Loch Ness Monster And Me: Life With An Obsession

Ever wonder what would drive a man to give up his girlfriend, his house and his job in pursuit of the Loch Ness monster? Keep reading to find out:

To say that I am a patient man would be an understatement. Seventeen years sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness for one decent sighting of the monster has to be considered dedication in anybody's eyes. To me, however, it is more a dream come true: this subject has fascinated me since a family holiday in 1970, when I was seven. It was then that we visited the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a team of volunteers who each summer set up a makeshift camp on the lochside near Urquhart Castle, from where they mounted round-the-clock surveillance in the hope of filming Nessie. What really caught my imagination was the platform they had built, on which they had mounted a cine camera and tripod; the lens alone must have been a metre long. Grown men looking for monsters? Fantastic.

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Comments

[dsm]

07:57 PM on 03/26/2008

According to a discovery channel program there's not enough fish for anything that large to survive..

[mfalino]

07:29 AM on 03/26/2008

i mean really, it's been shown so many times that it can't be true. one animal couldn't survive for so long on it's own--with almost nothing to eat in the loch--and if there was a population, you'd see them all the time. As for the "In pursuit of God" comment; right on! Except that even the Loch Ness monster is a 1000x more simple to refute with scientific evidence, trial and error, and mere observation. If you think the Loch Ness monster exists, then you must seriously be scared of gremlins when you're flying in a plane...

[NoSillyName]

10:21 PM on 03/25/2008

Who knows? Could be real. Supposedly that loch is so incredibly deep that it hasn't been measured. What lies beneath?

[desthmoneses]

01:06 AM on 03/25/2008

He's no crazier than anyone who spends their life in the pursuit of god.