Two more unconvincing Loch Ness photographs

Friday 31st July 2026

Some years ago, a famous Cryptozoologist who really should’ve known better said that I was bringing the subject into disrepute because I had appeared mildly drunk at one of the Fortean Times conventions. It probably wasn’t my finest hour, but I think far more damage is done to the subject by people who post these blurry photographs of nothing in particular and claim them as important evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness monster. Ho hum JD

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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 an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.