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Loch Ness Monster: A Theory or Real?

The Loch Ness Monster is a modern legend that has gone by decades. The Loch Ness Monster is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The legend of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as Nessie, was born on May 2, 1933 when a couple reported to have seen an enormous creature that “was rolling and plunging on the surface.” After this reporting, the mysterious creature was brought to worldwide attention. Since the reporting in 1933, numerous sightings of the creature have been reported. In December of 1933, a man named Marmaduke Wetherell, a hunter, was sent to locate the sea serpent. Upon his search, he ended up finding large footprints. However, zoologists have later stated these footprints were not caused by any large sea serpent and were most likely created by someone.

Reports of “Nessie” actually go back as early as the sixth century AD. Adomnán wrote about some events that had happened some years prior. He wrote that a monk, Saint Columba, was staying with others in a town. There they encountered residents burying a man. The residents explained that the man was attacked and killed by a “water beast.” Saint Columba sent a follower to swim across the River Ness. There, the follower encountered the beast but when he did the sign of the cross, the beast fled. Saint Columba and his companions perceived this encounter as a miracle. 

In 1934, Robert Kenneth Wilson, captured the most iconic and well known picture (shown above) that there is of “Nessie” today. The Daily Mail even ended up printing the picture which soon sparked international interest in this sea serpent. Many people even speculated the creature was a marine reptile that went extinct over 65 million years ago. Over the next couple of years, monster hunters from all over were intrigued by this creature and many explorations were done in search of the Loch Ness Monster but nothing conclusive was found. However, British explorers’ sonars in each expedition detected some large, moving underwater objects.

In 1994, it was revealed that the most iconic picture of the Loch Ness Monster taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson ended up all just being a hoax – the “Nessie” in the picture was actually not some prehistoric marine animal but was just a plastic and wooden head that was attached to a toy submarine. 

In 2018, DNA tests were conducted using the water from Loch Ness, where the supposed Loch Ness Monster inhabits. The results ended up coming back that no prehistoric marine animal or other such large animals inhabited the water. The results however did conclude that many large eels lived in the water. After this discovery, many people started to speculate what people were actually seeing was not some prehistoric creature but just some large oversized eel. To date, there has been no proof of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. Even with no evidence of this creature, people have still yet to not believe. Steve Feltham, a man who spent three decades watching the Loch Ness for any sighting of the Loch Ness Monster and even kept up a blog. After the joke to raid Area 51, another facebook event was formed – to storm Loch Ness is Scotland. The facebook event for this raid was called ‘Storm Loch Ness, Nessie can’t hide from us all.’ More than 40,000 facebook users expressed interest in joining this raid. Unlike Area 51 however, Loch Ness is open to the public.