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Is there really a monster in Loch Ness?

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Does this film shot in 1936 but lost until today really show the creature?

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And does this film shot 41 years later mean the monster is still lurking there today?

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Is that what Alex Campbell has seen more times than anyone else alive?

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Mysteries from the files of Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the communication

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satellite.

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Now in retreat in Sri Lanka, after a lifetime of science, space and writing, he ponders the

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riddles of this and other worlds.

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The monster of Loch Ness is so famous that it's eclipsed all its rivals.

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Yet there are reports of strange and often very large creatures looming up out of at

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least 50 other lakes throughout the world.

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Lake Okanagan, Western Canada, 130 miles long, 800 feet deep, and apparently a boat of one

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of the world's most frequently glimpsed monsters, Ogo Pogo.

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Today, Ogo Pogo is the star of a phone-in on local radio station CKOV in Kelowna.

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Good morning and welcome to Ovey's open line program.

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I do believe that's what's going on in here this morning.

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Teresa, how are you?

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I'm fine, thank you.

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We're talking about the Ogo Pogo today.

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A lot of people in the area have seen it.

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The legend goes on for many years and we'll be talking to some experts.

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I believe we've got Arlene Gall coming in.

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Arlene wrote a book on it.

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That's right.

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But we're going to go to the phone lines right now.

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Line two, good morning.

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Hello there.

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Mr. Puglies.

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Yes, go ahead, sir.

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You want to know about Ogo Pogo?

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I certainly do.

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Yeah, okay.

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I had a taxi and I took a passenger to the hospital and then I was coming down Abbott

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Street.

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And I got far as about here.

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I looked at the lake.

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I was surprised.

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I've seen this thing come out of the water.

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It's like a horse's head with the kind of horns on it.

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He was huge, you know, standing up there at home.

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Just like a big serpent.

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Another fellow came behind me and said, what are you looking at?

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He says, I see no Ogo Pogo over there.

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And he says, where?

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Where?

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Over there, he says.

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I had the door open in the car and I stepped out just a little bit and they slipped back

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in the water.

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And he said, gee, look at the big waves there.

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And all we can see is big waves going down there to Fred's place where he had the boat

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rental and they disappeared.

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And then I got all excited.

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I got in the car and I pulled the willow in and I told the people, I said, they were

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having breakfast.

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I just seen Ogo Pogo.

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And they says, what the heck, you've been drinking, eh?

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Line four, go ahead, please.

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Hello, John.

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How are you?

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I'm not too bad.

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Good.

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Are you going to give me your name?

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No, I'm not.

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Okay.

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Tell me about the...

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I saw Ogo Pogo off of Sarcens about four years ago.

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You don't want to give your name on the air?

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No, I don't.

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You've told some people, obviously.

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Uh, yes.

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Are you afraid that they might think you're a little bit of a...

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Well, I had some strange phone calls.

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And...

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I get them every day.

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That's what they pay me for.

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Well, I don't get paid for them, so I don't really want any more, thank you.

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We were up in the beach having a picnic and my daughter was on the swings when I saw this

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creature underneath the wharf there.

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When I turned around and saw it and realized that it was the legendary Ogo Pogo, I just

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freaked out.

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I just ran...

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I grabbed the baby and ran down to the beach and I guess I yelled over and over, that's

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him.

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She was screaming like anything.

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She just couldn't believe it.

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Her face was red.

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Was fishing or whatever it was doing and it was there for quite some time.

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Then it straightened out and went along those poles and as it traveled along, it...

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Just the three humps were showing and they were from one of those end of those poles

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to the other in the space.

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The three humps were.

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It traveled along the beach till about the corner over there and then it turned and

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went straight across the lake.

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Now I would hesitate to go on the lake because it's such a huge thing that I think it could

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tip a boat over.

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And not being a swimmer, I would drown, so I don't...

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I haven't been on the lake since.

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All right, we're going to break from the phone calls right now and introduce to you some

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of this well-known in the Okanagan Valley.

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Arlene Gall.

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Arlene has written the book of the Ogopogo.

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Good morning, Arlene.

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Good morning, John.

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Good morning, Trish.

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Good morning, Arlene.

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How many sightings have you documented?

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Literally hundreds.

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Literally hundreds.

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When was the first sighting?

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The very first sighting was in 1852.

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The first documented sighting in 1852.

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Okay, 1852 and it's now 1980.

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Do we take it to mean that there must be more than one Ogopogo?

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There definitely appear to be more.

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There has been a film that was made and I think it was back in 1968.

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It's pretty hard not to believe when you see it right in front of your eyes.

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Tell us about that film this morning.

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The Folden film was taken in 1968 by a gentleman by the name of Art Folden.

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He was returning from a trip to his home in Chase.

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And as he neared the Peachland area, he spotted an object out on the lake and he said to his

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wife, look, there's Ogopogo and she laughed at him.

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And he got out and started filming the creature.

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And what we see in the film is a large animate object moving through the water, servicing

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and submerging at various speeds and at various times.

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And it also shows the creature taking off at very high speed, producing a massive weight.

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And this is the footage in the film that I like very much because you see a creature

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just pushing water, something terrifically with a massive weight in front, just creating

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huge wave action.

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This is believability on my part.

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Have there been any recent sightings?

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We've had approximately seven to eight sightings this year, but we have one that has been

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the very best sighting.

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Why?

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It was the Rieger family.

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It was a beautiful day.

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The water was just as calm as glass.

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And I just took a look across.

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I could see a big wave coming.

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And at that time, I just didn't take much notice of it and it kept coming closer and

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I thought to myself, why would there be a wave coming if there's no wind or anything?

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So I called to my son.

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I says, come on back here.

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And I says, take a look and see if you think what the heck's coming down the lake here.

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So he took a look at it and he says, gee, I don't know.

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So we had his grandson.

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My grandson was along too.

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And he said, hey, grandpa, he says, that's the Ogopogo.

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It would have ran right into us, but we had to wear the boat off long side.

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And then we followed it alongside for about, oh, maybe 15 to 20 minutes.

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And I'd say the monster was possibly 14 to 16 feet long, which was above water, sticking

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above about three feet.

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And had quite a hump on the front shoulders and had a hump on the back where the tail

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went.

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And I'd say the tail was approximately, oh, probably 30, 40, maybe 50 feet because you

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couldn't see the end of it.

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But he did have a long tail.

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He had four legs.

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And I'd say the monster weighed approximately maybe 30 ton.

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And his head in the front was moving from side to side.

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It seemed like he was looking for fish or feeding or something like that.

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And he was steering up a tremendous amount of water.

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If I would have never seen it, I would have never believed it.

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And actually, I don't care if anybody believes me or not.

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But I've seen this animal, and I know it's here.

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And I know it's a tremendous sized animal.

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That's it for today.

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Thank you so much for participating in the program.

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We're on tomorrow morning at 8.30.

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Have yourself a safe day.

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Thank you.

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I'm John Michaels.

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Bye-bye.

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I'm Chris Elvis.

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Bye-bye.

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Across the world, the lakes that boast monsters also attract posses of intrepid pursuers.

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Ready to take to the water at the drop of a hat.

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In Loch Ness, Ivor Nubi plus his Amficar.

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In Lake Okanagan, a midnight vigil by 60 divers in search of Ogopogo.

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There have been red submarines, yellow submarines.

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A big game hunter, forearmed with a monstrous cage.

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In Sweden, a trap for the monster of Lake Störsjö, baited with a pig.

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And in Japan, sake to inebriate isi, the monster in Lake Ikeida.

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And the reigning Miss Hibiscus, to inaugurate an isi observatory with round-the-clock surveillance.

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Oddly, almost all the world's known monster lakes lie away from the tropics.

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Even the shallow waters of Loch Rhe in Ireland would appear to have a mysterious occupant.

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Witness the testimony of three men of the cloth in a boat out one evening in May 1960.

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Father Burke, Father Murray and Monsignor Quigley.

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We were lulling about on the boat, doing nothing.

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Hoping for a breeze would come up that we could do a bit of fishing at the night rise.

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And suddenly, Father Quigley said, do you see what I see?

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What do you see? Look over there, sissy.

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So I looked.

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I think there's something on top of the water.

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Hump, head out of it.

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Moving slightly to our right slowly.

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I remember saying, what the hell is it?

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It wasn't... If it was a fish, you'd see some kind of commotion on the surface.

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Or if it was a needle-like thing, you'd see a kind of wriggle.

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But there was nothing at all. It could have been the periscope of a little submarine.

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My reaction was one of astonishment.

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Because I knew that it was a very large creature.

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Larger than any fish that could have been in the lake.

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Afterwards, we discussed the matter and...

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Well, we agreed that it was something in the nature of a large serpent.

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They said we had been indulging too liberally

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or something that we were seeing strange creatures on the water.

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Well, I can say quite honestly that we didn't have a zingeral thing

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in the way of nourishment on that particular day.

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It was a crocodile. An Irish crocodile.

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But the rarely seen beast of Loch Rhee is China's personified,

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beside the granddaddy of all the lake monsters.

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Here is the most unusual film of recent years.

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It proves the existence of a monster in Loch Ness.

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The Loch is 21 miles long, 1.5 miles broad and 900 feet deep.

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The crosses on this diagram reveal where it is stated that the monster

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has been most frequently seen in the past.

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And this is the point our cameramen were stationed at,

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when after a long and arduous vigil, they actually filmed it.

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Through our telescopic lenses, we saw the grey waters suddenly heave

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as the monster cut through them with lightning speed.

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Chimetic conditions and exposure day and night to bleak and stormy weather

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affected our film, which accounts for the misty results.

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But this is unimportant in comparison to the achievement of filming the monster itself

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for the first time in history.

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This film was taken in 1936, two years after a London surgeon, R. Kenneth Wilson,

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snapped the most famous Loch Ness picture of them all.

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Also in 1934, this strange photograph. Is it a flipper?

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Metalworker Hugh Gray took this after church one Sunday.

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And in 1951, Laughlin Stewart's classic picture of the Humps.

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Does this dawn picture show a monster or a wave?

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Is this the monster's flank or just a fake?

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And does this 1977 picture show the monster's head and neck?

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Fifty years of photographs have served only to deepen the mystery,

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yet the eyewitnesses are insistent.

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In this boat, a handful of the 3,000 people who've now reported seeing the monster.

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Alex Campbell, Walter Balef on the lock for 47 years.

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Peter McNab, a banker from Irvine, who took a famous picture in 1955.

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Accountant Peter Smith and his wife Gwen from Luton, who in 1977 took the most recent film.

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I was stunned. It was just taken aback.

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I shut my eyes three times to see what I'd imagined in things.

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And then the head, neck, huge humped body, perfectly clear without any doubt.

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And I knew right away that that creature was scared because of its behaviour.

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The head was growing like that. Quite.

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Whoa. Fantastic.

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And then I realised, I'd realised itself.

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The trawlers were present.

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As soon as the bow of the first trawler came with it, my line of vision.

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Naturally it was within its line of vision.

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And I was surprised.

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Oh, heavens. Clunged.

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Out of sight. Drawn.

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Well, I estimated the length of the body at 30 feet at least.

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The height of the head, neck above water level, 6 feet.

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And the colour of the skin was grey.

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I saw something beginning to appear.

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I saw something.

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It was grey.

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I saw something beginning to surface.

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And in a state of very great excitement, took down the camera,

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fitted on the long focus lens without looking at anything.

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By the time I looked up, this creature was showing a black undulating,

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rather a dark coloured undulating creature, a live creature.

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A lift to the camera took this shot, which was naturally rather hazy.

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Because I had to hold this long focus camera.

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There was camera shake, excitement and all the rest.

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In the picture is the tower of Arkham Castle.

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I understand it's a 40 feet high tower,

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which gives an excellent impression of the overall length of the monster.

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It's been estimated at between loosely 30 and 40 feet.

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And before I could get a second shot or anything else, as far as I remember,

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because it's all hazy now with the excitement.

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Well, we were standing on the south shore of the lock, somewhere up here.

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Looking sort of across the lock.

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Peter was looking down to an oil jam somewhere further down.

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And I was looking across at the castle, just having a look at it.

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And this thing suddenly came vertically up out of the water.

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My first impression was of a periscope-like object,

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which had a slight lean to it in the water, although the head part seemed to be held horizontally.

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It appeared to rise up, but it was a bit of a shock.

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It appeared to rise up a considerable height,

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at least the height of a man.

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And it was, I would say, a good foot thick.

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With the naked eye, it was just a black pillar shape,

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with a rectangular shape head on the top.

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At one point, I watched it actually turn its head through about 90 degrees,

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because normally it was in profile,

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but the head slowly turned round until it appeared as though it was either looking directly at us

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or directly away from us.

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And when it did this, it appeared to be the same thickness as the neck.

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It disappeared as a separate entity, and then it turned back again the same way as before.

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I've no doubt that the eyewitnesses have seen and indeed photographed something quite real.

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But it could have been a skull of fish, the wake of a boat, sea birds, a seal.

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Many possibilities have been suggested.

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The trouble is it's very easy to be mistaken.

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For example, this looks like the most famous Loch Ness monster photo ever made,

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but actually it was taken right here.

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We're at the entrance of Trinkamilly Harbour.

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Believe it or not, an elephant used to swim across this opening,

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and the island on the right is called Elephant Island for that reason.

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Now I'm not for a moment suggesting that any of the Loch Ness sightings with users

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are swimming elephants, but this does show how easily it is to be mistaken.

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But for all that, for half a century, the lure of Loch Ness

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has inspired men to hunt for the monster.

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Most dedicated of all the sleuths, Tim Dinsdale,

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once an aeronautical engineer and now a veteran of 20 summers living afloat on the Loch,

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with some classic monster tales in his locker.

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I saw an object about 250 yards away, as near as I can guess,

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which came out of the water.

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At first I thought it was a cormorant snake,

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but then you could see that it wasn't a cormorant because it was too big,

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and it came out like a black snake, like a black anaconda.

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That's what it looked like. It came out of the water like that,

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and then it went down, and there was a boil of white foam.

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And then it broke surface once again with a boil and went on.

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I didn't see it again. Very quick seconds, but it was real.

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And it had a startling effect on me, as it does, I think,

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when you get moderately close to these things,

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it suddenly becomes tremendously alive.

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And the first thing I did was put my life jacket on.

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You see, I don't normally wear one, because you can't live in them, quite frankly.

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I've got them around. But the first thing I did was put it on.

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Dinsdale's lonely vigil on the Loch began on April the 23rd, 1960.

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He was driving along the shore when something caught his eye.

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I saw this immense, extraordinary object.

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It looked like a back of a huge animal, reddish-brown.

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It stood two or three feet out of the water, four or five feet across,

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probably nearly as long as this boat.

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Quite motionless, reddish-brown and a blotch on the left flank,

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which I could see very clearly.

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And then, while I was watching, it started to move.

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The most electrifying moment.

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This huge thing started to surge away across the water.

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And I turned to the camera, and I shot about 40 feet of black and white film

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at extreme range, but nevertheless it was on film.

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This hump going across the water made a huge, glassy wake,

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no prop wash visible.

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And then it approached the far shore, and then turned through 90 degrees

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and progressed under the surface, throwing up a wave

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which had since been measured on the film at a height of about two feet.

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In 1966, the Royal Air Force Long Range photographic experts

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studied the film, and they said the film is not faked.

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It's taken from the... approximately the place stated at Loch Ness,

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which is about 300 feet up on the shore.

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The object scene is neither a surface boat nor a submarine.

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It moves up to a speed of 10 miles an hour,

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and a cross-section through it, a sausage slice,

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would be six feet in width, and as three feet of it is above the surface,

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they estimate it will be at least two feet below.

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And finally, they said that we think it is probably animate alive.

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If there is a monster in Loch Ness,

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it now has much more than the camera to steer clear of.

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The high technology team led by Roger Parker

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leave their shoes on the shore to reduce noise,

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when they go stalking with their ultra-sensitive underwater surveillance gear.

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Their launch is stacked with 40,000 pounds worth of top-notch gadgetry,

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not just cameras, but microphones, hydrophones,

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machines for monitoring disturbances of the mud on the bottom,

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and most significant of all, sonar, as Roger Parker explains.

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It's quite famous, this particular instrument we had before us,

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as we did in fact, on our very first visit to the Loch,

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record a large animal in excess of 43 feet in length.

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And we had it, in fact, on the screen here for over one and a half hours.

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The particular animal that we detected,

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being, although it was large, had in its shadow what appeared to be a baby.

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A baby, I mean, a mere 20 feet.

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On the second sighting of two smaller ones, which were some nights later,

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we recorded these on 60mm colour film during the night.

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But on the sonar screen, they can be seen quite closely together,

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representing like a series of joined dots,

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which of course is the reflective pulses from the transmitted signal,

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from the sonar transmitter.

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They are both fairly close together, as can be seen,

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and we firmly believe by the sheer echo and by the nature of the signal we receive,

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they must be large, animate objects.

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An actual fact, the termination of that long-term and most interesting encounter

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was the fact that somebody in a local yacht,

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presumably on holiday, was unaware of the extent we were having,

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and decided to use the lube at around about half past five in the morning.

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So you gather one thing from that that Netty doesn't like flushing toilets.

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But its American lawyer Bob Rines, who has come closest to proving the monster exists,

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using strobe cameras.

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When these cameras are suspended in the water and are taking pictures,

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normally they are rather steady, because there aren't very many underwater currents in Loch Ness.

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We did have a rare episode once in 1975, when we think one of the animals started disturbing our whole rig,

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and it bumped into it, knocked it, turned it upside down,

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and the camera pointed up towards the surface, took a picture of the boat,

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and then suddenly in one frame we took a picture.

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We think that is of the open mouth and head of one of these animals.

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That's a picture that's pretty difficult to say what it is,

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because it doesn't look like what most zoologists expected from the kind of animal they think the Loch Ness monster may be.

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But that's the data, it's the true data, and that's a picture that was taken.

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Then came the startling head, neck, and flipper shots of 1975.

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I think we're looking at an animal that may be from 30 to 50 feet long, has a long neck, a very powerful neck, probably a small head,

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and flippers, at least some of which are somewhat diamond shaped, and a powerful tail.

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We like the zoologist to put the name on it.

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As a lawyer I can quote what some of our British baristas have told us,

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that if the Nessie story had been a murder case, that it had been a hanging long since.

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Frankly, I'm much more skeptical of lake monsters than of sea monsters,

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because lakes after all are fairly small bodies of water, and there are plenty of eyewitnesses around them.

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And if these creatures come up to breathe, why aren't they seen more often?

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And if even the Japanese can't catch them, can they really exist?

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Next week, the Great Siberian Explosion.