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A hunt for leviathan who has so far eluded all expeditions to prove that it truly exists.
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00:00The ruin of Castle Urquhart, in the highlands of northern Scotland, dominates the shore of a lake shrouded by mystery.
00:13The murky waters have hidden a persistent and puzzling tale for 1400 years.
00:21The lake is called Loch Ness.
00:26It is said that here lives a monster that can make the surface of a lake boil with foam.
00:47What is beneath the surface of the loch?
00:51We will be closer to knowing the answer.
00:54Closer for having discovered new evidence in search of the Loch Ness monster.
01:00The in search of cameras record a long trail of bubbles.
01:05Evidence of something huge passing beneath our lens.
01:12The in search of cameras record a long trail of bubbles, evidence of something huge passing beneath our lens.
01:32Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy.
01:39Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy.
01:48Few of the great mysteries we will explore in this series are as compelling as the accounts of an unknown beast which lives in a picturesque sky.
01:58Scottish lake.
01:59A compelling mystery because in spite of the many sightings over hundreds of years, there was little evidence until recently to support the possibility of the creature being real.
02:05Tonight, we'll take a hard look at the new evidence.
02:11Loch Ness is remarkable in many ways.
02:32The lake was created by a great movement of the Earth's crust.
02:37It is open to the sea at both ends through a series of lesser lakes, rivers, and in more recent times, large canals.
02:47Loch Ness is wedged between mountains, only a mile wide, but 24 miles long.
02:57Its depth may exceed 900 feet in some places, but no one to this day knows for sure how deep the lake is.
03:08People have made their lives by the lake for thousands of years.
03:12Others have come for just one reason.
03:15To glimpse a monster.
03:17Some are more serious about getting a look at the creature than others.
03:31Scientists by the expedition full roam the lake.
03:36From MIT and the Academy of Applied Science they come.
03:42The National Geographic Society scours for underwater camera positions.
03:49Scientific associations in England are hard at work too.
03:54An old abbey by the shore of the lake is where the quest has its origins.
03:59St. Columba came to Loch Ness in the 6th century to convert barbarians.
04:05He founded a Benedictine order that maintains the abbey today.
04:10And as Father Gregory recalls, St. Columba also founded a legend.
04:16St. Columba came up this way according to St. Adamnon who wrote his life in the next century.
04:22That's about the 4th century.
04:24He came up from Iona with a few of his monks.
04:30And they came up the chain of lochs, loch oi, loch lochi, on his way to convert the king of the Picts, the northern Picts, King Brood.
04:40St. Adamnon recounts that at the end of Loch Ness, where the nest flows into the sea,
04:46they had just come up to the end, they were going to cross the Ness.
04:50And a man was swimming across the river, and this great serpent thing, a beast appeared.
04:59St. Adamnon says, the holy man, the great sign of the cross and a loud voice, drove it off so that it didn't do any harm to him.
05:08We don't know how much truth of that is in that, but that's the first account we have of this strange thing that's in the loch.
05:18Perhaps a modern camera caught a descendant of the great serpent described by St. Columba in the 6th century.
05:27Early in the morning of April 1st, 1934, a London surgeon of impeccable reputation snapped this picture.
05:35A lumberjack working near the lake took this picture in 1951.
05:41An American scientist produced a view of the creature with an underwater camera.
05:47The murkiness of Loch Ness obscures the shot.
05:50But even some of the most skeptical investigators consider the picture positive evidence that a large animal exists in the lake.
05:58Motion picture film was made in 1966 by another Loch Ness investigator.
06:05The film was examined by Royal Air Force photo intelligence experts and certified to be genuine.
06:11Fourteen hundred years of recorded sightings that began with the experience of a Christian missionary in the 6th century.
06:21Father Gregory's own experience was not unlike that reported by the saint who founded his order.
06:27We had an organist friend out from London and we were standing on the edge of the lock on the stone jetty looking across the bay on the right.
06:37And we were suddenly surprised.
06:39There were no, first of all, there were no boats visible at all.
06:42Suddenly noticed a tremendous commotion in the bay and we couldn't see what was causing this at first.
06:49And then we were fairly staggered to see a little further on a huge neck emerge.
06:54We would both agreed about seven feet at least above the water at a slight angle moving along slowly for about 17 seconds, we estimated.
07:05And then it went down.
07:06We didn't see any of the body, but this height out of the water was extraordinary.
07:11In fact, this organist said to me, he said, if I hadn't been there, he'd have felt like running.
07:16It gave him such a clear feeling.
07:22Sergeant Henderson is one of the senior constables patrolling the little communities around Loch Ness.
07:28One patrol put him squarely at the heart of the mystery of the lake.
07:33And about halfway between Fort Augustus and here, we saw something in the water.
07:38We thought it was a boat and difficulties.
07:40We rushed down and we got there to the water.
07:42We saw these two fins about 20 feet apart, about four feet out of the water, I would say,
07:49traveling towards Inver Morrison.
07:51Stayed up for five or six seconds, submerged, came back up again, and stayed up for another 10 seconds.
07:59Then submerged finally and didn't come back up again.
08:03Now, the water was quite calm at the time, but when things submerged finally,
08:07there was a terrific wash came onto the shore.
08:18Alex Campbell was a waterman on Loch Ness most of his working life.
08:22Well, during my working life, we were responsible for the preservation of the salmon stocks in these areas.
08:31Glen Morrison, Glen Gary, Loch Ness and all the adjacent adjoining rivers.
08:38It was a main job.
08:40Then there was the hatchery work.
08:42I was expecting a run of fresh salmon, because as soon as they reach their home river,
08:49they jump and cavort about as though they were glad to be home.
08:55I was looking across, and then just off the Abbey Boathouse, which is across there,
09:03and about 250 yards from where I was standing,
09:08suddenly there was a most terrific upsurge of water.
09:13Then the long, tapering neck, small head which was turning very, oh, I should say scared-looking,
09:23and a huge humped body, which I estimated at 30 feet long.
09:33I just, and I shut my eyes three times to make quite sure that I wasn't seeing something,
09:39that I, you know, that didn't exist.
09:41However, then I heard the noise of the engine of two fishing trawlers
09:48that had just come out from the canal blocks, and were heading for Loch Ness.
09:55I said to myself, oh, this is going to be interesting.
09:57And meanwhile, the head was even, oh, more excited, you see, the animal.
10:02I said to myself, this is going to be very exciting,
10:05because as soon as the bow of the first trawler comes within my line of vision,
10:10it'll also come within the animal's line of vision.
10:13Well, that duly happened.
10:16And as soon as the bow of the first trawler appeared,
10:19oh, a terrific plunge into the depths.
10:25The upsurge was fantastic.
10:32Could this be Alex Campbell's monster?
10:35Some theorize that such creatures could have been trapped in Loch Ness
10:39during its primordial past, living relics of a lost world.
10:44The notion that creatures from the dawn of life on this planet still live among us
10:49is irresistible to many.
10:51It is proof they seek.
10:53For Ted Hongaday, proof would be film of the monster, close up and in sharp focus.
11:01I'd been up that particular morning from about five o'clock watching the lock.
11:09When Mrs. Pickett finally came out to wash breakfast dishes about nine o'clock,
11:12I strolled over to have a word with her.
11:14I left my camera behind me and I walked about 50 yards to Chapman.
11:18And I turned and looked across the lock.
11:21Well, actually, I looked over Mrs. Pickett's shoulder to a point about a quarter of a mile
11:25to the left of the Clanton Hotel, across that side.
11:27And I saw this huge black mass.
11:30It undulated into three humps, proceeding from right to left.
11:33It was going at a fair speed and the water was swirling up from the front of it in a big white wash.
11:39And I said to Mrs. Pickett, can you see that?
11:42She said she could.
11:43I said, well, watch it while I get the camera.
11:46And I rushed and grabbed the camera and immediately her voice showed it after me.
11:50Oh, it's gone down.
11:51Well, I put a binoculars on the spot and there was a huge whirlpool
11:54as though something had submerged into the lock.
11:57A huge patch about 50 yards across.
12:00Hundreds of cameras would be trained on the lock this summer.
12:05The in search of camera would be among them
12:08and would capture a most remarkable event.
12:18The summer of 1976 was to be the beginning of the big push
12:22to find conclusive evidence that huge creatures live in Loch Ness.
12:27Three major expeditions would prowl the lake.
12:30Some men, like Robert Rines of the Academy of Applied Sciences, were veterans of the chase.
12:40A veteran who could recall being hooked by a tantalizing glimpse of something big and unexplained,
12:47moving serenely just out of his reach.
12:50Well, the first and only time was in, I believe, 1972 in June, near the summer solstice.
12:57We were with Wing Commander Cary and his wife, my wife.
13:02I think we were having coffee at their house, nothing stronger.
13:07And indeed, Basil Cary said, I say that, that doesn't look like an upturned boat.
13:12Out we rushed to the embankment near their house and we looked down in the middle of Urquhart Bay.
13:18And there, though it was, oh, 10, 10.30 in the evening, it was still quite light.
13:23There was a slight rain, but we unmistakably saw a giant hump in the water,
13:28move slowly out in the bay, turn around and come back, and then submerge.
13:33We had some telescopes and we took turns, not talking to each other,
13:37but looking through the telescopes and deliberately taking measurements
13:40with a 53-foot fishing vessel that was there.
13:43After all this was over, I went into the Cary's kitchen and taped what I had seen,
13:47the dimensions I thought I had seen, and then I individually taped them,
13:50and we were in unanimous view that we had seen some 22 feet of back
13:56of something that intellectually to each of us couldn't be anything other than a big animal,
14:00and about four to six feet out of the water at the apex.
14:03How long will you keep searching?
14:05Well, we're certainly going to stay here until we do find out one way or another,
14:09by photographic and sonar evidence, what these things may be.
14:13Maybe this year, maybe next year, goodness knows how long,
14:16but we're going to stick it out.
14:19Adrian Shine is another veteran of the hunt,
14:22but he has chosen to track his quarry at Loch Morar, just above Loch Ness.
14:28Monsters have been seen here too,
14:30and the relative clarity of the water in Morar may give Shine an advantage.
14:35We are laying out this year cameras, television cameras beneath the surface,
14:41in order to carry out a constant surveillance over some three months.
14:47We can lay the cameras down to 60 feet beneath the water,
14:50and hope to get a silhouette of creature passing over the top.
14:53We can get ranges underwater of nearly 100 feet.
14:56We have some conventional cameras as well, conventional 35mm cameras,
15:02but the video technique, in my opinion, is better,
15:05because we have an immediate record.
15:09We don't have to process film, and, of course, we get a moving record as well.
15:13This tape was taken with the camera at 60 feet below the surface,
15:20and there is a diver at 20 feet from the camera.
15:24This is followed by a further tape with the same setup,
15:32and the diver at 40 feet from the camera, and going up to the surface.
15:36You can see, therefore, that we have, at the surface,
15:41at least 60 to 70 feet across the surface under surveillance.
15:48The National Geographic Society has decided to focus its efforts on Loch Ness.
15:54By carefully charting the lake bottom with sonar,
15:57and positioning cameras at strategic points beneath the surface,
16:01the geographic scientists hope to overcome the handicap of poor visibility.
16:05The task is to guess where the monster is most likely to be,
16:11then lure it to the camera.
16:14The geographic team knows that Loch Ness was formed by an upheaval of the Earth's crust,
16:20and that the trench created by that upheaval was enlarged by glaciers.
16:25The glaciers created a U-shaped bottom to the lake,
16:29but they did not completely obliterate the deep valleys,
16:32which are characteristic of the region.
16:34So there are hidden depths to Loch Ness,
16:38depths capable of sheltering huge animals.
16:41National Geographic's Dr. Bob Ballard thinks these deep channels are his best bet.
16:49We were making the assumption that the monster would come into the bay using these deep channels.
16:56It would like to stay on the bottom and in as deep a water as it can to get in there to the river,
17:01where there must be a lot of biological activity because of the river outflow.
17:05So we wanted to pick a spot where we could set up the camera close to a deep channel.
17:11Well, to do that we had to survey it.
17:13So we went around the bay and put a series of reference points,
17:17and then sitting on the castle we shot in with compasses and positioned these reference points.
17:24And then we used those reference points to run back and forth across the bay with the ship,
17:29measuring the echo sounding.
17:31We figured that if we put our camera rig in about 120 feet of water,
17:35we're going to be within 500 feet of one of these deep channels.
17:39You take the rope into your boat and you worry about keeping slack.
17:44National Geographic will position its cameras beneath the surface of the lake, suspended from sea anchors.
17:59The likelihood that the animals can be successfully photographed from the surface is being discounted.
18:17Emery Kristoff is the expedition's chief photographer.
18:20We've discovered pretty much that it would be a mammal.
18:24And we figured if it was a mammal and it would be air breathing, there would be more sightings of the creature.
18:31We feel then if we are dealing with an amphibian or a reptile or something of the fish nature,
18:38we have a creature that hunts by listening and picks up vibrations in the water.
18:44So we've tailored our program really to this.
18:47The scientists are listening too, with sensitive underwater microphones.
18:53Recordings have been made of the normal sounds of the lock at rest, at night or during the day,
19:00when boat traffic is at a minimum.
19:02They are tranquil sounds.
19:07Another recording was made late in the afternoon of July 5th.
19:11It was anything but tranquil.
19:16There was no way to tell for sure what the underwater microphones were picking up.
19:20But at about the same time the recording was made, and in about the same location,
19:26the in search of cameras recorded something even more remarkable.
19:31A long trail of bubbles breaking on the surface of the lock.
19:36There were no boats nearby.
19:39There were no divers.
19:40But something beneath the surface of the lock was creating a large disturbance.
19:47And it provides the most convincing photographic evidence gathered this year
19:51that the monster may in fact be real.
19:54That something big and alive was moving in front of our camera just beneath the surface of Loch Ness.
20:01Monster sightings have been reported in other lakes, in Ireland, Canada, the Scandinavian countries, and elsewhere.
20:13All of these sightings occurred in roughly the same northern latitude occupied by Loch Ness.
20:18Dr. Nicholas Hutton of the Smithsonian Institution is a preeminent paleontologist on intimate terms with our world's dim past.
20:29If there is something living in Loch Ness, what could it possibly be?
20:33From my own point of view, I just don't think there is anything in Loch Ness.
20:38But there is an interesting theory put forth by Dr. Roy Mackel of the University of Chicago,
20:44who argues that there may in fact be a population of giant eels.
20:50The point being that we know that Loch Ness supports a good population of salmon and eels.
20:56And eels, for example, live most of their lives in fresh water, but they go out to sea to reproduce.
21:00And then the young come back to the parent waters.
21:03Certain individuals will fail to mature sexually and, in consequence, don't go to sea.
21:08They just live on in the fresh water and they get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
21:13And Mackel thinks that this might have happened, might be what's happening in Loch Ness,
21:18in which you have a few resident eels which have grown to enormous size, east of just 20 feet,
21:27but he also admits that size is extremely difficult to estimate and maybe 12 or 15 feet might be more like it.
21:37If there is anything in Loch Ness that we don't know about in ordinary scientific terms,
21:43it's got to be something like Mackel's eels.
21:45We now have volumes of data on the Loch Ness monsters.
21:50And none of the investigators involved disputes the probability that a creature lives in Loch Ness.
21:56And all of them agree that the intensive effort may soon turn up the monster of the lake.
22:01Lost civilizations, extraterrestrials, myths and monsters, missing persons, magic and witchcraft, unexplained phenomena.
22:21In search of cameras are traveling the world seeking out these great mysteries.
22:28This program was the result of the work of scientists, researchers and a group of highly skilled technicians.
22:34Clark Nations
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