Nessie Footage Questions Focus On Filmmaker

Does Gordon Holmes have visions of becoming the next Sherlock Holmes, following in the footsteps of that character’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

It is with no disrespect that I compile for my readers the facts that Mr. Holmes has placed out there in cyberspace about himself. He has freely admitted that he has filmed fairies, seen apparent alien black cats (ABCs, alien big cats, as they are often called because they are “out of place” or alien – not from outer space), taken electrical spectrograms of what he thinks are large electric eels in Lake Morar, and has a “sort of medical condition…for visualising a sort of frame from a Dream whilst being conscious.” Now he’s getting publicity for filming Nessie. Whoa.

As I’ve mentioned before in print and in interviews, a videotape or photograph of a cryptid should never be analyzed without regard to looking into the background of the person that took the image or images.

I decided to start doing such a background check, as I mentioned recently to the media, to look at the “footprints” that Mr. Holmes has left behind.

Immediately after the news of the new Nessie videotape broke in Yorkshire and Scotland, I found that Holmes had a biographical page on the site of the Department of Archaeological Sciences at Bradford University. It clearly identified the same man pictured there and at Loch Ness as Gordon T. Holmes.

He was listed as holding the position of Media and IT Technician, which dovetailed with what he was technically doing at the Loch, when trying to film Nessie.

In searching for what publications he may have written, I found these at Amazon UK:

Radio Observations and Theories of Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet (Saltaire Amateur Space Research Group) by Gordon T. Holmes (Hardcover – 1 Dec 1994)

2000 BC: a Neolithic Solstice Odyssey by Gordon T. Holmes (Paperback – 1997)

The Complex Creation of All Universes (Saltaire Amateur Space Research Group) by Gordon T. Holmes (Paperback – Oct 2000)

Holmes on his deeper university staff page notes that Saltaire Amateur Space Research Group is the SASRG Press, his own press.

Gordon Holmes has authored on his elaborate theories linking megalithic art to patterns in the sky. He writes:

From The Modern Antiquarian website, Craig Woolheater shared this email with me, which was posted there:

Realistically, we must now admit, at the very least, Gordon T. Holmes is a bit eccentric, perhaps a shade too gullible, and if he still believes in the Cottingley Fairies photographs, which were promoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, then he is not current on his reading.

In late 1981 and mid-1982 respectively, Frances Way (née Griffiths) and Elsie Hill (née Wright), who took the Cottingley photographs admitted that the first four pictures were fakes.

Having gotten caught up in the tangled web involving those photographs in our 1975 book, The Unidentified, Jerry Clark and I have written frequently since then, exposing and discussing them as fakes.

Frankly, I think this all throws the new Nessie footage in some doubt, for, after all, what was seen and filmed might just be a small eel, a porpoising otter, or an underweight seal.

Loren Coleman 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.

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