Loch Ness

What is the loch ness monster?

The loch Ness Monster, what is it? Lets go back in time to find our where it all started, back in Scotland there were a tribe of Picts that were covered in tattoos as the word Pict means painted people. This tribe built stones near the loch ness, and they were covered in carvings. All of the carvings were of animals that were recognised all except one. This one >>>>

As you can see it doesn’t look like any animal. This weird animal has a beak or muzzle, a locket or spout on its head and flippers instead of feet. Could this be the loch ness monster? Well this carving is the first evidence of that the loch ness monster may exist. A biography of Saint Columba has the first written evidence of the loch ness monster. In this book it says that St Columba was on his way to visit the Pictish King when he saw a man swimming in the loch ness about to be attacked by a large beast from the water. Could this possibly be the loch ness monster? Well the word soon got out about this “monster” in loch ness and the Daily Mail soon got all the headlines.

As well as the papers the public got interested. This mysterious monster in the lake got so big that a British Circus was willing to pay £20,000 ($59,977.05) for the capture of it. Loads of fishermen, farmers and the locals set off in boats to find this monster, whilst others sat at the waters edge waiting to see this Monster. One of the most excited person was Marmaduke Wetherell>>>>> Marmaduke was a film director and game hunter who was hired by the daily mail (a newspaper company) to find the loch ness monster. After only a few days Wetherell founds some footprints in the ground they were 20 feet long (6 meters). He quickly made plaster casts and sent them to the Natural History Museum in London. This new discovery made more hunters eager to find this mysterious beast came to the loch ness and the lake soon got very popular the hotels had “No Vacancy” and there were traffic jams in both directions. Then in January the results were back from the Museum and they were very disappointing. It turned out that they so called “loch ness footprint” was actually a stuffed hippo’s foot printed into the mud. Could this be the end of the mystery of the loch ness monster?

Though the hoaxes of the footprint, there have still been sightings of the loch ness monster. Most of these descriptions say of a large creature with a long neck and humps coming out of the water. Others say of a creature with flippers. Then they started expeditions to find this monster. In one of the expeditions they used sonar (technology that uses sound the search water). They found in these expeditions that the sonar’s detected a large moving object that doesn’t have a scientific reason for. Here is the sonar picture. >>>> Finding this they decided to set a trap for the loch ness monster. The trap they were going to use was called side scan sonar, as they would scan from shore to shore of the lake using sonar. They put cameras in the water that took pictures every 45 seconds. And in 1975 the sonar again picked up a large moving creature with flippers. This was a giant leap towards the mystery of the loch ness monster.

A man called Sir Peter Scott said that this creature with flippers was a plesiosaur which is a dinosaur that was thought to be extinct 65 million years ago. But this idea was not accounted for by zoologists because it was ridiculous that a dinosaur could be alive. But loch ness (the lake) never freezes or gets very warm so if the dinosaurs died of the ice age this lake could of saved this monster. So now we can say that the loch ness monster is a large reptile like beast with flippers and a long neck.

But in many pictures of the loch ness monster are fakes or normal objects or animals. The most convincing picture of the loch ness monster is the surgeon’s picture shown here.

But this could have been a toy submarine, an elephant, a manatee even a giant squid proboscis were one of the possible explanations. Of coarse these may sound far-fetched but even scientist wonder what loch ness could be.

So any picture of the loch ness monster could be a fake or mistaken for something else like a log. But this doesn’t mean there isn’t a monster in loch ness. Many adventures and monster hunters set off to find this beast but for now the mystery of the loch ness monster is unsolved.