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Loch Ness is located in the North of Scotland and is one of a series of interlinked lochs which run along the Great Glen. The Great Glen is a distinctive incision which runs across the country and represents a large geological fault zone. The interlinking was completed in the 19th century following the completion of the Caledonian Canal.
For many years it has been supposed that there is a large dinosaur-like "monster" resident in Loch Ness. The evidence for its existence are a series of sightings of a plesiosaur-like dinosaur throughout the last 100 years. The case has occasionally been supported by indistinct photographic evidence.
However, several scientific studies have been conducted, including thorough sonar surveys of the loch, and these have not revealed any presence of such a "monster". Many people believe that the size (21 square miles) and great depth of the loch (almost 800 feet), together with potential underwater caves, gives the monster many places to hide.
Regardless of the truth, the suggestion of the Monster's existence makes Loch Ness one of Scotland's top tourist attractions.
Nestled deep in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by rugged mountains and forests and fields, Loch Ness is one of Europe's Great Lakes. And it is by all odds the most mysterious lake in the world. In those frigid waters, rendered dark and virtually opaque by peat leached from the land, a huge creature is said to reside.
A creature that for as long as there has been a collective memory, from generation to generation, has been inhabiting the lake that lies between Fort William in the south to Inverness in the north.
Is this a fake image of the lochness monster? or is it the real thing from down deep in the depths of the peat sodden loch. Another speculation about the photograph is that all it is, is gas bubbles rising from the bottom and not a creature at all.
Many sightings of the "monster" have been recorded, going back at least as far as St. Columbia, the Irish monk who converted most of Scotland to Christianity in the 6th century. Columbia apparently converted Nessie, too; for it is said that until he went out on the waters and soothed the savage beast, she had been a murderess.
One sighting is said to have occurred in 1880, when a man by the name of Duncan McDonald was examining a boat that had sunk in the lake. McDonald was examining the wreck when he signaled frantically to be pulled to the surface.Ashen faced, trembling uncontrollably, and incoherent with fear he was finally able to blurt out that he had seen a monster in the murky water. He had gotten a good look at one of the creature's eyes, he reported, and described it as "small, gray and baleful."According to some accounts, Mcdonald never entered the lake again.
A computer image of the lochness monster and as you can see it looks remarkably like a plesiosaurs, a dinosaur that is said to have become extinct a few million yearsago.
The modern legend of Nessie begins in 1934 with Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, who allegedly photographed a plesiosaur-like beast with a long neck emerging out of the murky waters.
That photo created quite a fuss. Before the photo, Loch Ness was the stuff of legend and myth. The locals knew the ancient history of the sea serpent. But people came to the lake more to relax than to go on expeditions looking for mythical beasts.After the photo, the scientific experts were called in. First, they examined the photo itself. Could be a plesiosaur. Yes, but it could be a tree trunk, too. Or an Otter. Later, there would be explorations by a submarine with high tech sensing devices. Today, we have a full-blown tourist industry said to have generated about $37 million in 1993; complete with submarine rides (about one hundred bucks an hour in 1994) and a multi-media tourist center.
Since the McDonald encounter there have been something like 3,000 reported sightings from the shore, boats, and every vantage point that the loch has to offer. With all the reports that have come in over the years some have even come with photographs.Even some of these have proven to be hoax's, the most famous of these is the photo taken by Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, who took the photo showing a neck and head of the beast just out of the water. Under heavy scrutiny the photo was never proven nor disproved and until the recent confession of Dr Wilson that the photograph was a fake it may have gone on forever as a true picture of the Beastie. With this evidence YOU be the judge whether or not the beastie of Lochness is there or not.
WHAT IS NESSIE? Most of the Nessie witnesses describe something with two humps, a tail, and a snakelike head. A V-shaped wash was also often mentioned, and such details as a "gaping red mouth" and horns or antennae on the top of the creature's head were sometimes noted. Nessie's movements have been studied, and the films and photos analyzed to determine what Nessie might be, if she exists.
There are numerous theories as to Nessie's identity, including a snake-like primitive whale known as a zeuglodon, a type of long-necked aquatic seal, giant eels, walruses, floating mats of plants, giant molluscs, otters, a "paraphysical" entity, mirages, and diving birds, but many lake monster researchers seem to favor the plesiosaur theory. Most scientists believe that these marine reptiles have been extinct for 60-70 million years, but others think it possible that after the last Ice Age the Loch may have been connected to the sea, and some of these dinosaurs may have been stranded. Others, like David Hall, feel that lake monsters could not possibly be plesiosaurs since plesiosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles that would have preferred warm oceanic currents to cold Scottish Lochs.
And we cannot afford to ignore the fact that sometimes Nessie is a hoax. Only one thing is certain about Nessie: that there are as many theories about her identity as there are theorists.