Comments on: Editorial On “Death At Loch Ness”

By: motbob

motbob — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:58:12 +0000

A very interesting assessment. Until sightings increase again though, Mr.Rines belief will carry a little more weight with this reader. Got to go with the evidence, eh? (or what passes as such)

Let’s not be too quick to discount Mr. Rine’s scientific acumen, even during the period when he was facing impending death. Save this theory for when Nessie sightings have spiked; fingers crossed!

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:12:11 +0000

THANK YOU LOREN!

I was tired of that bunk when it first danced across the headlines…
Like you said, there’s still reports coming in…the media is a manipulative, greedy cuss–they drum up headlines about monsters to get readers, and are just as quick to kill them off to keep eyes on their paper.

I’d prefer: Nessie hoards golfballs at bottom of loch…does she think their her eggs, is she eating them,…film at 11.

By: braddavery

braddavery — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:23:55 +0000

Even if this loch is now “Nessieless”, it doesn’t mean they would be extinct. This is not the only body of water that contains a possible cryptid. It is quite a conundrum for people who need the Loch Ness Monster to “exist” for tourism purposes… of course they are going to hope/believe it is still there, so are their opinions steeped in honesty?

By: korollocke

korollocke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:14:56 +0000

If there extinct, then ramp up the search for remains if the living ones have ceased to be.

By: crackheadcheesecake

crackheadcheesecake — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:21:54 +0000

I’m a believer in lots of concepts…However I find this idea to be a slap in the face to even thinking Nessies could be real. Loren is right to be blunt and think there’s a connection with Rines’s age and overall health. The way I see is people like us who think it’s possible for Nessies to be real or hope so, are weirdos to most and not taken very seriously. So does it help that after all this time he has given us no body or solid evidence? I mean…I found it cool what they picked up on sonar images in their time exploring, but the damned truth is in the end it doesn’t mean anything to the nay sayers or the world if you don’t give us a body or that body on film.

What has happened here is we went from Nessies might be real to them being dead, but we don’t have any proof that Nessies might be dead. This is how people get called hoaxers. I’m sorry but that looks like it’s the sad truth here.

By: Dr. Strings

Dr. Strings — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:37:05 +0000

Great editorial, Loren. I agree and believe that, along with thoughts of his own mortality in the waning days, the “Death at Loch Ness” theory was a psychological mechanism for Dr. Rines to take the creature’s(or creatures’) existence with him to the grave. With all the photographic evidence Dr. Rines amassed over the years, it still wasn’t enough to merit irrefutable proof of the monster’s existence, so the theory becomes a way for a man who sincerely believed in the monster to satisfy his own beliefs and be at peace with his many years of work on the subject.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:01:32 +0000

Nessie may be the most famous Scottish lake monster(s), but it’s hardly the only one.

Does anyone know about recent sightings of Morag over at lake Morar?

By: wuffing

wuffing — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:22:02 +0000

There is no reason to take any pronouncements of the self-styled "Official" fan club any more seriously than anything else on that website and I was surprised they were given the oxygen of publicity here in the first place. As long ago as August 2001 the UK's Guardian newspaper website carried a story entitled Is Nessie Dead? in which Dr Rines is quoted as saying "You have the hydro plant for one thing and all the forestry plantings which unfortunately were done here in such a way that streams of lime acid poured down into the loch. The environmental change hasn't been going Nessie's way." Anyone with high-school chemistry knowledge might query this alchemical "lime acid" and anyone with local knowledge will report the existence of a Victorian "hydro plant" at Foyers predating Nessie herself, but it is entirely understandable that someone failing to find a species called Nessie might begin to look for an explanation consistent with their original beliefs, rather than go through the anguish of changing them.

By: cloudyboy87

cloudyboy87 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:14:45 +0000

I never liked the Nessie extinction theory. It seems to me that if sightings are still occurring that obviously some are still in the lake. But just because there is a period of no sightings doesn’t mean that we should rush to the assumption that a cryptid no longer lives as a species..I think it just takes patience and diligence when we are in a dry spell for certain cryptid sightings.