Just recieved an email from Richard. He has just written a letter and sent it into the Radio Times (UK TV listings guide) RE the money wasted on Loch Ness; The Ultimate Experiment, a childish and farcical psudo documentary on Channel Five last night. Below is the letter. God I would love to be able to watch a documentary on TV of one of the CFZ's expeditions.
Dear Editor
So another "psudo documentary" about Loch Ness. Loch Ness; The Ultimate Experiment, Channel Five, Sunday 28th August. This really grates after Werner Hertzog's Incident at Loch Ness, and the BBC's farcical Searching for the Loch Ness Monster (that took the absurd view that the monster must be a plesiosaur and as these could not live in Loch Ness ergo there is no monster).
How much money was wasted on this rubbish? It must have cost thousands just to build an anamatronic plesiosaur (no research done here, the smart money is on the monster being a 30 foot eel). How much better would it have been if this cash was put into serious research into Loch Ness and related phenomena around the world? For a fraction f the money wasted on this project I could have made an excellent documentary but when I have approached TV companies with cryptozoological ideas I have been roundly rejected. Reasons given have ranged from the ideas being “too real” (not about guardian angles, aliens, or channeling spirits) to hot being able to 100% guarantee we will film / catch the creature!
The team e-mailed me a photo of their feeble efforts some months ago. I spotted it as an obvious fake. Stuff like this detracts from the hard work of real researchers.
My advice? If you want to find the real monster look in the mud at the bottom of the Loch were a giant eel might rest. But then again TV is not interested in solving the real mystery is it?
Richard Freeman
Zoological Director
The Centre for Fortean Zoology
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