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"A Strange Spectacle on Loch Ness"
An article about Nessie was published. It was Nessie's debut as a local celebrity. -
Hugh Gray's Nessie Picture
Hugh Gray claimed that the picture showed Nessie swimming in Loch Ness. Many people believe the photo is a hoax because the picture is blurry and has very poor quality. Skeptics believe that the picture is a dog swimming with a stick in its mouth. -
Mamaduke Wetherell
Marmaduke Wethrell was hired by the Daily Mail newspaper to lead a search for the lair of the Loch Ness Monster. Within a few days, Wetherell found a huge, four-toed footprint along the shoreline of the loch! -
The Surgeon's Photo
The picture is probably the strongest evidence for Nessie's existence. The phhoto was taken by Dr. Kenneth Wilson. But the picture was almost certainly a hoax. Skeptics think that the picture showed a tiny monster model fastened to a toy submarine. -
The Dinsdale Film
The picture is supposedly foam bursts produced by flipper strokes made by a swimming monster, Nessie. At least that's what Dinsdale thought. It turns out that it was another case of mistaken identity. Skeptics thought that the foam bursts were produced by boats. -
LNIB Established
The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was established in 1962 -
Viperfish Launched
The first mini-sub to be launched in the Nessie search was the Viperfish , a one-man sub armed with harpoon guns. -
The Flipper Photos
There was success that day! Automatically, the camera took several pictures before the blobs disappeared. But the pictures were very low quality, so they enhanced the picture. Rines was estatic about the flipper in the picture. This means that Rines had found the monster! -
LNIB Disbanded
The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was closed in late 1972. -
The "Gargoyle's Head"
In 1975, Robert Rines had another sonar/photo expedition underwater. The photo looks similar to the surgeon's photo from 1934. But there was a problem with all of Rine's photos. The enhancer's results looked nothing like the final images that were published in magazines and newspapers. In fact, the enhanced images were still fuzzy and hard to interpret. -
Another Try on Loch Ness
Sonar experts Rikki Razdan and Alan Kielar set up 144 individual floating sonar units spread out over a relatively small 82-by-82-foot square on the surface of Loch Ness. The result? Empty. -
Identity Beyond Doubt
The identity of the object in Dinsdale's video was identified beyond reasonable doubt. It was just a fishing boat. -
Gargoyle's Head Identified
Nessie hunter Dick Raynor found the "Gargoyle's Head" on the bottom of the river. The apparition was nothing more than a weathered, waterlogged tree stump. -
Operation Deepscan
Operation Deepscan was a project dedicated to recieve sonar signals from the Loch Ness river that are signs of the beast. They did this from end to end twice! -
Tim Dinsdale's Death
Dinsdale never learned the results of his video and he died of an extreme illness. -
BBC? No dice.
The British Broadcasting Corporation sponsored a sonar sweep of Loch Ness that used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to ensure that none of the loch was missed. Still, no sign of the monster was found!
