A few days back I blogged about the Apple Maps image of the Loch Ness Monster.  Well, thanks to reader Champ and some intrepid computer scientists it is indeed a misinterpreted image.  You see that I am not saying a fraud, which would imply deceptive intent.  The deal here is that Apple Map images are typically formed from composites.  Images from multiple days are combined to create a single image.  In this case the image of a ship was washed out by the addition of the non-boat images.  The result is a ghostly, monster-like image of a faded boat and boat wake.     The Loch Ness Monster Fan Club apparently doesn’t buy it.  I guess that the rest of us need to chalk this one up to the experience and the view that you can’t trust every photograph that you see.  I fear, ah well, that we must heed the words of 19th Century biologist Sir Thomas Huxley, who said:

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion… or you shall learn nothing.”