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Animal Behaviour at Loch Ness
The recent talk about giant eels at Loch Ness brought to mind a couple of old clippings I had intended to post.A SWIMMING WHAT?The first is taken from the Whitby Gazette dated the 28th September 1906....
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Unusual Paintings of the Loch Ness Monster
Here's one that is going on eBay just now. It was painted in the 1970s by Preston artist Nick Tomlinson and its yours for forty quid. Look close enough and you'll see Nessie! When I see a painting like...
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The Peter O'Connor Photograph (Part III)
In the previous article on this famous photograph, we considered a test photograph taken in 2010 which claimed to cast doubt on the stated time of O'Connor's 1960 picture. Aside from doubts that...
View ArticleAnd the Winner is ...
The votes are in for the Inverness Courier and William Hill Best Nessie Sighting of 2015 and it goes to Conor McKenna and his sighting of September 15th. He saw what he described as a 15-20ft long...
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Is the Hugh Gray Photograph a Swan?
The dog is dead, long live the swan!In the midst of preparing a review of Darren Naish's new sceptical book, "Hunting Monsters", I noted an opinion on the 1933 Hugh Gray photograph stating it was a...
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An Extraordinary Nessie Story From 1990
Are the old classic sightings such as Greta Finlay and John McLean a thing of the past? If this story is true, then the answer would appear to be a resounding "No".A short time back, a regular reader...
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Scott Mardis talks Plesiosaurs
Fellow lake cryptid fan and researcher, Scott Mardis talks about cryptids as plesiosaurs on Monster X Radio. Scott is one of the leading experts on the monster of Lake Champlain, commonly known as...
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Who are the Monsters of Loch Ness?
With the upcoming book on Frank Searle, I was minded to follow up on a few things in advance to perhaps raising awareness of this topic. When you think of Frank, you think of personality clashes,...
View ArticleTalking Nessie with Bruce Collins
I was again interviewed on the mysterious matter of the Loch Ness Monster by Bruce Collins and you can listen into that tomorrow. He broadcasts on West Coast People's Radio.
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Frank Searle's Newsletters
This blog has brought you Rip Hepple's Nessletters and Tim Dinsdale's Operations newsletters. Now it is the turn of Frank Searle.Back in 1969, Frank Searle arrived at Loch Ness with nothing more than a...
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You Can't Keep A Good Monster Down
After trying to ignore the Loch Ness Monster for years and diverting potential tourists to other attractions around the area, the tourist agency, VisitBritain, has decided to recruit the monster into...
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New Analysis of Nessie and Sea Serpent Reports
Charles Paxton has written on the statistics of aquatic cryptids before and has had a new paper published in the latest issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Volume 30, Number 1). You have to...
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Gavin Maxwell's Loch Ness Sighting
A reader of this blog passed this clipping onto me which recounts the story of naturalist Gavin Maxwell's sighting of something strange in Loch Ness about 70 years ago. As you may know, Gavin Maxwell...
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Good Searle, Bad Searle
As part of this mini series on Frank Searle, there is one final question. Is there any side to the story of Frank Searle that is redeemable? If you felt his fist, were on the receiving end of his...
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Some Recent Webcam Photographs
Joaquin is one of this blog's regulars, but he also likes to keep an eye on the loch via the webcam run by Mikko Takala at this link. I have had a few pictures sent to me by such users over the years...
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Visiting Rip Hepple
I was driving back to Scotland last month up the M6 and had arranged to meet up with long time Nessie researcher, Rip Hepple, who lives in the north Pennines. It was a meeting that was long overdue as...
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Yet Another Old Nessie Book
I maintain a list of books that fully or partially address the subject of the Loch Ness Monster and, though I am aware of most of these publications going back to 1934, some new ones do occasionally...
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Sherlock Holmes Nessie Finally Found
It only took about 47 years, but the famous two humped monster created for the film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" has finally been found using sonar. News story here. Once suggested as the...
View ArticleThe Year of the Monster
Here is a short but enjoyable video clip from artist Bradford Johnson, who has spent some time working on a portfolio of paintings with his take on the great year of 1933, when the Loch Ness Monster...
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Nessie On Land: The MacGruer-Cameron Case
It's back to the high strangeness of land based Nessie reports and we now look at an intriguing story from around the time of the First World War. The first account of this came to light on the 3rd...
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