Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the Scottish UFO and Paranormal Conference in Glasgow next weekend on Saturday 25th June. You may ask what the Loch Ness Monster has to do with UFOs or the Paranormal. If you polled a variety of people interested in mysteries, most may say nothing at all, but a significant minority would link them to these other two paradigms.
In fact, one old time Nessie hunter, Ted Holiday, was sufficiently convinced to attempt a synthesis of UFOs and Nessie in his book, "The Dragon and the Disc" back in the 1970s. I was also of that persuasion back in the 1980s, so its a bit of nostalgia for me as I address the subject of "A Paranormal History of the Loch Ness Monster".
Ted Holiday will obviously feature as will some others to which I will add my own thoughts as well as cases which could be interpreted in a paranormal light. I also reveal some research done many years ago in this field, but which until now has not been published. For some background on this interpretation of the Loch Ness Monster, visit previous blog articles here and here.
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Hi Roland...
ReplyDeleteSo you tracked down the book. Good one...
I think what is important here is that both Mikes - Pritchard and Shepley - are very experienced sea anglers and would be very used to describing things they see quite accurately...
Further to that, I would say that Mike Pritchard's sketch does not resemble an oarfish, and his gut reaction was that it was less a fish (if at all) and more something else entirely...
As our instincts often do when confronted with something that they cannot usually reconcile, they make us realise that we don't know or can easily catergorise everything. The vast wealth of natural environment and biological situations Mike Pritchard has experienced over his many years tells me that he knew this was something that didn't fit any of that, yet made him perfectly qualified to recount it....
I think in cases like this when, and others you have discussed on your excellent forum where people are sharing something they cannot understand that is remarkable, out of the ordinary and as so inexplicable...
When you don't really know...you know you don't!