2007: Bownessie Monster
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 3rd, 2011
In line with the 2011 reports of Bownessie, here’s a flashback bit of news, with photos, from February 2007, for those who missed it. It does seem remarkably similar to the new photo, in overall outline.
Here’s the 2007 image of the Lake Windermere’s “Bownessie Monster.”
Linden Adams, 35, according to a London newspaper has taken a new photograph (above) of an object that may be an unknown cryptid in Cumbria’s Lake Windermere. It is not Nessie but the eyewitness Adams feels his new evidence may help solve the Loch Ness mystery.
The creature was reported to be 45 feet (15 meters) long and left a large wake. Despite the fact the water was calm and still, Adams said the “thing appeared, diving and thrashing around.”
I know what waves can do and this was no freak wave or a boat.Linden Adams, 2007
Source: Metro, UK, February 22, 2007.
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This is certainly better- A black line on a blue background.
So much prettier.
Looks like it was a nice day to be in the Lake District – a rarer thing than what has been photographed, probably.
Otter, fish or eel? I hope the CFZ do find something for their efforts though, a huge eel would be great.
Well, at least I can tell that this photo was actually taken at a lake. This photo is seriously not showing anything of any great import. I file this the way I file a lot of inconclusive photos. If I saw this without anyone telling me that that slight ripple was supposed to be a lake monster, I would think nothing odd about this photo at all and if someone pointed out the ripple, I would tell you a thousand other things before concluding it is a lake monster. If it is not immediately obvious what is supposed to be in a photo, then it is not very useful, cryptid or otherwise.
I saw something in Lake Windemere when I was a kid. It looked like the wake above, but longer, we watched it go down the length of the lake for about 400 metres, then it went under. I might have pictures, but I doubt it, it happened over a decade ago. Lets just say I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Where oh where is Lake Windemere?
I’m convinced. It must be a lake monster. It couldn’t possibly be anything else. Except maybe a small wave. A small wave, or a lake monster.
Or a bird. A small wave, a bird, or a lake monster.
Or a mark in the photograph. That’s it. It’s either a small wave, a bird, a stray mark on the picture – or a lake monster.
Or Al Gore.
not good enough…wakes do not lake monsters make…
Algore, the monster of Lake Windemere. Sends chills down my spine.
The actual size of this pic makes any proper determination impossible. When I did zoom in there might have been some playing with. So, here are your choices as I see them:
1) just well fed fish swimming close to the surface
2) the “wake” was photoshopped in
3) bird causing wake was photoshopped out.
joppa-
lake windemere is in northern england, in the spectacularly unimaginatively named (but spectacularly beautiful) ‘lake district’.
things-in-the-woods: never a truer word said. I was speaking to my Dad about these sightings – he now lives just North of the Lake District and has spent a lot of time there climbing and walking.
In the late 50’s when the Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear power station was being built on the West Coast of the Lakes, there were similar sightings, but in a different lake – Wastwater. Wastwater has the clearest water of all the lakes so it was decided to take the cooling water for the power station from there. A number of divers supposedly reported seeing ‘monsters’ in the lake during the construction. I suppose, underwater, a 6ft plus eel would look like a monster.
Inconclusive.
“lake windemere is in northern england, in the spectacularly unimaginatively named (but spectacularly beautiful) ‘lake district’.”
No lake monsters, but nice daily photos.
I tend to agree with Springheeledjack and others in that: a lake, plus a wake, does not automatically a lake monster make. 😉
IMHO, if not shopped, a distant picture of a bird, dog, otter, fish, etc., swimming on/at the surface.
Next…
I am on it my friends! Just spent the last four hours putting together an experienced crew. I want dive masters on my team, and I have secured them. I hope to check it out within the next few months. I have some equipment testing scheduled in for tomorrow afternoon. If that goes well, then I will be up there! Need to do the financials though, as I will need a boat. I am very interested in doing a short recce, especially given that the location of this Lake is only a few hours drive from me.
Not optimistic, but we will see. I was amazed by what I saw in Seljord, so I would love to see to an English beastie!
I am on it my friends! Just spent the last four hours putting together an experienced crew. I want dive masters on my team… I am very interested in doing a short recce…
So the mystery is as good as solved 😉
Just a quick question for Adam Davies and his dive masters: what are frogmen hoping to achieve by blundering around in the low visibility waters of what Dr Stephen Maberly from CEH describes as the best studied lake in the world ?
As I have indicated, I think the chances of finding anything in the Lake are remote, not least because it is indeed very highly scrutinized. However, it is important to investigate potential sightings and evaluate their worth, especially as this place is right on my doorstep. Nobody will be “blundering around” though! I am not launching a major expedition. However, I do hope to use hydrophones and cameras etc. It’s early days, yet, so we will see.
“I think the chances of finding anything in the Lake are remote… investigate potential sightings and evaluate their worth…”
The evidence presented by Mr Adams was a series of very sharp photographs; it is not a matter of finding anything, or potential sightings, or worth. Why not address what has already been obtained ?
It’s a fish that has interrupted an otherwise pretty photo of a clear lake.