Doc in the Telegraph

Friday 2nd August 2024

Doc in the Telegraph. There is something massively surreal about such an establishment newspaper featuring such an anti-establishment figure

Tony Shiels, hard-drinking bohemian artist who claimed to have raised the Loch Ness monster

Tony “Doc” Shiels, who has died aged 86, was an artist, magician and “monster raiser”, who in 1977 claimed to have coaxed the Loch Ness Monster …
Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.