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15 February 2006

Nessie sonar tracks are fake

New evidence for a Loch Ness monster, which received wide publicity two weeks ago, was a fake, intended to give publicity to a firm at last week’s Brighton Toy Fair. Videomaster, a firm which makes home TV games, claimed in the Daily Record that it had carried out a six-month investigation at Loch Ness using a specially designed “videosonar”. At a press conference Bryan King, director of the Loch Ness “expedition”, presented photographs of loch-side equipment, graphs and a computer printout of sonar analysis.

In fact, none of the expedition team had visited Loch Ness,…

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