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Roy P.

Mackal (August

1, 1925 – September 13, 2013) was a University of Chicago biologist best

known to the general public for his interest in cryptozoology.

Born in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, in 1925, Mackal served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II before

attending the University of Chicago, where he received his B.S. in 1949 and his

Ph.D under the direction of Lloyd Kozloff. in

1953. He spent the rest of his academic career with Chicago as an educator and

researcher.[2] Much

of his early research with the university was during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he contributed to the university's

influential "virus project", cycle. He later served as a was a member of the American

Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Mackal is widely

considered to be one of the seminal figures in the subculture of cryptozoology.

According to writer Daniel Loxton and paleontologist Donald

Prothero, "Cryptozoologists have often promoted 'Professor Roy

Mackal, PhD.' as one of their leading figures and one of the few with a

legitimate doctorate in biology. What is rarely mentioned, however, is that he

had no training that would qualify him to undertake competent research on

exotic animals. This raises the specter of 'credential mongering', by which an

individual or organization feints a person's graduate degree as proof of

expertise, even though his or her training is not specifically relevant to the

field under consideration." Along

with ecologist Richard Greenwell and Belgian

zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, he was one of the founding

members of the International Society for

Cryptozoology, which was created in 1982 at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington,

D.C., with the hopes of bringing a degree of respectability to what

is often seen as a pseudoscience. The organization published a

quarterly newsletter and an annual journal, and members met annually at

meetings held at universities throughout the world. Mackal was the ISC’s

vice-president for the entirety of its existence, although the organization

gradually folded in the early 21st century owing to lack of funding and the

deaths of Heuvelmans and Greenwell. Mackal's 1980 book Searching for

Hidden Animals was negatively reviewed in the BioScience journal

as a "reflection of mankind's anxiety in the modern world of science and

an obvious extension of current interest in the paranormal." Mackal began investigation into the Loch Ness

Monster phenomenon during the 1960s. In 1965, he went to

the Scottish Highlands and met several members

of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, who were monitoring the loch in

observation vans in hopes of seeing the creature. Fascinated by their work,

Mackal began monitoring the waters himself and, after raising money in America,

became the scientific director for the project, a position he held until 1972,

when the Bureau disbanded.[ During this time, the the waters near Urquhart Bay and installed underwater strobe cameras

with the hopes of providing evidence of the Loch Ness Monster. Mackal also

designed a "biopsy harpoon",

a dart-like contraption he attached to a submarine in

order to collect tissue samples. The team never had an opportunity to use the

biopsy harpoons, and were unable to provide any conclusive evidence that the

Loch Ness Monster existed. However, Mackal himself was convinced that something

lived beneath the waters after recording his own sighting of the creature in

1970, and in his 1976 book The Monsters of Loch Ness, he suggested

that a population of large, previously unknown amphibians were

living in the loch. Mackal later changed his mind and proposed that the

creatures were zeuglodons, serpentine whales believed to

have gone extinct several million years ago.

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