What are your thoughts on the Loch Ness monster?

Question

Do you think it exists, it's completely a hoax, or quite possible?

There were always old sailor stories of giant squid attacking their vessels, and that was all debunked by science until some were recently found. A japanese fishing vessel in the 70's caught something that looked much like the Loch Ness monster in its nets. Their government even put the creature on their stamps. The fishermen threw it out before they got to shore because it smelled so horrific, and at the time, American scientists dismissed it as a certain type of shark. The fishermen knew what that shark looked like and said it was most deifinately not it.

Just a few years back, a horse that was thought to be extint for "millions and millions" of years was "discovered" in Mongolia. To the locals, though, that was the only kind of horse they had ever known.

There are literally thousands of different species of plants and animals "discovered" every year. This being said, why can't the Loch Ness monster exist in Loch Ness or somewhere else in the world?

Answer 1

We've only in the last year seen a giant squid alive. Some would have you believe that from their reasoning with nessy or any other undiscovered animal that if we haven't found it yet; it doesn't exist. such with the squid. if this reasoning were true, then the giant squid only existed as a liveless mass, that is until we smarter than everything humans, discovered it. then it was an animal that lived. Hell, we don't even know the migratory pattern of blue whales and they are the largest animal, land or marine, on the planet. remember.... the great minds of science were most often those who went against the grain of mainstream. After scientists so easily labeled them heritics and then shown their ignorance, bowed down as fools.

Answer 2

in case you deliver accessible into the Zeit Geist an concept long sufficient it extremely is going to take on the parable , the legend, the fact turns into distorted and then so coated interior the mists of time that the the fact is lost. i'm afraid that the Loch is plenty to infertile to maintain a creature of such length. There are Salmon runs in the process the Loch yet no longer sufficient, the attainable animal the Pleasosaur lived in very heat fertile seas whilst it replaced into around 60 million 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in the past. So I continuously like the concept once I bypass to the loch that the darkness of those waters is fairly like the darkish unknown recesses of our human minds. bypass away it as that guy,

Answer 3

If there were such a large animal in the Loch- and one could certainly hide a very large critter indeed in such a large, deep, murky body of water- I would think that by now at least ONE animal would have washed up on shore, thoroughly dead and bloated.

But, to date, as best as I know, there have been no records or documented instances of corpses, bodies, or similar washing up on the shores of the loch. Quite simply, in the ocean, whales, sharks, squid, porpoises- all kinds of critters are found dead from time to time. I myself once found a porpoise jawbone on a beach in Virginia.

All corpses are subject to decomposition in the water; while this is markedly reduced in cold water such as that of the loch, it would seem likely that at least now and again, an animal would rise to the surface from the gas produced by decomposers, allowing the body to be washed to the shore. After all, we've been waiting for just such an event for centuries.

Alas, this has yet to happen. Until a corpse- or, better still, a live animal- is produced, I remain unconvinced. I concede there is a possibility, but it looks slim.

Answer 4

Well I heard an interesting fact today, there is more water in Loch Ness than all the combined lakes in the rest of Great Britain. Thats a fact, nessie is a myth

Answer 5

there is NO such thing, purely myth.

Why?

There is a thing called theoretical minimal sustaining population for any species. It is the smallest number of animals that has to exist in its habitat in order for the species to propogate and to avoid genetic disorder as a result of inbreeding.

This number is usually in the hundreds, dependent on the social behavior and environment the species requires. For example, 400 is the estimated number for Florida panthers.

The question is, why haven't anyone found one yet in such small loch with surface area of only 21 square miles, if they should be at least hundreds of them in order to have a sustaining population.

The answer, there is no such thing.

Answer 6

That's because if even if the Loch Ness Monster is real, when we discover it, it wouldn't be called the Loch Ness Monster.

Answer 7

Anything is possible I believe. It probably is some animal that has been alive for a long time. Some tourists like that stuff whether they think it exists or not. Top answer... do not go swimming in lakes or the ocean.

Answer 8

I think it a dinosaur from deep in the lake...a real dinosaur from what I have seen they havent been able to see the entire bottom of the lake...Like there could be a cave where it dwells.....hey dragons were real creatures why couldnt lochness be a dinosaur?.........

Answer 9

I saw a documentary on discovery channel about it. Was a total hoax, guy who originated theory admitted to taking pictures of a play sailboat in water. Picture developed with shadows purely by accident. He admitted truth on his death bed.

Answer 10

It was thought that the picture (see below)

http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/nessie1.html

was actually an elephant which used to bathe in the loch.
Look closely at the picture, it could well be a nellie and not a nessie....