FOUND! Illinois Scientist’s Underwater Camera Lost in Loch Ness Recovered.

Lest you think monster hunting is just for hucksters and sensationalists with YouTube pages and reality shows that never quite deliver the goods, there was a time at the University of Chicago when the search for mythical creatures was embraced.

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“Monsterologist” Roy P. Mackal took his team to Scotland’s Loch Ness in 1970 to put his special underwater cameras to work to catch a picture of “Nessie”.

Mackal had his team submerge six of his specialized cameras into the brackish loch with the plan being that if the line were pulled it would snap a pic. The thought being that you had a better chance at capturing an image of the monster underwater than waiting for a random breach to the surface.

Not all the cameras made it back onboard. Underwater for the last 55 years, an unmanned underwater sub happened to snag the line attached to the receptacle the camera was placed in that was sitting 750 feet down on the bottom of the lake. The camera was still inside and dry.

The film was extracted and developed and revealed nothing but pics of murky water. Meaning whatever triggered the camera was never captured on film.

Roy P. Mackal passed away in 2013. He searched for monsters for years. This time his retrieved data yielded nothing of magnitude (that we can see or understand yet). Maybe he still has some equipment in the wild that could still provide proof of the monsters he sought -even after his death.