Word: monstering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sonar Search. The startling observation was made by a University of Birmingham team armed with a modern monster detector: sophisticated sonar equipment. Setting up operations on a Loch Ness pier, the scientists projected a beam of high-frequency sound waves through the water. During one 13-min. period, the sonar echoes defined large moving objects that Birmingham Electrical Engineer D. Gordon Tucker says were "clearly" made by animals...
...sonar evidence gives new life to the Loch Ness legend, which has been tracked back as far as a 6th century biography of St. Columba. The work attributes "the driving away of a certain water monster by prayer" to the holy man, who was walking near the lake...
...Nessie," as local inhabitants call the monster, has been on the scene ever since. According to legend, it has killed one man and has been seen swimming on the surface, sunbathing on land and even crossing a nearby highway. Footprints on the muddy banks were later found to have been made by a hoaxer using a stuffed hippopotamus foot...
Since 1962, an organization named The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau Ltd. has been analyzing all monster sightings. Its volunteer members have shot pictures of monsterlike objects from seven lakeside camera stations. The most famous Loch Ness photograph, taken by a touring surgeon in 1934, shows a long-necked creature making waves in the lake...
...THIS monster of a land," he wrote in 1962, "this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm...