tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post4814432552494529041..comments2024-03-18T09:44:41.095+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: HERE'S NESSIE! – MY LOCH NESS MONSTER BOOK IS PUBLISHED!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-64088720721736182992020-01-12T04:52:26.009+00:002020-01-12T04:52:26.009+00:00When I read Dinsdale's book, many years ago as...When I read Dinsdale's book, many years ago as a teenager, I was struck, not by his Nessie tales, which I immediately discounted by his desperate need to believe. Any story, no matter how far fetched, no matter that there was zero evidential corroboration, no matter that the alleged witnesses might have had an interest in making up stories, struck him as true unless proved otherwise. His own famous Nessie film, of course, has now been shown by image layering to have been a boat, which would have been a terrible blow to hoon had he lives to see it. I always found this tunnel vision on his part more interesting than the fiction of the LNM, since he believed in it enough to abandon a presumably secure and lucrative career to spend decades chasing a myth. Evidently Nessie became, to him, a genuine religion.Bill the Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-11498176322604313782016-09-24T13:47:55.221+01:002016-09-24T13:47:55.221+01:00Hi Pete, Yes, please feel free to quote me if you ...Hi Pete, Yes, please feel free to quote me if you wish, that's fine. All the best, KarlDr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-1789717895102282732016-09-24T01:12:46.806+01:002016-09-24T01:12:46.806+01:00Can I quote you on the Fortean Times Message Board...Can I quote you on the Fortean Times Message Board? Because those possibilities have been discussed, but obviously not by anyone with your standing in zoology and cryptozoology. Or would you rather your opinions on this wait for a future mention in your column in FT?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990564432778690216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-55332274219660034992016-09-23T02:40:03.396+01:002016-09-23T02:40:03.396+01:00Thanks Tyler!Thanks Tyler!Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-77081937094106969792016-09-23T02:39:44.968+01:002016-09-23T02:39:44.968+01:00Thanks Pete, I hope that you enjoy it. Yes, possib...Thanks Pete, I hope that you enjoy it. Yes, possibly leaping seals, or even a photoshop montage? There is nothing in the photo to confirm that it was even taken at Loch Ness, so I'll reserve judgement on that one, I think.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-29395546192136630912016-09-18T03:18:00.616+01:002016-09-18T03:18:00.616+01:00I'll be getting it.I'll be getting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-26791787515281934172016-09-17T09:29:30.006+01:002016-09-17T09:29:30.006+01:00I also had that book by Tim Dinsdale as a kid. At ...I also had that book by Tim Dinsdale as a kid. At the time, I was quite convinced by the possibility of Nessie. In my adult years, less so. In fact, I thought I'd have little appetite for a new book on the subject. But for such a good price, and from the UK's premier cryptozoologist, how could I resist?<br /><br />Its release coincides with a new Nessie photograph.<br /><br />http://www.scotsman.com/news/most-convincing-picture-of-the-loch-ness-monster-ever-taken-1-4232092<br /><br />Seals? Leaping fish? Seals chasing leaping fish? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990564432778690216noreply@blogger.com