NESSIE is BACK!

[Ninurta]

Who's to say there aren't other aquatic fakes quietly placed in other sections of the video?

I've been thinking the same thing, and may go on an easter egg hunt for Nessie appearances at some point. Curiously, there is a drone shot of the second site later in the video, approaching from the other direction, with no Nessie in sight in it, despite her apparent interest in the red canoe...

I'm struggling to find a reason for a hoax. Sure, there are indications there that all may not be as it seems,
yet the biggie, motivation for that much work for so fleeting a return, is absent. In the second "sighting",
for example, the one Gordi located for us, the shape in the water is visible for only a split second before
the drone pans it out of frame altogether. You would have to be looking for it to see it at all...

Me too in regards of the reason, it's more elusive than the monster!
I did see the 2nd shore opportunity, but it's fleeting and I can only admire the TOS member for his/her acute
scrutiny of the entire video. The actual time it's on screen is miniscule.

But the double-catch of Nessie in positions of such vagueness that you'd have to have intent to look for them
in the first place, is stretching credulity a bit! Gordi's mention of a media-connection may have a bearing.

It may be that he's on to something, just something I can't comprehend. I've never been interested in clicks and such, so that possibility would likely go right over my head. If that is the case, then it appears to have gone horribly wrong and backfired on them, if they felt the need to disable comments on the video.

There's also the possibility that Sonny had it done during film editing as a prank on Pa, and that Pa had no clue about what was being done and had an "oh SHIT!" moment delivered to him...

I've been trying to figure out HOW it could have been done, and reached the conclusion that tinkering with transparency could create the "fade in" effect of having it appear to rise from the depths, and could account for the appearance that it is submerged under the waves. It would have to be done frame by frame, in order to create thee fade-in and motion towards the beach.

I don't know about the lighting matching. Could lighting and shade be changed in Photoshop? I don't know enough about that to assess it. Another possibility could be that the actual toy had been purchased, photographed against a green-screen or had the background removed as a transparency in a PNG (after properly lighting it, of course), and then THAT image manipulated into the frames of the video.

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