I bring you this headline from the bastion of journalistic excellence that is The Telegraph:
"Has the Loch Ness monster finally been caught on camera?"This seriously snarks itself, but here goes nothing. Okay, so apparently this is the Loch Ness monster:
Or at least what the photographer
humbly calls the "best picture ever" of the Loch Ness monster. I'm not even joking:
A monster hunter who has spent 26 years searching for the Loch Ness Monster claims to have taken the "best picture ever" of the beast, after dedicating 60 hours a week to his quest.
It looks like some trash or a dead fish or something to me. I don't understand why this even qualifies as "weird news" unless the "news" is that this guy is actually nuts enough to think that's seriously the Loch Ness monster (much less the "best picture ever" of it). Hell, even that's hardly news for a guy batty enough to have spent 60 hours a week for the past 26 years obsessively hunting Nessie.
Yet this is the best "evidence" he could come up with, and his ship is even equipped with sonar:
Mr Edwards his vessel's sonar to make a contact but to no avail. "I hung around for a good half-an-hour and used the deep scanning sonar to try and pick it up, but I'm afraid I had no luck at all."
Mr Edwards took the photo at 9am on 2nd November last year on a compact Samsung digital camera that he always keeps on the boat.
Before releasing it publicly he sent it to the USA for analysis, though he can't reveal further details.
Well, here's some analysis from the USA: I think you're crazy, an attention whore, or both.
...and you "can't reveal further details," eh? How convenient.
"I did not want to mention my sighting until I was sure that I had not photographed a log or something inanimate in the water in the water," he said.
lol, just lol.
I'm skeptical about the Loch Ness monster to say the least, but in fairness, it
is certainly the most
plausible cryptid I've read about at least. However, that's not exactly saying much, since virtually all of its competition in the "plausibility" department is ridiculous woo-woo like Six-Eyed, One-Winged, Goat-Sucking Demon-Cat-Reptiles from Jupiter. Things like that make Nessie sound downright boring and normal in comparison, really.