Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231153201
- eISBN:
- 9780231526814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231153201.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter studies the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. Loch Ness, the UK's largest body of freshwater, is a long, deep lake that lies in a geological fault line called the Great Glen. The first ...
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This chapter studies the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. Loch Ness, the UK's largest body of freshwater, is a long, deep lake that lies in a geological fault line called the Great Glen. The first modern Loch Ness monster case appeared in a small news story from 1930, featuring “three young anglers” who had a strange experience while fishing for trout on Loch Ness. Another sighting was that of Aldie and John Mackay in 1933. When small-town reporter Alex Campbell heard that the Mackays had spotted something in the water while driving along the shore of Loch Ness, he wrote a sensationalized story about it for the Inverness Courier, which ran it under the headline “Strange Spectacle on Loch Ness: What Was It?”Less
This chapter studies the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. Loch Ness, the UK's largest body of freshwater, is a long, deep lake that lies in a geological fault line called the Great Glen. The first modern Loch Ness monster case appeared in a small news story from 1930, featuring “three young anglers” who had a strange experience while fishing for trout on Loch Ness. Another sighting was that of Aldie and John Mackay in 1933. When small-town reporter Alex Campbell heard that the Mackays had spotted something in the water while driving along the shore of Loch Ness, he wrote a sensationalized story about it for the Inverness Courier, which ran it under the headline “Strange Spectacle on Loch Ness: What Was It?”
David Martin-Jones
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633913
- eISBN:
- 9780748651207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633913.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the ...
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This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the history of Nessie, including its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie movie The Secret of the Loch (1934) used the monster to assess the relationship between England and Scotland. This theme is pursued throughout the rest of the chapter, for the majority of which the focus is on Loch Ness (1996), analysing its contested status in terms of the national identity offered by this U.S./British coproduction to international viewers. Through comparison with other globally peripheral films like Crocodile Dundee (1986) and contemporary U.S. monster movies Jurassic Park (1993), Anaconda (1997), and Lake Placid (1999), Loch Ness is positioned in a broader, global context. Its deliberate appeal to international markets is highlighted, bringing discussion back to the monster's relationship with tourism, a theme which leads into the concluding discussion of The Water Horse (2007).Less
This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the history of Nessie, including its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie movie The Secret of the Loch (1934) used the monster to assess the relationship between England and Scotland. This theme is pursued throughout the rest of the chapter, for the majority of which the focus is on Loch Ness (1996), analysing its contested status in terms of the national identity offered by this U.S./British coproduction to international viewers. Through comparison with other globally peripheral films like Crocodile Dundee (1986) and contemporary U.S. monster movies Jurassic Park (1993), Anaconda (1997), and Lake Placid (1999), Loch Ness is positioned in a broader, global context. Its deliberate appeal to international markets is highlighted, bringing discussion back to the monster's relationship with tourism, a theme which leads into the concluding discussion of The Water Horse (2007).
Jonathan Betts
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198568025
- eISBN:
- 9780191718144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568025.003.16
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. ...
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This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. Having published The Case for the Sea Serpent just over 2 years before, Gould soon got to hear of this and needless to say was intrigued by the descriptions, sounding, as they did, remarkably ‘Serpentine’. Rupert personally went to Scotland to investigate Loch Ness. The results of his research were summarized in the book entitled, The Loch Ness Monster and Others, released in June 1934.Less
This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. Having published The Case for the Sea Serpent just over 2 years before, Gould soon got to hear of this and needless to say was intrigued by the descriptions, sounding, as they did, remarkably ‘Serpentine’. Rupert personally went to Scotland to investigate Loch Ness. The results of his research were summarized in the book entitled, The Loch Ness Monster and Others, released in June 1934.
Donald Prothero and Daniel Loxton
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231153201
- eISBN:
- 9780231526814
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231153201.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. This book ...
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Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. This book explores and elucidates the fascinating world of cryptozoology. This is an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on cryptids, presenting the arguments both for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience that perpetuates their myths. After examining the nature of science and pseudoscience and their relation to cryptozoology, the book takes on Bigfoot; the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, and its cross-cultural incarnations; the Loch Ness monster and its highly publicized sightings; the evolution of the Great Sea Serpent; and Mokele Mbembe, or the Congo dinosaur. It concludes with an analysis of the psychology behind the persistent belief in paranormal phenomena, identifying the major players in cryptozoology, discussing the character of its subculture, and considering the challenge it poses to clear and critical thinking in our increasingly complex world.Less
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. This book explores and elucidates the fascinating world of cryptozoology. This is an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on cryptids, presenting the arguments both for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience that perpetuates their myths. After examining the nature of science and pseudoscience and their relation to cryptozoology, the book takes on Bigfoot; the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, and its cross-cultural incarnations; the Loch Ness monster and its highly publicized sightings; the evolution of the Great Sea Serpent; and Mokele Mbembe, or the Congo dinosaur. It concludes with an analysis of the psychology behind the persistent belief in paranormal phenomena, identifying the major players in cryptozoology, discussing the character of its subculture, and considering the challenge it poses to clear and critical thinking in our increasingly complex world.
Jonathan Betts
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198568025
- eISBN:
- 9780191718144
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568025.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his ...
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This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From antique clocks to scientific mysteries, from typewriters to the first systematic study of the Loch Ness Monster, Gould studied and published on them all. With the title ‘The Stargazer’, Gould was an early broadcaster on the BBC's Children's Hour when, with his encyclopaedic knowledge, he became known as The Man Who Knew Everything. Not surprisingly, he was also part of that elite group on BBC radio who formed The Brains Trust, giving on-the-spot answers to all manner of wide ranging and difficult questions. With his wide learning and photographic memory, Gould awed a national audience, becoming one of the era's radio celebrities. During the 1920s Gould restored the complex and highly significant marine timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776), and wrote the unsurpassed classic, The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development. Today he is virtually unknown, his horological contributions scarcely mentioned in Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude. The TV version of Longitude, in which Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, did at least introduce Rupert's name to a wider public. Gould suffered terrible bouts of depression, resulting in a number of nervous breakdowns. These, coupled with his obsessive and pedantic nature, led to a scandalously-reported separation from his wife and cost him his family, his home, his job, and his closest friends.Less
This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From antique clocks to scientific mysteries, from typewriters to the first systematic study of the Loch Ness Monster, Gould studied and published on them all. With the title ‘The Stargazer’, Gould was an early broadcaster on the BBC's Children's Hour when, with his encyclopaedic knowledge, he became known as The Man Who Knew Everything. Not surprisingly, he was also part of that elite group on BBC radio who formed The Brains Trust, giving on-the-spot answers to all manner of wide ranging and difficult questions. With his wide learning and photographic memory, Gould awed a national audience, becoming one of the era's radio celebrities. During the 1920s Gould restored the complex and highly significant marine timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776), and wrote the unsurpassed classic, The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development. Today he is virtually unknown, his horological contributions scarcely mentioned in Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude. The TV version of Longitude, in which Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, did at least introduce Rupert's name to a wider public. Gould suffered terrible bouts of depression, resulting in a number of nervous breakdowns. These, coupled with his obsessive and pedantic nature, led to a scandalously-reported separation from his wife and cost him his family, his home, his job, and his closest friends.
Alf Hiltebeitel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190878375
- eISBN:
- 9780190878405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190878375.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism, Religion and Literature
This chapter further explores snake symbolism, highlighting also goddesses, Freud’s mother Amalia, and Freud’s brothers and half-brothers. The author considers the ideas of post-Freudian ...
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This chapter further explores snake symbolism, highlighting also goddesses, Freud’s mother Amalia, and Freud’s brothers and half-brothers. The author considers the ideas of post-Freudian psychoanalytic writers who shed light on these themes, including Eric Erikson, and Freud’s “specimen dream” of “Irma’s Injection” as evoking a vagina. Here, Freud states his rule that every dream has an “unplumbable navel” beyond which the analyst cannot go. The chapter goes on to discuss ideas of Bernard This, John Abbott, and Bruno Bettelheim, with Freud’s early mention of the Loch Ness monster as a likely allusion to Athena with her snakes. Finally, the author takes up Bertram Lewin’s concept of the “dream screen,” as well as the personal universe of Romain Rolland’s oceanic feeling.Less
This chapter further explores snake symbolism, highlighting also goddesses, Freud’s mother Amalia, and Freud’s brothers and half-brothers. The author considers the ideas of post-Freudian psychoanalytic writers who shed light on these themes, including Eric Erikson, and Freud’s “specimen dream” of “Irma’s Injection” as evoking a vagina. Here, Freud states his rule that every dream has an “unplumbable navel” beyond which the analyst cannot go. The chapter goes on to discuss ideas of Bernard This, John Abbott, and Bruno Bettelheim, with Freud’s early mention of the Loch Ness monster as a likely allusion to Athena with her snakes. Finally, the author takes up Bertram Lewin’s concept of the “dream screen,” as well as the personal universe of Romain Rolland’s oceanic feeling.
