# Nessie finally caught on camera? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2012, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409 "2012-08-04T09:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/21 "2012-08-05T21:11:46Z")
I don’t think it is photoshopped, but I do think it is not that hard to attach something to an toy underwater submarine, have it pulled across the water, and make a picture. That is [how the 1933 Nessie picture was made](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster#Hugh_Gray.27s_Photograph_.281933.29), no? In that case, he is not even lying when he says that his sources comfirm that the picture is " a real picture of something moving through the water" . Also, that second picture shows the man to be way, way too attentionseeking. Anyone who wears such a beard, such a tan and such a captains cap so un-ironically is trying to set us up. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/22 "2012-08-06T04:54:38Z")
Why would anybody go through the effort of photoshopping a dark, nondescript object bobbing about the surface of the water? If they were going to photoshop something, at least make it look interesting. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/23 "2012-08-06T05:04:41Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Why would anybody go through the effort of photoshopping a dark, nondescript object bobbing about the surface of the water? If they were going to photoshop something, at least make it look interesting. Trace: You know Jenny? Mum: Jenny Jenny? Trace: No, Microwave Jenny. She says the trick is to make them look real, but not too real, just real enough to know they’re fake. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/24 "2012-08-06T05:07:31Z")
But do they bob about the surface of the water? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/25 "2012-08-06T06:27:33Z")
No sense of scale. It looks tiny to me, the size of a regular fish. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/26 "2012-08-06T14:36:32Z")
Did anyone check to see if he was still wearing both of his shoes? ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/27 "2012-08-06T14:38:50Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > So, the Loch Ness monster is a sturgeon? I think you’ve got it! I was going to say an otter humping his back out of the water, but the boney ridge plates look much more sturgeon-like. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/28 "2012-08-06T14:46:43Z")
Either a sturgeon or a Florsheim. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/29 "2012-08-23T11:26:10Z")
[latest news](http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/08/doing-the-humpty-hump-edwards-nessie-photo-matches-fiberglass-prop/) > [@](#): > > […] things have moved forward on this story as resident monster hunter, Steve Feltham, has unearthed evidence that may well prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the picture is a staged hoax. According to the Daily Mail (link still not up), Steve was told by a friend that the picture looked a lot like a fake hump he had owned. > > The hump is about ten years old and was used two years ago for the “Truth Behind the Loch Ness Monster” documentary made by National Geographic. Steve says that at 5m47s into this documentary you can see the hump on George Edwards’ boat … and again at 6m54s in the water. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/30 "2012-08-23T11:29:57Z")
A fake hump? Nessie was faking all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/31 "2012-08-23T11:48:50Z")
A friend of mine has told me about staying in a scout camp by Loch Ness when he was a boy. Neither he nor any of the other kids saw any trace of Nessie, something that he attributed to being too young to drink whisky at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/32 "2012-08-23T12:23:40Z")
I believe in Nessie. I lost both arms to her in an arm-wrestling contest at the 1991 Highland games. In retrospect, “best of three” was a bad idea. (Typed with nose.) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/33 "2012-08-23T13:33:54Z")
[Igor] What hump? [/Igor] ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/34 "2012-08-23T13:55:56Z")
If Nessie isn’t real, then who did I just loan “tree-fiddy” to? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/35 "2012-08-23T14:41:13Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Working a tourist boat on the Ness makes you an expert monster hunter? It does unless you run afoul of those meddling kids…and their dog. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/36 "2012-08-23T15:32:02Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > If Nessie isn’t real, then who did I just loan “tree-fiddy” to? I gave him a dollar. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409/37 "2012-08-24T14:08:38Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > If Nessie isn’t real, then who did I just loan “tree-fiddy” to? And that’s when I noticed he was thirty feet tall and a crustacean from the Paleozoic era! Damn you Loch Ness Monster, you tricked me again! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409.md?page=1)