MAXY MAY HAVE FOUND SOMETHING RATHER REMARKABLE

I won't witter on any further on the subject. Over to Max, on his blog....

LINDSAY SELBY: A monster hunter and a gentleman.

There is one monster hunter at Loch Ness, an academic, that not many people know about. Most have heard of Frank Searle, Tim Dinsdale, Roy Mackal and Bob Rines but I wonder how many know the name of Henry Bauer? Henry first visited the Loch in 1958 and has spent many summers there since. Henry believes in Nessie, wrote a book about it and you can find out more at his website:
http://henryhbauer.homestead.com/LochNessFacts.html

Extract from his website: Because the media continue to treat Nessie only as an amusing story. The objective and strong evidence summarized in the above article is not properly presented in the "documentary" films and television programs about the subject. There have been at least 18 such programs (in English alone) since the 1970s. Typically they give the false impression that eyewitness reports are the main grounds for believing Nessies to be real. Often the strongest evidence is not even mentioned, and when it is, it is often misrepresented. For a detailed analysis of the 17 documentaries shown between 1972 and 2001, see my article,

"Common Knowledge about the Loch Ness Monster" Journal of Scientific Exploration, 16(3): 455--477 (2002)

I had published earlier analyses of the coverage that Nessie has received in newspapers, magazines, and books:

Public Perception of the Loch Ness Monster, Scottish Naturalist, 1988, 69--93
The Loch Ness Monster: Public Perception and the Evidence, Cryptozoology, 1 (1982) 40—45

Henry does have some controversial theories on some subjects but I have always found him to be a gentleman and very friendly and helpful. He and Tim Dinsdale got along well and I could see why: they were both, I found, to be basically nice honest people (which is more than can be said for some that were around the Loch at various times). Henry has always replied when I have contacted him, is always pleasant and helpful so I thought he deserved a blog post.

http://henryhbauer.homestead.com/

LINDSAY SELBY: Another look at the classic Florida monster attack

When I wrote the Florida River Monster blog I mentioned this attack and I thought it may be an urban myth.

Always ready to be proved wrong, I investigated further and in Tim Dinsdale's book The Leviathans" (1976 ed Futura London Paperback), I found the following, which I have scanned in (attached). You should be able to click on it and make it bigger to read comfortably.

It is a letter Tim Dinsdale received from the surviving diver, which tells the story of what happened. What they encountered could

have been a large seal of some kind; possibly a leopard seal.

Leopard seals are aggressive and one pulled a young researcher under the ice a few years ago and she perished. What it would have been doing in that area I have no idea. Some will say the survivor was hallucinating or traumatised because of the loss of his friends and so made the story up, not consciously but as an explanation to ease his pain. I don't know; all I can say is read it for yourself and come to your own conclusions. If it is true, it is a frightening episode.