January 14, 2006
Previously reported here on Cryptomundo was the story of documents uncovered by a Freedom of Information Act to protect the Loch Ness Monster. The Sunday Times of Scotland has now released previously classified documents that show that officials in Margaret Thatcher’s regime had planned to import two bottle-nosed dolphins from America to search Loch Ness for the Monster in 1979.
Adrian Shine was quoted in the article that he believed that the plan was the idea of Robert Rines of the Academy of Applied Science.
The Academy of Applied Science in New Hampshire confirmed that dolphins were being trained with mini cameras and strobe lights that would have been activated if they encountered any large objects.
Would dolphins survive in the peat-stained freshwater of Loch Ness? The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was opposed to the plan. Perhaps that was their reasoning, that the dolphins would be doomed…
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I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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