What do you think of it? Do you think it's real? Do you think there's anything there?
Here's an extract from the official Nessie site: "The first recorded sighting of Nessie on land was made by Mr Spicer and his wife, on July 22nd 1933, who were driving down the road between the Loch Ness side villages of Dores and Inverfarigaig. They caught sight of a large cumbersome animal crossing the road ahead, which was some 20 yards from the water. They first saw a long neck, forming a number of arches, a little thicker than a elephant's trunk and a huge lumbering body heading towards the Loch. It disappeared into the bushes out of sight."
Personally, I think this (as well as some other sightings, perhaps) is likely to be a seal. I think that fits the description rather well. And seals have been known to swim in the Loch, so that fits too.
But I think that all sorts of things and creatures have been identified as the monster over so many years. I don't think there's one thing that accounts for everything.
Your thoughts?
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Well i think the myth of the monster may come fom this:
A long time ago the lake was attached to the sea, when the lake became landlocked 1 or 2 sturgen became trapped inside. THey live a very long time. The myth may have come from this, although they are definitly long dead by now.
I don't think there is one though, with all the tech we have it would have been spotted, the most famous sighting was a clear fake and it would have died from pollution or something
So yeah, everyone is entitled to their own opinions though
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stockdale10 wrote:
Well i think the myth of the monster may come fom this:
A long time ago the lake was attached to the sea, when the lake became landlocked 1 or 2 sturgen became trapped inside. THey live a very long time. The myth may have come from this, although they are definitly long dead by now.
I don't think there is one though, with all the tech we have it would have been spotted, the most famous sighting was a clear fake and it would have died from pollution or something
So yeah, everyone is entitled to their own opinions though
Hmm, a sturgeon. Interesting. I've heard that suggested before. Are there any specific sightings you think were a sturgeon?
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Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
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mythbusteranimator wrote:
Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
Link?
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calebxy wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
Link?
I had to do that.
Anyways, I think that Nessie exists.
But it's probably more like a misidentification. It's most likely not a monster but a prehistoric water dinosaur thingy.
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haxcharsol wrote:
calebxy wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
Link?
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q71/ … a/link.jpg
I had to do that.
Anyways, I think that Nessie exists.
But it's probably more like a misidentification. It's most likely not a monster but a prehistoric water dinosaur thingy.
that's pretty much what I think too.
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Yeah, I used to think that, but I don't anymore.
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calebxy wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
Link?
Twas a book DX
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luiysia wrote:
wasn't the original photo admitted to be a toy
Yes.
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luiysia wrote:
wasn't the original photo admitted to be a toy
I don't know if it was the first photo, but it's the most iconic one. And yes, that was a toy. There's actually a very interesting reason behind why they did that. It was kind of for revenge, or basically to troll the community, because the person's father (or some relative like that) had been hired by the Daily Mail to search for the Loch Ness Monster. So he did, and he found some footprints that he claimed were from the monster. But it actually turned out that they were from a hippo (I can't remember if he faked that on purpose or not). So he was fired. And then, because of that, he got his son (or some relative; I can't quite remember) to create that picture which is now iconic.
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calebxy wrote:
luiysia wrote:
wasn't the original photo admitted to be a toy
I don't know if it was the first photo, but it's the most iconic one. And yes, that was a toy. There's actually a very interesting reason behind why they did that. It was kind of for revenge, or basically to troll the community, because the person's father (or some relative like that) had been hired by the Daily Mail to search for the Loch Ness Monster. So he did, and he found some footprints that he claimed were from the monster. But it actually turned out that they were from a hippo (I can't remember if he faked that on purpose or not). So he was fired. And then, because of that, he got his son (or some relative; I can't quite remember) to create that picture which is now iconic.
Hippos in Loch Ness?
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haxcharsol wrote:
calebxy wrote:
luiysia wrote:
wasn't the original photo admitted to be a toy
I don't know if it was the first photo, but it's the most iconic one. And yes, that was a toy. There's actually a very interesting reason behind why they did that. It was kind of for revenge, or basically to troll the community, because the person's father (or some relative like that) had been hired by the Daily Mail to search for the Loch Ness Monster. So he did, and he found some footprints that he claimed were from the monster. But it actually turned out that they were from a hippo (I can't remember if he faked that on purpose or not). So he was fired. And then, because of that, he got his son (or some relative; I can't quite remember) to create that picture which is now iconic.
Hippos in Loch Ness?
I'm pretty certain they were fake, but I can't remember if he's the one who faked them, or if it was some other person.
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haxcharsol wrote:
calebxy wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
Actually, scientists have put a radar detector (or something) down there and they have detected a very large creature.
Link?
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q71/ … a/link.jpg
I had to do that.
Anyways, I think that Nessie exists.
But it's probably more like a misidentification. It's most likely not a monster but a prehistoric water dinosaur thingy.
*plesiosaur
I'm sorry.
:3
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Luigitailsdoll45 wrote:
haxcharsol wrote:
calebxy wrote:
Link?http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q71/ … a/link.jpg
I had to do that.
Anyways, I think that Nessie exists.
But it's probably more like a misidentification. It's most likely not a monster but a prehistoric water dinosaur thingy.*plesiosaur
I'm sorry.
:3
Yeah, I heard that one theory suggest a line of breeding water dinosaurs (pleiosaurs or whatever) may live in the lake. This makes sense because no one monster could survive for a hundred years.However, it is suspicous that no one has actually had suffiencient proof of the monster(s). So I'm 50/50 on this one.
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I personally don't believe in 'Nessie', because I believe that we would have found skeletons of the creatures, or some other form of proof of their existance.
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I personally think that the pleiosaur couldn't have existed for so long
I mean,
It's been 60 million years since the dinos went extinct, and, if it really was alive, you think we'd have found some sort of evidence of it's existence besides rip-off pictures. But then again, the coelacanth survived this long, so who knows. But probably not.
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