Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is tied with Bigfoot for most popular cryptid, when the ordinary person thinks about cryptozology. The reason for this is because Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster have obtained far more media attention then any other ctyptids. Some people even refer to the Loch Ness Monster as a swimming Elephant, sea serphant and a dinosaur. The real name of the monster is Nessie because Loch Ness refers to the lake in Scotland. It's believed that Nessis lives in the lake Loch Ness. A monk was the first person to claim to see the Loch Ness Monster. The first photo taken of this animal was in 1933 but the scientific community has never approved the Loch Ness Monster as a valid animal. Lake Loch Ness is also Scotlands most profitable tourist sites.

Physical Attributes

Note: The Loch Ness Monster is not a long lost dinosaur but it's more of a giant Sturgeon

 History

The first sightings lead as far back as to the 6th centuary. The Romans were the first people to record sightings of this beast while they were in Scotland. But scientist believe Loch Ness Monster sightings prior to 1933 are highly dubious and do not prove that there was a tradition of the monster before this date. In 1934 there was an alleged conspiracy by the Natural History Museum to shoot the beast and bring it to London, MP Murdoch MacDonald acted to save Scotland’s most famous resident. But the parliment shot it down because they were not going to make laws to protect a monster. A lot of the times people have witnessed Nessis either in the water through a wave or on the land around lake Loch Ness.

Scientific Approach

This is the famous picture of Nessis being on Sonar

Scientists have gone into Lake Loch Ness with high powered sonars to see if Nessis was real. A sonar is a machine that can deatect body movments and sounds in water. The scientists were never able to caputre this thing on sonar and then find it. A couple times they saw movments on the sonar that looked like it could have belonged to Nessis, but they were never able to capture, or take a picture of it.

My idea is that the Loch Ness Monster has to be fake for one reason. If an animal is said to be in a lake then it's landlock, which means it can't go anywhere. So the only way for the species to survive is if there is a living breeding population. The Loch Ness Monster legend had been around for centuries, so if it was real there should be tons of these elephant looking sea-horses swimming around lake Loch Ness.