Loch Ness: They Created a Monster

11/22/2023

To be honest, I was rather disappointed with this documentary. I was expecting something a bit more forensic about just how the myth of this beastie became the stuff of global interest. Instead, we get a slightly lightweight and repetitive bitching exercise about who amongst the supposed resident "Nessie" investigators were or might have been frauds. Now I am old enough to recall the appearance at the time of some of the photos and recall the hype, but as many of these images were later proved to be flawed, I was interested in knowing a little more of just how - pre photo-shopping - middle aged men in tents and loch side caravans with no electricity could create and manipulate the pictures to quite such an effective extent. We don't get that here. What we also get, rather disappointingly,