Ted Holiday

I must take issue with the Loch Ness and Morar Project for calling Ted Holiday a “crackpot” [ FT407:45]. He was a far-sighted investigator of the paranormal well ahead of his time. Although he first thought the Loch Ness creature was flesh and blood, his dogged investigation eventually led him to the conclusion that it was part of the paranormal spectrum. I found his book The Dragon and the Disc to be truly a breakthrough book in paranormal research on a par with John Keel’s

Operation Trojan Horse, an equally breakthrough book on UFOs. Both books put me on a course to view most fortean occurrences as paranormal. Holiday was a great investigator of the paranormal (lost to us too soon).

John Kain

London