Sunday 7 July 2019

Video of the Loch Ness Monster?


Here is a video taken back in January this year that I did not see before. Perhaps it was not publicised and it was a fellow Nessie enthusiast that alerted me to it last week. I believe it was taken by an Australian by the name of James Petch right at the beginning of the year while they had a Christmas and New Year holiday in Britain. You can see the whole video here.

Having watched it, I am not sure anything solid is seen at the surface and this naturally brings to the fore the wave explanation. Just as the old legends used to talk about "waves without wind" we wonder if this is a "waves without boats" scenario?  The owner helpfully pans his video recorder across the loch and no boat is to be see, which is perfectly understandable for early January when boat traffic is minimal.

I know it is said that boat wakes can persist for up to ten minutes after the vessel has passed, but I see no evidence of a boat that is ten minutes gone in the panning of the loch. However, on closer inspection at about 10s into the video, a line of three smaller waves is seen to the right and at 1m20s in, one wave disappears at the spot to be replaced by one just further to the left. Also, there is a faint suggestion of a completed bow wave in its environ suggesting it is indeed part of a decaying boat wake.

So while the person exclaims "what else can it be?", there is something else it can be. While I am on the subject of objects in Loch Ness, here are three pictures put forward as possible evidence of the monster. The first was taken in February this year, the second last August and the third in June, All have made in into the media as "Nessie" photos.





Now I had already pointed out that the June picture was just the log below seen in the bay, but it didn't twig (excuse the pun) that other two claimed pictures were of the same object. How many people are going to picture this decidedly non-Nessie object and tout it to the press? I suspect there may be more, let's hope not. Alongside this trio there is the issue of the Hayley Johnson picture covered in May 2018,



Now I was not inclined to say the Johnson was the same log as, well, it did not look like it. However, it is in the same area as the log and one would have to argue the log somehow stayed out of view. Another layer of interpretation would be required here such as a video artefact which muddied the image, but I am not going to defend this picture with much zeal.




Perhaps some person will move this pain in the ass log so we do not get yet another Nessie picture from this spot which the witness claimed submerged. Meantime, we await more pictures of the quality of Roy Johnston, James Gray, William Jobes and so.


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13 comments:

  1. Too far away could be anything. After all the disappointments of the past lets hope the Roy Johnston and James Gray pics don't turn out to be hoaxes or have a mundane explanation. William Jobes? Never heard of him.

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    1. https://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-william-jobes-photos.html

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    2. That's the most bizarre description and drawing of a Nessie head I've seen so far . A stuffed, cute Nessie LOL

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    3. Dinosaurs turn out to be much fuzzier and cuter than we thought. Just saying.

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    4. I just reread the article on William Jobes and I must say, his tale didn't go down to well with the readers, judging by the comments. Ah shades of Ricky Phillips

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    5. William is no fly by night trickster, he's been involved in the Nessie hunt for decades, longer than me.

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  2. I think the video was taken near Castle Urquhart. If so the wake could have come from a boat that turned into Urquhart Bay, out of sight to them.

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  3. It's a wave in the vid. Exactly the same motion repeated over and over - unless Nessie is stuck on some sort of loop in the same spot?

    And dear Lord those three photos are absolutely awful. Blurry and very easily disproved.

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    1. Nessie is caught in a temporal loop. There is a glitch in the rip of our space time continuum. ;)

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  4. The breaker on top constantly repeating suggests it's a wave. I've seen them where you're not quite sure what they are for a moment, but they've all got the same basic appearance of a dark shape that seems to just break the surface, without any details. I think the giveaway is that the dark shape never rises beyond what you see here.

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    1. Certainly looks like a wave. You can see a white crest rolling over the top.The curious thing is, why does it seem to be repeating/looping. Another mystery of Loch Ness. The wave phenomena.

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    2. Good point John. I think that's a whole other topic by itself which hasn't helped clarity for researchers in the past. But you're right, it does look unusual.

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