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Two more photographs from Loch Ness
Two pictures of something which may or may not be the Loch Ness Monster turned up on social media in the last few days. The first to look at was sent to Alan McKenna of the Loch Ness Exploration group...
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MONSTER - The Mystery of Loch Ness
I watched the latest Loch Ness Monster documentary which recently televised on the 22nd September. I believe this had previously shown on the new Paramount+ UK subscription channel a while back. That...
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The Forensics of the Loch Ness Monster
Continuing with the theme of the previous article on the Hugh Gray photograph, there has been various feedback ranging from "I see it!" and "I don't see it!" to more analytical responses.Before I...
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90th Anniversary of the First Loch Ness Monster Photograph
I first wrote on the famous Hugh Gray photograph back in 2011, a picture that was snapped on a calm day on the Sunday of November 12th 1933. Ninety years on, I still think it is one of the most...
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Upcoming Loch Ness Monster Documentary
Well, I enjoyed the "Loch Ness: They Created A Monster" documentary at the Cameo cinema tonight. There were one or two twists to keep me on my toes and new material even for someone like me after 40...
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I recently had a chat with David Divine who runs a podcast channel covering various mysteries across the world and this was his first conversation with anyone on the subject of the Loch Ness Monster....
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Tim Dinsdale and Two Original LNIB Sighting Reports
It was a while back that I got my first view of some original sighting reports from the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau which existed from 1962 to 1972. I don't recall if I was looking at an original...
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Nessie Review of 2023
Whatever may have come to pass at Loch Ness in 2023, it was always guaranteed to be the year of anniversary as ninety years passed since this story of a strange beast in the loch took off in 1933. Of...
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The MacLennan Land Sighting
It is back to classic sightings of the Loch Ness Monster and a report of a large creature seen on land in that seminal first year of Nessie reports 91 years ago. The date was the 6th August 1933 and...
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Follow Up to MacLennan Land Sighting
Having published the article on the MacLennan creature recently, I thought I would go over any comments made on it by way of reply. The last time I looked there were 167 comments attached to the...
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The First Plesio-Turtle?
The plesioturtle or long necked sea turtle theory has been doing the rounds for a while. I covered the idea in 2013 in this article, being inspired by a Nessie documentary from 2009 which looked at...
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Fordyce's Monster walks over Sceptical Theory
When examining the techniques used by sceptics in debunking claimed eyewitness account, there are at least four major factors involved in this process:The involvement of known objects and effects in...
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Adrian Shine's New Book
A while back Adrian told me he was intending to publish a new work and I immediately assumed it would be a larger work on Loch Ness, its legendary Monster and perhaps something biographical as regards...
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The Quest 2024 and Webcam Images
Back at the end of May, it was off once again to Loch Ness for a bit of Nessie Hunting and a bit of Nessie Fellowship. To borrow from a TV program about another mystery, it was the Fellowship of the...
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Frank Searle's Last Photograph
The year 1976 was a mixed year for Frank Searle. First he had seen the publication of his book "Nessie: Seven Years in search of the Monster". This was a small but certainly not a modest work packed...
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Alan Wilkins and his 1975 Nessie Photograph
Another Nessie fan emailed me recently asking if I had any of Alan Wilkins photographs which were taken in July 1975. I recalled that at the time, as a teenager, I had seen one such picture on the...
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Bumping Into Nessie?
Stories of alleged collisions with the Loch Ness Monster are a rare class of report indeed and normally involve the larger vessels that have traversed the loch over the decades. But like the proverbial...
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Nicholas Witchell and the Natural History Museum
Anyone with an interest in the Loch Ness Monster will know that 1975 was a pretty manic year. Much has been written since about those murky underwater pictures taken by Robert Rines and his AAS team...
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The Latest Sonar Contact (September 2024)
Almost four years to the day, the Loch Ness Cruises company published another sonar image of interest at the beginning of this month. The actual incident was on Sunday 22nd September. This is the...
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Nessie in the 19th Century
When Rupert T. Gould wrote his book on the Loch Ness Monster in 1934, he came across quite a few people who said they had seen it decades before all the fuss that was then swirling around the loch....
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