tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post309638095694325398..comments2024-03-20T18:13:07.791-07:00Comments on LOCH NESS MONSTER: Classic Sightings - Gordon PowellGlasgow Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-7789794717121428072012-03-17T08:01:52.353-07:002012-03-17T08:01:52.353-07:00I visited Dores recently to see some friends. They...I visited Dores recently to see some friends. They told me they had seen something but didnt feel easy talking about it in fear of being mocked. There are loads of people all the same who have seen it and kept quiet for fear of been labled and idiot or whatever, I trust my friends and I know they dont lie and wouldnt make up a story like that, there is something wonderful there, and Im not on about the pub in Dores. The report was seeing a very large tail like thing only 20 to 30 feet off shore swishing from side to side but no fish like tail. The length of what they saw of the creature must have been about 10 to 12 feet ( a very long Sturgeon?) the whole sequence only lasted about 15-20 seconds and froze everyone who saw it fixed looking at this amazing thing. But the really weird thing was the the follow up to this. Almost as soon as the strange thing disappeared into the dark unknown depths of the Loch everyone heard a very deep humming sound getting closer and closer and only to see a swarm of bees flying by, really odd and so loud they could have been on motorbikes. It has been know that the energy given off from the Loch itself and those creatures who reside their are exceptional as they absorb the energy through the 750ft deep fault line. Go and visit Dores. I dont work for any tourist board or have a guest house but I do have friends there and its all true.teddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16162672859505346686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-33756390073787112392011-11-03T07:35:38.555-07:002011-11-03T07:35:38.555-07:00Whoa thats cool mann :)Whoa thats cool mann :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-39677048095584217952011-11-02T05:59:33.793-07:002011-11-02T05:59:33.793-07:00Glasgow Boy - I was looking through Costello's...Glasgow Boy - I was looking through Costello's book last night and he (and perhaps Whyte, too - I have her book on my table here) has a few letters (one translated from the Gaelic) that were sent to Dieckhoff. And just glancing through Whyte just now, she uses the phrase "among Dom Cyril's papers," so it looks like not only his diary, but that he kept a file, too. I get the sense that Costello and Whyte mined his work pretty deeply, but you never know the extent of his collection. Somewhere along the way in my Loch Ness studies he emerged as a fascinating figure to me. I'll be curious as to what you find, and if they're accesible at a library, they'll be part of my dream Loch Ness "expedition" I plan in the coming years. Thanks so much for a great blog, Glasgow Boy.Peter Saucerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349540965664679379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-81112804070184382272011-11-01T06:04:24.982-07:002011-11-01T06:04:24.982-07:00Went to Loch Ness last year and stayed in one of t...Went to Loch Ness last year and stayed in one of the Abbey apartments - ideal!<br /><br />Also a small point - the witness is unlikely to have seen a Plesiosaur in the V and A that would be the Natural History Museum just up the road.Gordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-22719102588210821932011-10-31T08:54:45.655-07:002011-10-31T08:54:45.655-07:00Just checked, private Fort Augustus material is he...Just checked, private Fort Augustus material is here in Edinburgh! Will continue to pursue ....Glasgow Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-5404355156740349162011-10-31T06:51:57.332-07:002011-10-31T06:51:57.332-07:00Just looks like a bunch of birds to me ....
Would...Just looks like a bunch of birds to me ....<br /><br />Wouldn't fool anyone with half a brain. How did the rest of that video go, did they fly off in a very un-Nessie-like manner?<br /><br />Head like a calf, arose out of glassy still water, 20ft long with 6ft neck (he's got the castle beside him as a height guide), no humps then three humps come up, dives down for good.<br /><br />I could go on but will stop there.Glasgow Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-26499547088918530702011-10-31T06:20:02.017-07:002011-10-31T06:20:02.017-07:00The time of year, behaviour, speed and splashing p...The time of year, behaviour, speed and splashing point towards it being a family of sawbills like in the video at http://www.lochnessinvestigation.com/dicksmergansermonster09.wmvAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-58138177837465229622011-10-30T14:55:21.088-07:002011-10-30T14:55:21.088-07:00The Abbey is now residential flats, so it is clear...The Abbey is now residential flats, so it is cleared out. A pity, it was a venerable old place when I regularly visited in the 1980s.<br /><br />Most of the Abbey books were sold privately or archived at the National Library of Scotland. Of course, most would be of a theological nature. The rest went to another Benedictine Abbey.Glasgow Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-73522892522763843722011-10-30T08:27:47.454-07:002011-10-30T08:27:47.454-07:00Thanks - I'm very curious if his diary is stil...Thanks - I'm very curious if his diary is still available, and what additional material it might contain -- or if he had other files based on his interviews. Are there still some books at the Fort Augustus Abbey? I got on-line and found that, if I recall, the Abbey is now a hotel or retreat center? So glad to see your book and blog - I've been reading about Loch Ness since I was a kid.Peter Saucerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349540965664679379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-59644521667055280722011-10-30T06:30:54.811-07:002011-10-30T06:30:54.811-07:00Thanks, and credit again to Paul Cropper since it ...Thanks, and credit again to Paul Cropper since it is mainly his work.<br /><br />As regarding my book, glad you are enjoying it - don't forget the amazon.com review. :)<br /><br />Cyril Dieckhoff is a bit of an unsung hero having quietly gathered Nessie data over the 30s and 40s via local interviews. Constance Whyte had access to his diaries for her seminal book "More Than A Legend" in the 1950s so I presume she published the "best bits".<br /><br />I do not think his diary would be in the Nationa Archive but I will check. It is more likely that it is still with the Benedictine Monks since it is personal material. I will follow that up.Glasgow Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358999656752738469.post-51872891880498692222011-10-30T05:37:55.888-07:002011-10-30T05:37:55.888-07:00Absolutely wonderful! Thrilling to see this level ...Absolutely wonderful! Thrilling to see this level of scholarship at work. It's easy to think that all the research has already been done and is presented in the "standard Nessie texts," which I read over and over and continue to absorb. I also, just got your book this week and am enjoying it very much, and it brought me to your site (though I'd run across your blog here some time back). I've been compiling source material on water horses and folklore using Google Books, and share much the same view that you express in your book. Well done - and this post today is just fantastic. I've often thought how much I'd love to go through the archives of the Inverness Courier or the Scotsman and see what other angles are in the record. I'm also curious if Dom Cyril Diekhoff's diaries made it into the Library of Scotland collection when the Abbey shut down. Have you found it? Is there more in it than what Constance Whyte quotes?<br /> Once again - wonderful!Peter Saucerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349540965664679379noreply@blogger.com