Comments on: New Loch Ness Monster Photos

By: wuffing

wuffing — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:52:54 +0000

@stickyum

Your religious fervour and vitriolic tantrum remind me of a kid who has has just been told Santa Claus isn’t real.

You are entitled to express your views, but in this pursuit it is always useful to be open to new information, especially from people who were there on the day.

Your collective attack on the likes of Radford and “Nichols”, who were not Loch Ness field investigators, and Raynor, Shine and to a lesser extent Harmsworth, who were, is ill-informed. Harmsworth by the way wasn’t “booted out” of the LNI – it had ceased operations 8 years before he turned up at Loch Ness.

These investigators are not promoting or decrying “belief in monsters” – that is something you’ll have to discuss with your Mom – they are discussing the validity of the evidence presented for the existence of unknown animals in any particular place, and so far it isn’t looking good.

Respect? You want Respect Mr. Harmsworth? And these inflamatory words coming from a person who was tossed-out of the L.N.I. Yeah

I bet you wish they had emoticons on the website! Stomp Stomp.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:30 +0000

I want to know why we got to only see the photo that was taken after the head submerged.

Again, as with most of these “one shot” photos, it’s hard to get any details on one photo. With cameras the way they are these days, it should be relatively easy to hold the button down and shoot, or repeatedly shoot photos…of course the downfall of the digital photo age is that there’s a delay between photos.

And it’s too bad the Rines photos were enhanced–once that came out, any credibility of the photos as evidence got destroyed. I’ve seen the un-enhanced, and it’s much more vague, but it would have been better off left untouched up.

If our friend can produce the other photo before the head submerged, then we might be getting somewhere…

By: kittalia

kittalia — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:07:05 +0000

First part doesn’t look like a log. My guess is a small boat hit a log and flipped.

By: mungofoot

mungofoot — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:35:18 +0000

It doesn’t seem to be moving to me either, log? Maybe animal corpse? Possibly basking reptile of some sort? Less likely, but who knows?

By: stickyum

stickyum — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:12:06 +0000

@ bobzilla: Firstly, I forgot to include in my list of Nessie’s debunkers: Dick Raynor and Tony Harmsworth who unfortunately have spent much of their lives trying to dismiss ALL evidence of the factual (Gov’t. Authorities) & filmed truth of the existence of The Loch Ness Monsters. Yeah, I’ve read what Raynor wants the public to believe by his repeated & distorted accounts of the authenticity of Dr. Rine’s A.A.S. photos. But, it can be noted that other, more prominent people of Cryptozoology believed his assertions were nothing more than B.S. & a fabrication of the real scientific evidence, in-order to discredit the AAS & Rines.

Then there’s Tony Harmsworth & his Loch Ness Information Website – a total masterpiece of B.S., mis-information & Yellow Journalism concerning, what he interprets as His Own Skeptical News about this subject. He not only has ripped-apart & tried to discredit the famed Dr. Roy Mackal & his scientific conclusions of the existence of the Loch Ness Monsters, but had the unmitigated-gaul to challenge the World-Renouned Scientist, Dr. Robert Rines & his Academy of Applied Science’s Team, accusing both of “doctoring” those photographs. What “Nerve”? Neither one, Raynor or Harmsworth, hold a “grain of salt” of legitimacy compared to Rines & Mackal’s research & evidence.

Quoted from Harmsworth’s Website, in his own words, “Dr Rines, Admit the retouching of the flipper and the garbage of the gargoyle head. Get it out of the way and earn some real respect.”

Respect? You want Respect Mr. Harmsworth? And these inflamatory words coming from a person who was tossed-out of the L.N.I. Yeah Right! Like the respect you afforded Dr. Mackal & Dr. Rines?

By: Tacos_with_Chili

Tacos_with_Chili — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:19:23 +0000

It looks like an Elephant to me. The back and the Trump…. Oh well, I can always be wrong.

By: Zilla

Zilla — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:25:35 +0000

Log or rock. That thing is so stiff, there is no way it’s an animate object. I would love it to be Nessie, but I doubt it. There was a time when two sightings in a year was problematic. Now it’s a good Nessie year.

By: flame821

flame821 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:53:36 +0000

Honestly it doesn’t matter to me. Nessie was the first crypto mystery I was exposed to and will always hold a special place in my heart. My uncle used to tell us the best stories about “Water Beasties” like Nessie, Kelpies, aughisky (each uisge), dobhar-chu, Old Meg and a host of fairy and sidhe pets and monsters.

By: Redrose999

Redrose999 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:33:33 +0000

I see a floating tree stump/aka drift wood. It does look too stiff, and lacks life to it. I don’t see ripple action around it either, no wake behind it. It just seems like it is floating there.

By: bobzilla

bobzilla — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:40:13 +0000

stickyum: those "flipper" shots and others taken at that time may have been retouched to look like they do. See: The Flipper Pictures Re-examined And: The Loch Ness Underwater Photographic Evidence I lived and died by those pics as a kid. Still never quite saw a head in that one pick that looked like driftwood or something. Still hoping they do find something, though.