All the references cited for his academic credentials are newspaper interviews relying on Beckjord as source. It is highly doubtful any of these degrees are real. Beckjord was a gifted liar according to numerous people he talked into giving him money for his endeavors. One Los Angeles woman gave him close to $40,000 in the early eighties to make a movie about the Loch Ness monster which he vacationed in Scotland with no resultant movie. She sued him and an article appeared about it in the Los Angeles Times around 1982–3 in which he shrugged off the suit with "I have no assets".