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Is the Loch Ness monster a human fabrication or is it real? There is no way to verify

The Loch Ness Monster Incident

By adalberto alejandrinaPublished 2 years ago 12 min read
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In April 1933, a London doctor saw a water monster with a flat head and a slender neck in Loch Ness, and immediately took a picture of the water monster with a camera.

The London doctor, named Wilson, was very excited when he developed the photo and determined that there was a water monster in it, because it was the first photo of the Loch Ness monster.

For thousands of years, the legend of the water monster has been circulating in Loch Ness. Many people claim that they have seen the water monster, but due to various factors, no one has been able to provide definite evidence, and Wilson was the first to provide evidence.

Wilson then handed the photo to the newspapers and magazines, and described in detail the process of his discovery of the water monster. The newspapers and magazines were keenly aware of the business opportunities and hurriedly organized Wilson's story.

On May 2, 1933, this photo with the Loch Ness monster was published in newspapers and immediately caused a global sensation, and Loch Ness became the focus of discussion for a while.

Countless tourists, experts and good people have come to Loch Ness to try to unravel the mystery of the Loch Ness monster, making Loch Ness a famous tourist destination.

The Loch Ness Monster also rose to fame as one of the world's most mysterious and fascinating unknown creatures. Now, let's talk about the evolution of the legend of the Loch Ness Monster:

Loch Ness is located in the Scottish Grand Canyon in northern Scotland, England. In this grand canyon, three slender and deep freshwater lakes are arranged in order from southwest to northeast, namely Loch Loch, Loch Oss and Loch Ness.

Originally, Loch Ness was the only one of the three lakes that had direct access to the sea. It was also the largest and deepest lake among the three lakes. Its deepest point was 293 meters, its widest point was 2.3 kilometers, and its total length was 39 kilometers , with an average width of 1.6 km.

Since Loch Ness does not freeze all year round, the lake water is clean and suitable for drinking, so not only are there many aquatic creatures such as fish and shrimp in the lake, but also a large number of water birds gather around the lake.

Such a high-quality natural environment has laid a good foundation for the development of biodiversity, and also provided a corresponding natural atmosphere for the emergence of legends such as giant beasts and water monsters.

Later, in order to open up shipping routes, people dug a Caledonian Canal to connect the three lakes, so the Loch Loch Monster and the Loch Oss Monster that people later called were actually the earliest Loch Ness. water monster.

Although the Loch Ness Monster caused a global sensation after 1933, there have been legends about the Loch Ness Monster as early as 1,500 years ago.

According to local records, the first occurrence of the Loch Ness monster was in 565 AD, when an Irish missionary, St. Columbus, came to preach there. Perhaps it was too hot, or perhaps it was the view of Loch Ness. So beautiful.

St. Columbus took his servants and ran to the lake for a wild swim. The warm weather and clear lake water made St. Columbus very uncomfortable, but St. Columbus, who was immersed in the wonderful lake, suddenly Hear the servant's cry for help.

St. Columbus took a closer look, and a strange-looking, huge water monster suddenly swam towards his servant. St. Columbus hurriedly swam over to save the servant, and finally the two swam to the shore, rolling and crawling. Successfully escaped the pursuit of the water monster.

After St. Columbus narrowly escaped, he recorded this experience and told it to the people at the time. People at that time didn't take it seriously, but for more than 1,000 years, people kept claiming that they were in Nice. The lake encountered a water monster.

For example, in 1802, a farmer working on the shores of Loch Ness, Alexander MacDonald, told people that he saw a monster that suddenly emerged from the lake and swam towards him.

When the monster was only four or five meters away from him, he reacted from his panic and quickly fled into the distance. Afterwards, he recalled that the monster was paddling with short, thick fins.

For another example, in 1880, a yacht suddenly sank in Loch Ness, causing all the people on the yacht to drown. According to eyewitnesses by the lake, a monster suddenly rushed out of the lake, and the huge waves rolled up instantly shattered it. Yacht sinking.

Subsequently, the official dispatched diver Duncan Mocatanla to the bottom of the lake to check the wreckage of the yacht, but shortly after entering the bottom of the lake, the diver sent out a distress signal in a panic. After people pulled him out, they found that the diver was pale and trembling. I was too frightened to speak.

It took a few days for the diver to gradually return to normal. He recalled that when he had just dived to the bottom of the lake, he was on a rock near the wreck and saw a monster that stared at him like a giant frog...

According to statistics, there have been more than 10,000 reports of such incidents. According to the legends of the ancients, the Loch Ness monster would spit smoke, making the entire lake foggy, and spitting bubbles. Every time the water monster appears , it is surrounded by bubbles all around.

There are different opinions about the specific image of the Loch Ness Monster. Generally speaking, the Loch Ness Monster is a giant monster with a body length of more than ten meters, two or three hump-like bulges on its back, and gray-black skin.

At the same time, the head of the Loch Ness monster is triangular, with a slender neck and a soft and smooth body. From a distance, it looks like a big goose or a duck swimming in the water. Of course, a goose or a duck is definitely not that big.

So, people pointed it to the long-extinct plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the Jurassic period, with a long neck like a snake, very similar to the legendary Loch Ness monster.

Therefore, the argument that the Loch Ness monster is descended from a plesiosaur keeps emerging. Even in July 2003, the British media publicly reported that an old British man found a snake more than 100 million years ago on the shore of Loch Ness. Neck dragon fossils.

But even if this fossil is real, it is not enough to prove that the Loch Ness monster is a descendant of plesiosaurs, because plesiosaurs spread all over the world during the Jurassic period.

So what is this Loch Ness monster? Let's briefly talk about the discovery of the Loch Ness Monster since 1933, and then analyze it in detail.

It should be said that since Dr. Wilson took the photo in 1933, people's research on the Loch Ness Monster has never stopped, and various reports of discoveries have emerged one after another, and even set off a "dinosaur fever".

But most of the so-called discoveries were later confirmed to be false. For example, in 1933, shortly after the photo of Dr. Wilson was taken, the British "Daily Mail" published an article about the discovery on the shore of Loch Ness. A report on the footprints of the water monster.

However, the report was quickly slapped in the face, and the British Museum of Natural History later issued a statement saying that the footprints were not left by a water monster, but should be those of a hippo.

However, even if it is proved that the footprints of the water monster are fake, and some people even say that the photo of Dr. Wilson is also fake, people still did not give up the investigation of the Loch Ness monster, and organized a large-scale investigation in 1934.

Of course, the level of technology at that time was not advanced enough. The so-called investigation was to arrange for more than 20 people to sit on the shore with cameras and stare at the lake all day long.

But after a long period of observation, no traces of water monsters were found. Although the results were disappointing, many people believed that a period of observation was not enough to explain the problem.

The time came to April 23, 1960. This time people took a film of the Loch Ness monster. The photographer was the British aerospace engineer Dinstead at the time. He took a total of more than 50 feet of film.

Although the film is rather vague, it can still be seen that in Loch Ness, a giant water monster with a long neck swims through the lake. The thing is probably a living thing."

In August 1972, the United States sent an expert from the Academy of Applied Sciences, Ryans, to form a research team to explore Loch Ness. They mainly used the most advanced underwater cameras at that time to take pictures.

Initially, the underwater camera did not capture any special creatures, but the Reines team did not give up and stayed there until at 21:45 on June 19, 1975, the camera captured the body of a giant animal in the water.

However, the whole picture was not captured, only a small part of the animal was seen, and then about an hour later, the animal came back, but the camera only captured its ugly skin with yellow spots.

Since only a part of the animal was photographed, it was not certain what it was. After nearly 6 hours, a complete animal was finally photographed at 4:32 am on June 20.

Although the photo is still a bit blurry, the entire body of this animal can be clearly seen. Generally speaking, it is similar to the previous legend. It has a diamond-shaped body and a slender neck. In the photo, you can also see two fins protruding from the top of the body. .

However, this animal soon discovered the underwater camera, and after watching curiously, it began to attack the underwater camera, and only left after knocking the camera into the water.

Because of the epoch-making nature of the discovery, the United States and the United Kingdom quickly formed an expedition of 24 ships, which lined up in a serpentine array in Loch Ness to conduct a dragnet search.

I thought that this kind of search without dead ends would definitely force the water monster out, but in the end, no trace of the water monster was found. In 2003, the BBC organized another search, but nothing was found, so the water monster incident was declared false.

On August 27, 2009, the British "Daily Mail" published a special report. British netizens found traces of the Loch Ness monster on a satellite image. Although the map is very vivid, its persuasiveness is still limited.

In recent years, in addition to the above information, there have been more incidents of human eyewitnesses. Many people claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, but they have not been able to produce favorable evidence.

At the same time, there are also people claiming that they have cracked the secret of the Loch Ness monster. To sum up, in addition to the plesiosaur theory mentioned above, there are mainly three "elephant theory", "bubble theory" and "eel theory". a statement.

The so-called "elephant theory" believes that the water monster is just an illusion caused by an elephant jumping into the lake to bathe. Because the elephant's body is very heavy, when bathing in the lake, only part of the top of the head and the back can be exposed. , and a long nose.

This image seems to be very similar to the Loch Ness monster. As for where the elephants come from, someone has checked them out. It is said that in the 1930s, there were several circuses near Loch Ness, and they all had elephants there.

Some people even suspect that the so-called Loch Ness Monster rumor is a deliberate stunt by the owner of the circus, and the purpose is very simple, just to attract customers, but this "elephant talk" cannot explain the Loch Ness Monster in recent years. situation, because the circus has long since disappeared.

The so-called "bubble theory" believes that in the 1930s, there was a period of seismic activity, so many bubbles were released from the bottom of the lake, and these bubbles caused the hallucinatory effect.

Therefore, people who pass by Loch Ness will mistakenly think that there are water monsters in the lake. Experts who hold this theory also believe that those video materials about water monsters are artificially created by good people.

This statement has also attracted many people's doubts. Although in the 1930s, seismic activity intensified, and many bubbles may also be generated, but can these bubbles really produce hallucinatory effects? And are so many video materials fake?

The so-called "eel theory" believes that the water monsters are several "old eunuch eels", because Loch Ness is close to the mouth of the sea. Under normal circumstances, the eels in the lake will swim from the lake into the Atlantic Ocean at the age of 10 and arrive in Florida, USA. State spawns.

Then, these eels will continue to live there until they die of old age, but according to research, a small number of eels will become "eunuch eels" that cannot spawn. Experts believe that a small number of these "eunuch eels" may not enter the Atlantic Ocean. , has remained in Loch Ness.

In this way, these "eunuch eels" have grown bigger and bigger after more than a hundred years, and they have become water monsters in people's mouths. But if it's an eel, why haven't they been found after every search? So this argument is equally untenable.

To sum up, people have no way to prove the existence or non-existence of the Loch Ness Monster. It is still a very mysterious and fascinating mystery. Dear friends, do you think the Loch Ness monster really exists?

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