Here is something that does not turn up very often, a copy of "The Monsters of Achanalt" by Robert Cassie. There is a copy going for about £300 on eBay right now. Now the fact that I am telling you this is mainly because I am not interested in paying that kind of price for a book which is essentially a collection of tall tales, with the emphasis on "tall" when Cassie speaks of seeing monsters almost as big as the small lochs he claimed to have seen them in. I have already read the book via the well stocked National Library of Scotland from which I published my piece on the creatures a while back.
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Put it on my tab! Seriously though, I wish I had the whole collection of every book on the LNM ever publised. Books are disapearing in a material format. I can't find Tim Dinsdale's seminal book in any local library. In the end, I hope that everything will be preserved in digital form.
ReplyDeleteBut, then again, what if there is a catastrophic man made or natural calamity or war when we as a human species destroy ourselves I imagine an apocalyptic wasteland of AI and a Repository of Human Records in some servers in a cave as has been portraid in one of the Twilight Zone Episodes. Scary!
DeleteIt was way ahead of it's time. Do you remember the episode name?
Delete"The Old Man in the Cave" About a post-apocalyptic group of survivors taking guidance from a super computer in a cave.
DeleteYes, a classic indeed. Watched it recently as it happens. Wasn't sure of that was the one you meant.
DeleteThanks for the top John...definitely need a new copy of Leviathans.
ReplyDeleteI think most titles are affordable. The only harder ones seem to be Whyte's "More than a Legend" and Gould's "The Loch Ness Monster and Others".
ReplyDeleteI had Goulds book long ago as a teenager
Delete.i could kick myself now for losing it.
LOL Going back to that previous article cited by GB, I am struck by how we all kept to the Giant Eel idea going by the comments.
DeleteEven my thoughts on some type of Eel-like creature now seems naive and laughable in hindsight. But keeping in mind that this was not too long after the eDNA sampling and the hype of Giant Eels!
I will never subscribe to the 'Nessie is a giant eel' theory, even at the time of the study (secretly i wanted plesiosau DNA to be recovered :D ) I thought that it was flawed in a few different ways. The temporal and location based sample requirement on a loch with more water than all of the other UK bodies of water combined.....The fact that some known species in the loch were not found, the large amount of 'unknown' dna found, yet shrugged off as normal.....
DeleteThanks for the encouragement John. I used to have a few books but have since lost them. One thing I do treasure is my copy of National Geographic from 1977 with a feature article on the LNM Well, we can always count on GB to preserve books in his comprehensive collection.
ReplyDeleteIt's a steal. It would need to be for me to be reading it.
ReplyDeleteHi, Roland. I have a question for you: besides the fact that the world's most famous lake monster resides in the loch around it, has anybody taken the time to investigate Urquhart Castle? I'd like to hear more about that.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell Kyle! Did you change your name? It used to be Titterton. Are you now Van Helsing? Or am I not talking to the same person?
DeleteHahaha Van Helsing is a faaaar cooler surname than Titterton ;)
DeleteAlright then...just be careful with those vampires!
DeleteUrquhaut Castle is said to have two deep cellars...one contains treasure, the other...plague...no-one knows which is which so they remain unopened. 😯😯
ReplyDeleteIts amazing how many serious books that are out there on this subject.I went to loch ness for the first time about 10 years ago and admit i thought the monster was a load of rubbish and even played a prank on a friend. I have to say though my interest has grown since and i do think there is something to this monster story.I think the culprit is a giant eel and although that does not go down well with most people i find it the only candidate that could live in the loch and grow to a big size.I have to admit i have bought a couple of books on the subject over the last ten years and find it all very fascinating.
ReplyDeleteSure, Occam"s Razor positing that the simplest and more likely explanation would be the preferred one.
DeleteBut, That doesn't explain the long neck sightings throughout the years. That is the sticking point and in my opinion nullifies that idea.
I dont have a problem with it.I think the front portions of a giant eel could give off a neck image, especially from a distance.
DeleteI give up!............
DeleteWhy?
DeleteHe hates the idea that Nessie could be a really large, say 20-25 ft, Eel!
DeleteI don't hate it, I just don't think it's likely. Possible, yes, likely no. Besides, I wouldn't want the LNM to turn out to be a giant, slimy, smelly fish!
DeleteI still dont understand what you have given up on.
ReplyDeleteOK, once and for all, since you insist on a reply, I'll tell you. I give up argue against the giant eel theory to you and jesusFan that there is no giant eel posing as the LNM. And there is no giant sturgeon, catfish, seal or salamander for that matter. I have no idea what it is. But you go ahead and believe what you want.
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