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The Loch Ness Monster

That certainly does look a lot like a huge fish...but I reckon it's actually just a bow wave and wake from a fast-travelling boat (probably a water-jet).
 
If you look at the bigger picture, there are small boats visible near the shore and a house for scale. The analysts say we a looking as something beneath the surface and not a bow wave on it.

I'd say a fast-moving craft would produce a more angular and pointed bow wave but I'm no expert on that. It does seem to have symmetry and looks to me like a huge basking shark but without a dorsal fin.
 
I would have expected it to appear darker if it was an underwater object, its paleness makes it look like it could be on the surface to me. It does resemble an enormous catfish.
 
davidplankton said:
I would have expected it to appear darker if it was an underwater object, its paleness makes it look like it could be on the surface to me. It does resemble an enormous catfish.
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Sorry if this sounded like I thought it was a giant fish - I don't. I agree that it looks like a boat wake, likely a ferry judging by its size.
Or,
A much narrower wake, say from a speedboat, that has been spread apart by a glitch in the software. I'll admit to knowing nothing about satellite imagery, but this would remove the possibility of deliberate fakery.
 
gordonrutter said:
There were several reported sightings of Nessie last year and some film. ALl that happened is that the Bookies who sponsor the best sighting award decided not to hand it out.
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According to the Telegraph:

This supposed sighting is the first reported in 18 months, the longest that Nessie has been missing since 1925. All three sightings of the monster in 2013 were found to be fake – one was a duck, one was a wave and one wasn’t even taken at Loch Ness.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... nster.html

(For some reason the Mail page won't open on this computer, so this is the first time I've actually seen the image. It does look rather wake-like - perhaps we have a ghost ship! ;) )
 
I agree with virtually everyone who has seen the image that it's likely to be a wake pattern, probably after some image editing has removed the boat that created it. Or, a whale shark. Dropped in the loch by aliens. Or perhaps a whale shark originally kept as a pet by some kid who then had to get rid of it after it outgrew the paddling pool. But most likely a boat wake. The illusion is fun, though. And it's nice to see a putative monster image from Loch Ness that doesn't show something that in any way conforms to the popular image of the monster.
 
lordmongrove said:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/loch-ness-monster-is-spiritual-say-buddhists-1-3388747
Is Nessie a spirt dragon?
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Aye, he likes a wee dram of Scotch.
 
...Nessie is a “naga” - a water deity which brings prosperity in the religion.
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She's certainly brought prosperity.:rolleyes:

Lama Zangmo added that Loch Ness has a “special magic”...
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Have to agree with her there. It's one of my favourite places.
 
Interesting article from today's Scotsman

London museum planned to ‘shoot and steal Nessie’
by MARTYN McLAUGHLIN

AT A time when sightings of the nation’s most elusive inhabitant were treated with gravity by British officialdom, it was a fiendish plan to snatch her from under Scottish noses.

Newly discovered documents have revealed how the National History Museum (NHM) in London appealed to so-called bounty hunters to help secure the carcase of the Loch Ness monster, according to a new book.

It claims the files, dating back to the 1930s, show staff at the institution were keen to steal a march on museums in Scotland and around the world by exhibiting all – or part – of the beast’s remains.

Although Nessie now occupies a prized place in Scottish mythology alongside flying haggis and Brigadoon, the correspondence from the museum’s archives demonstrate the seriousness with which early rumours of her existence were treated.

In 1934, a year after the first sightings of a supposedly mysterious creature lurking in the loch’s depths, the book claims, an NHM employee made clear it would be keen to trump institutions such as Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Museum (RSM).

In a letter dated March of that year, the unnamed official responded to questions about the museum’s policy on Nessie. The message was black and white.

“Should you ever come within range of the ‘Monster’ I hope you will not be deterred ?by humanitarian considerations from shooting him on the ?spot and sending the carcase to us in cold storage, carriage forward,” the letter stated, before adding: “Short of this, a flipper, a jaw or a tooth would be very welcome.”
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Shoot it on sight, if only we'd known this before the big vote......
 
ca.screen.yahoo.com/news/britis ... 03899.html
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Is The British Government Hiding The Loch Ness Monster?
by AllTime Conspiracies 2:50 mins
Is The British Government Hiding The Loch Ness Monster? Loch Ness is Britain's most famous monster. Officially it's a myth - but could it really have been found, and is now hidden by the U.K. government?
Is the British Government hiding the Loch Ness Monster?
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https://ca.screen.yahoo.com/news/british-government-hiding-loch-ness-114003899.html
 
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Isn't there a story told in "Three Men Seeking Monsters" of an MIB encounter on the shores of Loch Ness?

And if they're not using MIBs to protect Nessie...how exactly would you protect a large creature living in a land locked body of water?

If only we had some sort of nautical expert on these boards...... ;)
 
Except Loch Ness isn't technically land locked. You've forgotten the River Ness.

Admittedly, these days there are a few locks between the Loch and the sea. Not to mention Inverness, the middle of which the river runs right through.
 
Point taken Anome.

It still raises the question though how could the government "protect" Nessie? You wouldn't be able to move a sub or a RN boat down through the locks without someone noticing.
 
They could smuggle it to Castle Urquhart in pieces, in the luggage compartment of a charabanc, and assemble it at the landing platform in dead of night. No one would be any the wiser.
 
But then surely someone would spot a ship suddenly appearing over night on the loch...or do you mean a "kit" submarine? Which once built would retreat beneath the waves only to surface in the dead of night for resupply?

Sounds like something those bastards over at the Natural History Museum would have...armed to the teeth with a giant tranquilizer dart gun!
 
Get some little persons to pilot it and send Benedict Cumberbatch over to investigate. He can go there on honeymoon, maybe.
 
Moooksta said:
But then surely someone would spot a ship suddenly appearing over night on the loch...or do you mean a "kit" submarine? Which once built would retreat beneath the waves only to surface in the dead of night for resupply?

Sounds like something those bastards over at the Natural History Museum would have...armed to the teeth with a giant tranquilizer dart gun!
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Clearly, they are not using a sub to transport Nessie, but a UFO. ;)
 
I assume that is the same David Clarke that has been researching the UK UFO files; interesting. My missus did a literature review on the LNM for her dissertation at library school; she didn't find this.
 
Fallen branches 'could explain Loch Ness Monster sightings'
By Steven McKenzie, BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter

Fallen trees and branches from a woodland could be a cause for recent sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, a conservation charity has suggested.
The Woodland Trust said deadfall washed out by rivers from Urquhart Bay Wood could explain a recent report of something emerging from the loch.
The trust said the lochside wood was a "Nessie spawning ground".

Previous explanations for the monster have included circus elephants being exercised in the waters.
Several reported sightings of Nessie have been made recently. Another image of an object in the loch was thought to be the wake of a boat.

Monster enthusiasts had earlier in the year been lamenting a lack of incidents.
Gary Campbell, who keeps a register of sightings, said in February that for the first time in almost 90 years no "confirmed sightings" had been made of the monster.
He said at the time no-one had come forward in 18 months to say they had seen the monster.

The Woodland Trust said Nessie spotters might be disappointed to learn debris from Urquhart Bay Wood, near Drumnadrochit and the famous Urquhart Castle, was a likely cause of at least one of the recent sightings.
A spokesman said: "Large amounts of wood flows out of the woodland through the two winding rivers that flow into Loch Ness each year, peaking when water is high in late autumn and spring.
"I think that some of that debris explains long thin - some stick-like - shapes seen."

The spokesman added: "Urquhart Bay is a really important wet woodland, made up of species such as ash, alder, rowan and willow.
"It's one of very few intact floodplain woodlands remaining in the UK and has European importance. Challenges such as flooding, movement of the rivers and accumulation of woody debris make it an interesting place to manage."

Known locally as The Cover, the wood was once part of the Glen Urquhart Estate. Originally the woodland was granted to the Earls of Seaforth by King James IV in 1509.
The wood is situated on a flat low-lying area of alluvial sand and gravel deposits between the deltas of the Rivers Coiltie and Enrick where they flow into Loch Ness.
Alder and ash are the main tree species but there are also bird cherry and hazel and small numbers of wych elm, gean, holly, rowan and elder.
The Woodland Trust manages 56 acres (23 hectares) of woodland at Urquhart Bay.

In 2006, a scientist said unexplained sightings of the Loch Ness monster could have been elephants enjoying a swim.
Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum, spent two years researching Nessie.
He said past sightings of the beast could have been circus elephants, as fairs visiting Inverness would often stop on the banks of Loch Ness to give the animals a rest.

The trunk and humps in the water would bear similarities to some of the most famous Nessie photographs.

There have been reported sightings of "something" in Loch Ness dating back to the 6th Century and it has grown into one of the world's most enduring myths.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h ... s-30053585

If it's just woodland debris, shouldn't there be more 'Nessie' sightings worldwide? I like elephants best! ;)
 
Can't see a thing on the main film. The still could be a stick or a water bird.
 
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