The Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness monster, also called “Nessie”, is a creature that is supposed to live in Loch Ness, the largest lake in northern Scotland.

Here is where Nessie is expected to live.

Nessie is a cryptid.

Cryptids are creatures presumed extinct, hypothetical species, or creatures known from anecdotal evidence and/or other evidence insufficient to prove their existence with scientific certainty.

Is Nessie a hoax or is it true?

Since Roman times the legend of a mysterious sea creature has been alive through numerous sightings of the animal.

Here are a few discoveries of Nessie that have been proved Hoax.

The Edwards Photo, 2012George Edwards, skipper of a Loch Ness tour boat, produced an image of a dark hump in the water.

•He claimed that the photo had been examined by a team of US military experts, who declared there was no doubt it showed an "animate object."

•But a little over a year later, Edwards confessed the photo was a fake. It actually showed a fiberglass hump created for a 2011 National Geographic documentary

The Loch Ness Tooth(2005)

The Loch Ness Fossil (2003)

The Loch Ness Muppet (1977)

Nessiteras Rhombopteryx

The most famous picture of the loch Ness monster, taken in 1933, is in fact a fake… Dr Kenneth Wilson confessed just before his death that it was a hoax.

•Several engineer and scientist did expedition to search Nessie, Tim Dinsdale, an aeronautical engineer did 56 expeditions between 1960 and 1987.

• All of the pictures on which he was sure to see Ness, have been described as simple boat’s pictures.

Proof that Nessie is Real..

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There are several theories about what Nessie could be.

Nessie could be a plesiosaur, which is a long-necked aquatic reptile that is defined as extinct.

Here is a drawing of two pleisiosaurs.

• One important thing, apart from the disappearance of this race, is against this hypothesis:the plesiosaur was probably a cold-blooded reptile requiring warm tropical waters, while the average temperature of Loch Ness is only about 5.5°C.

• Also even if the plesiosaurs were warm-blooded, they would require a food supply beyond that of Loch Ness to maintain the level of activity necessary for warm-blooded animals

Nessie could be a long-necked seal. Several scientists supported this theory but however, the seal are actually visible on land during daylight to sunbathe, and Nessie was never known to do that.

• Nessie may be a giant eel. Scientists believe that an eel might have grossly enlarged in order to eat the bigger fish, or that a larger eel species could inhabit the loch.

• But, once again, a detail destroy the theory, eels are not known to protrude from the water as described in some sightings.

Nessie could be a giant invertebrate, and cited the extinct Tullimonstrum as an example of the shape, but this hypothesis hasn’t been accepted by a lot of people as it is simple speculations.

• Also told that Nessie are associated with the old legends of kelpie, which is a supernatural and fantastic water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lakes of Scotland and Ireland.

•It generally has grayish black fur, and will appear to be a lost pony, but can be identified by its constantly dripping mane.

• Its skin is like that of a seal but is deathly cold to the touch. A scientist claims that the accounts of loch monsters have changed over the ages, originally describing a horse appearance; they claimed that the "kelpie" would come out of the lake and turn into a horse.

•When a tired traveler would get on the back of the kelpie, it would gallop into the loch and devour its prey. This myth successfully kept children away from the loch, as was its purpose.

Conclusion

Rumors of a huge animal living in the loch have existed for centuries – since 565. Some believers have argued that a lengthy history of monster sightings in the loch provides evidence of the creature's existence but it may be an invention.

Some sightings are cases of misidentified deer or boat wakes, and of course, there have been several hoaxes. There are some sightings, however, which cannot be easily explained.

As a conclusion I’d say that if you want to be convinced, I let you go to the Loch Ness lake and see by yourself if the big shape moving under water is, or not, the legendary monster.

Actually I’d prefer to stay there in safety, with this little doubt inside my head…