The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster Unveiled

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 2^nd 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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