Loch Ness - new Nessie footage?

[TonyGosling]

Another fascinating 'local' news story that (shamefully) never made to the nationals. With a whole load of links to background evidence. Before you ask, yes I do belive there's probably something incredible living in Britain's deepest lake.

Scientist claims he saw the Loch Ness Monster
29/05/07 - Glasgow Evening Times
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1432274.0.scientist_cla ims_he_saw_the_loch_ness_monster.php

'Nessie' Loch Ness Monster Caught on Tape!!

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LOCH Ness Monster experts today pledged to examine new video footage taken by an amateur scientist who claims to have found Nessie.

The two-minute video clip, recorded on Saturday, shows what appears to be a long, black creature swimming just below the surface of Loch Ness.

The creature's head breaks the surface as it propels itself through the water. Images from the tape also clearly show how the creature creates a wake on the surface of the water as it swims in the direction of Inverness.

The film was taken by amateur scientist Gordon Holmes, from Shipley, Yorkshire, who estimates the "creature" was moving at around 6mph.

Mr Holmes, who works as a technician at Bradford University, was in the area using hydrophones to detect underwater noises from the loch.

He said he saw the monster at 9.50pm while he was filming the loch from a layby on the A82.

Mr Holmes, 55, said: "I was minutes from going home but I saw something moving and dashed out of the car and switched the camcorder on.

"About 200 yards away from me I could see something in the water. It was definitely a creature propelling itself through the water. It was fairly bubbling along the water. It was streaking along."

Adrian Shine, project leader for Loch Ness 2000 based at Drumnadrochit, has spent more than 30 years investigating the loch and said the video seemed genuine.

He added: "At first glance it does certainly seem to show an animal swimming through the water."

Nessie investigator Dick Raynor, of the Loch Ness Exhibition Centre, said: "Both he and the film seem genuine and there's no evidence of faking or tampering. I would definitely be willing to study it further."

Mr Holmes will now transfer his video to DVD when he returns to Yorkshire and make it available for analysis by experts.

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[marky 54]

is'nt it funny, way back in history fishermen use to gather in taverns for ale and sit down around a nice open log fire telling others of the things they encounted out at sea like sea monsters, woodcutters reported seeing things in the woods that were mysterious and people had no reason to disbelieve them, but mention the earth being round and you were burnt at the stake! or ridiculed:lol:

since science has become more accepted the opposite is true.
i cannot see how anyone gains from saying they saw things when they know they will be faced with ridicule if it was not true or at least cause for investigastion(proper investigastion not turn up do a quick scan "nah nothing here they are mad i tell you"). those who proclaimed the earth being round certainly did'nt benefit but they spoke up because they knew something that was being ignored.

when there are numerous reports of the same thing that is usually ridiculed you can guarentee theres something in it. why would people subject themselves to ridicule, it would of only of benefited back in 1200's to become popular in the local tavern.

its about time people started to take cases with numerous reports more seriously, it seems they are looking into this ferther but why did it take so long?

i remember people who said they saw big cats on the moors where also labelled and no one believed it, now its almost just common knowledge that there are big cats living in some parts of britian in the countryside.

i hope they get to the bottom of this mystery and find it or proof of it, as far as im concered just the share numer of reports must point to something being there because who in there right mind would want to make something up to become a laughing stock unless they were all convinced it is real.

[TonyGosling]

Loch Ness existed: Police chief
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_519795.h tml
Writing to the Under Secretary of State in the Scottish Office, Mr Fraser said: 'That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness now seems beyond doubt. But that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful.' His warning came five years after the British government was asked to confirm the existence of a monster or sea serpent in Loch Ness, following sightings and the publication of articles and grainy photographs.

LONDON - A TOP police officer believed that the fabled Loch Ness Monster in Scotland existed 'beyond doubt', a file released from archives shows.

William Fraser, the chief constable of Inverness-shire, expressed concerns about protecting the 'strange creature' from hunters, in a letter to a British government minister in 1938 made public on Monday.

Writing to the Under Secretary of State in the Scottish Office, Mr Fraser said: 'That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness now seems beyond doubt. But that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful.' His warning came five years after the British government was asked to confirm the existence of a monster or sea serpent in Loch Ness, following sightings and the publication of articles and grainy photographs.

A question was tabled in the British parliament asking whether a scientific investigation would be made into the existence of the monster.

Ministers and civil servants were sceptical but it was proposed that 'reliable observers' equipped to take photographs could be stationed around the loch. It was also suggested that aerial observation could be undertaken.

The aim was to prove the monster's existence with an attempt to trap it alive the next step. Eventually, it was felt that as the existence of the monster provided public interest and amusement, it would be better to leave it in peace rather than risk harming it, according to the archive. -- AFP