Frederick "Ted" William Holiday (1921–1979) was an English journalist, who wrote books about angling and also the Loch Ness monster, developing a hypothesis about its nature.
Holiday also claimed that he noticed several unusual coincidences, including camera malfunction during certain Nessie sightings.
"[5] By 1972, Holiday modified his initial hypothesis that the Loch Ness monster was a literal physical animal.
In his second book, The Dragon and the Disc, Holiday postulates that there are certain commonalities between paranormal phenomena and certain reported sightings on the Loch.
Though he maintained in the book that he still believed that the monster was an invertebrate animal, there was a paranormal aspect to it reminiscent of ancient Water Horse legends which he could not fully explain.