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Loch Ness Monster Keeping the Legend Alive

Aired March 13, 2002 - 12:56   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: All right, here is a story now you can choose to believe or not, but true believers in the Loch Ness Monster say they have new evidence now to keep that legend alive. Nessie has been spotted again, we are told, poking her head out of the deep water in the Scottish Highlands.

Martin Geissler (ph) has the video, and you decide now about Nessie.

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MARTIN GEISSLER, ITV-TV REPORTER (voice-over): The object in the center of this picture might not immediately look like a monster, the trouble is it doesn't look like anything else. When Bobby Pollack (ph) to his family to the Highlands on holiday, he didn't expect to make money, but then he didn't expect to see a creature rise five feet out of Loch Ness and speed along the surface. The images he filmed aren't exactly conclusive evidence, but they were enough to win him a 500 pound bounty put up by a chain of bookies for the Nessie sighting of the year.

BOBBY POLLACK, NESSIE SPOTTER: First of all, I thought it was a man swimming. And then I said no, it's too big to be a man swimming because the height of the hill I was up actually was quite high. So I said no, it's not a man. It can't be a seal. And I know it wouldn't be a roe doe because I've seen them in the Loch myself in the past. So basically it could only be one thing, could it be Nessie? I don't know. You get a lot of ridicule about this subject the Loch Ness, a hell of a lot of ridicule (UNINTELLIGIBLE). So I held on to it for three months before I actually sent it to Inverness.

GEISSLER: But it is being taken seriously. Marine mammal experts have studied the tape time and again, they agree the creature is moving too fast to be a seal but it's far too big to be any of the other known residents of the Loch. Other experts in the field say it's among the best pieces of Nessie footage ever shot. It'll now sit alongside images like these in the Nessie archive helping keep the legend alive. Good news for visitors, Nessie hunters and small businesses as the tourist season approaches.

Martin Geissler, ITV News.

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HEMMER: I ain't buying it.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know maybe it's my eyesight, but I didn't see anything. Saw a little bit of movement, no shape.

HEMMER: As our friend and colleague Orelon Sidney said two weeks ago, in this year of technology, nobody's got a good picture, she ain't buying it.

JERAS: I'm with her.

HEMMER: And I agree.

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