New Nessie News: Not

Benjamin Radford, who writes occasionally for Live Science debunking claims of the paranormal, takes aim at the recent report of new video of the Loch Ness monster. His conclusion? Not likely.

The Loch Ness monster has reputedly been captured—again (at least on film). In late May, a man named Gordon Holmes videotaped what he claims may be the famous creature.

Holmes described it as jet black and about forty-five feet in length, yet the video shows neither the creature's color nor its size; it is simply something moving in the water, leaving a typical long wake. Size and distance are notoriously difficult to estimate on lakes unless there are objects nearby of known size such as a boat or buoy……………

………………..It is likely that Holmes (like many tourists around Loch Ness) was hoping and expecting to see the creature, and thus interpreted what he saw as the monster. As researcher Loren Coleman noted on Cryptomundo, a Web site devoted to mysterious creatures, Gordon Holmes's credibility is not exactly crystalline: He has a history of claiming to see odd and unusual creatures, and he sells a self-published book and DVD featuring what he claims is evidence for the existence of fairies.

Well, that last revelation tends to undermine the credibility, doesn't it? This Holmes appears to be no Sherlock. Everyone knows there are no such things as fairies. The dragons and the wyverns ate them all. (Here's the Cryptomundo entry Radford mentions. It isn't exactly complimentary.)