Never Stop Asking Nessie Questions

Before this bit of news gets too old, I want to mention the seemingly funny media mentions last week about tourists in Scotland asking silly questions. The media had a bit of laughter over some questions from visitors, and, of course, Nessie was right up there at the top.

As the headline to their article gives away, one inquiry they highlight dealt directly with the topic:

One such visitor was evidently unfamiliar with the discipline of Cryptozoology when asking: “What time of night does the Loch Ness monster surface and who feeds it?”.

On the face of it, perhaps this question does sound ridiculous, but why won’t people ask at least part of that question? Maybe someone with an inquiring mind would wonder if any locals knew if there has been any regular feeding behavior observed. Have sightings belied any patterns? Maybe no one is out there feeding Nessies old bread crumbs, but wondering about feeding patterns is a logical part of cryptozoology.

A cryptozoologist out there needs to download all the sightings and times of observations for the hundreds of years of sightings of unknown animate objects at Loch Ness, and do an analysis of times and what behaviors were noted. Roy Mackal’s 1976 book The Monsters of Loch Ness has two eyewitness observation charts, on pages 224 through 264, filled with detailed specifics, compiled in the pre-desktop personal computer era. Those charts cry out for comparative data analyses.

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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