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Posted: 14-06-2009 23:04 Post subject:

I've just watched the 1970's Richard Martin Loch Ness documentary on the Paranormal Channel. It shows a large animal with flippers gliding past an underwater camera, and claims to be the first genuine film of Nessie.

Is it a spoof or what?

Posted: 15-06-2009 03:27 Post subject:

According to this review:

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-freeman-worst-loch-ness.html

... the footage wasn't shot in the Loch at all ... Rolling Eyes

Posted: 14-09-2009 12:15 Post subject:

Natural History Museum takes punt on discovery of Loch Ness monster in extraordinary money deal with bookmaker
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:06 AM on 14th September 2009

A museum has a deal with a top bookmaker to display the Loch Ness monster - if the beast is ever caught.
The Natural History Museum has thrashed out an agreement with bookmaker William Hill which would see the monster go on public display.

For more than 20 years, William Hill has been paying the museum a retainer to showcase Nessie's remains in return for verifying her existence.

Documents released by the museum, based in South-West London, show a deal between the two parties was struck in 1987.
And since then, the museum has received an annual payment of £1,000 a year from William Hill, totaling £22,000.

Under the terms of the deal, the bookmaker has guaranteed to pay for experts to provide 'positive identification' of Nessie in the unlikely event that she is discovered and captured. The agreement also covers the Yeti.
William Hill offers odds of 500/1 on the existence of the Loch Ness monster being proved within a year.
The odds on the Yeti - a mythological hairy, white creature celebrated since the 19th century and also known as the 'Abominable Snowman' - being discovered are 200/1.

A clause in the deal, revealed in previously unpublished documents from the museum's archive, stipulates that it could exhibit the creatures or the parts of them that were used to prove their existence.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213292/Natural-History-Museum-takes-punt-discovery-Loch-Ness-monster-extraordinary-money-deal-bookmaker.html#ixzz0R4RDY6X8

Posted: 14-09-2009 17:04 Post subject:

Wow, what a good deal for the museum! Getting paid for first option on displaying the Find of the Century, if it happens, no obligations till then. I wish somebody'd make me an offer half that good.

Posted: 05-11-2009 00:29 Post subject:

maximus otter has posted an obit of US Nessie researcher Robert Rines here:

http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39580&highlight=

Posted: 07-11-2009 21:58 Post subject:

I haven't read the whole thread, am still trawling through it as it's a bit of a monster if you'll forgive the pun, but what about sightings prior to the surgeon's photo and that sensational account of something ernormous and hideous crawling accross the road by a couple at around the same time?

I seem to remeber something about divers reparing the underside of the boat and one of them coming up terrified and refusing to go back down, having seens a frog-like creature the size of a goat.