What disturbs me as a lawyer is that we prove cases by eyewitness testimony. The human brain is not 100 per cent accurate but it's not zero either." However, they eventually agreed. I went up into their loft and selected six reels, all containing incredible ­footage. As you can see, the loch level can differ substantially even after two days. The water level of the loch can go up and down according to the inflow of waters from its many rivers and streams. In fact, it can go up or down by as much as seven feet. My simple contention is that O' Connor built a campfire that subsequently was submerged by rising loch levels.

Murray, J., 1897–1903. Bathymetric Survey of Scottish Freshwater Lochs. National Library of Scotland. London: Routledge. As per your invitation not to wait for the second part of this article (“The Sightings Problem” post of 15/10/15), please see below. In 1936 he and his brother returned to Britain to attend King's School, Worcester [1] [2] as boarders, and his sister was at a girls' school. [8] In 1942-3 he attended the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, and also volunteered in the Home Guard, where during training he sustained a bullet wound to the hand, the object not being removed for 28 years. [9] He joined the Royal Air Force becoming a pilot, and was training in Rhodesia and South Africa when the war ended so returned to complete his aeronautical training, and joining the aircraft industry. [10] Well, the book says nothing about what I asked and Robert's terse reply suggested he thought there was nothing to add beyond it. I would agree with that, there is nothing to add against the O' Connor picture beyond the 1961 book.Decades later another man writes an incredibly tedious article about why the second man got details wrong, assuming he was not misquoted. This third man also makes a lot of assumptions in his article that he is not in a position to make." Naish, D. 2017. Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths . Arcturus, London. Peoples opinions began to change and credibility of the possible existence of the monster grew as the Daily Mirror printed a story on the film on 13th June 1960. The BBC also broadcast the film the very same day using 35mm film which enhanced picture detail and contrast.

He supplements his income of donations by making clay Nessie models, which sell well in nearby craft shops. Gemmell was more certain about ruling this out. “Is there a plesiosaur in Loch Ness? No. There is absolutely no evidence of any reptilian sequences. So I think we can be fairly sure that there is probably not a giant scaly reptile swimming around in Loch Ness.”The object has a width of five and a half feet with a length of between twelve and sixteen feet. This is very close to the marker boat which was fourteen feet long with a width of five feet two inches. It is then explained how non planing hulled boats of 16ft could not reach speeds of 10mph, but non of their speeds are as high as this. In fact with the winding times added, these speeds are between six and a half and seven miles per hour. Which a 16ft boat fitted with a 5hp Seagull engine can reach. A key figure in all of this was a man called Tim Dinsdale. Tim was the man who first filmed a Nessie-like creature in the Loch and in 1960 he appeared on BBC Panorama, unveiling his footage to the world. It made him an overnight celebrity and he was the regular “go‑to” guy for any media monster malarkey.

Campbell, S. 1986. The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence. The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. So, it is no surprise this " convincing" reproduction has never been published and I wager never shall. What we do have is a truly awful reproduction that Burton made at Loch Ness and had published in the Illustrated London News dated July 23rd 1960. This article was essentially a report on his week's trip to Loch Ness. Young, J. M., Jones, R. I., and Bailey-Watts, A. E. Verhandlungen, der Internationalen Vereinigung fur Theoratischen und Angevand. So the report does not point to the object being the monster but nothing more exciting than a local fishing boat.Ok let's show mathmatically the minimum since 2005, because I have read a stat that 90% of adults since 2005 have carried a mobile phone with a camera, averaged over the last 10 years. This seems reasonable, certainly not far off the mark in terms of everyday observations. In 2015 it is higher than 90%, in 2005 it was lower. So for argument's sake we will both ignore the years before 2005, and we will not factor in the multitude of digital cameras and video cameras (inc night vision) taken to the loch additionally. Not an argument at all. Just a dogmatic but subjective statement that the commenter thinks the photo is a hoax. Big deal, I thnk we knew that. Second point rejected. That will come as a relief to the tourist industry that has thrived on the banks of the loch ever since the earliest sightings, to the extent that nearby Drumnadrochit can support two competing Loch Ness attractions, Nessieland and the Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition.