The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded

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Grant produced a sketch of the creature that was examined by zoologist Maurice Burton, who stated it was consistent with the appearance and behavior of an otter. [37] Regarding the long size of the creature reported by Grant; it has been suggested that this was a faulty observation due to the poor light conditions. [38] Paleontologist Darren Naish has suggested that Grant may have seen either an otter or a seal and exaggerated his sighting over time. [39] "Surgeon's photograph" (1934) As a bonus, look down the journal contents and you will find a review of my book, " The Water Horses of Loch Ness" by Henry Bauer, Birth of a legend: Famous Photo Falsified?". Pbs.org. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 28 May 2009. Sonar expert Darrell Lowrance, founder of Lowrance Electronics, donated a number of echosounder units used in the operation. After examining a sonar return indicating a large, moving object at a depth of 180 metres (590ft) near Urquhart Bay, Lowrance said: "There's something here that we don't understand, and there's something here that's larger than a fish, maybe some species that hasn't been detected before. I don't know." [112] Searching for the Loch Ness Monster (2003)

Canoeists are coming up the loch at a rate of at least a dozen a day now, so expect more sightings from the webcam. The impression that the Canoeist seems to disappear is totally in character with the quality of that webcam. In 1993, Discovery Communications produced a documentary, Loch Ness Discovered, with a digital enhancement of the Dinsdale film. A person who enhanced the film noticed a shadow in the negative that was not obvious in the developed film. By enhancing and overlaying frames, he found what appeared to be the rear body of a creature underwater: "Before I saw the film, I thought the Loch Ness Monster was a load of rubbish. Having done the enhancement, I'm not so sure." [59]

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The Courier in 2017 published excerpts from the Campbell article, which had been titled "Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness". [25] In 1972, a team of zoologists from Yorkshire's Flamingo Park Zoo, searching for the monster, discovered a large body floating in the water. The corpse, 4.9–5.4m (16–18ft) long and weighing as much as 1.5 tonnes, was described by the Press Association as having "a bear's head and a brown scaly body with clawlike fins." The creature was placed in a van to be carried away for testing, but police seized the cadaver under an act of parliament prohibiting the removal of "unidentified creatures" from Loch Ness. It was later revealed that Flamingo Park education officer John Shields shaved the whiskers and otherwise disfigured a bull elephant seal that had died the week before and dumped it in Loch Ness to dupe his colleagues. [151] We've had over a thousand sightings of this unexplained creature at Loch Ness, so it may be an easy copout for people to say it's a tourist attraction instead of looking at the evidence suggesting that there is something unexplained in Loch Ness. But after their publication, paranormal researcher Hayley Stevens said: ‘I personally think it is most likely they saw a large sturgeon in the loch. The photos were taken in August and sturgeon migrate into fresh water in late summer and early autumn to mate.’

a b Baillie, Claire (27 August 2013). "New photo of Loch Ness Monster sparks debate". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 25 September 2013.Loch Ness movie film & Loch Ness video evidence". Loch-ness.org. Archived from the original on 17 March 2010 . Retrieved 28 April 2010. There is a very significant amount of eel DNA. Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness," Prof Gemmell said when sharing the findings. So I sat there and thought to myself, 'You know, they don't get excited about my other work. Maybe, I could take a few people - and myself - on a bit of an adventure'." One thing seems certain, as a lawyer Rines never sued them over these claims. We then switched to a fuller exposition of the Surgeon's Photograph hoax, but there was no new information added to that particular story. After some more psychological words about people wanting the monster to exist, we ended up with the recent eDNA survey results and no reptiles but lots of eels.

Secrets of Loch Ness. Produced & Directed by Christopher Jeans ( ITN/ Channel 4/ A&E Network, 1995). Alaska lake monster' may be a sleeper shark, biologist says". Yahoo! News. 9 May 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 January 2017.A number of explanations have been suggested to account for sightings of the creature. According to Ronald Binns, a former member of the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau, there is probably no single explanation of the monster. Binns wrote two sceptical books, the 1983 The Loch Ness Mystery Solved, and his 2017 The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded. In these he contends that an aspect of human psychology is the ability of the eye to see what it wants, and expects, to see. [14] They may be categorised as misidentifications of known animals, misidentifications of inanimate objects or effects, reinterpretations of Scottish folklore, hoaxes, and exotic species of large animals. A reviewer wrote that Binns had "evolved into the author of ... the definitive, skeptical book on the subject". Binns does not call the sightings a hoax, but "a myth in the true sense of the term" and states that the "'monster is a sociological ... phenomenon. ...After 1983 the search ... (for the) possibility that there just might be continues to enthrall a small number for whom eye-witness evidence outweighs all other considerations". [117] Misidentification of known animals Eels All this combined, as the program said, to light the blue touch paper. One speaker said people like to place their monster in dark places, such as peat-stained waters. That didn't quite explain the Loch Morar Monster which resides in clear waters. Nevertheless, in preparation for the later expose of the Surgeon's Photograph, we followed the adventures of Marmaduke Wetherell, who was described as the first person to come up and conduct a search and investigation of the loch. If you wonder what walls have to do with this case, then the implication is that if there was a wall in front of the alleged Nessie, it would not have got over it. Ergo, Grant lied and the sceptics can remove another famous case from their hit list (though I suspect they think they have done that already). Now by my estimate, these walls could be up to two or three feet high as they seem to vary. It is not clear if there was a consistent height depending on the situation or risk at that point by the shoreline. One can still see them today in various states, some missing stones or covered in vegetation and so on. Nessie sightings". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019 . Retrieved 21 April 2015. Loch Ness monster: The Ultimate Experiment". Crawley-creatures.com. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008 . Retrieved 28 May 2009.