Just a heads up that a new documentary on Nessie is being broadcast tonight at 7PM GMT by the UK "Yesterday" channel as part of their "History's Greatest Hoaxes" series. More details can be had here.
It looks like the Surgeon's Photograph will again feature in this latest line of Loch Ness Monster documentaries!
Selected already, my one concern as to the general tv viewer, they may wonder how many more photos are fake?
ReplyDeleteKind off a diss to serious research and public opinion.
The Surgeon's Photo is the most iconic and well known image of the Loch News Monster, and the story of it and its revealing as a hoax is an absolutely fascinating one. I'm afraid you will have to accept that this hoax will forever loom large in the consciousness of the lay Nessie discusser!
ReplyDeleteA bit off topic here, but something is nagging me. In the 1970s I saw a full page colour advert for Smirnoff in a Sunday newspaper magazine. It showed the Loch and a woman on waterskis being pulled along by the monster. It was not a cartoon but a "real" photo (it was a real woman and lake and landscape and the monster looked real). It was such a striking image that I want to see it again. I've looked on the internet but can only find a different version of the ad with a cartoon monster. Does anybody else remember this ad? Does anyone have it?
ReplyDeleteYou should have asked this last week when I saw it on eBay! The two pages occassionaly turns up for sale.
DeleteOh! How much was it for sale for? And if anyone has a scan of it I'd love to see it!
ReplyDeletei tried to put a link in but it dont work.
Deletejust enter " nessie advert ". into google [images ] , the image should come up.
Thanks John. Have tried that but can only see an advert with the same concept but it's not the one I saw. Am starting to think I might have imagined it!
DeleteI was disappointed by the documentary. It showed, repetitively, some quite interesting videos, but at no point did it say "here's what we think this is". It described, uncritically, the Surgeon's picture hoax story and the Lachlan Stuart bales of hay story. Then it simply announced that ALL the still photo evidence had been similarly debunked. It went on to give a fair presentation of Steve Feltham's catfish theory, but for me that was the high point of the program. It had the annoying habit of showing its evidence - newspaper pages, still photos, etc - in such short clips that one couldn't possible read the text or evaluate the images.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the main voices heard were Dick Raynor, Adrian Shine and Darren Naish. Roland Watson was given a sentence or two. I don't feel that balance was achieved.
At last a face to put to the blogking Roland, he looks almost normal for a monster-hunter.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Dinsdale estate refused permission, but Tim's film was strangely ommitted from the prog.
Intrigued by the cameras fitted to lochside trees, can we have some examples of any interesting images that you got ?