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Stories12

Doc Shiels's Loch Ness Monster Photographs (the "Loch Ness Muppet")

May 21, 1977 · Urquhart Castle, Strone Point, near Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 1 photos

20Thinly documented

Fr Gregory Brusey and Roger Pugh: the Loch Ness sighting from Fort Augustus Abbey

October 1971 · Fort Augustus Abbey, Fort Augustus, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

13Thinly documented

Dick Raynor's Dores Bay Film, Loch Ness

June 13, 1967 · Dores Bay, northern end of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

25Thinly documented

Miss E. M. J. Keith and James T. Ballantyne's seven-minute Loch Ness sighting off Dores, 1965

March 30, 1965 · Off Dores, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

14Thinly documented

The Lake Khaiyr Monster, Yakutia (1964)

1964 · Lake Khaiyr (Pestsovoye), Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

6Thinly documented

Edward Brian McCleary's Pensacola sea serpent and the USS Massachusetts wreck tragedy

March 24, 1962 · Wreck of USS Massachusetts (BB-2), off Pensacola Pass, Florida

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources

13Thinly documented

Peter O'Connor's Loch Ness Monster Photograph, Foyers (1960)

May 27, 1960 · South-east shore of Loch Ness, about 1 mile north-east of Foyers Bay, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources · 1 photos

15Thinly documented

Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

April 23, 1960 · Foyers Bay, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

30Partially documented

Torquil MacLeod's binocular sighting of a Loch Ness animal ashore

February 28, 1960 · South-east shore of Loch Ness, opposite the A82 about 2.5 miles south-west of Invermoriston, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

11Thinly documented

Lachlan Stuart's Three Humps Photograph, Loch Ness

July 14, 1951 · Whitefield croft, south-east shore of Loch Ness, opposite Urquhart Castle, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 4 photos

22Thinly documented

Hugh Gray's Photograph: The First Claimed Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

November 12, 1933 · Mouth of the River Foyers, Foyers, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 4 photos

36Partially documented

Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934)

September 1933 · Borlum Bay, off the mouth of the River Oich, Fort Augustus, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

Names10

Tim Dinsdale Person · 12 stories
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
Dinsdale Person · 4 stories
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
Darren Naish Person · 48 stories
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
Loch Ness Place · 41 stories
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
Adrian Shine Person · 14 stories
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
Loch Ness Monster Term · 14 stories
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
Dick Raynor Person · 6 stories
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
Peter Costello Person · 6 stories
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
Borlum Bay Place · 4 stories
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
Foyers Place · 4 stories
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.

Videos8

The Dinsdale Film (Loch Ness Monster)

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Tim Dinsdale Film 1960

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Tim Dinsdale.Loch Ness.1960.

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Loch Ness Plesiosaur: Tim Dinsdale 1960 Film Original

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Tim Dinsdale.Loch Ness.1960.

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Tim Dinsdale: The First Loch Ness Monster Hunter | Loch Ness: They Created a Monster

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

Monstre du Loch Ness : film de Tim Dinsdale (1960)

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

1960: EYEWITNESS accounts of the LOCH NESS MONSTER

From Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)