Have you ever
heard of the Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed Nessie? Loch Ness is a long stretched
lake in northern Scotland, which I have visited about 40 years ago. Loch Ness
is a little less than 40 km long and 1.6 km wide at the narrowest point. Loch
Ness is about 25,000 years old.
On May, the 2nd
1933, the Inverness Courier published a short article: „Strange Spectacle on
Loch Ness“. A couple reported having seen a creature „rolling and plunging for
a full minute, its body resembling that of a whale“ - at a distance of about
1200 m!
In 1934
Robert K Wilson presented a photograph of Nessie. It has been referred to as
the surgeon's photograph in the Loch Ness literature. But some people think
rather of a fish or a tree or someone crawling with the head under water. My
guess is that Robert K Wilson has photographed a duck emerging after diving for
food.
One
suggestion had been that Nessie is a plesiosaur. So this plesiosaur survived
the extinction of the dinosaurs and has sneaked into Loch Ness 25,000 years
ago. This is as probable as time travelling aliens dropping Nessie into Loch
Ness after time-warping 65 million years.
Most people
need explanations. So the hazy sightings of logs, birds, fish, buoys in Loch
Ness have been summed up to Nessie. Nessie is a friendly monster as it showered
tourists onto Inverness and Loch Ness.
Sorry, no
mystery!
References:
Dunkling, L.:
The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. Longman Group Ltd., Hongkong 1979.
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