Another Painting by Constance Whyte
It was back in July 2015 that I featured a painting done by famed Loch Ness Monster author, Constance Whyte. Well, another one has turned up on eBay entitled "Window on the Vatican". The seller states...
View ArticleTwo TV Programs on Loch Ness and the Monster
Firstly on the National Geographic Channel, "Secrets of Loch Ness" as part of the "Drain the Oceans" series which states "Advanced scanning technology is used to explore the depths of Loch Ness....
View ArticleTim Dinsdale's other Nessie Sightings
Tim Dinsdale is the most famous of all monster hunters undertaking a search that went from 1960 to his untimely death in 1987 having mounted dozens of expeditions to the loch, ran operations for the...
View ArticleThe Monster Sightings of Winifred Cary
Source: National Geographic No.151 1977We know all about the major players past and present of the Loch Ness scene. Tim Dinsdale, Alex Campbell, Robert Rines, Rupert Gould, Ted Holiday and right up to...
View ArticleDragons West of Loch Ness
I have just published my first Kindle booklet and it is a monograph entitled "Dragons West of Loch Ness" and subtitled "Tales of dragons roaming the hills and forests near Scotland's infamous loch"....
View Article1990 Article by Jon Erik Beckjord
I was alerted to this article by Scott Mardis, who runs the Zombie Plesiosaur Society Facebook group. He had uploaded the Fate magazine for May 1990 which has an article by Jon Erik Beckjord, famous...
View ArticleInverness Courier adds Nessie section
The venerable Inverness Courier has started its own Loch Ness Monster section. I noticed the click through icon above a few days ago and it takes you to their latest articles on the monster (such as...
View ArticleThree Books of Interest
Three books, two new and one old came into my hands in recent months. I have a look at them here beginning with "Mysteries of the Loch Ness Monster" which we are told are "from the secret files of the...
View ArticleNew book on Sea Serpents
Malcolm Smith has emailed me to tell me he has just published his book entitled "Australian Sea Serpents". I haven't seen the book yet but the promotion on Amazon runs thus:Sea serpents! So you thought...
View ArticleHarry Finlay recounts his 1952 Monster Sighting
The picture a couple of paragraphs below is enough to let Nessie fans know that this post is about the 1952 close encounter between the Loch Ness Monster and two individuals - Greta Finlay and her son...
View ArticleThe Story of Arthur Kopit's Land Sighting
I have been looking into some less familiar reports of the Loch Ness Monster on land and this led me to this blog for today which raises the profile of one such case involving an unexpected figure. I...
View ArticleAnother Nessie Land Hearing (as opposed to Sighting)
As a follow up to the story of Arthur Kopit and the walrus like noises he heard in 1962, we have a similar story to tell here and this seems as good a time as any to recount it. It is from a letter...
View ArticleTim Dinsdale's Binoculars get repaired
A member of my family told me to watch the BBC programme, "The Repair Shop", for a Nessie item and I was not disappointed when I watched the catchup on the BBC's iPlayer. Normally I have my tivo box...
View ArticleNessie eyewitness recounts her experience
Over on Steve Feltham's facebook page he alerts us to an item from BBC Radio Scotland's "Out of Doors". The person interviewed is Iona Moir who was one of a carload of people who witnessed the monster...
View ArticleThe Surgeon's Photo and Long Necks
A recent item on eBay got me interested again in the history of long necked sightings. It was an old postcard shown above featuring an artist's rendition of the monster rephotographed against the...
View ArticleLatest Webcam from Eoin
As far as I know, there has been no lochside reports of the monster yet, and we can largely put that down to the current covid-19 lockdown as tourists (generally) stay away from the loch and locals are...
View ArticleRevisiting a possible land sighting from 2003
I have been aware of this land sighting for some time, but never really addressed it until now. However, I recently found a recounting of it in an old issue of "Animals and Men" published by the Centre...
View ArticleJeremy Wade and those Loch Ness Eels
Jeremy Wade, the well known presenter and expert on exotic and large fish, is back on TV with a new series entitled "Mysteries of the Deep" which ran its first episode last week on the Loch Ness...
View ArticleCaptain Fraser's Nessie Film
There are three classes of films which allege to show the Loch Ness Monster. The first are the ones which have been published and are still generally accessible to varying degrees. The second are those...
View ArticleIs this a new photo of the Loch Ness Monster?
A week ago on the Facebook group, Anomalous Universe, a photograph purporting to be of a strange object in Loch Ness was posted by a person from the south of England. The group was founded by fellow...
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