Forum, to play her London comeback gig, following a well publicized breakdown last year. It is immediately obvious that the life-saving short spell spent on a …

At the turn of the millennium, the ‘beast’ of Bexley was born, a headline created by the London press. It was an inaccuracy, a contradiction and a conundrum. A large, seemingly exotic cat fuelled the imagination of the public, evaded the pursuing police, and stirred …

Well, looks like their leader ended up dispensing West Indian cuisine on Seven Sisters Road. Only three others share this secret. Our friends, The Sorceress, Man-at-Arms and Mr Zek, the accountant a couple of doors down at number 527. Despite the career shift, He-man’s eternal …

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …

Someone’s out to get Pepsi. Someone with a crossbow. It’s a targeted campaign. Pepsi, of Egham, has been shot twice in the last three months with identical crossbow bolts. This cannot be mere coincidence. That’s one lucky cat and one ardent cat hater with an …