The loch nest monster. What is the truth?

Answer 1

The most famous 'Nessie' photo might have been an elephant! There was a travelling circus in the area at the time it was taken, and when elephants swim, often, all you can see is the top of their heads and the trunk- so the photo can actually be of a living creature, but the trunk and 'crown' of an elephant as opposed to the head, neck and back of a snakey monster.

I went to Loch Ness, and there's a boat tour there, this guy will tell you all about it, try to convince you about his version of events. According to him, there are giant freshwater lizard monsters living in Loch Ness, but the lizards are very timid, which is why you hardly ever see them, and they live in underwater caves beneath the Ness. He claims to have proof of the monsters on his sonar record, and that international companies want to buy his research, but he won't let them in case they harm 'Nessie'. When you're on his boat, you want to believe him, but after you're back on dry land, it becomes harder to do so ;)

The first recorded sighting of a monster on the Loch is actually way back in history, an ancient holy man was at Loch Ness with his followers when a monster appeared from it, scaring the hell out of everyone. The holy man was Saint Columba, and he impressed all the heathens by driving the monster away with a holy word. That was in 565 though, and the monster wasn't seen again until the 20th Century photograph.

So- Saint Columba sets up the myth, then there are a few more 'sightings' by hoaxers and drunkards, then an elephant lends a hand in an interesting trick photo, more hoaxers flock in to cash in on the myth, and Nessie enters the popular consciousness- at least, that's what could have happened, eh? Here's a lovely wikipedia entry for you to have fun with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_ness_monster#Saint_Columba_.28565.29
Dinosaur or eel, long-necked seal or giant whisky bottle- you decide...

Answer 2

No such place as loch nest. That's probably why you can't find out the truth. (yes, I'm pedantic but it is annoying when people don't check their spelling on Answers - it's not just you)

Try looking for the Loch Ness monster. She's real enough.

Take an early morning (just before dawn) drive along the shore by Urqhart Castle and stop in the lay by. Look out across the loch as the sun rises from your left. Watch the shadows of the waves. The bigger ones will show up clearly.

If you're very lucky you'll see the bigger bow-wave from Nessie's neck. It moves quite fast and is distingushable in the early low angle sunlight. Later on as the sun gets higher in the sky it's harder to see and more mistaken identifications are made.
In the daytime and evenings it's too noisy and crowded so she doesn't surface so often.

Good spotting.

Answer 3

Poor Nessie. Not a monster but a myth. She is, or has been, either an optical illusion, a mistaken identity, or the result of mischief making by persons known and unknown over quite a long period of time.

Unfortunately, Loch Ness, which dates from the end of the last Ice Age some twelve thousand years ago, simply does not hold enough food resources to maintain a family of marine reptiles or anything similar.......as far as we know.

Answer 4

If you ever see the picture of Nessie that was touted as the "proof" Nessie existed, look at the date on it. You will see its dated 01st April. Which is of course April Fool's day, the photo is fake.
The best theory I have heard is that the loch is full of swamp gas which causes the water to rise up in tubular shapes, this is what people see when they claim to have spotted the monster.
But it is a great myth and I wish I wasn't a sceptic.

Answer 5

It is possible that nessie does exist. Maybe most of the sightings have been fake, however, it is not unknown for large sea creatures to be washed up on the Scottish coast. I can remember how long ago, but apparently a large creature resembling a plesiosaur was washed up on a beach in the Orkney Isles in the far north of Scotland. Apparently, theres also another kelpie in Loch Morar called Morag! Bizarre but true!!!

Answer 6

Nessie and dragons may have the same origins.

The clues are in the descriptions of Nessie and the old term for dragons, as "Werms"

If this is so, then my prime candidate for Nessie can be found at the narrows of the Rio San Juan, at Isla Grande in Nicaragua........... His other relatives are very common in most large rivers in Central America, which empty into the Carribean.

Nessie is probably a giant Sargasso Eel.

These beasts grow to extraordinary lengths and have heads which really do resemble that of a horse, both in shape and size!

Whilst they are very common in Central America, they have also been seen and described in Canada and Scandinavia. This indicates that they occasionally migrate to cooler waters. As eels, they have the ability to travel considerable distances between water bodies, on land. This would explain their relative rarity in Loch Ness and why they disappear.

The Rio San Juan examples happily hunt small rodents and lizards on the river banks and in the water. I have watched them take low flying Bluebirds on the wing. They are reputed to take farmyard fowl, if they stray too close to the river and I have spoken with women, who claim to have been bitten by the monsters (and shown me the scars)!

Of course Nessie could be another product of Scotland's distilleries...........

For your interest, St George fought his dragon somewhere in the Near East. The remains of the "dragon" are, today, a part of the Holy Roman Emperor's Crown Jewels and are held in Prague, along with St. Georges (reputed) lance!

The dragon is a medium sized crocodile.............

Answer 7

I don't think there is a loch ness monster. I think if you drained the loch you would just find a giant teaspoon at the bottom! (like the one that always gets away from you in the washing up)

Answer 8

No one has ever seen the "so called" Loch Ness monster so people dont know if it is true. But it has taken the world by steam it is a famous tourist attracttion place, to just take a glimpse, to be the first to see the Loch Ness monster.

Answer 9

Thirty of forty years ago there were respected naturalists suggesting that it might be a plesiosaur. Then that was thought unlikely, because it would need a breeding colony. Now it is thought that the original photograph, which got the legend under way, is a fake.

There have been instances of species, thought to have been extinct for millions of years, which have turned up alive and well, but none the size of nessie. Pity really.

Answer 10

maybe she was real - i mean the myth had to come from somewhere and maybe she was an overegrown, mutated fish or something the only way to ever find out is to drain the loch - but why go to all that troouble to find a dinosaur - besides at least scotland have their own dinosaur :P