Adrian Shine

Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project. He comes up again and again in the archive's lake monster cases. In the 1980s he interviewed Aldie Mackay face to face about her 1933 sighting. On 14 April 2013 he led a boat trip to toast her with whisky. In 1975 he led an expedition on Loch Morar that lowered an observation sphere, the Machan, about 30 feet down. His later work was more sceptical. In 2001 he showed that the edges in the Rines flipper photographs had been added by paintbrush. In 2003 he found a pale blob in Tim Dinsdale's film, where a helmsman would sit.

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Aldie and John Mackay's Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness

c. 1933 · North shore road near Abriachan Pier, opposite Aldourie, Loch Ness, Highlands, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources

18Thinly documented

Loch Ness and Morar Project naturalist who interviewed Aldie Mackay on film in the 1980s

Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

c. 1934 · North shore of Loch Ness along the A82, near the Altsaigh (Alltsigh) Burn, about 2-3 miles northeast of Invermoriston, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 43 sources · 3 photos

22Thinly documented

Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)

April 23, 1960 · Foyers Bay, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

30Partially documented

Researcher whose 2003 image analysis argued the object was a boat with a helmsman

The Morag attack on Duncan McDonell and William Simpson's boat, Loch Morar 1969

August 1969 · Loch Morar, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

16Thinly documented

Led the 1975 Loch Morar Expedition

The Loch Ness Flipper Photographs (Rines, Urquhart Bay, 1972)

c. 1972 · Urquhart Bay, near Temple Pier, Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources · 2 photos

39Partially documented

Loch Ness researcher who showed in 2001 the edges were painted by brush