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Loch Ness Monster: The Ultimate Experiment

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Nessie swims in Loch for TV show

Sightseers were duped into believing they had seen the Loch Ness Monster as part of a TV experiment.
Channel Five spent £100,000 creating an animatronic beast which it submerged in the Scottish loch for two weeks, filming the reaction of tourists.

More than 600 people were filmed trying to catch a glimpse of the 16ft "creature" at the tourist spot.

The result of the experiment will be revealed in Loch Ness Monster: The Ultimate Experiment on 28 August.

Producers of the programme said the reaction to the "monster" varied greatly from those who believed it was true to those that knew it was a hoax.

"Some people were thinking 'what is it?' - they couldn't quite work it out - whereas other people thought it was the waves and some were saying they had definitely seen a green hump," said a Five spokesman.

"I think it shows that people still want to believe in the myth."

Part of the tour

The creature, named Lucy, was made by a special effects company owned by Jez Harris, who helped create Star Wars character Jabba the Hut.

Divers had to aid the creature under water.

"Making the monster itself was not difficult, it was getting it buoyant so it could raise itself to the surface," said Mr Harris.

Ronald Mackenzie, who runs Royal Scot boat cruises, said he was surprised when he first saw the monster because he was unaware Five was putting it in the water.

"There were a lot of Americans who were impressed, some people who believed it and others who thought it was just part of the tour," he said.
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There's nothing about this on Channel 5's horrendous website, and it probably won't be as entertaining as the Incident at Loch Ness film, but might be worth tuning in for. Seems a bit pointless, though.
 
they could've got a similar result using an old tree trunk surely? not sure what they're trying to prove by doing this
 
that people are idiots

a proverbaly shy creature such as nessie would not go near a tour boat.

remember the Silver lake monster?
 
I'm taping it to watch later this week. Let me know if it's worth it!
 
by the looks of it possibly not, unless you're keen on animatronic monsters.

perhaps if they'd titled it

"Loch Ness - a bunch of geeks f**k with tourist's heads"

it would've been slightly more bearable. :roll:

"Ultimate Experiment" - my *rse
 
bit of a waste of time, didn't really prove anything other than Channel 5 are rubbish :?

an hour and a half of them messing about with a fake monster, and then about 20 seconds at the end of the show where a couple of the witnesses were told it was a fake and go "oooh, really, well what if something did turn up"

By doing their final trick of appearing in front of a boat load of Nessie spotters they showed how pointless the whole thing was, I have a suspicion they could've just put a log in the water and a lot of the people would've believed it to be Nessie. In fact they could've not bothered with the monster at all and just tried to fool people with a log or an old car tyre or something, certainly would've saved them money to make more porn shows :roll:


not quite as bad as that Charles Fort play on radio 4 though ;)
 
I saw it and if you will forgive me for turning the air blue I thought it was an unmittigated pile of **** and ******* pig **** that some ****head art student whose daddy is high up at channel 5 had wrote up on the back of a fag packet and probably thought he was being teribly clever.

When watching the program I got the impression that it was poorly researched and an attempt to make fun of people who belive that a monster could exist. They didn't even get the monster right, prefereing to go with a pliesiosaur rather than the giant eel like monster that is reported more often in witness sightings (and the more reliable ones may I add). the whole thig seemed rushed too with the final rig for the pliesiosaur cobbled together from a ladder and insulation tape in 5 mins after they sunk the sub on it's maiden voyage. It was dangerous and one diver had to be taken to hospital too, which all showed how badly planned it was and how amature it was in it's execution.

The movement of the animals head and neck could have done with a lot more practice too, for eample most of the time the neck was above water when the heas was still underwater, which looked most unnatural and the movements were very jerky. In the sightings (which would have seemed put on to the observers in many cases, not least because of the poor acting from the stooges/spys on the boat and in the campsite) the lump of rubber was so far away that some people even thought it was a rock or a log after looking though binoculars at it.

Big fat waste of money and slightly inteligence insulting if you ask me, maybe channel 5 should have just put a familly affairs omnibus on instead (even that rubbish would have been better).
 
What were they trying to prove?

If I went to Loch Ness and saw the Loch Ness monster one of my conclusions would be - its the Loch Ness monster. It hardly tells us much. An actual log would have been more convincing because you could then see the range of reactions to an actual log.

They clearly thought they'd do something along the line so of that UFO faking documentary (Channel 4 or 5?) which was interetsing as it hsowed the range of eyewitness statements and their inability to estimate scale (although again it seemed a bit silly - if you fly a flying saucer through the sky people will report seeing a flying saucer - its not rocket science. Its not reall saucer science either but........).
 
At the Centre for Fortean Zoology message board a number of us have been emailing to channel 5 to complain about the show, as I stated in perfect prose, utiliseing asterixs, I was not impressed and thought it was a huge wate that was insulting to many people's point of veiw, so if anyone agrees with me (and Richard Freeman who raised similar points on a thread at the CFZ board and asked me to email channel 5 after he had) please email channel 5:

[email protected]

They said in their reply to me that they are passing the coments on to the program makers and offcom so keap them clean andas polite as possible as a complaint full of insults and swearwords rarely gets taken seriously.
 
Blimey, people are really cross on the CFZ website aren't they.

I would complain but I've used all my stamps complaining to Tim Burton, as an amateur confectioner I feel very strongly that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory trivialises my work
 
They clearly thought they'd do something along the line so of that UFO faking documentary.
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The Channel 4 UFO hoax wasn't anywhere near as successful they made it out to be on the programme. The main intended targets of the hoax seem to have been members of the local organisation APRA (Anomalous Phenomena Research Agency) who had organised a skywatch for that night, and were gathering at a country pub near Avebury. Seeing the underpowered disc-shaped balloon come wobbling towards them, they recognised it immediately as an underpowered disc-shaped balloon, and carried on drinking their pints.
The film SFX crew created something that looked ‘right’ on camera, but they didn’t create something that looked ‘right’ to the naked eye at the time – which is what film and TV SFX is all about.
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See A Very British UFO Hoax for full report.

I haven't seen the Loch Ness one, as I don't watch TV anymore. You're wasting your time complaining to Channel 5, though. The only thing they care about is whether the show got good ratings on the night.
 
Mighty_Emperor said:
They clearly thought they'd do something along the line so of that UFO faking documentary (Channel 4 or 5?) which was interetsing as it hsowed the range of eyewitness statements and their inability to estimate scale (although again it seemed a bit silly - if you fly a flying saucer through the sky people will report seeing a flying saucer - its not rocket science. Its not reall saucer science either but........).
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graylien said:
The Channel 4 UFO hoax wasn't anywhere near as successful they made it out to be on the programme. The main intended targets of the hoax seem to have been members of the local organisation APRA (Anomalous Phenomena Research Agency) who had organised a skywatch for that night, and were gathering at a country pub near Avebury. Seeing the underpowered disc-shaped balloon come wobbling towards them, they recognised it immediately as an underpowered disc-shaped balloon, and carried on drinking their pints.
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Interestingly, someone appears to have uploaded a whole copy of the original classic CH4 tv programme "A Very British UFO Hoax" onto Youtube....I am absolutely-convinced that it was not there, the last time I looked...and have searched for it many times (it claims to have been up for three years)

(And apologies for this thread reanimation not have been about not being the Loch Ness Monster, but in fact about something not being a UFO...)
 
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