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Jay Russell, director of The Waterhorse, sent along news of this trailer for the film that was put together and shown at the Rock Ness Music Festival. Dear Craig — This popped up on youtube (amazingly I didn’t had anything to do with putting it on there). It is the little teaser we specifically cut […]

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The text from youtube, where the video is hosted. Recent overwhelming evidence has re-ignited the world’s passion for this magical Water Horse and this recent video from Loch Ness corroborates the footage shot June 2nd 2007.ASecretThisBig Was there a video shot of Nessie on June 2, 2007 that we don’t know about? Or is this […]

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Rock, paper, Nessie. Despite early Loch Ness Monster reports to the contrary in newspapers yesterday, there are hints that something cryptozoological did occur during the recent musical concert, Rock Ness. The usual things happened when a crowd of nearly 35,000 people gather. One man found unconscious under apparently “no suspicious circumstances,” died yesterday in a […]

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People get the craziest ideas in their heads about all of the money supposedly flowing from “selling” Bigfoot and other cryptozoological monsters. What might be the source of such thoughts? Well, that would be the general media, of course. Take Dwain Walden, who is the editor/publisher of The Moultrie Observer, in Moultrie, Georgia. Apparently bored […]

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Nessie, seal, or otter? This does not represent a car full of Rock Ness attendees trying to photograph Nessie, but merely another view of the Spicer encounter of 1933 (used for promotional purposes by loch-ness.org on various Scottish tourism sites). As you will recall, after all the buzz of the Holmes video of an unknown […]

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I asked for a clear photograph of some otters swimming-in-a-line in the water, demonstrating what Joe Nickell had only drawn as the explanation of some of the classic sea serpent and lake monster sightings. None could easily be shown me from Nickell’s or others’ research. No one from the skeptical community could come forth with […]

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An old drawing of the animal described by Mr. and Mrs. George Spicer seen crossing the road near Dores, Scotland, one of the two examples examined today. Ten days ago, I posted what became a very popular entry here (+125 comments), “Otter Nonsense”. In discussing my appearance with Joe Nickell on CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now”, […]

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Chad Arment (1972 – ) is the creator and moderator of the first specifically cryptozoology email list, founder of a publishing company, and author/editor/publisher of cryptozoology books. His interest in cryptozoology began in the fourth grade when he read Marian Place’s On the Track of Bigfoot (Dodd Mead, 1974). He casually studied the subject until […]

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Once again, Toyota is using a cryptid for a spokes beast. We have seen them use two versions of the Loch Ness Monster. The first was a kraken. And the next used a plesiosaur. Now comes this Puerto Rican market Toyota Highlander commercial featuring our favorite hirsute hominid, Friendly Bigfoot. The following video has some […]

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Were you there? Did you attend the August 1981 conference in Vermont, the first scientific seminar devoted to a study of the cryptids that have been reported lurking in the waters of Lake Champlain for the past 300 years? It sort of was the Woodstock of Champ. I was there. I wrote about the conference […]

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The first two moving gifs are enhancements of the Gordon Holmes Nessie video done by Bill Appleton. The following photo frame and drawing from that frame are newly posted by Gordon Holmes.

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Otters, of course, are responsible for a few misidentifications of Lake Monsters in bodies of water worldwide. In my The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (co-authored by Patrick Huyghe), the fact that people do make mistakes when viewing mundane mammals on lakes and lochs is acknowledged. […]

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Hot on the heels of the Gordon Holmes video footage of something strange in the loch, comes this news of a reward for photo evidence of Nessie taken at next weekend’s Rock Ness music festival. £1m to find Loch Ness monster A £1 million reward has been offered to anyone who can find conclusive proof […]

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Who is Gordon T. Holmes? What do we know about the man who took the Nessie footage in late May 2007? 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 […]

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I discussed YouTube a few days ago, coining the word “Tubesquatch.” Before the week was over, I’d been Youtubed myself. I guess the lesson is, be careful about what you write. Ha. The following is the clip from CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” for June 1, 2007, on Nessie, which was run in the final moments […]

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