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"Sightings" of the Loch Ness monster go all the way back to
the 7th century, when Saint Columba, an Irish monk determined to convert
the Picts, let his companion swim across the lake and when the "water
beast" approached him, he managed to advert it with the power of
prayer. A great story, and obviously Christian propaganda, no more. In
modern times, the monster was first sighted in 1933, in 1938, the creature
was first captured on film, 1954 a fishing boat made sonar contact with
what could have been the monster, and so on and so forth. Today,
Nessie is a tourist attraction, mainly, and the sightings have gone back,
even though in the film, one William Jobes shows some recently taken
photos of Nessie - but they are inconclusive as all the other pictures.
The film is closed by the report of a "scientist", who insists
to remain anonymous (and is thus played by Jack Burrows in the interview
segment), who actually claims to have seen the monster taken on board of
an UFO and shipped off to wherever - he can't give any evidence whatsoever
though ... And it's with this ending the documentary somehow
falls apart: Up onto the final interview with the "scientist",
the movie highlights the facts about Nessie-history, debunks some theories
while being hesitant to debunk others, and it's actually Guiness Book
Record holder in Nessie-hunting Steve Feltham who has the most sombre
ideas about the monster, that it might just be a catfish, a species that
was planted in many British lakes around 100 years ago, and since they
must have been full gronw in the 1930's, that might explain the many
sightings then, and with their life cycle ending about now, this might be
the reason for the relative scarcity of Nessie reports of late. Now there
is no proof for it, but it makes sense, as do other theories about
especially big eels and such - but to throw a UFO into the mix without any
precedence or proof? Oh well, the movie could have definitely done without
this ending, because otherwise it's a pretty interesting documentary that
is also well-filmed and captures the darkly beautiful lake and its
surroundings rather brilliantly ...
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