Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Project Water Horse The True Story of the Monster Quest at Loch Ness by Tim Dinsdale Tim Dinsdale. Timothy Dinsdale , ARAeS (1924 – 14 December 1987 [1] ) was famous as a seeker of the Loch Ness Monster. He attended King’s School, Worcester, [2] served in the Royal Air Force and worked as an aeronautical engineer. Determined to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, Dinsdale traveled to Loch Ness on an expedition. On the fifth day, 23 April 1960, he videotaped an object he would claim to be the hump of the monster. The grainy film is still believed by some to be proof of the existence of the monster. The Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC) analyzed it and believed it was an animate object, but later analyses suggest the footage is of a motorboat. Dinsdale dedicated his life to obtaining further evidence, taking part in a total of 56 expeditions, many of them solo. Although he claimed to have later seen the monster's head and neck on two occasions, he failed to obtain any more video footage. He also published several books on the subject. Project Water Horse: The True Story of the Monster Quest at Loch Ness by Tim Dinsdale. There are two main categories for these creatures. Some lake monsters look much like sea serpents or Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, with a long, serpentine body, perhaps with paddles or humps, and a head that is shaped somewhat like that of a horse. These creatures all seem to be related to each other, and they were first explained by cryptozoologists as living plesiosaurs, primitive reptiles, though today the concensus has switched to zeuglodons, a weird, primitive whale that is supposed to be extinct. Some other lake monsters seem even more dragon-like, and these often have supernatural powers attributed to them. On the more normal end of the spectrum, some lake monsters seem to resemble animals that we are more familiar with, such as giant turtles or giant crocodiles. The creatures in this other category are quite varied, linked only by the fact that they do not resemble sea serpents. Creatures in this group include the gigantic, hairy monsters like seals with canine faces that are said to reside in Lake Simcoe and Muskrat Lake in Ontario, Canada, and the school of twenty-foot mystery fish that are reported from Iliamna Lake in Alaska. You can find out more about Lake Monsters from the following sources: Blackman, W. Haden. The Field Guide to North American Monsters New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998. Pages 39-47, 49-50, 54-59, 64-78. Brookesmith, Peter, ed. Creatures from Elsewhere . London, Chartwell Books, 1989. Pages 41-53. Brown, Charles E. & Hendricks, Richard. Weird Wisconsin: Lake Monsters. Campbell, Elizabeth M. & Soloman, David. The Search for Morag . London: Tom Stacy, 1972. Clark, Jerome and Coleman, Loren. Cryptozoology A-Z . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pages 84-86, 113-116, 131-134, 149-150, 170-171, 174, 192-193, 228-229, 235, 248-249. Clark, Jerome. Unexplained! . Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999. Pages 260-271, 279-282. Coleman, Jerry D. Strange Highways: A Guidebook to American Mysteries & the Unexplained . Alton, Illinois: Whitechapel Productions Press, 2003. Pages 135-136, 184, 187, 192. Coleman, Loren. Mysterious America: The Revised Edition . New York: Paraview Press, 2001. Pages 12-14, 26, 29, 81, 83-96, 169, 309-311. Keel, John A. The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings . New York: Doubleday, 1994. Pages 297-316. McCormick, Bob. The Story of Tahoe Tessie: The Original Lake Tahoe Monster . Kings Beach, California: Tahoe Tourist Promotions, 1994. McEwan, Graham J. Mystery Animals of Britain and Ireland . London: Robert Hale, 1986. Pages 11-16, 77-118, 196-202, 206-209, 211-212. Newton, Michael. Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2005. Page 4, 11, 14-15, 20-22, 24, 27-30, 34-35, 38-41, 54-60, 68, 72, 75-77, 83-85, 88-102, 106-107, 113, 118-120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130-133, 139, 140-141, 146-148, 150-152, 154-165, 172-174, 176, 178-180, 182-186, 188-192, 194, 196-197, 201-206, 208, 211, 219-222, 226-229, 231-232, 236-258, 263-275, 277-283, 285-286, 288-289, 291-292, 295-297, 299-300, 302, 308-311, 313, 315-317, 321, 322, 324, 328-331, 336-337, 341-346, 348-354, 357-363, 365-366, 368-369, 371-377, 379, 382, 384, 391-395, 397-403, 405, 407-411, 413, 415, 418-426, 428-451, 453-455, 458, 461-462, 464, 466-469, 472-475, 477-480, 482-489, 491-493, 495-496, 507, 509. Randolph, Vance. We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales From the Ozarks . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pages 71-74. Rath, Jay. The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena . Black Earth, Wisconsin: Trails Books, 1997. Pages 27-35. Rose, Carol. Giants, Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend and Myth . Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Pages 175-178, 274. Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes and Shores . Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1995. Steiger, Brad. Out of the Dark: The Complete Guide to Beings from Beyond . New York: Kensington Books, 2001. Pages 80-89. The text on this page is copyright 2005 by Jamie Hall. Please use proper citation if you are using this website for research. Project Water Horse: The True Story of the Monster Quest at Loch Ness by Tim Dinsdale. Tim Dinsdale Pictures. Tim Dinsdale was born in China to a British family, when his parents turned to England Dinsdale was enrolled in and eventually would graduate from King�s School, Worcester. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe during World War II and afterwards worked as an aeronautical engineer. Through all of this early success Tim Dinsdale is better known and remembered for is researcher in to the mysterious lake monster known as the Loch Ness Monster. It all started in 1955 when Tim�s interest in the creature was sparked after reading a magazine article on the subject. Unable to get the mystery off his mind, he prepared a master plan for a campaign of observation which he put into action in 1960 by taking a week off or work to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. During this first excursion to the loch, on April 23, 1960, he captured four minute film of the fast moving object apparently swimming across the loch. An analysis of the film by Britain�s Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Center (JARIC) rejected the skeptical theory that the object captured by Dinsdale that day was nothing more than a boat. JARIC declared that the object in the video was probably animate, in other words a large, unidentified living creature. Others who have examined the video have pointed out a paddle like motion coming from the front of the object, this lead many to believe the video showed a row boat, however estimates of the object�s speed made it apparent that the object moved to fast for a rowboat. Further examination of the video also lead some researchers to believe that twelve to sixteen feet of the object was underwater with only three feet of it visible in the video. Dinsdale�s books on Loch Ness�s mysterious inhabitants are considered by some to be the best in the literature of cyrptozoology. In July 1987, a few months before his death, the International Society of Cryptozoology made Tim Dinsdale an honorary member, nothing his dedication to the investigation, as well as the honesty and integrity with which he conducted his work. At the time of his death Dinsdale had conducted no less than 56 expeditions to Loch Ness but never had another sighting as good as his original one on April 23, 1960. Quick Info: (where applicable) Date of Birth: 1934 Birthplace: China Current Location: NA Books: � Loch Ness Monster (1961) � Monster Hunt (1972) � Project Water Horse: The True Story of the Monster Quest at Loch Ness (1975) � The Facts About Loch Ness and the Monster (1985) Schooling and/or Degrees: � King�s School, Worcester Organizations: � International Society of Cryptozoology (honorary member) � Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau Website: Monsters of the Stacks: Bigfoot and Beyond. From Columbia County's "Kinderhook Creature" to the famed Himalayan Yeti, Bigfoot-like beings have long been reputed to roam the earth, leaving large humanoid footprints in their hairy wake. October's New York State Library exhibit explored this mysterious phenomenon from a wide range of perspectives. It also includes books about the Loch Ness Monster (and other lake and river leviathans), general works on cryptozoology, and spooky stories from around the state in honor of Halloween. In addition, it features The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt, which contains an astonishing account of a fateful Sasquatch encounter in Idaho around 1890; and three books by NYSL employee Bruce Hallenbeck, who spoke about Bigfoot and his latest work, Monsters of New York , in the Museum's Huxley Theater on Saturday, October 12, 2013. Display Case 1: I Saw Bigfoot. Encounters with Bigfoot in the United States are numerous, widespread, and of very long standing. These books describe such encounters in fascinating detail and gamely attempt to answer the age-old question: "What the heck was that?!" Bigfoot: the Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality , by John Napier, 1975 The Search for Big Foot: Monster, Myth or Man? , by Peter Byrne; foreword by Robert Rines, 1975 The Transformation of Bigfoot: Maleness, Power, and Belief Among the Chipewyan , by Henry S.