Hoare, Philip (2 May 2013). "Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019 . Retrieved 18 January 2020. Harvey, Alex . Alex Harvey Presents The Loch Ness Monster. K-Tel Records, 1977. (Republished by VoicePrint Records, 2009) a b "Loch Ness Monster Hoaxes". Museumofhoaxes.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2010 . Retrieved 28 April 2010.

Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up – The Daily Record". Dailyrecord.co.uk. 13 February 2008. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010 . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Subtitled " What Really Happened", the publishers pulled this book in the face of possible legal action over some rather inflammatory things Frank had to say about other Loch Ness researchers. After this, he left Loch Ness for good never to darken her shores again. Whether Searle still believed in a Nessie or ever saw it or photographed it is forever lost in the noise of his fakes.

How to Investigate a Loch Ness Monster Sighting

Bauer, Henry H. The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery, Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1986 Alaska lake monster' may be a sleeper shark, biologist says". Yahoo! News. 9 May 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 January 2017.

National Geographic News". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 20 July 2009 . Retrieved 28 May 2009. But perhaps the most important effect of Whyte's book was to turn the tide of public opinion. Long dismissed as fodder for "silly season" press reports, Nessie was finally considered a subject worthy of serious scientific investigation. In the span of a decade, beginning in 1958, four separate expeditions were launched, first by the BBC, then by three respected British universities: Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Birmingham. Rather than scanning the surface with binoculars and cameras, as the amateur investigators had, these expeditions came equipped with sonar, a military technology that used sound to search the underwater environment. Though the expeditions found nothing conclusive, in each case the sonar operators detected large, moving underwater objects they could not explain. (To learn how sonar works, see Experiment with Sonar.) Whyte, Constance, More Than a Legend: The Story of the Loch Ness Monster, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957 Knowles. "The Loch Ness Monster is still a mystery". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. a b c "Martin Klein Home" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2020 . Retrieved 24 February 2020.Almost immediately, however, critics began to raise questions about the evidence. Could the suggestive sonar traces be the result of human error? Had the flipper photos been altered to improve their appearance? Just as damaging to Rines' case was Peter Scott's bold pronouncement about the identity of the creature. Based on the flipper photos and the eyewitness sightings, Scott concluded that Nessie was a plesiosaur, an ancient reptile that was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The idea was just too far-fetched for professional zoologists to take seriously. In the 1930s, big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell went to Loch Ness to look for the monster. Wetherell claimed to have found footprints, but when casts of the footprints were sent to scientists for analysis they turned out to be from a hippopotamus; a prankster had used a hippopotamus-foot umbrella stand. [150]

Whyte's book inspired a new generation of monster hunters, including Tim Dinsdale, who on his first visit to the loch in 1960 took an intriguing film of something moving across the loch—and promptly gave up his career as an aeronautical engineer to devote his life to pursuing the monster. The next year, a group of dedicated amateurs formed the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, keeping a constant vigil on the loch from an observation post on the northern shore.a b "Tourist Says He's Shot Video of Loch Ness Monster". Fox News. Associated Press. 1 June 2007. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013 . Retrieved 28 April 2010. A Lite version of the Nessie story from our intrepid monster hunter. My favourite bit is the claimed sighting by a William Shakespeare which the newspaper staff at the local Inverness Courier were reticent to print. Sceptics will no doubt claim Shakespeare's sighting was a work of fiction!

On 2 July 2003, Gerald McSorely discovered a fossil, supposedly from the creature, when he tripped and fell into the loch. After examination, it was clear that the fossil had been planted. [152] Cryptoclidus model used in the Five TV programme, Loch Ness Monster: The Ultimate Experiment The emphasis is on books aimed at a general audience which outwardly take some kind of serious approach to the subject. So juvenile books and fictional works are not included. Books which are not purely Nessie but have a decent section on the monster are included. Books in foreign languages are not included and the vast volume of magazine and newspaper articles that exist are excluded (too much work!). But we do have some good, melodramatic pictures of Nessie that grace our various book covers! Campbell, Steuart. (1991). The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence. Aberdeen University Press. pp. 43–44. Alistair, Munro. "Loch Ness Monster: George Edwards 'faked' photo". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015 . Retrieved 5 June 2015. Gander, Kashmira (19 April 2014). "Loch Ness Monster found on Apple Maps?". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018 . Retrieved 20 April 2014.McLaughlin, Erin (15 August 2012). "Scottish Sailor Claims To Have Best Picture Yet of Loch Ness Monster | ABC News Blogs – Yahoo!". Gma.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016 . Retrieved 11 April 2013. Do new pictures from amateur photographer prove Loch Ness Monster exists?". Metro. 26 August 2013. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018 . Retrieved 25 September 2013. a b Townend, Lorne (writer/director) (2001). Loch Ness Monster: Search for the Truth. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018 . Retrieved 19 April 2018.