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Glasgow Boy tells us: “Tony Harmsworth, long time Loch Ness researcher, is putting his book Loch Ness Understood online for free viewing. The book also goes by the former title Loch Ness, Nessie and Me. I reviewed this book last year but now you can read it for yourself at Tony’s link. Tony says the [...]

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Nick Redfern has produced another excellent title that we will all wish to add to our Redfern Library of Monsters, Weird Creatures, and Perplexing Paths of the Paranormal. In Monster Diary Redfern takes to the road to search out ‘strange and sinister creatures,’ and the literary style of diary entries serves the subject matter very well.Brad Steiger

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Nessie on Mysterious Monsters…

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Wartime pranks and the Loch Ness Monster

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Nessie: The International Blockbuster Film We Never Saw

In the mid-1970s, there was an aborted co-production between Hammer Films and Toho entitled “Nessie”, in which the Loch Ness Monster escapes to the ocean and begins attacking ships and oil rigs.

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“…huge violent eels…”

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Loch Ness: The matter of hoaxing…

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What lurks in the cold waters of Hokkaido’s Lake Kussharo?

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Glasgow Boy digs into the world of books on Nessie…

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Fernando Reza, a graphic artist and designer based in Los Angeles, made a bunch of really cool retro travel posters for a bunch of locations based on the mythical beasts or cryptids who reside there, at least according to legend. Scotland’s poster has the Loch Ness Monster on it, Manhattan’s has giant sewer alligators, and so on. His designs are honestly way better and more visually appealing than the boring stock photography used on most legitimate travel posters. And he still has tons more material if he ever wants to do a second run of these things. New Jersey has the Jersey Devil. North Carolina has the Beast of Bladenboro.Adweek

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In the Scottish Highlands is a mystery that has intrigued the world for generations: the Loch Ness monster; real or just a local fable, preserved to lure in the tourist dollar? One man, Nessie hunter Steve Feltham, is a believer – so much so he left his job, house, and girlfriend to dedicate his life to proving the creature’s existence. Steve Feltham lives in a caravan on the shore of Loch Ness, and makes clay figurines of Nessie to help fund his dream.

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…’sceptics’ just like ‘believers’ can come in various forms…

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A “pernicious and devilish pursuer of men’s flesh”

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In Jefferson, Texas recently, a group of like-minded (or should we say, like-obsessed) people gathered to swap stories of strange sightings … mysterious animals and elusive creatures lurking in the deep woods.

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What lurks in the lakes at the base of picturesque Mt. Fuji? I revisit an old mystery.

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