The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded

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Weaver, Matthew (5 September 2019). "Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, say scientists". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019 . Retrieved 6 September 2019. The first high-profile report of a Nessie sighting was published by The Inverness Courier in 1933, after a local hotel manageress claimed she spotted a "water beast" in the loch.

He added: "For the people who still want to believe in monsters, there is still a lot of uncertainty in our work." What we have here is the marketplace of ideas on the Internet and like a real marketplace the worst ideas don't sell much, are ignored and fade away. Of course, some bad ideas still get bought like cheap pairs of shoes, nothing is perfect where people are involved. But driftwood will eventually sink and sturgeon will eventually stink. Will this winnowing of ideas eventually leave us with the true explanation? The answer to that is no, but I would hope that if and when we see more data, an awful lot of dross would have been cleared out by then. New species of large animals do turn up unexpectedly every now and then. The Coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for millions of years, was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938, and the megamouth shark is another living fossil discovered only about 40 years ago. Finally, the whole thing was brought together, revised, reformatted and published in a journal last year. That was announced at this link while the pdf of that journal article is available here. Twelve years on from that first article, my opinion on it has not changed. I believe it is a picture of the Loch Ness Monster and Hugh Gray was no liar and deceiver as others accuse him of.Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel, say scientists". BBC News. BBC. 5 September 2019. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019 . Retrieved 9 September 2019. Campbell, Steuart. (1997). The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence. Prometheus Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-1573921787

On 24 August 2011, Loch Ness boat captain Marcus Atkinson photographed a sonar image of a 1.5-metre-wide (4.9ft), unidentified object that seemed to follow his boat for two minutes at a depth of 23m (75ft), and ruled out the possibility of a small fish or seal. In April 2012, a scientist from the National Oceanography Centre said that the image is a bloom of algae and zooplankton. [69] George Edwards photograph (2011) Siobhan made the sighting just before midday on 27 August. But she has only just reported it to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register. It is the seventh recorded sighting of what could be the Scottish folklore creature this year. Speaking about Siobhan’s sighting, he said: "From our perspective, this is a really unusual wake which at first might look like it was caused by a powerboat. But Siobhan has confirmed no boats were nearby and that whatever was causing it was just below the surface. Maybe Nessie was just popping up to see what the fuss was all about that weekend, but of course keeping her head down at the same time.” The Loch Ness Monster". YouTube. 19 January 2007. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017 . Retrieved 8 July 2009.On 15 August 1938, William Fraser, chief constable of Inverness-shire, wrote a letter that the monster existed beyond doubt and expressed concern about a hunting party that had arrived (with a custom-made harpoon gun) determined to catch the monster "dead or alive". He believed his power to protect the monster from the hunters was "very doubtful". The letter was released by the National Archives of Scotland on 27 April 2010. [51] [52] Sonar readings (1954) Krystek, Lee. "The Surgeon's Hoax". unmuseum.org. UNMuseum. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019 . Retrieved 21 April 2015. That led to the Surgeon's Photograph of April 1934 and the oft-mentioned story of the investigation into how Wetherell and his associates had seemingly duped the Daily Mail. The other author of the expose book alongside Alastair Boyd was David Martin and he was interviewed about the Wilson picture. Not once was Alastair mentioned in the documentary. You would think he had nothing to do with the book, so I was a bit puzzled as to why he was not even credited with his part in this story.