Comments on: The Strangest Nessie Story Of All?

By: corrick

corrick — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:37:15 +0000

Applying Occam’s Razor:
1. An imperfect eyewitness account.
2. A misidentified horse
3. A hoax.
15. An elaborate prank carefully staged by Fordyce’s friends.
30. An escaped giraffe from some Scottish Lord’s menagerie.
58. An unknown large terrestrial animal roaming the Scottish highlands.
I’m very comfortable with 1 and 2. You seem comfortable with 58.
So be it.

By: silverity

silverity — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:53:18 +0000

I am not proposing to provide plausible reasons for it being an unknown creature, my point is that your explanation on its own is implausible.

If you wish to apply Occam’s Razor, it would be more plausible to suggest the witness merely made up the story.

By: corrick

corrick — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:23:53 +0000

silverity
Logic-wise you have it backwards. I don’t need to give reasons. Horses are common in Scotland. Terrestrial ‘monsters’ the size of a camel are not. It’s up to you to provide plausible reasons not me.

By: silverity

silverity — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:26:21 +0000

Corrick, you may say “horse” but proving this suggestion has “legs” is a different matter. People do no normally mistake horses for monsters. You have to give a reason why some who had probably seen horses a lot of times suddenly sees a monster instead of a horse.

Saying so doesn’t make it so.

By: corrick

corrick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:00:38 +0000

silverity:

I also did the mph math. 12.5 seconds. Except Fordyce also had to slow down, come to a full stop, pull up the parking brake, open the car door, get out, walk around the car and only then could he follow the animal. About 20 full seconds. By then this creature even traveling at 2.5 mph would have been over 70 feet away “in this wooded section.” And viewed directly from the rear.

I hear horses, but you are welcome to hear unicorns.

By: silverity

silverity — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:17:49 +0000

It’s not a horse, I think we can be sure of that. The distance of 150 yards was the first point of visual contact and he was travelling at 25mph (12 yards /sec), he braked, got out and followed the creature. Plenty of time to eliminate the usual suspects.

By: corrick

corrick — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:11:14 +0000

A horse being led across the road by a 1932 deer poacher, seen at a distance of about 150 yards or a terrestrial four-legged unknown animal the size of a camel? In Scotland.
Some people think unicorns when they hear the sound of hooves. I think horses. Mr. Fordyce saw a horse.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:41:17 +0000

That story has escaped me–never heard it before…and I don’t even have an idea–sounds like it falls into the chimera category…an amalgamation of animals being used to describe something out of the norm.

My first thought is that they did see some form of mammoth–Nessie has been described with flippers and appendages but never long legs–all of the on land sightings I’ve read give me the indication that Nessie is awkward on land, either scooting or flopping across land like a pinniped or seal, not walking. The hair or fur could be because it was mammalian.

Dunno–just makes me scratch my head…

By: Evso Rivers via Facebook

Evso Rivers via Facebook — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:51:51 +0000

I love this story it brings you back to a time when the world was still wild enough that a large animal could live unknown and unseen alongside people only to be glimpse by a very few.these few tell their story or choose not to.one can hope that this creature may still be alive at lochness and other habitats