Loch Ness Monster Video, Not Bigfoot?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 7th, 2007
Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot. I’m so tired of blobsquatch videos, aren’t you? Sasquatch, Sasquatch, Sasquatch. Nessie, Nessie, Nessie. Loch Ness Monster, Loch Ness Monster. Ah, finally good footage, right?
I’m forced to write a blogsquatch, the sad condition of blogging that appears to be something it really isn’t – seemingly cryptozoological but it only vaguely appears that way from a distance. Instead, closer up, it is more blogging on exposing a fake, I’m afraid.
Unfortunately, the above video has been making the rounds of emails because it has been posted on the Bigfoot of video upload sites, YouTube. Is it a Bigfoot or Nessie here?
You don’t need a field guide on Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster to tell you which way the wind blows.
Of course, we aren’t talking about Bigfoot here, but the Loch Ness Monster spoof documentary by Werner Herzog.
Why this is making it big on the internet again is an amazing mystery. People have known about the source movie for three years, and it’s been out on DVD for two. Perhaps it is because the motion picture has been broadcast anew during the last couple months on cable channels throughout the USA?
The uncredited (by the poster at YouTube) source is:
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Warning: The comments posted at YouTube are unintelligent and unaware, for the most part.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Le sigh.
The internet can be a great place to spread and collect information. But it can also be a place to spread and collect misinformation. A lot of people unfortunately do not realize that you can’t just believe everything you see. I have to admit, before I read that this was a hoax I was actually pretty intrigued and already starting to analyze whether it is a fake or or not. Groan.
I have to admit myself that I was taken by this video clip the first time I saw it. Out of context it seems semi-credible. You tube is choked with so much fakery that its become rather depressing.
Every year we get more and more hoaxed evidence like this and pretty much no evidence that would seem to suggest that there is anything strange in the loch.
I kinda like the stuff that keeps the pot boiling, that keeps mystery mysterious.
It can be frustrating. And it can put scientists off. But what I think it should be doing is turning them on.
Repeated demonstrations of man’s ignorance should alert science that it isn’t immune to the virus.
Question, sure. But don’t be too quick to dismiss, or you may wind up looking just like those dummies on YouTube.
Quite an effective spoof of the cryptozoological world, and more digestible than Fitzcarraldo.
I love that Kitana Baker has become more than just a pretty face — she’s now a radar/sonar expert!
Yeah, I remember this clip. This movie was actually pretty funny. I saw it about 6 months ago.
That is Zak Penn’s Loch Ness mocumentary from a few years ago.
Yeah I saw this video a while ago on youtube lol. great video
I’m tired of fakes.
One major cause to these blobsquatch videos is due to poor pixel count in digital cameras. Which some may use to try to cover up faults in their hoax.
Why this is making it big on the internet again is an amazing mystery
Not really. People need something to believe in, and a lake serpent video is always causing attraction, fake or not.
The question I immediately posed when I saw this (I knew it was from a movie), was: how is the movie? Herzog is a very good artist, exemplified especially by the Herzog/Kinski projects. Is it any good?
Well, it’s a GOOD fake…
I’m not so sure, it’s from youtube and a lot of things are fake. Also the voice acting was kind of corny. I’d like to see it scanned.
Last weekend I saw a pretty interesting show on a hi-def channel called Deepsea Discoveries and it was about current Loch Ness research looking for the creature. They interviewed the aged patent lawyer Robert Rines and showed the latest results there.
Apparently they have gotten some good sonar hits of something large moving in the lake, found shells at the bottom of the lake indicating proof that it was once connected to the ocean and a possible dead body of something looking like a plesiosaur laying in the muck on the loch’s bottom.
One scientist dispelled the idea that the creature was nothing but a large eel. The show had divers with very sophisticated equipment going in search of eels at night… seems the eels would most likely be one of the main food sources in the loch for such a large creature. They hoped to find Nessie feeding. This was a dive to the bottom with re-breathers and nitrox at around midnight. It was a pretty deep dive. At depth the water cleared remarkably.
The eels have been in a decline for a decade or more and some feel that a Nessie population could be one of the reasons. A rise and fall of sightings, a rise and fall of eels… or something like this
The show visited a museum that had the most complete remains of a plesiosaur and then they showed the object they found on the bottom of the loch. It’s a stretch but I have seen stuff on the bottom of bodies of water and know that they can get covered quite easily and look just like this.
The show is one hour and truly contains only newer information. There wasn’t even one eyewitness of the beast on the show. I give the production a lot of credit on this effort.
Rick Noll responds:
March 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Last weekend I saw a pretty interesting show on a hi-def channel called Deepsea Discoveries and it was about current Loch Ness research……
I have been trying to find this very same copy of the show whether its on dvd or not. Does any one know where I can get a copy of the show? I have been really interested to know more about the object that was found at the bottom of the lake, although I am sure its just a log. Also I am a big fan of Robert Rines. I was sad to hear that he suffered a stroke. Hope some one can reply to my inquiry.
It is “Deepsea Detectives” or “Deep Sea Detectives,” not “Discoveries.”
You can see a clip from the show here.