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Monster of Lough Foyle

  • 08-05-2013 2:05pm
    #1
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭


    This was pointed out to me when I was up home for the weekend.

    Reportedly this was filmed while out on the water to make a short film...



    I'm very dubious about this one. It certainly looks like it's something that is getting pulled through the water. The lack of wake in front of it makes me think that it's being reeled in by a vessel that is off camera.

    It looks to be quite sizeable, with no obvious propulsion, but the lack of any discernable kind of swimming motion makes it look quite fake.

    What do you lot think?

    [edit]
    Cryptomundo article: http://www.cryptomundo.com/lake-monsters/monster-in-lough-foyle/


Comments

  • #2
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Weird looking thing! It does have the look of something thats being 'dragged' rather then something thats actually using its own propulsion...but then again it does seem to submerge as the video goes on...maybe the motion kept it buoyant & then as it slowed it sank?

    Strange looking thing anyway, but it reeks of 'college lads having the crack making a hoax' type thing :)


  • #3
    dvae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭dvae


    just a few observations.

    1st: i do a lot of fishing myself, and never seen anybody fishing from a sail boat on a lake.

    2nd: who goes fishing in a dinner jacket and shirt?

    3rd: a real fisherman with a fishing rod in his hand would defiantly have a go trying to hook what ever it was. icon10.png


  • #4
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    dvae wrote: »
    just a few observations.

    1st: i do a lot of fishing myself, and never seen anybody fishing from a sail boat on a lake.

    2nd: who goes fishing in a dinner jacket and shirt?

    3rd: a real fisherman with a fishing rod in his hand would defiantly have a go trying to hook what ever it was. :D

    They weren't fishing, they were shooting a short movie, which is why they were dressed like that, and were out in whatever boat they could get out on I'd imagine!


  • #5
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,761 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    your OP reminded me of 'The Old Man and the Sea', but whatever that was, didn't look like it was being pulled by anything on the surface. Pretty sure you'd have seen motion from a line at the front, and especially as it turned.

    Self propelled jaws-like contraption?

    A whale maybe?


  • #6
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    dvae wrote: »
    just a few observations.

    1st: i do a lot of fishing myself, and never seen anybody fishing from a sail boat on a lake.

    2nd: who goes fishing in a dinner jacket and shirt?

    3rd: a real fisherman with a fishing rod in his hand would defiantly have a go trying to hook what ever it was. icon10.png

    Reminds me of the time I fished a deep rock mark I had a mackerel trace wrapped around a blueshark.

    The fight lasted till the 200-300 yards was stripped from my penn mag 525 20 seconds id say :-)


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