haʊˈɛvɚ, mˈækəl hɪmsˈɛlf wʌz kənvˈɪnst ðæt sˈʌmθɪŋ lˈɪvd bᵻnˌiːθ ðə wˈɔːɾɚz ˈæftɚ ɹᵻkˈoːɹdɪŋ hɪz ˈoʊn sˈaɪɾɪŋ ʌvðə kɹˈiːtʃɚɹ ɪn nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd sˈɛvənti, ænd ɪn hɪz nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd sˈɛvənti sˈɪks bˈʊk ðə mˈɔnstɚz ʌv lˈɑːx nˈɛs, hiː sədʒˈɛstᵻd ðˌæɾə pˌɑːpjʊlˈeɪʃən ʌv lˈɑːɹdʒ, pɹˈiːviəsli ʌnnˈoʊn æmfˈɪbiənz wɜː lˈɪvɪŋ ɪnðə lˈɑːx.
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.