Lock Ness Can’t Rest In Peace

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Nessie is making headlines again.

A while ago I read the news about the confession of the man who claimed that he had faked the story about Lock Ness monster in his deathbed, and now a British man claimed that he caught the monster on video:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=55283

Deathbed confession:

In a story not nearly as fascinating or obscure as the Piltdown hoax, but at least on par with the faked fairy photos that gulled Arthur Conan Doyle, the most famous photo of Nessie as a relative of the long-extinct plesiosaurs was reported to have been faked. David Martin, a zoologist, and Alastair Boyd were members of a scientific project to find Nessie. They are credited by the London Sunday Telegraph [March, 12, 1994] as having dug up the story of the faked photo, which was staged using a toy submarine. Christian Spurling, who died in the fall of 1993, was said to have made a deathbed confession of his role in the prank. The fake photo was not taken by Wilson–his name was used to give the photo stature and integrity–but by Spurling’s stepbrother, Ian Wetherell. Ian’s father, Marmaduke (“Duke”) Wetherell, had been hired by the London Daily Mail to find the monster. Wetherell was a filmmaker who described himself as a “big game hunter.” What bigger game could there be than Nessie? Except that the big game was actually a small model of a sea serpent made of plastic wood attached to a 14-inch toy submarine! Actually, the game did get big as the little prank created such a huge fuss that the pranksters decided that the best thing for them to do would be to keep quiet.

Source: http://skepdic.com/nessie.html

Christian Spurling’s hoax game:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s398298.htm

Scientists say fossil a hoax:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0729_030729_lochness_2.html

Deathbed confession debunked? :
http://www.bfro.net/news/challenge/green.asp

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[Anonymous]

Nessie is making headlines again.

A while ago I read the news about the confession of the man who claimed that he had faked the story about Lock Ness monster in his deathbed, and now a British man claimed that he caught the monster on video:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=55283

Deathbed confession:

In a story not nearly as fascinating or obscure as the Piltdown hoax, but at least on par with the faked fairy photos that gulled Arthur Conan Doyle, the most famous photo of Nessie as a relative of the long-extinct plesiosaurs was reported to have been faked. David Martin, a zoologist, and Alastair Boyd were members of a scientific project to find Nessie. They are credited by the London Sunday Telegraph [March, 12, 1994] as having dug up the story of the faked photo, which was staged using a toy submarine. Christian Spurling, who died in the fall of 1993, was said to have made a deathbed confession of his role in the prank. The fake photo was not taken by Wilson–his name was used to give the photo stature and integrity–but by Spurling’s stepbrother, Ian Wetherell. Ian’s father, Marmaduke (“Duke”) Wetherell, had been hired by the London Daily Mail to find the monster. Wetherell was a filmmaker who described himself as a “big game hunter.” What bigger game could there be than Nessie? Except that the big game was actually a small model of a sea serpent made of plastic wood attached to a 14-inch toy submarine! Actually, the game did get big as the little prank created such a huge fuss that the pranksters decided that the best thing for them to do would be to keep quiet.

Source: http://skepdic.com/nessie.html

Christian Spurling’s hoax game:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s398298.htm

Scientists say fossil a hoax:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0729_030729_lochness_2.html

Deathbed confession debunked? :
http://www.bfro.net/news/challenge/green.asp

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