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A Diver's Encounter with the Monster
A regular on various cryptozoological blogs and forums told me this tale which she had related before to others. It was a friend of the family whose name she cannot remember and the story suggests the...
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A Question on the Roy Johnston Photos
Roy Johnston took a sequence of eight photographs purporting to be of the Loch Ness Monster in the act of submerging back in August 2002. Naturally, the reaction to the pictures was mixed but they were...
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Latest Nessie Photograph
An interesting image from Loch Ness was published by the Sun newspaper today purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster in its single hump aspect taken by a Dipak Ram from Manchester last week. The...
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A Nessie Photograph from 2015?
Here is an interesting photograph that has turned up in the media this week. The story from the Scottish Press and Journal goes as follows.An American mother has turned up a mysterious image of Loch...
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Summing up the Loch Ness Monster (in 1934)
Decades ago, the Field magazine ran an article by Martin Hinton, Deputy Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum in London on the 27th January 1934. By then, the monster phenomenon was about 8...
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Loch Ness Trip Report September 2018
It was back at the loch last month as I spent a few days camping and roving around the famous body of water looking for its even more famous resident. I brought the drone, the thermal camera, trap...
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Steve Feltham - The Film
I have been wondering if Steve would ever write a book on his life at Loch Ness in pursuit of the monster, but it appears the film of his life will appear first! According to the Herald, Ridley Scott's...
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The B.A. Russell Sighting
I was drawn back to this classic sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by a recent e-clipping I got from the Scottish Field magazine dated 2nd June 1934. In that journal, Mr. Russell wrote to the editor...
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Harper Smith and his Periscope Nessie
Some time back, I wrote on that curious subset of monster reports that are likened to poles or periscopes. I had listed 17 eyewitness accounts or about 1% of the entire sightings database and 8% of all...
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Snaring the Monster
A news story from August 1984 exemplifies the story of a laudable attempt to capture final proof of the monster of Loch Ness. The text runs as follows:CIVIL servant Stephen Whittle plans to solve the...
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Colonel Buckshot Wants You!
This email popped into my inbox recently:Dear sir,I wonder whether either yourself or any of your readers would be interested in my recent advert, (attached), the positions of which I am having...
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The Loch Ness Monster and the Unfortunate Goat
Another Nessie fan had mentioned a land sighting to me which had escaped my attention but I thought should check out. The story comes from a less well known book published in 1972 entitled "The Loch...
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A New Photograph of Nessie?
Today the Sun newspaper published what is undoubtedly at face value a fascinating photograph allegedly of the Loch Ness Monster taken by a Ricky Phillips on the 13th December. The account runs as...
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Peter O'Connor the Taxidermist
The controversial photograph of the Loch Ness Monster taken by Peter O'Connor (pictured above) has been the subject of a number of articles on this blog and yet again, the picture comes to the fore for...
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Nessie Review of 2018
Let us begin the review of the year past by going straight to the list of Loch Ness Monster reports as found at Gary Campbell's sightings register.26th March 1500-1530: Dakota Frandsen sees a 40 foot...
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Podcast on the Loch Ness Monster
I was invited some weeks back to speak to Jon Mallard on his show, "The Odd to Newfoundland Paranormal Podcast" and had a good half hour chat on Nessie matters with a few words to say on land...
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Loch Ness Monster Jigsaw Puzzle and Others
I know there are Nessie fans out there who collect commercial items to do with the monster, be it postcards, toys, mugs or other items. I myself collect any book going on Nessie, so long as it not...
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Ricky Phillips Replies
(I had been in contact with Ricky regarding his picture and after a discussion, he offered to post a reply to the reaction and so on. So here it is and I will leave my comments to the comments section...
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New Book on the Loch Ness Monster
It was last week that I finally went over to the National Library of Scotland and donated copies of my two books on the Loch Ness Monster. The donation form was filled in, the books dropped off and the...
View ArticleLoch Ness eDNA results delayed
A few people have asked me about the results of last year's eDNA sampling at Loch Ness. It was presumed the results of the analysis would be imminent. However, an update from Andreas Muller states this...
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