In the photo: Still from Tim's film: the dark spot in front of the breaker is supposedly Nessie's back
The footage of Nessie, taken in 1960, is genuine, says the author's son
Simon Dinsdale, a retired Essex police detective, insists that the two-minute film directed by his father Tim Dinsdale 50 years ago captures a real creature - specifically the Loch Ness monster. And this is not a fake, as some believe.
The people believe in Simon. Before retiring, the detective solved several high-profile UK serial murder cases. And now, in the year of a kind of half-century anniversary, he says that he himself saw Nessie twice. Including when his father was filming his film.
No details are visible in the frame, the quality of the shooting is generally disgusting. But it is still noticeable that something large and nimble is floating on the water.
“I saw the back of a large animal,” recalls the younger Dinsdale. - She towered above the water about a meter. And it was about a meter and a half across. Color - reddish brown. And on the side - some kind of pimple. I clearly saw it … And then "it" floated away. It was as if I was shocked - the impression was so strong.
Tim Dinsdale, Simon's father, served as an engineer in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He died in 1987. All his life, in his free time from service, he "hunted" the monster - he organized 56 expeditions to the lake. Filmed in 1960, the first thing he gave was to his military colleagues. Independent experts from the British Joint Aeronautical Intelligence Center (JARIC) admitted that the film was genuine. They did not understand what was on it. Not identified. But it was established that this is not a submarine. And a kind of "animate object" moving at a speed of 16 kilometers per hour.
Until 2005, Deansdale's film was cited as highly compelling evidence that a large creature lived in the lake. Maybe even a water lizard - a plesiosaur. A kind of huge bag with flippers and a long neck.
But by the 45th anniversary, JARIC made an attempt to revise their own conclusion and declare what is happening in the frame as a foam trail of a boat that sailed before filming. But the "reconnaissance aeronauts" were objected by numerous scientists who conducted a computer analysis of the film. And they proved many times that there can be no question of a boat. That is, both Tim and his son Simon still saw a huge living creature. This is what the younger Dinsdale reminded about now - on the half-century anniversary of historical shooting.
Sometimes Nessie crawls out of the lake
Legends say that the first mention of Nessie dates back to 565 AD. But then she was described as a giant frog. That is, as a creature not at all like a plesiosaur. The first evidence of modernity dates back to 1885. The eyewitness - Roderick Matheson - thought that the creature resembled a giant horse. Even had a mane.
The real boom began in 1933 after a certain George Spicer released his wife's testimony. Allegedly, she saw "a supernatural animal a meter high and about 8 meters long, which crossed the road." In that year, construction began on the northern shore of the lake.
In 1934, a physician, Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson, took the most famous picture of Nessie, where she appeared as a neck towering above the water with a small head. It is possible that he is fake. Perhaps not.
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Nessie is not salmon
Even before Wikileaks began to shake the world with its revelations, documents were declassified in England, from which it follows: the British government was convinced that a mysterious monster really lived in a high-altitude Scottish lake.
Enthusiasts, relying on the so-called Freedom of Information Act, demanded from the government official documents related to the monster. And it turned out that there are such. At least under Margaret Thatcher, the government was keenly interested in the monster.
Believe it or not, the officials of the "iron lady" were seriously concerned about the fate of Nessie. Just then - in the 80s - several groups of well-armed "monster hunters" intended to get it. And the government was trying to find out if this could be prevented.
Among the documents now declassified there is correspondence between high-ranking officials. One of them appeals to the Ministry of Agriculture, apparently in response to a request: “Unfortunately, Nessie is not a salmon and cannot be considered a freshwater fish. Therefore, it is not protected by the Salmon and Fish Farming Act of 1951”.
They agree with the author of the message: "We must develop some measures to protect this representative of the rarest species of animals."
As a result, the government came to the conclusion: with a special "monstrous" law, you can not "shine". The experts found that there is a Wildlife Conservation Act of 1981 that protects all wildlife, even those not yet known to science. And the monster falls under it.
Anyway, nobody is allowed to catch the monster. They only try to see it with the help of webcams placed along the shores of the lake.
SPECIALIST OPINION
Nessie, you are a monster
“The ancestors of the Loch Ness monster, the plesiosaur, did indeed inhabit high-latitude lakes,” says Jorn Harald Harum, a Norwegian researcher at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oslo. - And confirmation of this is the recent findings on the Arctic islands of Svalbard. Well-preserved remains of 28 ancient reptiles were found in the permafrost here. There are plesiosaurs with long necks, and those who ate them - ichthyosaurs, 10-meter monsters resembling huge dolphins with 30-centimeter teeth.
THE SKEPTIC'S LOOK
Nessie, you are an elephant
Neil Clarke from the Paleontology Department of the University of Glasgow Museum became famous for having discovered the footprints of dinosaurs in the Scottish high lakes region a few years ago. Then he was carried away by the legendary Loch Ness monster. He began to study eyewitness accounts, allegedly observing a mysterious monster. I looked at the available photos. And one day he made a sensational statement.
According to Clark, published in The Times, Nessie is not a dinosaur that has survived in Loch Ness to this day. And the elephant. More precisely, several elephants, whose trunks misled eyewitnesses.
In fact, the most famous photographs show something elongated protruding from the water. This is Nessie's neck, the enthusiasts insisted. True, they could hardly explain where the head was in this case. It was hinted that she was small. Like a snake. But if you consider the "neck" a trunk, as the paleontologist suggests, then looking for a head on the surface is unreasonable. It should be on the other side. That is, under water. What, in fact, is noticeable in the pictures.
Clarke notes: “When the elephants swam in the lake, only the trunk and two bends were visible from the water. The first is the head, the second is the back of the animal
Diagram of the transformation of an elephant into a Loch Ness monster
But where do the elephants come from in Scotland? And waterfowl? It's very simple: elephants are circus. They belonged to the big top, which moved around the country on tour. Their owners - elephants - bathed.
“Circus troupes visiting the fairs stopped by Loch Ness to provide the animals with the rest they needed,” Clarke explains.
The first modern evidence of Nessie's appearance, dating back to 1933, coincided with a PR campaign by one Bertram Mills, the owner of a London circus. He turned to his fellow citizens with a proposal to catch the monster and receive a prize of 20 thousand pounds for him - this is a million for today's money.
The paleontologist believes that he - Mills - and became the initiator of a grandiose hoax, which eventually brought Nessie worldwide fame.
Clarke, by the way, does not exclude that the photographers saw elephants. But for the sake of mystification, they were filmed in a "mysterious" angle.