David Tame
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Yes, this happened and I not only saw but had a copy of the clear video. But there are frustrating aspects to this tale, though it often comes to my mind. A friend I've known since the 1970s, more of a friend of a friend, whom I'll just call Ed for reasons which'll become apparent had this experience and gave me a copy on DVD. As character reference, may I just say that Ed is very highly intelligent, utterly honest, and used to have the reputation of being something of a genius. (In his teens he built his own REAL rockets which he launched from his parents' garden until officials called round to stop him as they were a "danger to low-flying aircraft".
Two of us went to visit him, which is the last time I did see him, something like fifteen years ago now. The evening was quite late when he casually mentioned this experience, and we pressed him to tell more. Sorry I don't recall all details, after the years. He was hiking solo up a Scottish mountain, and happened across two hiking girls. So when he wanted to go to the loo, he went some way down the far side of the mountain for privacy (don't remember which one), and from this high vantage he was looking down upon a loch (I don't remember which one - but not large). At this point he saw the image of an absolutely typical loch-monster head sticking some way out of the water, and he could see the body since he was high up, looking down into the loch. He did say that he regrets forgetting that he had an excellent top-range camera with him, but if he'd fiddled with that my comment is that he wouldn't have picked up his video camera. So he proceeded to show us the absolutely stunning and unique video he took.
By the time he started filming, the head and neck had unfortunately gone back into the water, but you can see the body shape - I have to say just as you'd imagine a plesiosaur to be, and I'd estimate roughly that the bulk of the body was 9 to 12 yards long. You could see it fairly well since it's taken from a high elevation, looking down at - and therefore into - the water. I can't say for sure that what I saw actually broke surface, but if not it was only inches below the surface, displacing the water and leaving a wake. It moved from the "right" near the end of the loch to very near the near shore, then swerved right at the shore and swam off along the loch away from the camera and to the left, at steady speed. I thought about it, but no way was it a "shoal of fish" but definitely one large moving body - and Ed had seen its head and neck anyway. Well, this is startling enough, but as it swerved from the shore another appeared just like it from the same place, and took just the same course. As that one moved away, a third appeared from the same place and again took the same course.
At a rough guess these three forms, just inches below surface and maybe slightly breaking surface, were 300 yards away or more - hard to tell. The perspective was looking down at them from maybe 25 degrees. But Ed used the video camera magnificently, zooming in frequently, but also cleverly panning out so that you could still see these forms, but both sides of the loch and surrounds, and you got an excellent sense of place, distance, and size from this. Well, I'd never heard of three monsters all seen together in one loch before! (It's possible each had just gone out of sight down the loch when the next appeared.) And Ed, who had this on DVD, made copies for his closer friend and I. I assure you that this video would cause a minor sensation if released. Ed is fully honest and wouldn't fake this. And the film is pretty clear. He almost didn't tell us about it and was in no hurry to.
Now it gets frustrating. Ed and I are both veterans of much reading about Fortean events, primarily UFOs, and the kind of ridicule you get prey to. And he felt it doesn't lead to any advance of knowledge anyway. So he didn't want to release the DVD, nor for us to do so, not to go public. And after a handful of years --- I found I just could not locate my copy!! I've since twice moved so I can't have it by now. All this wish for anonymity is why I'm not giving his surname. I'm not now in touch. We do have a mutual friend, but he feels Ed still wouldn't want to go public with this film. Maybe I'll pursue this again sometime, but tend to think Ed won't have changed his mind. (If he reads this, you can let us know!) So that's it - three obvious 'monsters' in one loch, which loch didn't appear so very large, so as physical creatures I don't see how they'd feed themselves.
Two of us went to visit him, which is the last time I did see him, something like fifteen years ago now. The evening was quite late when he casually mentioned this experience, and we pressed him to tell more. Sorry I don't recall all details, after the years. He was hiking solo up a Scottish mountain, and happened across two hiking girls. So when he wanted to go to the loo, he went some way down the far side of the mountain for privacy (don't remember which one), and from this high vantage he was looking down upon a loch (I don't remember which one - but not large). At this point he saw the image of an absolutely typical loch-monster head sticking some way out of the water, and he could see the body since he was high up, looking down into the loch. He did say that he regrets forgetting that he had an excellent top-range camera with him, but if he'd fiddled with that my comment is that he wouldn't have picked up his video camera. So he proceeded to show us the absolutely stunning and unique video he took.
By the time he started filming, the head and neck had unfortunately gone back into the water, but you can see the body shape - I have to say just as you'd imagine a plesiosaur to be, and I'd estimate roughly that the bulk of the body was 9 to 12 yards long. You could see it fairly well since it's taken from a high elevation, looking down at - and therefore into - the water. I can't say for sure that what I saw actually broke surface, but if not it was only inches below the surface, displacing the water and leaving a wake. It moved from the "right" near the end of the loch to very near the near shore, then swerved right at the shore and swam off along the loch away from the camera and to the left, at steady speed. I thought about it, but no way was it a "shoal of fish" but definitely one large moving body - and Ed had seen its head and neck anyway. Well, this is startling enough, but as it swerved from the shore another appeared just like it from the same place, and took just the same course. As that one moved away, a third appeared from the same place and again took the same course.
At a rough guess these three forms, just inches below surface and maybe slightly breaking surface, were 300 yards away or more - hard to tell. The perspective was looking down at them from maybe 25 degrees. But Ed used the video camera magnificently, zooming in frequently, but also cleverly panning out so that you could still see these forms, but both sides of the loch and surrounds, and you got an excellent sense of place, distance, and size from this. Well, I'd never heard of three monsters all seen together in one loch before! (It's possible each had just gone out of sight down the loch when the next appeared.) And Ed, who had this on DVD, made copies for his closer friend and I. I assure you that this video would cause a minor sensation if released. Ed is fully honest and wouldn't fake this. And the film is pretty clear. He almost didn't tell us about it and was in no hurry to.
Now it gets frustrating. Ed and I are both veterans of much reading about Fortean events, primarily UFOs, and the kind of ridicule you get prey to. And he felt it doesn't lead to any advance of knowledge anyway. So he didn't want to release the DVD, nor for us to do so, not to go public. And after a handful of years --- I found I just could not locate my copy!! I've since twice moved so I can't have it by now. All this wish for anonymity is why I'm not giving his surname. I'm not now in touch. We do have a mutual friend, but he feels Ed still wouldn't want to go public with this film. Maybe I'll pursue this again sometime, but tend to think Ed won't have changed his mind. (If he reads this, you can let us know!) So that's it - three obvious 'monsters' in one loch, which loch didn't appear so very large, so as physical creatures I don't see how they'd feed themselves.