Stop, stop, please stop. Everyone and their dogs and cats have sent me the links on the various stories (e.g. here, here, and here) about Nessie being seen from high overhead, thanks to Google Earth.

Frankly, I wasn’t going to run the tale or the photo. It appears to so obviously be a boat to me, why waste your time?

Then the emails, from fans, friends, and future Cryptomundo readers apparently, just kept coming in. For the last few days.

So, please, here are the pictures. I’m aware of ‘em, and now you can see, read and, if you wish, comment all about them. After you look at the photos, and make up your own mind, a word with you at the bottom, no pun intended, please.

As usual, click on the images to enlarge them.

We’ve been here before. Google Earth mania said that a “giant serpent” had been spied from space, near the Amazon River. Whether it was a new road or photoshopping, I forget, but it certainly was another case of someone seeing something cryptid that wasn’t there.

Now, I’m not saying Google Earth might not be useful to cryptozoology, hominology, zoology, and anthropology. We must remain open-minded to what can be seen by looking closely, but let’s not go overboard and make things up that aren’t there.

If you will remember, Google Earth photos have identified unknown native villages in South America where none were suppose to be, and picked up vegetation patterns indicating new species in other parts of the world.

Even closer to home, Hockomock Swamp maps from Google Earth can be used to explore the areas where “mystery apes” have been sighted and identify Lake Nip’s island that has been said to vanish.

But in general, we have to be careful. Most of the mysteries to be explored via Google Earth are human and not cryptozoological, such as why in the world would there be a school in Missouri named after Walt Disney?

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