LOCH NESS, Scotland, Oct. 25 — An international team of monster-hunters began a search for the most famous and elusive resident of Loch Ness on Tuesday night, using an underwater microphone designed to detect Soviet nuclear subs. Does that sound high tech? Sure — but it also shows life’s not what it used to be for stalkers of the weird and wonderful, where credibility is frequently as slippery a catch as fabulous creatures.
IN AUGUST, Swedish hunter Jan Sundberg trawled a Norwegian lake with a giant trap in an attempt to net “Selma,” a fabled serpent reputed to be a distant cousin of Nessie.
The world’s media looked on avidly, only for Sundberg and his crew to return to shore monsterless.
A veteran of 25 years scouring murky waters across the world, Sundberg has banned the word “monster” — he favors “unknown animal” — and scaled back his ambitions.
Even though the Loch Ness Monster has the biggest reputation of them all, he is in the market merely for noises from the depths of Britain’s largest lake.
“We’re not here for photos. Nobody trusts them any more — they are too easy to fake,” Sundberg told Reuters, shortly before donning the headphones of the adapted submarine listening device lent to him by the Norwegian navy.
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["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]
IN AUGUST, Swedish hunter Jan Sundberg trawled a Norwegian lake with a giant trap in an attempt to net “Selma,” a fabled serpent reputed to be a distant cousin of Nessie.
The world’s media looked on avidly, only for Sundberg and his crew to return to shore monsterless.
A veteran of 25 years scouring murky waters across the world, Sundberg has banned the word “monster” — he favors “unknown animal” — and scaled back his ambitions.
Even though the Loch Ness Monster has the biggest reputation of them all, he is in the market merely for noises from the depths of Britain’s largest lake.
“We’re not here for photos. Nobody trusts them any more — they are too easy to fake,” Sundberg told Reuters, shortly before donning the headphones of the adapted submarine listening device lent to him by the Norwegian navy.
Want to learn more?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/480902.asp
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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]
