1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,094 Loch Ness, a mysterious expanse hidden within the 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,134 Scottish Highlands, holds the largest volume of freshwater 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,540 in Great Britain. 6 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,014 Stretching over 23 miles and plunging nearly 800 7 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,454 feet deep, its dark waters have cradled a 8 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,060 legend that has captivated imaginations for centuries. 9 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:54,740 The Loch Ness Monster. 10 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,494 While I was out fishing, it was really 11 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,774 the month of March, middle of March, and 12 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:01,420 I was coming up past this spot here, 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,580 when I noticed some branches in the loch, and I found them outside line. 14 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,694 So I tried to guide the boat so that the line would miss the branch, and 15 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,134 when I looked out watching my line, I 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,580 saw this huge object out between the waves, 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,854 going against the wind, and I knew right 18 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,174 away it was something very much alive. 19 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,934 We saw the head, the four humps, and all the body. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,534 Can you tell me anything about its color? 21 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,720 Yes, it was the very same color as an elephant. 22 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:38,320 It had a small head, like a needle or a snake, magnified about 10, 15, 20 23 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:39,774 times in the distance. 24 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,580 It was difficult to see. 25 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,534 Despite millennia of research and speculation, the question 26 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,940 remains, hovering like mist over the water. 27 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,140 Does the Loch Ness Monster really exist? 28 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,574 Sightings of Nessie typically depict the entity as 29 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:19,294 sizable and green, featuring a pointed head and 30 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,420 an extended neck, emerging from the water's surface. 31 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:30,160 This imagery often evokes comparisons to a serpent -like being. 32 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,814 One theory states that it could be remnant 33 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,374 from the era of dinosaurs, possibly resembling a 34 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,614 creature like the plesiosaur, which lived during the 35 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,774 Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, spanning a staggering 65 36 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,220 to 200 million years ago. 37 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,100 A famous enigma is connected to the ancient culture of the Picts. 38 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,374 Among the carvings that adorn the stones in 39 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,980 this region, one peculiar figure stands out. 40 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,294 An entity with an elongated beak, a distinctive 41 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,300 head and flipper-like appendages. 42 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,454 Researchers have often compared this creature to a 43 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,934 swimming elephant, as it represents the earliest evidence 44 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,420 of the notion that Loch Ness harbors a mysterious aquatic being. 45 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,254 While I was out fishing, it was really 46 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,654 the month of March, the middle of March, and I was coming up past this spot 47 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,574 here, when I noticed some branches in the 48 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,340 loch, and I found them outside line. 49 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,574 So I tried to guide the boat so the line would miss the branch, and when 50 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,014 I looked out watching my line, I saw 51 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,334 this huge object out between the waves, going 52 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,940 against the wind, and I knew right away it was something very much alive. 53 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,614 So I watched it, and I noticed quite close to a matter of 30 yards from 54 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,454 it, I could even describe the color of the skin. 55 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,654 The skin was a sort of a dark 56 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,374 brown, very, very rough, scaly, and up towards 57 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,614 the shoulder, what I took of the shoulder, 58 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,254 the way it was going against the wind, was this, what I took to be a 59 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,140 mane, but it could be a flipper, it could be a fin or anything. 60 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:14,700 How long was the object you saw? 61 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,740 I would say 14 to 15 feet long. 62 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,441 Pretty big? 63 00:04:17,507 --> 00:04:19,454 Pretty big, yes, pretty wide, I would say 64 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:24,020 roughly four feet in width, you know, across the back. 65 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,134 You didn't see any sign of a head? 66 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,280 No head, no head or no tail, none whatsoever. 67 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,774 Were you in any doubt that this was a monster? 68 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,334 Oh no, none whatsoever, none whatsoever, because whatever 69 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,740 it was, it was very, very much alive. 70 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,254 You would see the spray coming off the 71 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,694 shoulder of the monster that was hitting the 72 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,560 wave, going against the wind, quite a big spray. 73 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,454 You've lived on this loch for 65 years, this is the first time you saw it? 74 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,854 I've fished the loch, I would say 45 75 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,974 years, every season, and I've seen things away 76 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,654 at a distance, could be anything, could be 77 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,254 barrels, could be floating logs, but I would 78 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,294 never say it was a monster because I 79 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,214 wasn't sure, but this particular time there was 80 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,180 no doubt whatsoever, none whatsoever. 81 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,014 How do you feel about telling people you've seen a monster? 82 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:05,974 Do people believe you? 83 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,374 Well, I don't care if they believe me or not, because I saw it, I satisfied 84 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,534 myself, I tell them what I've seen, if 85 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,294 they don't, they're entitled to their own opinion, 86 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,800 but I hope someday they will see it, 87 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,960 and they'll be the same opinion as me. 88 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,014 How do you feel about coming fishing on the loch now? 89 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,214 Well, I'll be truthful to you, I used to fish in the loch quite well every 90 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:28,414 year, and I never thought of, it never gave me a thought to cross back and 91 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,694 forth the loch, half a dozen times a day, but now I don't cross often, and 92 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,374 when I leave one shore to go to the other, I always look back and see 93 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,134 which is the shortest, the one I'm going to, the one I left, in case it 94 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,220 does come up beside me. 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:40,814 Was it frightening? 96 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,014 It was frightening, yes, for a freshwater loch, 97 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,560 it's a huge creature to be in the water, oh yes. 98 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:46,974 It was the size of it? 99 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,980 The size of it, yes, definitely, definitely. 100 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,374 The earliest written record of a monstrous presence 101 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,660 within these waters dates to the 7th century, 102 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,414 chronicled in the biography of Saint Columba, the 103 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,820 Irish missionary who brought Christianity to Scotland. 104 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,254 In AD 565, Saint Columba, on a mission 105 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,220 to visit the northern Pictish king, was drawn to the shores of Loch Ness. 106 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,614 He claimed that he saw a monster chasing 107 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,454 towards a swimmer, and he put his arm up and with a cross said, go no 108 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,860 further, do not touch this man. 109 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,260 That is written in history by Saint Adamin, 110 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,540 the narrator for Saint Columba. 111 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:40,140 The monstrous entity receded into the depths, never to harm another soul. 112 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,654 It's tempting to link this account with a 113 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,974 Loch Ness monster, but some consider that this 114 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,614 narrative may describe a walrus, a notion that 115 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,320 can relate to the recent walrus sightings in Scotland. 116 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,214 Nevertheless, skeptics argue that even individuals unfamiliar with 117 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,414 walruses would likely describe the creature in terms 118 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,980 of more recognizable animals, as Saint Columba did. 119 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,294 Certainly we should always look at any report, 120 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,694 be it a water monster, be it a UFO, be it a ghost. 121 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,094 People have to look through prehistory and draw 122 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,900 their own conclusions as to what people of that time were saying. 123 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,654 Scotland is a mythical country, and there was 124 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,574 a lot of creatures allegedly, you know, traversing 125 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,774 the lochs and traversing the moorlands and stuff like that. 126 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,094 A lot of it's mythology, but maybe some of it's not, maybe some of it could 127 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,580 be real, you know, we're dealing with real bona fide sightings. 128 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,414 Because let us not forget, there's also a 129 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,294 monster in Loch Mora, which is to the 130 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,020 west of Scotland, and we did research there with our society back in 1990. 131 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,894 Loch Mora's only 11 miles long, but I 132 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,340 think it's the third deepest loch in Britain, 133 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,814 and it's another freshwater lake. 134 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,814 And again, people have claimed to have seen 135 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,614 something, like a snake-like head, a small 136 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,894 sheep head, and this upturned boat shape moving 137 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,580 up on the surface of the water. 138 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:18,214 When General Wade's military road was extended at 139 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,934 one of the sides of Loch Ness, they 140 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,254 opened up, the Victorian ladies and gentlemen, to 141 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,254 come up to the Scottish Highlands to have 142 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,660 a look at the beautiful Scottish scenery. 143 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,540 And whilst they were there, there were some Nessie reports as well. 144 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:36,374 So the gentry from England came up, and they just made a name for Loch Ness 145 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,054 at that time. 146 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,294 So there was a number of sightings generated 147 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,374 by people who now had the access to 148 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,374 come to Scotland through the rail networks, and 149 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,140 also General Wade's military road. 150 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:50,340 On the evening in question, without doubt, 151 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,414 a shape like the prow of a Norwegian fishing 152 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,220 vessel is sticking right out of the water. 153 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:07,360 It had a small head, like a needle or a snake, magnified about 10, 15, 20 154 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,860 times in the distance. 155 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,620 It was difficult to see. 156 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,420 It stood erect out of the water and sailed right into our view. 157 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,414 In the dying sunlight, as you know from 158 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,374 the loch here, it travelled right across our 159 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,820 field of vision in the direction of Dorge. 160 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:32,540 It sank twice into the water in that three or four minutes. 161 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:34,894 We then thought we had lost it. 162 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,094 It came up again and sailed further towards 163 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,934 Dorge, seemed as if it was getting into 164 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,020 shallow water, turned, got into the centre loch, 165 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:52,614 and then for the first time, it went at full speed ahead with a wave and 166 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,880 a wash right up the centre loch and away from our view. 167 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,654 Yet the dawn of the modern Nessie legend 168 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,454 arrived in 1933, when a newly constructed road 169 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:11,060 offered unprecedented views of Loch Ness from the northern shore. 170 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,974 A local couple's sighting, chronicled in the Inverness 171 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:20,180 Courier, set the stage for a media frenzy that persists to this day. 172 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,774 So basically what they claimed they saw was 173 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,334 again this upturned boat shape, but just they 174 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,860 knew that they were looking at something bizarre. 175 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,574 In the same way the other gentleman, it was a long neck and a small head as well. 176 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,934 Again consistent from the time, it's never really 177 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,940 changed much even to present day. 178 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,220 This is the main sightings that we're seeing on the surface of Loch Ness. 179 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,740 Underwater is a different story. 180 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,254 Quickly after, thousands of other people claimed they 181 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,000 have also seen or captured evidence of the creature. 182 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,374 Again possibly because Loch Ness was now open 183 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,574 to the tourists and more and more people 184 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,414 were coming to this rural area of Scotland, 185 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,894 they had this opportunity to go to the 186 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,980 Trossachs, to the highlands and viewing all these wonderful attractions. 187 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,574 Because Loch Ness had a paddle steamer on it at one time, you know, so you 188 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:12,980 had tourists going up and down. 189 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,974 And that opened up the whole situation for 190 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,934 people to become more aware of these historical 191 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,060 stories and pursue the case of, is there truly something there? 192 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,300 Maybe we might see it. 193 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,094 You know, we're not spending all this time 194 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,374 and money trying to prove that there's a 195 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,420 large unidentified species in Loch Ness. 196 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:45,880 We know that. 197 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,580 We've seen it and we know it's here. 198 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,980 What we are trying to do now is identify the species. 199 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,894 Clem Lister of the Bureau for Investigating the 200 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,174 Loch Ness Phenomena needs no convincing that there is a monster. 201 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:00,214 He's not alone. 202 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,540 St Columba is said to have seen it in 568 AD. 203 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,640 Latter-day visitors have been seeing it since 1933. 204 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,614 So is it mollusk or reptile, animal, vegetable or mineral? 205 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,774 Another man who has no doubts whatsoever is 206 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,820 Hugh Aiton of Dorsney in the Ness. 207 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,920 He told me how he once chased Nessie in his boat. 208 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,960 We saw the head and the four humps and all the body. 209 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,840 Can you tell me anything about its color? 210 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,800 Yes, it was the very same color as an elephant. 211 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,940 Now, how did it dive? 212 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,260 Oh, straight down. 213 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,614 Why do you think the monster went down? 214 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:38,320 - Was it frightened by the noise? - Yes, the noise of the outboard. 215 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,300 And then what did you do after that? 216 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,454 Well, we came home again after that. 217 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,740 We never seen it after that. 218 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,774 Weren't you rather terrified being so close to it? 219 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,440 No, not at the time, but I wouldn't do it again. 220 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,380 What's the most you've ever seen of it at any one sighting? 221 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,820 The best view I ever had was the very first in 1934. 222 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,814 I saw the head, the neck and the huge body, which I'd say was about 30 feet long. 223 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,774 And what's the closest you've ever been to it? 224 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,860 Oh, within about less than 10 yards. 225 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,854 From 10 yards then, what does it really look like? 226 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,054 Well, the skin, the hump, the one big 227 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,774 hump on the skin was exactly like that of an elephant. 228 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,020 Wrinkly, tough looking. 229 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,894 Is it not possible, Mr Campbell, that you're 230 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,694 mistaken in this, either because you're imagining things 231 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,174 or more probable because you've been brought up to believe in this monster? 232 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,240 Not at all. 233 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,614 I'm thoroughly, I know perfectly well because I've 234 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:33,180 seen it and not only myself, but educated, 235 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,300 far better educated people than I am. 236 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,580 Since 1962, local experience has been backed up by scientific study. 237 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,280 The Bureau for Investigating Loch Ness Phenomena keeps constant watch. 238 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:47,140 Donations of £10,000 have kept it going. 239 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,934 It's short of funds now, but not short of results. 240 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,460 Clem Lister says he's seen Nessie five times. 241 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,454 I think the most exciting occasion was the 242 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,414 time I unfortunately saw it alone. 243 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,020 I was, my story's not corroborated at all. 244 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,494 I was coming across the lock up in 245 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,740 that direction over there, half past 12am. 246 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,700 I'd just run some soldiers over to our site on the other side of the lock 247 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,734 and it was a flat calm and I had a dinghy with an outboard and the 248 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,860 outboard packed up and I started a row. 249 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,934 I'd been rowing for about three minutes and 250 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,694 suddenly I heard this peculiar sound. 251 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,214 It was going sort of something like that 252 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,334 and I looked over my right shoulder and 253 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,294 there she was about 15 yards away from me. 254 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,254 I only looked at it very briefly because 255 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,934 after that I was only interested in putting 256 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,480 as much distance between me and it as possible. 257 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,654 So what particular species do you think it is? 258 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,494 The evidence as I interpret it all fits 259 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,454 and I know this is a fantastic statement, but this all fits plethyrsaur. 260 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,454 Now as you know plethyrsaur is one of 261 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,940 the dinosaur families supposed to be extinct for 70 million years. 262 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,974 Some experts say it's just rotting vegetable matter 263 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,694 brought to the surface in an explosion of gases. 264 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,840 But Ted Holliday who claims one sighting has other theories. 265 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,334 In my opinion and I've studied it fairly 266 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,014 closely, I think that it's some form of mollusk. 267 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,080 This is what? 268 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,700 The same class of animal to which the octopus and the squid belong. 269 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,220 But what evidence have you for saying that? 270 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,814 Well the witnesses are, most of them are 271 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,374 repulsed when they get a very close sighting of it. 272 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,440 They're horrified. 273 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,060 Well I'd be horrified if I saw a reptile out of the middle of the lock. 274 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,254 Well there are a lot of photographs been 275 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,900 taken allegedly of Nessie over the years and a lot of hoaxes as well. 276 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:02,254 Some of the photographs I've seen over the 277 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,214 years have this this long tapering neck. 278 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,900 I can't get away from it obviously and that's been compelling. 279 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,500 But it also asks and begs the question could it not be an eel? 280 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,660 Because eels have been seen in Loch Ness. 281 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,740 Otters have been seen and seals have been seen in Loch Ness as well. 282 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,054 There is an eel population in there but can eels dive up out of the water 283 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,100 like that has been captured in these photographs. 284 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,494 Those photographs look compelling but whether compelling of 285 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,700 what is what we have to ask ourselves of a monster? 286 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:35,694 Probably not. 287 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,900 Probably just of an eel. 288 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,654 Dr Robert Rynes was from the Academy of 289 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,854 Applied Sciences in America and he came over 290 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,414 to hopefully prove once and for all if 291 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,094 there was something in Loch Ness real or not real. 292 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:00,800 He was there. He was a man on the ground. 293 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,020 He brought over the most sophisticated underwater technology. 294 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:09,934 Side scan sonar and other types of sonar 295 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,180 as well was deployed into Loch Ness at Temple Pier at Castle Urquhart. 296 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,654 To find out if there was any evidence 297 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,214 to suggest that there was something in Loch Ness. 298 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,460 They came over in 1975. 299 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,800 They came over a few years later and he did. 300 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,380 He did manage to get some incredible photographs 301 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,820 of what appears to be an essay. 302 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,574 Yes, the first I think was this terrible 303 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,814 Rorschach test here which to our mind shows 304 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,454 a body, a rough body with all kinds 305 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,854 of highlights intense strobe light is reflecting from 306 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,174 it and an appendage that's sort of diamond 307 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:58,740 or rhombic shape coming off of it with a center rib in here. 308 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,814 Around 2,000 photographic frames were exposed and 309 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,174 expeditiously sent to the United States for development 310 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,820 under tightly controlled conditions. 311 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,214 Three of these frames appeared to capture objects 312 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,980 allegedly taken simultaneously with sonar contact. 313 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,574 Initially the main photograph that caused a massive 314 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,600 stir worldwide was what's known as the flipper photograph. 315 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,340 A diamond-shaped flipper with a heavy ridge in its center. 316 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,974 It made a sensation throughout the world. 317 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,800 Here at last was proof of a creature in Loch Ness. 318 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,134 But when you look at the original photograph 319 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,100 the untouched photograph is just a blur. 320 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:41,480 It's just a blur. 321 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,900 Here again is the first flipper picture. 322 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:51,854 As photographers have to enhance it and photographically 323 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,840 touch it up in that sense in order to make it print. 324 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:01,534 That's the first one and then this was the second one which seems to show a 325 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,220 flipper in a different position. 326 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,140 Here's the original flipper picture we just discussed 327 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,174 and then about 45 seconds later a second 328 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,374 flipper picture which seems to be either the 329 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,920 same one or another one in a different position. 330 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,040 And the corroboration of taking two photographs is amazing. 331 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,934 As if that isn't enough at the same 332 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,374 time we got these sonar pictures because we 333 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,334 were exploring the same area with sound waves 334 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,654 which gave further corroboration that indeed these were 335 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,880 real parts of real moving animals in that lake. 336 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,414 Obviously it's been pixel separated enhancement to look 337 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,174 like a flipper and that caused a lot of debate you know and I think it's 338 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,820 to me it's been doctored absolutely. 339 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,414 By all by all manner of means yeah 340 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,814 by all means tidy up a photograph clarify 341 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,854 the photograph bring up to the best you 342 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,814 can but don't doctor it to look like a flipper. 343 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,894 I'm not convinced that that is a flipper at all. 344 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,960 Not a chance. 345 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,374 Here is the most unusual film of recent 346 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,000 years for it proves the existence of a monster in Ness. 347 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,054 Climatic conditions and exposure day and night to 348 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,494 bleak and stormy weather affected our film which 349 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:25,900 accounts for the misty results. 350 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,094 But this is unimportant in comparison to the 351 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,580 achievement of filming the monster itself for the first time in history. 352 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,854 Over the years there have been many attempts 353 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,620 at Nessie hoaxes but some evidence has never been disproved. 354 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,094 This film was shot in April 1960. 355 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,494 Detailed examination by reconnaissance experts suggested the object 356 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:46,900 in it was a living creature. 357 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,860 It was filmed by aero engineer Tim Dinsdale. 358 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,654 Like a black anaconda that's what it looked 359 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,774 like came out of the water like that and then it went down and was a 360 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,014 boil of white foam and then it broke 361 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,454 surface once again with a boil and went on. 362 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,520 I didn't see it again. 363 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,120 Throughout Nessie's history photographic evidence played a pivotal role. 364 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,134 One image captured in 1934 features a slender 365 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,380 neck emerging from the water's surface. 366 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,134 Dr Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London surgeon found 367 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,054 himself in the Scottish Highlands on a hunting 368 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,620 expedition with his companion Maurice Chambers. 369 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,334 Wilson intrigued by what he captured on undeveloped 370 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,574 photographic plates asked for the expertise of a 371 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,460 local chemist in Inverness. 372 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,774 To his surprise the developed plates revealed an 373 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,814 image that bore a striking resemblance to a 374 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,660 sea creature sporting an elongated neck. 375 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,014 The chemist suggested Wilson contact the London Daily 376 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,839 Mail a decision that would alter the course of Loch Ness history. 377 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:10,574 Wilson chose not to disclose his identity and 378 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,780 thus the iconic image became known solely as the surgeon's photograph. 379 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,820 Well they're two different animals. 380 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,060 The, I don't mean animals in the sense of what's in the lake. 381 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,574 The Wilson photograph or the surgeon's picture pictures 382 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,774 by the way there were two created quite 383 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,854 a stir and apparently were quite consistent with 384 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,020 what eyewitnesses had seen through the years. 385 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,534 This photograph however turned out to be an 386 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,100 act of revenge by Marmaduke Wetherill. 387 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,654 The London Daily Mail had commissioned Wetherill to 388 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,414 seek out the Loch Ness monster but when 389 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,574 his reported discovery of intriguing footprints proved to 390 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,420 be a hoax the newspaper publicly humiliated him. 391 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,534 In return Wetherill planned to create a monster 392 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,254 using a toy submarine 35 centimeters in length 393 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,580 bought from a department store. 394 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,854 Collaborating with his stepson a sculptor they put 395 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,614 together a long-necked creature from putty and 396 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,774 put it on top of the submarine so 397 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,614 that its head and neck extended approximately 30 398 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,820 centimeters above the water's surface. 399 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,894 Turns out it was not Wilson who snapped 400 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,854 the photographs instead it was Wetherill and his 401 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,220 other son who orchestrated the scene. 402 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,574 This elaborate trick became a key moment in 403 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,294 the history of Loch Ness lore casting a 404 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,300 shadow of doubt and intrigue over the quest for the mysterious creature. 405 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,614 For six decades this image stood as a 406 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:54,180 testament even as skeptics speculated about driftwood elephants, 407 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,500 otters or birds. 408 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:03,504 In 1994 however the truth unraveled revealing the hoax. 409 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,854 The surging photograph for me personally obviously it's 410 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,654 a hoax we know that now it's a 411 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,614 bona fide hoax but that's an iconic photograph 412 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,574 of what I've been saying is the long slender neck of the sheep-like head it 413 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,174 was in all the books, all the magazines 414 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,880 all the TV shows until it was unmasked as a hoax. 415 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,734 There was another photograph as well near Castle 416 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:36,214 Urquhart, PN McNabb I think it was, and again you've got a long hump and a 417 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,440 smaller hump, and that's been revealed as a hoax as well. 418 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,734 And it causes a lot of problems because 419 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,894 it's a fly in the ointment for people 420 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,974 who's trying to do serious research at Loch 421 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,734 Ness, and people's attention then goes away, well 422 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,694 we knew that, there's nothing in Loch Ness, 423 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,294 and they move away from it, well all 424 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:57,120 the time they really want, you know, there is something there. 425 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,374 Same applies to UFOs, you know, you get 426 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,774 a lot of hoaxes and people move away from it. 427 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:09,774 Years back I used to refer to myself as a charlatan, a fake, a hoaxer, a 428 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,820 liar even, but this comes down to the creation paradox. 429 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,254 If I'm telling you that I'm lying, how 430 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,180 on earth could you possibly believe me? 431 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,334 Another popular name in the history of the 432 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,974 Loch Ness search is Doc Shields, a multi 433 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,580 faceted artist whose name resonates with magic, surrealism, 434 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,500 and a touch of the paranormal. 435 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,100 He claimed that he captured two pictures of the Loch Ness monster. 436 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,014 Hailing from Salford, the enigmatic artist known as 437 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,854 Doc Shields boasts a diverse range of occupations, 438 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,180 from magician and writer to busker, stage performer, 439 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,100 surrealist and psychic entertainer. 440 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,340 Yet, some have ventured to add another descriptor, 441 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,600 hoaxer. 442 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,694 Doc Shields attracted considerable attention by thrusting into 443 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,940 the public eye one of the most extraordinary images of Nessie. 444 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,574 According to his account, the Doc stood at 445 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,454 the base of Urquhart Castle when he purportedly 446 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,620 spied the mysterious creature gliding through the water, 447 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,294 capturing two photographs of a smooth, glossy beast 448 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:40,860 with powerful muscles that remained visible for four to six seconds. 449 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,774 Intriguingly, those present at the castle that day 450 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,020 somehow failed to share in his remarkable sighting. 451 00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:00,934 You're asking me if I took an image of the surface of the water and then 452 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,940 took it back, painted another image on that, 453 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,374 a painted superimposed image, and then re-photographed 454 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:17,440 it, or I forgot the bit where it was a very large piece of reversal film. 455 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,574 No, I did not do that. 456 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:24,294 What I did, what I actually did, to tell you the truth, is take a couple 457 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,180 of photographs of the Loch Ness monster. 458 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,214 It's much easier doing it that way. 459 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,614 If you have the real monster coming up, 460 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,460 you don't need to bother with photographic fakery. 461 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,814 The thing is to point the lens at 462 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,294 the long-necked beastie that's coming out of the water. 463 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,214 Then you don't have to bother doing it 464 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,180 with the brushstrokes or all that technical stuff. 465 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,620 You just photograph a monster, simple as that. 466 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,134 Yeah, yeah, he's a character, and, I mean, 467 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,614 obviously he's captured Nessie in full glorious color. 468 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,540 I think it was back in the 70s at Castle Of Cork. 469 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,900 He claims he was on the Loch side, 470 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,774 and he was sending out thoughts for Nessie 471 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,780 to appear, Nessie to appear, Nessie to appear, 472 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,334 and then suddenly this creature rose up from 473 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,814 the depths of Loch Ness again with a long neck in the head, and he got 474 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,620 this marvelous photograph of it. 475 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,420 Yes, he shows the neck coming out. 476 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,140 Well, you know, he came there to Loch Ness to get a picture of the monster, 477 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:29,860 and so obviously he got a picture of the monster, but he's a showman. 478 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,454 And, yes, that does reflect on us because 479 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:40,140 if it were represented as a real picture and it turned out to be a hoax, 480 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,774 you could see the headlines saying, Loch Ness 481 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,900 Pictures A Hoax, and that means everybody's. 482 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,334 So serious scientists have been afraid to come 483 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,734 to Loch Ness because it's such an improbable 484 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,854 story in the first place, and they don't 485 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,614 want to risk tarnishing their reputations because there 486 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,500 are a lot of people who are hucksters. 487 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,134 The old dye transfer retouches, the dye transfer, 488 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,454 you were able to strip and compose in 489 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,974 camera a certain amount of elements, and when 490 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,414 you started to blend them together to make 491 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,414 them look all as one photograph, the emulsion 492 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,894 of the dye transfer would only allow you to work on it so much before it 493 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:17,960 started to break up. 494 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,880 Here you don't have that problem. 495 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,414 You can work on this file over and over again, taking things in and out of 496 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,660 it, and it'll never matter. 497 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,540 And you could go back a year from now, pull this up off of a disc, 498 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,100 read it back into the box, and start over again, adding new elements. 499 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:41,094 The original film was analyzed by the Royal 500 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,294 Photographic Society, by the fellow who was the 501 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:50,060 president, or ex-president at the time, of the Royal Photographic Society. 502 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,700 Dr. Vernon Harrison. 503 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,540 It was 200 ASA ektachrome slide film. 504 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,854 I shot the pictures with a 1.35 505 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,340 telephoto lens from Erkhurst Castle. 506 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:14,500 I can't remember how I opened the aperture or shut it down at that time. 507 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:22,420 But yes, the original roll was analyzed. 508 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,814 Say an animal upwards of around 30 tons 509 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,414 comes up out of the water, there has to be some kind of movement in the water. 510 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,580 There has to be some kind of effect. 511 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,374 Here this neck is protruding straight out of 512 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,100 the water with a shadow, but yet the water is undisturbed. 513 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:53,854 Doesn't make any sense. 514 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,174 People have suggested that I went out and 515 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,780 photographed some water, happened to be Loch Ness, 516 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,774 where I did have to travel from Cornwall 517 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,974 to that part of Scotland, and then would 518 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:17,094 just take a few photographs of water of the loch, and then go home and do 519 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,734 some kind of painted and sandwiched job with 520 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:28,214 the image I produced later, in theory, and 521 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,414 stick them, superimpose them on a few little 522 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,334 ripples on the surface of the loch. 523 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,574 Of course I didn't do that. 524 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:42,860 I don't have the technical skills to do that photographically. 525 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,774 I can paint and I can draw, but I paint and draw different things. 526 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:54,854 If I'm photographing monsters, it had better be 527 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,500 a monster there that I'm photographing, otherwise why waste me time? 528 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,740 There's only 3 ways this could have been. 529 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,014 Is it the photo was taken and the 530 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,454 monster really existed, which is not possible, or 531 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:19,534 if it was actually photo realistically illustrated in, or 532 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,454 if another image was created and it was 533 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,374 scanned in and it was actually composed and 534 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,454 blended to look like it belonged in this photo. 535 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,414 If you were suggesting to me that I'd 536 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,774 done the finest ever re-touching, re-photographing 537 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:40,934 job that anyone on the planet has ever done, I'd say I wish I was that 538 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,934 good, but if I want to take pictures 539 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,300 of monsters, I just take pictures of monsters. 540 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:46,694 On the back of the neck here, you 541 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,694 can see indications of possible bleaching from a dye transfer. 542 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,894 You can see areas of water going through 543 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,854 the neck in these areas, mostly in the 544 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,254 darker areas, because the dye would have been 545 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,854 added on top of the darker areas onto 546 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,220 the dye transfer, but in the lighter areas, 547 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,894 it would have been bleached out with chemicals, 548 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,654 so you wouldn't really see any of the 549 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,094 original image going through it, but there is 550 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,534 indication of it in the darker areas clearly. 551 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,214 I wish I knew the answer. 552 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,534 I wish I could safely say to you 553 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,294 that Torrey Dock Shields truly did capture that 554 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,054 photograph, because if he did, that would be 555 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,014 one of the best photographs we have of Nessie ever, but I'm still 50-50 on 556 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,014 that particular photograph, this beautiful color photograph, which, 557 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,534 incidentally, is not grey as the normal signs of Nessie. 558 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,660 It's normally a grey creature, elephant grey skin. 559 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,814 Torrey Dock Shields captured a Nessie with a 560 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,540 green tinge running down its neck, etc. 561 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,574 And I'd like to believe it's true, but 562 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,574 knowing Dog's reputation, etc., I'm reluctant to put 563 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,420 any credence to that particular photograph. 564 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,940 Additionally, advancements in DNA analysis have been applied to Loch Ness. 565 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,574 In 2019, scientists from New Zealand conducted a 566 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,934 study by extracting environmental DNA from water samples. 567 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,174 Their findings suggested the absence of large animals 568 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:20,574 like plesiosaurs or sturgeons, which had been proposed 569 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,420 as a potential explanation for Nessie sightings. 570 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,134 Instead, they proposed that giant eels might be 571 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,100 responsible for some of the reported sightings. 572 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:44,780 Every single sampling site that we went to pretty much had eels. 573 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,040 And the sheer volume of it was a bit of a surprise. 574 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:54,300 Now, is it possible that what people are seeing is a giant eel? 575 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:55,820 Well, maybe. 576 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,700 This skipper says he's had his own run -in with a monster. 577 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,974 A blip on his boat's sonar won him 578 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,260 the prestigious Nessie Sighting of the Year prize. 579 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,120 I believe that I've seen something strange in the loch, for sure. 580 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:14,334 On my sonar screen that day, eight years ago, was an object a meter to a 581 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,400 meter and a half wide. 582 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:16,734 Where could it go? 583 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,374 It could dive into the loch. 584 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,494 We've got 200 metres of water here, so 585 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,414 we've got caves, little caverns, somewhere for a monster to hide. 586 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,540 Ah, totally, yeah. 587 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:26,734 Nessie's hiding. 588 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,940 Nessie's hiding, yeah. 589 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,734 Keeping the mystery alive is big business for 590 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,814 Scotland, and the DNA results didn't put these tourists off the search. 591 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,934 We came to find a monster and, you know... We did. 592 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 We did! 593 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,774 We've got a sighting here. 594 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,140 It might be a giant eel. 595 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,560 I don't think so. 596 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,500 No? - Eels don't have legs. 597 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,420 If she's large and I can see her, what difference does it make? 598 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:51,900 It's what's in your mind. 599 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,214 These DNA results are using modern techniques to 600 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,260 try and solve an ancient mystery. 601 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,334 But Nessie's not dead in the water just yet. 602 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,454 This loch is 24 miles long, well over 603 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,300 200 metres deep, and there are countless caves. 604 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,654 So for those who want to believe, there 605 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:11,820 is still room for the legend of this loch to live on. 606 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,734 Tales of a giant creature lurking beneath the 607 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,100 murky waves of Loch Ness have been around for over 1,500 years. 608 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,654 But Professor Neil Gemmell hopes the marvels of 609 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,360 modern science can finally lay the mystery to rest. 610 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,500 Here we are at Loch Ness, just with Urquhart Castle behind us. 611 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,854 We're going to be taking some water samples 612 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,800 at a variety of depths using this device here. 613 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,974 Neil has travelled over 18,000 miles from 614 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,880 New Zealand to hunt for Loch Ness monster DNA. 615 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,374 From a half a liter of water, we can get a very, very good catalogue of 616 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,934 life within the loch, and we thought this 617 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,294 would be a great place to showcase that 618 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,774 technology because, of course, there's this hook of 619 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,880 there may be something unknown to science lurking in those waters. 620 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,054 You know, most of the sightings are explainable 621 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:18,774 as either waves, boat wakes, logs that have 622 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,854 submerged and then re-emerged, and I suspect 623 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,934 that's what most people have seen, but, you 624 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,560 know, there's over 1,000 people who claim they've seen a monster. 625 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,094 Those that have been searching Loch Ness for 626 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,860 decades hope Neil will finally get to the bottom of this enduring mystery. 627 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,694 I'm sure that some species will be found 628 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,820 which have probably not been described. 629 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,620 Now, they might be bacteria. 630 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,940 In fact, they're more likely than anything else to be bacteria. 631 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:48,974 If you did find something, and I do 632 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,334 emphasize the if, then you would actually get 633 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,654 quite a good handle on what sort of 634 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,774 a creature, what class of animal you were 635 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,580 looking at, whether it's fish, flesh or fowl. 636 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,294 The last reported sighting of the Loch Ness 637 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,774 monster was in March 2018 by an American 638 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:12,780 couple standing on the ramparts of the majestic ruin of Urquhart Castle. 639 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,814 And tourists continue to come by the boatload 640 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,580 to catch a glimpse of this elusive beast. 641 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:24,534 These ongoing scientific searches continue to show the 642 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,814 enduring fascination with Loch Ness and its cryptic 643 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,774 inhabitant as researchers continue to explore the depths 644 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,700 of this ancient Scottish lake. 645 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,414 In the present day, Loch Ness exploration leads 646 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,894 an unprecedented search for Nessie, employing state-of 647 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,100 the-art technology from thermal drones to hydrophones. 648 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,454 Though understanding has evolved, the quest to demystify 649 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:49,980 the legend endures. 650 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,660 Every day, Ali Matheson takes to the waters of Loch Ness. 651 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,534 We do have a monster in here, don't we? 652 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,760 Just in case you'd somehow not heard this news before. 653 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,894 Visitors from around the world join his tour 654 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,374 to try to catch a glimpse of the 655 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,860 so-called monster amongst the murky waters. 656 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,900 But even Ali has struggled to find it. 657 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,574 In the ExoSander, maybe three times in ten 658 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:21,574 years, I've seen big objects in the water which have then vanished. 659 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:27,860 So that would be my closest to a sighting of a monster here. 660 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,454 And it's tales of the elusive creature that 661 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,580 keeps the magic alive, even when you don't get to see it for yourself. 662 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,254 In August of 2023, hundreds of hopeful volunteers 663 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,854 joined a two-day hunt for Scotland's fabled 664 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,774 Loch Ness monster on Saturday and Sunday in 665 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,814 what organizers described as the biggest search for 666 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,420 Nessie in more than 50 years. 667 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,974 Somewhere in these 7,452 million cubic metres 668 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,740 of water, they believe Nessie hides. 669 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,094 Despite failed mission after mission to prove the 670 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,940 monster's existence, the biggest search for half a century is underway. 671 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:16,980 200 volunteers lining the banks of Loch Ness at 17 strategic points. 672 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,620 Drones with thermal imaging up above. 673 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,294 I'm taking part in the search. 674 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,294 We've come all this way. 675 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,414 I've been hunting Nessie for nine years. 676 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,574 This will be my seventh tour on the loch, my first official hunt. 677 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,900 I love the paranormal. 678 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,380 I go on ghost tours. 679 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,294 You know, I go track down Bigfoot, Loch Ness. 680 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:37,974 I love all of it. 681 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:43,220 So I'm here for the biggest Loch Ness hunting event in the last 50 years. 682 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,854 Volunteers from around the world were allocated locations 683 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,734 around the 23-mile-long lake from which 684 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,254 to monitor for any signs of Nessie, while others took to boats. 685 00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:00,420 A hydrophone was also used to detect acoustic signals under the water. 686 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,740 Unfortunately, not enough proof was found to put the mystery to rest. 687 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,060 We heard some fantastic, bizarre sounds on Friday, 688 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:11,500 which was incredible. 689 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,100 I still don't know what that was. 690 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,214 So on the Saturday and today, we went 691 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,454 back over that area with the hydrophone on deep scan. 692 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:22,894 We went back to the same area, we 693 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,260 lowered the hydrophone again, and we did not hear those sounds. 694 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,300 So I'll leave that up to you guys. 695 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,894 We still don't know what that was. 696 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,780 We will hopefully, in the future, get to the bottom of that. 697 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:40,174 It may well be gas escaping from the bottom of the loch, it could be an 698 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:43,900 animal, or, of course, it could be the elusive Loch Ness monster. 699 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,134 In my mind, there are only probably about 700 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,960 1% of photographs that I would give any credence to. 701 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,334 The rest are just anomalies, water reflections, you 702 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,380 know, the standing wave, etc. 703 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:10,294 It could be an otter diving into Loch Ness. 704 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,540 There's so many things that could be misconstrued as the fanciful Nessie. 705 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,214 And although I believe in Nessie with all 706 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,254 my heart, I'm not naive enough to think 707 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,240 there's other explanations to account for what's in Loch Ness. 708 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:25,774 The ever-persistent mystery surrounding Loch Ness and 709 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,420 its legendary resident remains as compelling as ever. 710 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,740 The hunt for Nessie is far from over. 711 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,254 From ancient tales to modern efforts equipped with 712 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:43,720 advanced technology, the quest for answers continues without pause. 713 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,694 While skeptics may question these accounts, the fascination 714 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,060 with this elusive creature endures. 715 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,254 As the murky waters of the loch keep 716 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,014 their secrets, the search for the Loch Ness 717 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:07,094 monster presses on, ensuring that this legend continues 718 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,420 to captivate new generations.