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There was a story on 48 Hours last week that showed the expedition one man went to searching for the "monster." In any case, he came up dry except for finding a carcass of something that looked like it on the bottom of the loch (this was all found with the news crew watching). However, when he went back to find it again, he didn't.

Um, you mean ... "he came up dry except for reporting finding a carcass". Which no one else saw? And am I to take it that he dove alone to the 200m+ depths of Loch Ness?? Oh, and where was his camera on this trip to the bottom?

Anyway, he showed a photo from several years ago (he has an underwater camera in the Loch) where for one frame, something that looked like Nessie appeared and then disappeared. Is he a fraud? Nobody has claimed he is.

You lost me. What exactly is he claiming that we can call him fraudulent about?

Actually, the carcass was shown on tv. It may not be a carcass though....I am open to it being a faked body or something and that explains why he convienently couldn't find it again when he wanted to bring it up!

However, nobody has claimed he is somebody not to be trusted and that he has committed fraud in the past, so I have no reason to doubt him.

I haven't spent any time trying to figure out how to make a crop circle, and I haven't read the available pamphlets on the subject, but I don't think it's terribly difficult:

1. Get a couple of friends, some backpacks, some ropes, and some planks. And stilts. And beer.
2. Go out into the field on stilts, to avoid leaving an obvious trail.
3. Plant a stake in the ground, tie a rope to it, and then extend the rope its full length.
4. Use your planks as "snowshoes" and hold onto the rope. Walk a complete circle around the stake.
5. Take another rope, twice as long as the "radius" rope.
6. Two guys use that rope to make a diameter of the circle.
7. Use the plank snowshoes to stomp off the diameter.
8. Walk a measured distance around the circumfrence and stomp off another diameter.
8a. You can be precise laying out the diamters by using a compass rose at the center stake.
9. Do that again. And again. And again.
10. Now you have a circle and several neat diameters.
11. Shorten the "radius" rope and make an inner circle.

That's complex enough for the first attempt. The whole thing should take a couple of hours. Now get back on your stilts and head out of the field and onto the road, where your car is waiting. End of adventure.