'The most convincing Nessie photograph ever':..

[Cidersomerset]

'The most convincing Nessie photograph ever': Skipper claims to have finally found proof that Loch Ness Monster exists

George Edwards has hunted Nessie for 26 years and holds tours of the Loch

He even says image was verified by team of US military monster experts
A Nessie sighting specialist has backed his claims, adding: 'It proves Nessie is definitely NOT a sturgeon'

He has dedicated more than two decades of his life to the hunt for the elusive Loch Ness monster, spending 60 hours a week on the water.


And now George Edwards believes he has finally fulfilled his ambition of spotting 'Nessie'; he even photographic evidence to prove it.


Mr Edwards, who has spent 26 years on his quest, managed to capture this image of a dark hump slinking in and out of the lake's waters from the deck of his boat, Nessie Hunter, before it vanished back into the deep.

He claims the picture is the best-ever taken of the Loch Ness Monster and proves once and for all that the elusive leviathan exists - and is definitely not a sturgeon.




Evidence? Mr Edwards' picture that he claims proves the existence of Nessie

He says he has even had it independently verified by a team of US military monster experts as well as a Nessie sighting specialist.

Mr Edwards spends his life on the loch - around 60 hours a week - taking tourists out on his boat Nessie Hunter IV, and has led numerous Nessie hunts over the years.

'I was just about to return to Temple Pier (in Drumnadrochit) and I went to the back of the boat which was facing the pier and that’s when I saw it,' said 60-year-old Mr Edwards, a lifelong believer in the monster.



'It was slowly moving up the loch towards Urquhart Castle and it was a dark grey colour. It was quite a fair way from the boat, probably about half a mile away but it’s difficult to tell in water.'

After watching the object for five to ten minutes, Mr Edwards said it slowly sank below the surface and never resurfaced.

'I’m convinced I was seeing Nessie as I believe in these creatures. Far too many people have being seeing them for far too long,' he said.

'The first recorded sighting was in 565AD and there have been thousands of eye witness reports since then.

'All these people can’t be telling lies. And the fact the reports stretch over so many years mean there can’t just be one of them. I’m convinced there are several monsters.'

Steve Feltham, who has dedicated the past 21 years to hunting for Nessie was unequivocval. 'It is the best photograph I think I have ever seen,' he said.

From his base on Dores beach and has studied many Nessie sighting photographs.

'I think the images are fantastic - that’s the animal I have been looking for all this time,' he said yesterday.

'I would say it doesn’t prove what Nessie is, but it does prove what Nessie isn’t, a sturgeon which is a fish that has been put forward as one of the main explanations as to what Nessie could be but this hasn’t got a serrated spine like the sturgeon.

Mr Edwards attempted to use his vessel’s sonar to make a contact but to no avail.

Bashful beast: George said the monster was slowly moving up the loch towards Urquhart Castle (pictured)

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Anyway a fun story .....Steve

[Mare]

It's the bit about the photograph being verified by a 'team of US military monster experts' that makes me chuckle! Cheers for that.

[RMorgan]

Nice pic!

However, just like the Bigfoot, I´d rather if they just leave Nessie alone.

It´s clear that this being, not monster by the way, just want to be alone.

Cheers,

Raf.

[jookyle]

You can tell it's not faked, cause if it were, someone would try to make it look more convincing than something that looks like a floating chicken leg

[Ellisa]

I really think it looks like a small or baby whale--- which it can't be because Loch Ness is land-locked isn''t it so no access for a whale to get in?

Or a torpedo!

[araucaria]

It's a very wee monster in this picture

Actually, the skyline looks like a blow-up of the 'monster' - strange.

For anyone interested in the parallel with ufo sightings, I recommen FW Holiday's book The Dragon and the Disc (author of The Great Orm of Loch Ness)

[Bill Ryan]

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There's a great deal of evidence that 'lake monsters' exist -- not just in Loch Ness. There are many reports from Loch Morar ('Morag'), Lake Manitoba ("Manipogo'), Lake Champlain ('Champ'), Lake Oganagan ('Ogopogo'), and from quite a number of lakes in Scandinavia and Russia. Some of the eye-witness reports (and photos) are compelling.

There are also well-documented accounts of something that sure as h*** sounds like some kind of dinosaur (locally called Mokele-mbembe), in Lake Tele, which is in the vast and near-inaccessible Likouala swamp in the Congo.

Here it is. It's not hard to imagine that anything could be living in there. The video is just 42 seconds.

(Note to intelligent skeptics: that was not an elephant. I've spent a lot of time in Africa, and elephants do not swim like that. Click here for a wonderful short video of Indian elephants swimming in the sea... note that they don't hold their trunks out of the water.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XCMQbxNG_xk

[Setras]

Posted by Ellisa (here)
I really think it looks like a small or baby whale--- which it can't be because Loch Ness is land-locked isn''t it so no access for a whale to get in?

Or a torpedo!

Loch Ness is not land locked.... It connects to the sea through a short river, the River Ness i believe, then through Firth of Inverness and Moray Firth to the North Sea.

[Soul Safari]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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There's a great deal of evidence that 'lake monsters' exist -- not just in Loch Ness. There are many reports from Loch Morar ('Morag'), Lake Manitoba ("Manipogo'), Lake Champlain ('Champ'), Lake Oganagan ('Ogopogo'), and from quite a number of lakes in Scandinavia and Russia. Some of the eye-witness reports (and photos) are compelling.

There are also well-documented accounts of something that sure as h*** sounds like some kind of dinosaur (locally called Mokele-mbembe), in Lake Tele, which is in the vast and near-inaccessible Likouala swamp in the Congo.

Here it is. It's not hard to imagine that anything could be living in there. The video is just 42 seconds.

(Note to intelligent skeptics: that was not an elephant. I've spent a lot of time in Africa, and elephants do not swim like that. Click here for a wonderful short video of Indian elephants swimming in the sea... note that they don't hold their trunks out of the water.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XCMQbxNG_xk

Funnily enough Bill it was this footage and also reports of Ropen in PNG which lead to me waking up. Eventually i found Avalon and not looked back since.

[Cidersomerset]

There is one beautifull mammal that also likes a swim and at the right angles can be misleading.....Though none have been native to Scotland for thousands of years ...

[Cidersomerset]

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Monsters of the Deep (1980) (Part 1 of 3)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fxg1-TF3ZiE

This is a great series for its time and I was transfixed to every episode when they were first shown on TV...

The other two episodes follow on after .....I am actuaully looking for the one on giant land creatures, I

can remember it had a story of a gigantic snake also in the Congo attacking a helecoptor !!

[Cidersomerset]

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes (1980)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4Co9GY3AdA

[Cidersomerset]

You've guessd it ....LOL...the answer to post...#10

(Note to intelligent skeptics: that was not an elephant. I've spent a lot of time in Africa, and elephants do not swim like that. Click here for a wonderful short video of Indian elephants swimming in the sea... note that they don't hold their trunks out of the water.)

I agree Bill I don't think it is a elephant.....The other reason especially in Africa the native
population Know what a swimming Elephant looks like......

[Adi]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qBdxs1RA8zA

Video uploaded august 3rd@

Adi

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Adi (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qBdxs1RA8zA

Video uploaded august 3rd@

Adi

Thanks for this! I was assuming that there must have been more photos or a video, but had not seen them.

I went through it frame by frame. Below is the important one -- at 0:23. You can very clearly see the long neck extending in front of the body. It can be seen for just a moment.

[Cidersomerset]

This is also from 2007

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JXAs40Igti4

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More stills from the main article....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HLGvwtfDTGY

[Cidersomerset]

A American Scientific expedition to the Loch in 1998,,,,,,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X8664q_ejvo

Is it just a fairy tale, or could a primeval beast lurk in the deep, dark waters of a Scottish lake? Since it was first reported more than 60 years ago, hundreds claim to have witnessed the Loch Ness Monster, while one scientist after another has brought the latest technology to the loch to probe the phenomenon. Twenty-five years after their first, groundbreaking expedition to Loch Ness, NOVA joins two American scientists as they return to Scotland for one last go at Nessie. During a three-week expedition, they use state-of-the-art sonar and sensitive underwater cameras in an attempt to track down and identify the elusive beast. Biologists study the ecosystem of the loch to determine if it could support a large animal. Geologists study its history, looking for clues about what kind of creature might have colonized it, and when. NOVA examines the photographic evidence in the case. And eyewitnesses vividly recount their sightings. Could this legendary creature be real, perhaps a relic from the time of dinosaurs? Or is it a shared illusion—a product of myth, mirage and wishful thinking?
Original broadcast date: 01/12/99
Topic: animal biology/behavior, unexplained phenomena






images from the film...

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A interresting documentry and does make the case how unlikely that a resident colony of
large aquatic reptile could survive in the Loch due to a lack of sustainable food sources
for large creatures , although visitors from the open ocean could get into the Loch but
would have to negotiate a river and pass under bridges in a built up area.Unlikely but
not impossible !!

Another possiblity is they are interdimentional visitors, more bizzare and even more
difficult to prove, but if there are unlimited parrallel worlds and like radio frequecies
they sometimes merge together briefly and they come into our reality for a while..

[araucaria]

There is a section on "time-traveling dinosaurs" in David Wilcock's Source Field (pp. 382-7) suggesting that Nessie and other lake monsters could be appearing through time slips, Loch Ness being "situated directly above a major geological fault line known as The Great Glen".

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Not a Nessie photograph exactly but Ogopogo this time, the creature said to inhabit Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada.

It was taken by Dale Hanchar, in October 2022. Several other witnesses were present. It's either an elaborate hoax -- someone in a suit, or a model -- or this is something completely unknown.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Not a Nessie photograph exactly but Ogopogo this time, the creature said to inhabit Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada.

It was taken by Dale Hanchar, in October 2022. Several other witnesses were present. It's either an elaborate hoax -- someone in a suit, or a model -- or this is something completely unknown.

That's VERY interesting.. I'd never heard of that sighting before. (I've been a keen follower of not only Nessie and Ogopogo over the years, but also Morag, the well-documented monster in Scotland's Loch Morar.) I have to say, that sure looks like a head, and it absolutely seems one can see its left eye.

Here's a good short video about it. The man in the party is clearly a experienced sailor who's very likely to know what's what when he sees an object in the lake. His wife reported that even though she regrets taking only that single photo, she felt she could clearly see its neck and body extending below the water.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FdbDu7WtuvA