Ness Monster Nessie

Ness Monster Nessie

Loch Ness Monster - One of the most famous creatures of Cryptozoology

For a long time the Loch Ness Monster has been a creature of cryptozoology that has been sighted in the Lake (Loch) Ness in Scotland. This creature resembles a large aquatic serpent plesiosaur, which today is best known as Nessie, a nickname given by its fans, whether existing or not, the monster is a celebrity today. In fact, there are video cams and web cams on different points of the lake waiting for Nessie to be caught. Many people have relocated to tents and mobile homes nearby waiting for the long time awaited "idol" in which there is a reward for whoever sees him arise from the depth of the waters either live or through the cams installed for that purpose.

There are many theories surrounding the Loch Ness Monster. Considering the time from when it was first reportedly seen to today, it is possible that any actual living Nessie's could be the offspring of many generations from the original monster. Mosy researchers believe that there is more than one Nessie or there is a possible underwater passage that allows the monster to travel. In the United States, a similar monster has been reported in Lake Champlain, Vermont. This creature is known as Champ or Champie, supporting the idea of a possible underwater passageway allowing Nessie to travel from Scotland to the USA, changing its identity.

Although the monster was widely publicized in the early 1960s, the first report was made in 1930. However, the documented sighting of a plesiosaur, a water-bound creature, in 1923 made cryptozoologist believe that the specimen of these monsters existed in the lake at least 200 years ago. However, the description of the creature's appearance suggests an older origin. Expeditions to the bottom of the lake began in the early 1970s, when a group led by American Dr. Robert Rines obtained vague underwater photographs.

Although, many people claim to have seen the monster in recent years, the cameras installed show movement in the lake but no clear shots of Nessie and nobody has claimed the reward yet, but Nessie's enthusiasts keep watching the lake religiously.

In the United Kingdom, the confirmed existence of Nessie is irrelevant because the monster has a mythological meaning to the British people, but particularly to the Scottish that do not need proof to believe in the monsters existence. Modern urban legend or traditional Celtic myth, there is a popular belief rumored from person to person by way of legend saying that a certain hornpipe melody has the ability to attract Nessie to the surface, however only a few people that know the music are still alive today.

There is a website that describes this and numerous other creatures of Cryptozoology in detail. The website is called: Unknown Creatures, and may be found at this address:

http://www.unknown-creatures.com

By Robert W. Benjamin

Copyright © 2006

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Is Nessie, The Loch-Ness Monster Real Or Fake?

Alot of people are convinced that the lochness monster is real, I am convinced. When studying in class, I heard of an Octopus That Never Dies. So I think the loch ness Monster Is Real And Never Dies. But what do you guys think? Just Because There has Been Not alot of great pictures of him doesnt mean That he is not real.

The Loch Ness Monster does not exist.

1. What people fail to understand is that every living thing on this planet leaves a “footprint”. This is defined as any impact on the environment that would not have naturally happened had this creature not been there in the first place.

2. First, if Nessie (or any other lake monster, but here I’ll refer to just Nessie) could exist, a single plesiosaur (I will use the term “plesiosaur” not only to mean the actual dinosaur, but to also encompass any supposedly heretofore unknown creature of gigantic proportion) would have died thousands upon thousands of years ago, so this infers that Nessie has to be a family of plesiosaurs, living deep under the Loch in a series of underwater caverns. The problem with this idea is that in order to maintain species viability, there must be many, many, members to insure successful breeding of each successive generation. What are they all eating? Blind cave fish? Each other?
A single plesiosaur should be able to eat its own weight in fish every week or so. The caverns, if they exist, would be picked clean in hours. Maybe, as some have suggested, there is a large exit into the ocean from these caverns, and the whole colony can “run out for a bite to eat”.

3. The problem with this, is, like I said, the numbers needed to maintain species viability. If there were that many Nessies, the oceans would be full of them – and one of them would have been spotted or caught, either on film or in a fishing net by one of the large commercial fishing haulers. They just aren’t that smart to avoid detection. Or one of their corpses would have surfaced and we would have a complete skeleton of a modern day dinosaur to study. No such thing has happened.

4. Anything less than overkill on species viability would not have allowed a species of dinosaur to have existed all these thousands upon thousands of years since the extinction level event that wiped them out.

5. Furthermore, Loch Ness is only about 10,000 years old and was formed by glacial activity during the last Ice Age – well after the age of the dinosaurs was over. For a plesiosaur to have ended up in Loch Ness again infers that it would have had to have entered the Loch via a submerged cavern network joined to the Atlantic, and that a large group of plesiosaurs would have somehow outlived and survived the extinction of the dinosaurs when no others did.

6. Back in the Fifties there was a movie or documentary made on the Loch Ness Monster, filmed on the Loch itself, and they had a rubber “Nessie” made for the shoot, large and durable. It sank halfway through filming and was never recovered, but it was engineered to float when air bladders inside were filled. It is entirely possible this contraption accounts for a lot of the sightings and photos, as those bladders could be filling with gases from biodegrading plant material that has found its way into the mockup, and being pushed around by the currents only to sink again when the gases escape.
Photos snapped over the years are not conclusive, and the images taken could be any number of things from sunken kayaks to large lake eels.

7. Very basic timeline pertinent to this discussion:
Mesozaic Era: 245 – 144 million years ago. Ended with the Cretaceous period during which the mass extinction of the dinosaurs occurred.
Cenozoic Era: 65 – 0 million years ago. Ended with the Ice Age (which ended about 10,000 years ago) and the appearance of the first humans 190,000 years ago. At the end of the Ice Age the glacier filling the Great Glen Fault retreated, leaving the Loch filled with water.
This means that a group of plesiosaurs would have had to have existed for 143,990,000 years BEFORE moving into the Loch. (the interval between the end of the dinosaurs and the end of the Ice Age). 144 million years living in equatorial oceans after the extinction level event and leaving absolutely no fossil record?

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