A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P. Mackal turns up across decades of monster hunting. In 1968 he joined Loch Ness Investigation Bureau members in Connemara, where nets were stretched across Lough Nahooin and Lough Fadda. In 1980, in Searching for Hidden Animals, he offered a giant colonial tunicate for the SS Nestor sea serpent and a stray elephant seal for the White River Monster. In 1986 he analysed the St. Augustine sample and concluded it was a gigantic cephalopod. January 1994. He travelled to Lake Dakataua as scientific adviser to a Japanese film crew.
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Pro earlyProposed a giant colonial tunicate explanation in Searching for Hidden Animals (1980)
Biologist whose 1986 analysis favoured a giant cephalopod
Pro earlyAuthor who reproduced the Rhodesia Herald text in A Living Dinosaur? (1987)
Pro earlyScientist on the Lough Fadda search team
Pro earlyBiologist on the 1968 Connemara expedition
Pro earlyBiologist and author who proposed the elephant seal explanation
Pro earlyInvestigator; interviewed Ellis in December 1983 and published the account in A Living Dinosaur? (1987)
Pro earlyCryptozoologist, University of Chicago; scientific adviser on both 1994 expeditions