if the Loch Ness monster is real. He is very into dinosaurs and other types of past creatures. Thanks!
2006-07-11 03:28:49 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The Loch Ness monster is probably as real as the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
Scientifically, it is virtually impossible for a creature that size to live in that Loch. It probably wouldn't have enough food. There have been *many* expeditions on and in the lake to find her, but they have all failed. Unless there is some super secret volcano lair for her to sleep in, she probably doesn't really exist.
However... It is a legend that has been around forever, and one that will lay deep in the heart of many people. If your child wants to believe, let him believe and do the research himself. Buy him some books on it and let him come to his own conclusions.
Yay discovery!
2006-07-11 03:34:27 · answer #1 · answered by J G 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one unfortunately can say one way or another. Scientifically it seems to be impossible but many many people have seen it and it is hard to say that every single one of those people are lying. Personally I think it is possible that the loch ness monster is real.
Other interesting sightings that you might want to show him just to spark his imagination is Champ of Lake Champlain here in the states. There is another popular one in Canada named Ogopogo. Also one in Africa named Mokole Membe. I remember several years back also there was video footage of something strange in a lake in Turkey that was actually on the news but don't remember which lake it was. Also just last month I believe there was an article I read in the paper about another one in China. There are many other ones...even here in the states of dinosaur like creatures that cannot be explained.
I would not tell him outright that no it doesn't exist. Let him believe it as he grows older he will be able to make his own decision. Its fun to believe that something like that may possibly still be alive...one day maybe we will no for sure :-)
2006-07-16 09:59:11 · answer #2 · answered by lackovizzle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt very much that the Lock Ness Monster is real. Do you know the original picture of the Loch Ness monster that shows her head and part of her neck coming out of the water? Everyone has seen it, I think. Anyway, that has already been proven that it is fake. A man and his son faked that photo and long ago that photo was thought of as the only true existing picture of Nessy.
2006-07-11 03:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by proudmatriarch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes me laugh when people talk about 'the Loch Ness Monster' as if there were but one that sort of exists perpetually. If there were any such animal, there would have to be a large number of them to have survived over a vast track of time - they would have either perished or dominated the Loch. Your son's interest is healthy - but with the amount of garbage and junk science there is floating around today, I suggest you teach him critical thinking skills to help discriminate the real from the possible from the ridiculous.
2006-07-11 03:40:42 · answer #4 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, well I lived next to Loch Ness for some years and I never saw it!
I recently read about a circus that stopped on the banks of the Ness, at the time of the first sighting. If you have ever seen Elephants swimming in deep water, you may have noticed that only the tip of their head, sometimes the tip of their rears and their trunks are all that are visible out of the water. That could go somewhere to explaining the legend of Nessie, cosidering that was around the same time the legend started(early 20th century)!
I don't want to be the one to burst your Son's bubble though, so don't tell him I said so!(my Son's a Dino addict too, lol!)
:)
2006-07-11 03:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apart from there never being any conclusive photographic, cinematic or material proof (e.g. skin, faeces, etc), you can safely assume that the myth of the monster is fake and the logic for this is really very simple. Loch Ness simply does NOT have the scale of natural biodiversity of other inhabitants (especially fish) to feed a creature of that purported size. Apologies to your 9 year old! :-)
2006-07-11 03:38:09 · answer #6 · answered by Jake D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since your son seems to intersted in dinosaurs, you should take time with him teaching him more and more about them so that maybe when he grows up he'll have a career that he's really intersted in. So you should state you opinion about the Loch Ness monster and then tell him that if he really wants to know he should do his research to find out what he thinks about it.
2006-07-11 03:36:13 · answer #7 · answered by priceking19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I met this guy from the Loch Ness area , Scotland and he doesn't believe the Loch Ness monster is real...he thinks it is mass hysteria.
2006-07-11 03:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by toe poe gee gee oh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell your boy that the Loch Ness Monster is really a plesiosaur, he'll know what that is if he likes dinosaurs.
2006-07-11 08:47:55 · answer #9 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There was actually a report about it on TV a few years ago. Apparently, the guy who took the famous photo of "Lochy" came clean when he got to be an old man. It was just trick photography. Guess he was feeling guilty about the whole scam.
2006-07-11 03:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋