tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post2307802378250080328..comments2024-03-28T15:55:33.435-07:00Comments on The Big Study: Peeking at Ivan's SITU files: Loch Morar's Monster, Part Two.The Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-1848940063378447192011-05-05T16:24:08.356-07:002011-05-05T16:24:08.356-07:00To Richard: regarding the Tatzelwurm --- my situat...To Richard: regarding the Tatzelwurm --- my situation when I'm in Wheeling is that I have available only what little I've been able to bring with me from the files. I chose to bring the water monster files [nine three-ring notebooks] because they presented a manageable categorical set of something that I could work with and give you guys something interesting now and then. Because the Tatzelwurm is considered by everybody that I can remember as an alpine land animal, I guess Ivan thought so too, since there are no items in these water monster files on it. MAYBE when I'm back to Michigan in a few days, I might remember to look in the larger files and see if anything jumps right out [not live Tatzelwurms, though, I'm sure]. I might easily forget though in the bustle. <br /><br />Regarding the famous flat-as-glass lakes: there might be something very physically understandable here which enhances sightings, but I get a creepy feeling that this may be a bit like the OZ effect in other anomalistic encounters, and in UFOlogy. Are the "two realities" merging in some way?? Is the Door opening?? Does the rain not fall in the space of the Knock Apparition?? Does the Mural show itself to Jung when it is somewhere else?? Does the silence of the forest portend something-this-way-comes?? WAY Out Proctor .... maybe.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-3463908953494007762011-05-05T15:25:43.693-07:002011-05-05T15:25:43.693-07:00Hello, Prof.
I love this stuff. Thanks for put...Hello, Prof.<br /><br /> I love this stuff. Thanks for putting this out there to chew on. I am curious about the 'calm, flat water' aspect of these sightings in many lakes, especially Lake Okanagan, in my neck of the woods. The calmness of the water appears/seems to me to be an indicator of some sort. Barometric pressure and no wind? Perhaps sightings are more easily seen in flat, calm water as waves would obscure the animal. I believe it is an animal and I am partial to the eel theory. The paranormal viewpoint is enchanting, though. Does Sanderson address the Tatzelwurm anywhere that you have come across?<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br /> richardrichardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-86065988527908630562011-05-04T12:42:17.796-07:002011-05-04T12:42:17.796-07:00Beautifully put, professor, and very much along th...Beautifully put, professor, and very much along the lines of what I tried to articulate yesterday.<br /> Constance Whyte understood this whole aspect of the mystery. Her 1957 book helped to create a resurgence of interst in the Loch Ness mystery. She knew the locals well. She knew Arthur Grant and his family, and talked with him again in the 1950s when he was still sincere about his experience of seeing the "monster" on land. She vouched for Hugh Gray and his photo, and also Lachlan Stewart and his three humped photo (though that may not be to her credit.) But she wrote as you did about the Highlander and the water-horse, and how there was nothing incongruous in the highlander's mind about a mystical creature splashing about in a loch, or that simply, there were aspects of nature that were unexplainable.<br /> There is some interesting point in time when shadowy myth began to emerge into a more "encounter story," type present. One of these in the parish of Garloch, where there is, wonderfully enough, a loch called Loch-na-Beiste, or "Lake of the Beast." The beiste made an appearance there in 1840, the description of which should be quite familiar to anyone who knows Loch Ness -- it resembled "an upturned boat." Then there was Dom Cyril Diekhoff, mentioned in the Loch Morar survey, who was a monk at the Abbey at Ft. Augustus on Loch Ness's western end. He recorded many sightings in his journal, including the stuff from Morar and Loch Shiel. The Loch Shiel creature, he was told, appeared on land on occasion. There are folktales of water-horses that came ashore and, like their counterparts on land, laked to graze in the fields. Some of these folktales seemed to be warning stories to keep kids away from the deep water. Don't go near the loch, or the water-horse will get you. Their horse like appearance inspired people to climb on the creature's back, after which the water-horse plunged to the depths.Peter Saucerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349540965664679379noreply@blogger.com