… Then the professor, unable to control himself, screamed loudly. Three, at least five meters away, he saw a truly colossal animal. From a distance it resembled an elephant, for it had a trunk and legs that looked like stumps of logs. That was where the similarity ended. The hump crowning the body was decorated with a jagged outgrowth. But most of all the scientist was struck by the wings …
Let's start with the incident at Loch Ree, which is called Red, because of the color of the amazing scarlet granites lining the bottom. The pond, teeming with boneless fish species, attracts crowds of spinning fishing enthusiasts. But this fishing is allowed only on the southern coast, where the slopes are sloping and the depths are shallow. The northwestern part, bristling with weathered rocks, dropping into the cold depths, is dangerous.
Any careless step can lead to tragedy. Therefore, only experienced climbers and speleologists are allowed to climb stone planes, explore karst cavities, and use floating equipment. What they, in fact, regularly do, with enviable consistency bringing to the "civilized world" stories about what they saw, experienced, which is hard to believe. Narratives - let us emphasize, by no means tales - have accumulated over the past decade about a hundred.
But let's start with a description of the circumstances of the alteration, in which a lone climber found himself, who had a lot of the most difficult, including Everest, ascents, a psychiatrist from Dublin, Professor Maximilian Hall.
In August 2005, after carving out a week from his busy work schedule, he went to Lough Rea to survey the shallow underground galleries that open into the lake bays.
On August 12, having pounded the walls and crevices to pain in the muscles, had a haste supper and set up an inflatable tent, Hall climbed into it and zipped the awning, and fell asleep like a dead man. Experienced people, especially climbers, sleep lightly. The professor was awakened by the familiar sound of a rockfall.
Turning on an electric torch, he directed the beam at the rocks. The stones really rolled from the upper platform, although there was no wind, there was nothing and no one in sight to move them. Still, out of caution, Hall decided to wait, searching the area with the light of a powerful lantern. The lantern, however, soon had to be turned off. The moon that swam out from behind the clouds flooded the area with an even mercury light.
Then the professor, unable to control himself, screamed loudly. At three, at least five meters away, he saw a truly colossal animal. Distantly, it resembled an elephant, for it had a trunk and legs that looked like stumps of logs. The similarities ended there. The hump crowning the body was decorated with a jagged outgrowth. But most of all, the scientist was struck by the wings.
Yes, real wings! Absolutely unnecessary for the giant, because no wings, of course, could lift such an overwhelming carcass into the air. Rustling with reeds, the monster headed for the water, flopping into it from a high cliff. The splashing water, illuminated by the moon, did not melt. They seemed to be fixed tightly, not less than half an hour.
Contemplating the strange behavior of the "frozen" water, Hall nevertheless remembered the place where the monster hid in the depths. With the first rays of the sun, whipped up by impatience, on the rubber boat, he set up something like an observation post. The camcorder was ready. Less than an hour later, the monster surfaced. The distance to it was decent, at least fifty meters. The professor was still able to make out exactly what he saw at night.
The video camera worked for five minutes, exactly how long the animal was afloat. Shore film viewing was disappointing. On it, in amazingly clear weather, the outlines of the opposite shore were clearly drawn, the flights of birds were recorded, which - the professor remembered this - circled over the monster. But where is the monster? Is it really transparent, ghostly, apparently not to everyone and not always? Maximilian Hall answers this question in the affirmative, adding that there are cases in psychiatry when absolutely healthy people begin to see and track what is not in reality, what emerges from the subconscious. “I would have believed that an archaic creature exists if I found its traces left on wet soil, shreds of wool, fragments of its skeleton, finally. I haven’t come across anything like that. Consequently, the image of the animal was formed in my,overloaded with daytime impressions of the brain. I saw what my overexcited psyche presented. This phenomenon is on a par with hallucinations, mirages. This should be studied, and not chased after something that does not exist,”says Hall. At the same time, however, he is somewhat embarrassed by the fact that the area where the fantastic meeting took place is rich in underground galleries, inhabited in ancient times, leading to the lake bottom. Galleries can be inhabited even now, there would be someone to live there.leading to the bottom of the lake. Galleries can be inhabited even now, there would be someone to live there.leading to the bottom of the lake. Galleries can be inhabited even now, there would be someone to live there.
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While the professor stubbornly defends the version that "monsters are deeply buried in our delicate sensitive psyche," professional fishermen extract something from the depths of Irish reservoirs, something that is too heavy to be able to handle. That lends itself only to powerful winches and the strongest nets, but, alas, at the moment of the expected triumph turns into fog, into ghosts, into mirages; which turns into unbearable headaches for the purveyors of fish products, of a frightening character with hallucinations and other troubles from the category of mental ailments. And such cases, I must say, are similar, like twin brothers.
In the annals of the Irish Society of Fishermen and Hunters, the description of events dating back to August 1 takes pride of place.
In the annals of the Irish Society of Fishermen and Hunters, the description of events dating back to August 1958 takes pride of place. It was a long time ago, but it did not lose the sharpness of the intrigue, which almost turned into an irreparable disaster. In short, the essence is as follows. Starting nets in the warm, fish-rich shallow waters of the southern tip of Loch Rea, two fishermen, Patrick Gandy and Joseph Quingley from the village of Inishturka, hooked on “something massive, streamlined, possessing incredible strength, something that, trying to free itself from the bonds, destroyed the ratchet the wheel of the mechanical winch and, having pulled the massive mechanical rack out of the mount, went into the depths. " At the same time, Quingley almost died, trying to stop the winch and save the expensive network. Coming ashore, the fishermen said that a flat fishing platform, one hundred percent stable in any wave,almost lifted "on the edge" and almost scooped up a critical mass of water. What was it? Patrick Gandy testified: "When, starting the diesels, we went to the bay, on the right side, in a frightening proximity, I saw a creature that immediately reminded me of a dinosaur, almost the same as they draw in the school textbook from which I studied." The guy's words were doubted, suggesting that he was the victim of an optical illusion. The fishermen stubbornly stood their ground. They objected. When such a large object hit, the network would certainly be perforated, or even disappear with it. However, nothing of the kind happened. It is indeed difficult to argue. But here, as if for the edification of skeptics, a monster that looked like a dinosaur, and even with fins-flippers, began to appear now daily, now weekly. It also appeared on land when it "of gray color, merging with gray rocks, disappeared."And disappeared, necessarily leaving traces in the form of "deeply plowed wet soil and pools of gray gelatinous, odorless liquid." It was not serious to dismiss the testimony of not even dozens, hundreds of eyewitnesses. From year to year, to the present day, scientists of various profiles work on Lake Lough Rea and other bodies of water in Ireland. Attempts are being made to trawl the bottom, scan the coast with night vision equipment, take photographs and videos, and manipulate seismic and motion sensors.scan the coast with night vision equipment, take photographs and video, manipulate seismic and motion sensors.scan the coast with night vision equipment, take photographs and video, manipulate seismic and motion sensors.
All in vain. In addition to recordings of strange, possibly natural, sounds, vague photographs that could be mistaken for anything, other natural acoustic, thermal, visual anomalies, it is impossible to record absolutely nothing, even remotely resembling a large swimming animal.
Professor Roy McCall, who set out to catch the pinniped dinosaur in Lake Lough Noguin, County Galway, regretfully admitted that the animal that nearly knocked over farmer Stephen Coyne's boat was either some giant fish, or indeed a relic monster that escaped through narrow isthmus in the sea.
The inquisitive are lucky. On December 22, 2007, while riding a motorcycle at noon on the road leading to the lake, McCall saw with his own eyes what he dreamed of being convinced. The lake monster appeared in all its glory, with three “ragged humps, with a flat, like a reptile's, small head on a long neck, black, with gray and white spots. To prove that it was by no means a vision, the animal, raising a spray, turned abruptly onto its back, displaying its fins. Maximilian Hall's reaction to the testimony of a colleague was immediate: “The esteemed professor is professionally engaged in a monster, thoughts about him never leave him. A persistent focus of excitement has formed in the brain.
Hence the hallucinations. It is natural. We all know that when a person peers into the water surface for a long time, he will definitely see what he wants to see. " In Hall's arsenal of "psychic" arguments, there is one more new theoretical calculation. Water has the ability to remember and relay events of the recent and extremely distant past to the human brain. It's like that. But what about a massive body trapped in a net, with footprints on wet ground, with the decomposed remains of huge creatures that are sometimes found near the lakes of Ireland?