Robert Rines: Monster Hunter New York Times

A true Renaissance Man gets a quick biography that juxtaposes what everyone considers his solid scientific side to what many consider a crazy swerve on life's later path. Robert Rines was one of the foremost inventors in a nation full of the inventive spirit. He was a scientist, composer, patent attorney and...probably the best known of all the Loch Ness Monster hunters. What drove a renowned individual with impeccable academic credentials to search for what is arguably the most famous cryptid in the world? Could it be he was convinced the creature existed? There were other Nessie searchers around Loch Ness at the time of Rines' investigations, and some of them were of a character far beneath that of Rines, as you'll see in Mike Dash's report Frank Searle's Lost Second Book. With photos. Elsewhere, Loren Coleman shares comments on an unsavory claim that has raised the hackles of many sober seekers of North America's best known cryptid, as seen in Bigfoot Massacre Mess Ends Decade. With images.