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Sweden's Loch Ness monster possibly caught on camera
Sweden's Loch Ness monster possibly caught on camera
Fri Aug 29, 11:51 AM ET
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Sweden's own version of the Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe or Great Lake monster, has been caught on film by surveillance videos, an association that installed the cameras said Friday.
The legend of the Swedish beast has swirled for nearly four centuries, with some 200 sightings reported in the lake in central Sweden. "On Thursday at 12:21 pm, we filmed the movements of a live being. And it was not a pike, nor a perch, we're sure of that," Gunnar Nilsson, the head of a shopkeepers' association in Svenstavik, told AFP.
The association, together with the Jaemtland province and local municipality of Berg, installed six surveillance cameras in the lake in June, including two underwater devices.
The project, which has so far cost some 400,000 kronor (43,000 euros, 62,500 dollars), is aimed at resolving the mystery of the Swedish Nessie.
The first sighting dates back to 1635 and the most recent to July 2007, with most speaking of a long, serpent-like beast with humps, a small cat or dog-like head, and ears or fins pressed against the neck.
The association employs one person full-time to review the recorded video footage each day.
In the images filmed Thursday and posted on a website dedicated to the Storsjoe monster (www.storsjoodjuret.nu), a long serpent-like being is seen swimming in the murky waters.
"A highly-advanced system on one of the cameras detected heat produced by the cells," indicating that it was a live being, Nilsson said.
"It's very exciting and quite spectacular," he said.
He readily admitted however that the project was also "aimed at improving business around the lake."
"The monster has helped us," he added.
Some 20 more cameras are due to be installed soon, including one at a depth of 30 metres (100 feet) to catch any movements under the winter ice.
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Ex-Detective Hunts the Loch Ness Monster
(Dec. 16) -- A former U.K. detective is out to prove that a film shot 50 years ago by his father, allegedly showing the legendary Loch Ness Monster, is the real deal.
Simon Dinsdale, of Essex, England, spent his professional law enforcement career tracking down criminals. And the Loch Ness Monster is a case he especially wants to solve, reports the BBC.
Fifty years ago, his father, Tim Dinsdale, a respected aeronautical engineer, became a celebrated "Nessie" hunter after filming a mysterious animal swimming in the fabled 23-mile-long Scottish lake.
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This 1934 photo of the Loch Ness Monster taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson was later exposed as a hoax. Despite that, over many decades, thousands of people have reported seeing a large, unknown animal in the 23-mile-long Scottish lake.
After the Royal Air Force, or RAF, determined his footage was not a boat or submarine, they concluded it might have been an unknown animate object.
For centuries, thousands of people have reported seeing unusual creatures in the lake. Photgraphs and films have been offered up as proof of the animals' existence, but most haven't held up to skeptical scrutiny.
Simon Dinsdale says he's seen the "monster" twice and is on a personal mission to prove to the world that his father's original film represents legitimate evidence.
"You should never discount eyewitnesses," Dinsdale said. "After all, I'm an eyewitness, myself. More than 1,000 people, I think, are recorded as having seen something large in the loch ... seen pretty much the same thing -- we've described the same thing.
"But I've spent 30 years in the police service. You can't just take eyewitness testimony -- it's not sufficient."
In 1960, Dinsdale's father's description of what he saw echoes the many eyewitness accounts that followed for decades.
"I saw this immense, extraordinary object, it looked like the back of a huge animal," he said. "Reddish brown, it stood 2 to 3 feet out of the water, 4 or 5 feet across, probably nearly as long as this boat, quite motionless ... and a blotch on the left flank which I could see very clearly, and then it started to move. A most electrifying moment."
Half a century after his father's encounter, Simon Dinsdale returned to Loch Ness this summer after 25 years, and he's looking for clues to prove that Nessie is real.
"I can look at all the body of evidence, and I'm experienced at looking at evidence, and I can tell you that ... on the balance of probabilities, there is something large and unknown living in this loch."
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