Speaker 1: You're listening to the second and final part of Unexplained,
Speaker 1: Season seven, episode three, Under black Water one late December
Speaker 1: night in nineteen thirty eight, at the mouth of Shlumna Bay,
Speaker 1: just off the coast of South Africa, Captain Hendrik Goosen
Speaker 1: smokes a cigarette on the bridge of his fishing trawler
Speaker 1: than the rhine reflections from the stars of southern constellations
Speaker 1: sparkle and the calm otion waters as he watches the
Speaker 1: crew haul in the ship's nets. Just then, his eye
Speaker 1: is momentarily caught by the sudden appearance of an oddly
Speaker 1: bluish colored fin amid the thrashing of fish and shark
Speaker 1: caught in the nets. But with so much work to
Speaker 1: be done, the captain thinks little more of it as
Speaker 1: he finishes off his cigarette and heads down to help
Speaker 1: his men on the deck. The next morning, Marjorie Courtney Latimer,
Speaker 1: a curator of natural history at a small museum in
Speaker 1: the port town of East London on South Africa's Eastern Cape,
Speaker 1: receives a phone call a local fishing trawler manager wants
Speaker 1: to know if she is interested in taking a look
Speaker 1: at a strange fish that has just been brought in
Speaker 1: an hour or so later, she was stood on the
Speaker 1: deck of the Nerhine scouring the mound of dead fish
Speaker 1: and sharks until she spots it, an unusual bluey gray
Speaker 1: finn poking out of one of the piles. About one
Speaker 1: and a half meters long. The fish was heavily scaled,
Speaker 1: its fins, rough and stocky, almost limb like. One fisher
Speaker 1: standing nearby tells Courtney Latimer that in more than thirty
Speaker 1: years of fishing around the world, he's never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. In fact, nobody was thought to have ever
Speaker 1: seen anything like it, since it was the post of
Speaker 1: gone extinct sixty six million years ago. The fish was
Speaker 1: a sealercanth. All that had been founded them prior to
Speaker 1: then were fossils dating from four hundred to sixty six
Speaker 1: million years ago, at which point they were assumed to
Speaker 1: have gone extinct with the dinosaurs. Finding a living one
Speaker 1: was like finding a Tyrannosaurus Rex wandering around your garden.
Speaker 1: It was a rare instance of what is sometimes called
Speaker 1: a Lazarus taxon, meaning a taxonomic group that disappeared from
Speaker 1: the fossil record, only to mysteriously reappear again. Then, in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, a second was found near the Comoros Islands,
Speaker 1: just to the east of Mozambique in Africa, and soon
Speaker 1: some began to wonder if there were any other unknown
Speaker 1: species still out there, waiting to be discovered in the
Speaker 1: deep waters of the world's lonelier corners, lurking under the
Speaker 1: nose of modern civilization. You're listening to Unexplained, and I'm
Speaker 1: Richard McLean Smith. In nineteen fifty seven, author Constance White
Speaker 1: published the book More Than a Legend, The Story of
Speaker 1: the Lochness Monster. It spoke to the zeitgeist of the
Speaker 1: emerging times with its renewed fascination in the possible existence
Speaker 1: of cryptid creatures, fueled by the finding of the second
Speaker 1: living selacanth. Extant monster sightings were also now being reported.
Speaker 1: Bigfoot stories were emerging from America, and tales of the
Speaker 1: Yeti emerged from the Himalayas. In her book, Constance White
Speaker 1: cataloged around eighty sightings of the apparent Lochness Monster from
Speaker 1: multiple witnesses, some corroborated by other observers who had apparently
Speaker 1: seen the same thing simultaneously from nearby locations. Flat, calm
Speaker 1: water and hot days were the most favorable conditions, with
Speaker 1: hot spots for sightings tending to be where rivers ran
Speaker 1: into the loch. Temple Pier on the north side of
Speaker 1: Urkut Bay was the scene of hundreds of reports, while
Speaker 1: Alexander Ross, the former peer master there, claimed to have
Speaker 1: seen the creature at least fifteen times himself. On the
Speaker 1: fourteenth of July nineteen fifty one, local woodsmen Lochland Stewart,
Speaker 1: was clearing trees one hundred feet above the shore where
Speaker 1: when he claimed to have spotted a humped object moving
Speaker 1: fast up the loch. The picture he got with his
Speaker 1: box camera showed three angular blackish humps, each about five
Speaker 1: foot long and three feet out of the water. A
Speaker 1: long neck with a sheep sized head was then said
Speaker 1: to have appeared momentarily before it feared away with much splashing.
Speaker 1: Constance White took a stab at creating a composite picture
Speaker 1: of so called NeSSI from the multitude of reports and
Speaker 1: photographs describing the creature as being anywhere from twenty to
Speaker 1: fifty feet long, with a bulky body, a dark elephant
Speaker 1: like skin, up to seven humps, a long snakelike neck,
Speaker 1: a small flat head which had two horn like structures,
Speaker 1: a long, blunt ended tail, two pairs of powerful flippers,
Speaker 1: and the ability to swim at up to thirty miles
Speaker 1: per hour. Many people thought it resembled at Plesiosore, mostly
Speaker 1: on account of the famed surgeon's photo. As documented in
Speaker 1: the first part of this episode. White postulated that the
Speaker 1: creature had possibly got into the lock during the melting
Speaker 1: of the last ice age. The nineteen fifties were a
Speaker 1: time when most people got their entertainment from the radio
Speaker 1: and books. Television was a luxury available to only a few,
Speaker 1: but with the dawning of the nineteen sixties, small black
Speaker 1: and white television sets started appearing in more and more homes.
Speaker 1: Natural history was a popular topic for programming in these
Speaker 1: changing times. Theories about the Lochness Monster, for those who
Speaker 1: gave credence to the sightings, began to diverge into two
Speaker 1: distinct camps, one that believed the creature was some kind
Speaker 1: of supernatural phenomenon, and the other who preferred to take
Speaker 1: a more scientific approach. It was the start of the
Speaker 1: Easter weekend in April nineteen sixty when Tim Dinsdale arrived
Speaker 1: at Lochness trained as an aeronautical engineer, but bored in
Speaker 1: his job at Heathrow Airport. Dinsdale was excited to be
Speaker 1: on holiday pursuing his true passion, searching for the Lochness Monster.
Speaker 1: He spent his days driving along the shore road with
Speaker 1: a Bolex Ciney camera loaded with sixteen millimeter black and
Speaker 1: white film, but saw nothing out of the ordinary. That
Speaker 1: was until the last day of his week long trip.
Speaker 1: It was some time around eight thirty a m. When
Speaker 1: Dinsdale spotted a humped object around thirteen hundred year from
Speaker 1: the shore. Dinsdale filmed the object in bursts, tracking it
Speaker 1: for about four minutes as it carved a zigzag course
Speaker 1: across the loch's surface before it disappeared into a patch
Speaker 1: of dark water. A short time later, Dinsdale screened the
Speaker 1: film for a gathering of top zoologists at London Zoo,
Speaker 1: converting skeptics into believers in the process. Among them was
Speaker 1: a man named Peter Scott. Scott was the son of
Speaker 1: famed explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who died in Antarctica in
Speaker 1: nineteen twelve during a failed expedition to become the first
Speaker 1: person to reach the South Pole. At the time, Peter
Speaker 1: Scott was a respected ornithologist and conservationist who would go
Speaker 1: on to help establish the Worldwide Fund for Nature, among
Speaker 1: other notable achievements. In nineteen sixty he was perhaps best
Speaker 1: known for presenting the BBC's natural life history show called Look.
Speaker 1: In June, a still from Tim Dinsdale's film was published
Speaker 1: in the British Daily Mail newspaper, while Dinsdale also appeared
Speaker 1: on BBC News, and soon after he was introduced to
Speaker 1: Peter Scott. Having been impressed by Dinsdale, Scott, who was
Speaker 1: well known to the royal family, visited the Queen and
Speaker 1: assured her that Dinsdale was onto something. The hunt for
Speaker 1: Nessie was back on. One zoologist in particular, decided to
Speaker 1: go all out for direct proof of Nessie's existence. Retired
Speaker 1: senior zoologist at London's Natural History Museum, Dr Morris Burton,
Speaker 1: knew that NeSSI could not be a plesiosaur. According to him,
Speaker 1: even if some of these cold blooded creatures had somehow
Speaker 1: survived the mass dinosaur extinctions sixty six million years ago,
Speaker 1: they would not survive in Lockness's chilly waters. As a
Speaker 1: first step, Burton brought together a team of scientists who
Speaker 1: spent two weeks on the lock in a dinghy. They
Speaker 1: measured the distances over which eyewitness reports had been made
Speaker 1: to test whether human visual acuity could match the details relayed.
Speaker 1: Their analysis of the data revealed that many of the
Speaker 1: reports were simply beyond the realms of physical possibility. Next,
Speaker 1: Burton and his team decided to try something altogether more practical.
Speaker 1: In previous zoological hunting trips off the coast of Cornwall,
Speaker 1: in the southwest of England, they'd found that dragging a
Speaker 1: net containing rotting fish guts seasoned liberally with pilchered oil
Speaker 1: was wonderfully effective at attracting sharks. How could such a treat,
Speaker 1: they thought, fail to bring Nessie up from the debts.
Speaker 1: Despite numerous efforts, however, the supposed monster refused to take
Speaker 1: the bait. Burton concluded that in the most part NeSSI
Speaker 1: was nothing more than rafts of decaying vegetation seen floating
Speaker 1: on the surface of the loch, but it did little
Speaker 1: to deter the true believers. In July nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 1: David James, a former navyman turned politician, launched an expedition
Speaker 1: for which he enlisted Lieutenant Colonel H. G. Hassler, a
Speaker 1: hero of British World War II naval operations. The campaign
Speaker 1: began in true military style with a scouting expedition. The
Speaker 1: loch was swept from end to end with a sonar
Speaker 1: curtain using echo location that spanned its width and plumbed
Speaker 1: its full depths. Three objects too big to be large
Speaker 1: fish were discovered under the water, and so on October thirteenth,
Speaker 1: the full assault began. Urkott Bay, located two thirds of
Speaker 1: the way up on the lock's northern shore, was selected
Speaker 1: as the key point of interest. There, David James and
Speaker 1: an eighteen strong team set up a number of search
Speaker 1: lights to rove across the bay after dark. When night descended,
Speaker 1: the lights were switched on and swept across the black
Speaker 1: water as the team kept watch for any sign of
Speaker 1: unusual activity. Then, on James's signal, sticks of jellyg night
Speaker 1: were lit and dropped into the water, and moments later
Speaker 1: they exploded, sending huge plumes of water shooting into the air,
Speaker 1: the idea being to try and scare anything lurking down
Speaker 1: there up to the surface. The test was repeated for
Speaker 1: a number of days, with only a few dead fish
Speaker 1: and glimpses of familiar terrified living ones to show for it,
Speaker 1: but then on October nineteenth, something else was spotted. As
Speaker 1: the blast from another round of jellignite rang out, one
Speaker 1: of the search teams spotted a vast shoal of salmon
Speaker 1: thrashing about on the water's surface, about two hundred yards
Speaker 1: from Temple Pier on the northern side of the bay,
Speaker 1: and right behind them was a long, indeterminate shape roughly
Speaker 1: ten feet in length that appeared to be chasing them.
Speaker 1: This moment was captured on film by former naval seamen
Speaker 1: John Luff. In all his years at sea, Luff said
Speaker 1: he'd never seen anything like it. The Royal Air Force's
Speaker 1: own Central Reconnaissance Establishment examined Luff's footage frame by frame,
Speaker 1: concluding that it showed about eight feet of something dark
Speaker 1: and glistening, which was not a wave effect, but rather
Speaker 1: something with solidity. After also examining the evidence, a panel
Speaker 1: comprised of members of the UK's Royal Society picked by
Speaker 1: zoologist Peter Scott also concluded that there was indeed something
Speaker 1: real there that would require more rigorous study. By then,
Speaker 1: Scott had also spent some time actively searching for the creature.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty three, he led three gliders in survey
Speaker 1: flights over the loch, but the pilots failed to spot anything.
Speaker 1: The same year, in the summer, David James and his
Speaker 1: retired military helpers returned to the loch for a second time,
Speaker 1: hoping to collect irrefutable proof of Nessi's existence. This time,
Speaker 1: the team mounted two thirty five millimeter cameras on opposite
Speaker 1: sides of the loch. The night before their mission was
Speaker 1: due to start, a school teacher reported a convincing Nessy
Speaker 1: sighting not far from Urkutt Castle, where the team were based.
Speaker 1: It seemed like a good omen, but no sooner had
Speaker 1: the cameras been started up, a mist crept across the loch,
Speaker 1: limiting visibility to a hundred yards. Over the next six months,
Speaker 1: there were just fifteen clear days in which David James
Speaker 1: and his team captured nothing of note, and for the
Speaker 1: best part of a decade no further credible sightings were reported.
Speaker 1: One sunny day in June nineteen seventy two, wealthy American
Speaker 1: lawyer and inventor Robert Rhines was enjoying tea and scones
Speaker 1: with his friends Winifred and Basil Carey at their home
Speaker 1: overlooking Urkut Bay. The China cups and saucers clinked daintily
Speaker 1: on the terrace as Winifred poured out the tea. When
Speaker 1: suddenly there was a disturbance in the water about half
Speaker 1: a mile off shore. Basil hurried to fetch his brass telescope,
Speaker 1: through which they all in turn observed a darkish hump
Speaker 1: about twenty feet long gliding through the water. The American
Speaker 1: Robert Rhines was transfixed. From that day on he became
Speaker 1: obsessed with the possibility of the Loch ness Monster. The
Speaker 1: following year, he returned to the loch, this time with
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars of equipment, which included two fully
Speaker 1: start vessels, a sixteen millimeter underwater camera, and most crucially,
Speaker 1: a sonar unit which would alert the team if a
Speaker 1: large object passed in front of the camera lens. Rhines
Speaker 1: the equipment positioned on an underwater ridge just off Temple Pier,
Speaker 1: where frequent sightings of NeSSI had been reported, while his
Speaker 1: two vessels, the Nan and the Narwal, hunted for the
Speaker 1: creature on the surface. At one thirty am on August eighth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, the waters were deathly still as Peter Davis,
Speaker 1: captain of the Narwal, fought to stay awake on the
Speaker 1: night watch. Ten minutes later, he was jolted from semi
Speaker 1: sleep when the water's surface began to boil with turbulence.
Speaker 1: Shining his torch over the side, Davis could just make
Speaker 1: out the thrashing and leaping bodies of a large run
Speaker 1: of salmon dashing past the boat. Davis rushed to the
Speaker 1: bridge and checked the sonar. The fish appeared as pinpoints,
Speaker 1: rapidly turning into flashing streaks as they sped away like
Speaker 1: a storm of shooting stars. Then something else, much larger
Speaker 1: and denser, began to take form. Davis felt a surge
Speaker 1: of excitement at the sheer size of it. The excitement
Speaker 1: soon turned to fear, however, when he climbed into the
Speaker 1: Narwal's small tender boat to alert the crew of the
Speaker 1: Nan who controlled the underwater camera. With the prospect of
Speaker 1: a very large animal moving about in the water just
Speaker 1: thirty feet below him, with trembling hands, he cast off
Speaker 1: and began to row. Before long, he'd made it the
Speaker 1: forty meters across to the Nan, and the cameras were
Speaker 1: promptly turned on Later that morning, the film was recovered
Speaker 1: and sent to New York to be developed. Meanwhile, Rhines
Speaker 1: and his team were left to pore over the sonar traces,
Speaker 1: concluding that the large, dense object was an aquatic animal
Speaker 1: estimated to be between twenty to thirty feet long, with
Speaker 1: appendages as much as ten feet long. When the photos
Speaker 1: came back from New York, Robert Ryanes was disappointed to
Speaker 1: find that almost two thousand frames of the developed footage
Speaker 1: showed nothing but blackness. But then on four of the
Speaker 1: frames was the hazy outline of something large and solid.
Speaker 1: Encouraged by the images, Ryans had the frames sent to
Speaker 1: a contact who worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 1: There they ran the images through the same computerized enhancement
Speaker 1: that NASA used on images from space missions. The result
Speaker 1: was four high definition black and white images which seemed
Speaker 1: to show the clear outline of a massive object under
Speaker 1: the water. Ryanes and his team were most excited by
Speaker 1: the fourth image, which appeared to show a diamond shaped,
Speaker 1: mottled thing with a central rib estimated to be six
Speaker 1: feet long and two feet across. It looked like a
Speaker 1: giant flipper. Unlike that of any known living aquatic animal.
Speaker 1: With this sensational piece of new evidence to hand, Rhyanes
Speaker 1: had the images published in the American news magazine Time
Speaker 1: and the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies in house journal Technology Review.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy five, Ryanes met naturalist Peter Scott, by
Speaker 1: which time he'd collected even more images of the supposed creature.
Speaker 1: One frame depicted a long, slender structure curving up from
Speaker 1: a bulbous shape which had two angular flipperlike protuberances. A
Speaker 1: second showed a seemingly organic man pock marked with deep
Speaker 1: shadows with two peculiar stalklike projections for an ecstatic rhymes.
Speaker 1: The first image was clearly the creature's torso, and the
Speaker 1: second was the creature's face looking straight at the camera,
Speaker 1: the deepest pool of shadow apparently its open mouth. Peter
Speaker 1: Scott was intrigued, but soon afterwards five senior scientists from
Speaker 1: the Natural History Museum in London, including experts in zoology, fish,
Speaker 1: paleontology and fossil reptiles, concluded there was nothing to suggest
Speaker 1: there really was an unknown giant animal in the photographs.
Speaker 1: The apparent torso, they said, was more likely to be
Speaker 1: a large log or a swarm of midge lava appearing
Speaker 1: as a solid mass, while the apparent image of the
Speaker 1: creature's head was more likely that of a dead horse.
Speaker 1: By then, Peter Scott had become the president of the
Speaker 1: World Wildlife Fund. Despite the debunking of the so called
Speaker 1: NeSSI evidence by most in mainstream science, Scott was so
Speaker 1: convinced the creature existed that he proposed the WWF adopt
Speaker 1: NeSSI as a real creature and even use it as
Speaker 1: their new logo. After all, if it were real, it
Speaker 1: would prove to be a prime example of a previously
Speaker 1: undiscovered species poised on the brink of extinction, the perfect
Speaker 1: emblem for endangered animals across the globe. Scott also proposed
Speaker 1: a scientific name for it, Nessiterus Rombopteryx NeSSI, from loch
Speaker 1: ness Terras meaning marvel, rombo meaning diamond shape, and terix
Speaker 1: meaning wing or fin. A paper by Scott and Rhines
Speaker 1: dis describing the creature was even published by the journal Nature.
Speaker 1: Within months, however, Ryan's images reached a wider audience and
Speaker 1: a strong consensusubmerged among the experts that its creature was
Speaker 1: nothing more than a collection of inanimate objects. Nature was
Speaker 1: eventually forced to publish a retraction. In May nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 1: the self described wizard, psychic magician, and monster watcher Anthony
Speaker 1: Dock Shields arrived at Lochness with members of a group
Speaker 1: known as Psychic seven International. Together, they stripped off their
Speaker 1: clothes and stood by the locke, chanting for the apparent
Speaker 1: monster to reveal itself, though nothing happened. A short time later,
Speaker 1: as they trushed back to their cars, Shields and some
Speaker 1: other men members of the group reportedly saw three humps
Speaker 1: gliding through the water towards Fort Augustus at the southern
Speaker 1: end of the loch. Shields had a reputation for being
Speaker 1: a prankster and would later create a series of hoax
Speaker 1: photographs of the loch Ness Monster. He insisted, however, that
Speaker 1: this first sighting was genuine, as an advocate of the
Speaker 1: theory that the monster was some kind of supernatural entity
Speaker 1: inadvertently brought to the lock by Aleister Crowley's unfinished a
Speaker 1: cult ritual back in eighteen ninety nine, it came as
Speaker 1: little surprised to him that soon after his first apparent sighting,
Speaker 1: he and his family had a run of bad luck.
Speaker 1: Shields himself was set upon by a mob while in Plymouth,
Speaker 1: where his beard was later somehow accidentally set on fire.
Speaker 1: One daughter was thrown off a horse, while the other
Speaker 1: was stricken with abdominal pains, and his son was involved
Speaker 1: in a motorbike crash. Soon after, perhaps partially due to
Speaker 1: shields hoax photographs, interest and the Lochness Monster began to
Speaker 1: wane once again. Then, in the mid nineteen nineties, the
Speaker 1: apparent monster's existence was struck another giant blow when a
Speaker 1: man called Maurice Chambers died. Maurice Chambers had been a
Speaker 1: good friend of Marmaduke weather Or, actor and big game
Speaker 1: hunter hired by The Daily Mail back in nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: four to hunt NeSSI. He'd even accompanied weather All on
Speaker 1: that trip, where the hunter not only failed to find
Speaker 1: the monster but presented fake footprints of the creature. After
Speaker 1: Maurice Chambers's death, his personal papers came to light. They
Speaker 1: contained a stunning revelation about the most famous Nessy image
Speaker 1: of all, the so called Surgeon's photograph from nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 1: As it transpired. According to Maurice Chambers's papers, Marmaduke whether
Speaker 1: All had been badly hurt by the ridicule and humiliation
Speaker 1: he suffered at the hands of the Daily Mail in
Speaker 1: the wake of his flimsy efforts to convince the world
Speaker 1: he'd found evidence of the Lochness Monster, and he wanted revenge.
Speaker 1: At some point in nineteen thirty three, Marmaduke whether All
Speaker 1: persuaded his step son, Christian Spurling, who happened to be
Speaker 1: a sculptor, to help him construct a believable model of
Speaker 1: the monster. More than happy to play along, Spurling first
Speaker 1: bought a toy submarine, then, after fashioning a long necked
Speaker 1: beast out of putty, he placed it on top of
Speaker 1: the sub so that its head neck protruded thirty centimeters
Speaker 1: above the water. Whether All then placed the model in
Speaker 1: a quiet cove and photographed it from a convincing distance.
Speaker 1: For the last step in the ruse. Whether All then
Speaker 1: passed the fake photos to a surgeon friend of his,
Speaker 1: Robert Kenneth Wilson. Knowing that Wilson's status as a physician
Speaker 1: would lend credibility to the story. A keen, practical joker himself,
Speaker 1: Wilson agreed to act as the hoaxes. Respectable but anonymous frontman.
Speaker 1: The rest was history, and all the men had been
Speaker 1: prepared to take their secret to the grave. Were it
Speaker 1: not for the discovery of Chambers's papers, the truth about
Speaker 1: the pictures might have forever remained unknown. A few years
Speaker 1: after the truth about the Surgeons photo came to light,
Speaker 1: twenty first century science would deliver a seemingly final, crushing
Speaker 1: blow to the existence of NeSSI. The rapidly evolving techniques
Speaker 1: of DNA analysis now means that unknown creatures can be
Speaker 1: identified by more than just blood and bones. In the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, Brian Sykes, a professor of human genetics
Speaker 1: at Oxford University, found a way to extract and analyze
Speaker 1: DNA from hair samples, which he applied to alleged Bigfoot
Speaker 1: and Yetty hair collected across North America and Asia. The
Speaker 1: DNA evidence showed only wild and domestic animals, already well
Speaker 1: known and local to the sites where the hair samples
Speaker 1: had been found. In twenty nineteen, genetics professor Neil Gemmel
Speaker 1: from New Zealand's University of Otago announced the results of
Speaker 1: genetically profiling two hundred and fifty one water samples taken
Speaker 1: from the Edges Centre and very depths of Lochness. His
Speaker 1: team's analysis of this so called environmental DNA showed all
Speaker 1: the fish and other freshwater species that you'd expect to
Speaker 1: find there, along with the DNA from familiar land based
Speaker 1: animals that lived around the loch. There was no evidence
Speaker 1: of an unknown species or a giant sturgeon, the most
Speaker 1: often quoted likely cause of Lockness Monster reports. But what
Speaker 1: the team did find was eel DNA in abundance. To date,
Speaker 1: the largest eel ever found measured no more than ten
Speaker 1: feet long. But in Professor Gemmill's conclusions, he stated, we
Speaker 1: can't discount the possibility that there maybe giant eels in Lochness,
Speaker 1: adding as a geneticist, I think about mutations and natural
Speaker 1: variation a lot, and it seems not impossible that something
Speaker 1: could grow to an unusual size. Tantalizingly, Gemmel made one
Speaker 1: final remark, given the vast volume of water in Lochness
Speaker 1: and that environmental DNA signals in water dissipate quickly, there
Speaker 1: remains the possibility there is something present that we did
Speaker 1: not detect. Nonetheless, sightings that the Lockness Monster continue as
Speaker 1: recently as June seventeenth, twenty twenty three, a French pharmacist
Speaker 1: from Leon, holidaying by Lockness, photographed what looked like a mysterious, long,
Speaker 1: shadowy shape moving through the water. What continues to cause
Speaker 1: such sightings remains unexplained. This episode was written by Diane
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