Introduction .......... page 3
1.Description of Nessie .......... page 4
1.1 Known Animals .......... page 4
1.2 Unknown Species .......... page 6
1.3 Kelpie .......... page 7
2. Other explanations .......... page 9
2.1 Trees .......... page 9
2.2 Seiches and Wakes .......... page 10
2.3 Animal wakes .......... page 11
Optical Effects .......... page 11
3. History of alleged sightings .......... page 12
3.1 Saint Columba (565) .......... page 13
3.2 Land sightings .......... page 13
3.3 Sightings in the loch .......... page 14
4. Photographs and films .......... page 16
4.1 The Surgeon's Photo .......... page 16
4.2 The Taylor film (1938) .......... page 17
4.3 The Dinsdale film (1960) .......... page 18
4.4 The Holmes video (2007) .......... page 19
4.5 The Yongsheng video .......... page 19
5. Searches for the monster .......... page 20
5.1 The LNPIB sonar study (1967-1968) .......... page 20
5.2 Andrew Carroll's sonar study (1969) .......... page 20
5.3 Submersible investigations .......... page 21
5.4 The Big Expedition of 1970 .......... page 22
5.5 Robert Rines's studies (1972, 1975 and 2001) .......... page 23
5.6 Discovery Loch Ness (1993) .......... page 24
5.7 GUST Expedition (2001) .......... page 25
5.8 Television investigations (2003-4) .......... page 25
6. Bounty .......... page 26
7. Hoaxes .......... page 27
8. Popular culture .......... page 28
Conclusions .......... page 29
Bibliografy .......... page 30
The purpose of this work is to show some arguments related to the belief that the Lockness Monster exists. Some people truly believe that Nessie exists so they dedicate there life to discover any proof that could sustain there statements.
In the next pages I present some discoveries that are debated by specialists and so you could make your own opinion. I will begin by presenting the place where is believed that the monster lives and the probabilities of what he could be.
In the chapter: “History of alleged sightings” are showed some important sightings like the one from Saint Columba or the three sighting that occurred in one night. Some photographs and films are presented and debated. The first photograph of the monster has been taken in the 1990s and since then everybody wants to catch the monster on film. Most of the photos are inconclusive but there are some exceptions that make us wander.
After all this excitement some scientists have decided to make a sonar study hoping they will find some answers. The first one was between 1967 -1968 and it revealed nothing. After this a series of seven studies have fallowed, one even leaded by Discovery Channel.
On June 4, 2007 a British bookmaker William Hill offered a one million pound reward to anyone who can provide conclusive evidence of Nessie's existence to the London's Natural History Museum. However, they are confident that such proof would not be obtained in 2007 and are giving 250-1 odds against such event.
The Loch Ness monster phenomenon has seen several attempts to hoax the public, some of which were very successful. Other hoaxes were revealed rather quickly by the perpetrators, or exposed after diligent research. A few examples are mentioned below.
In 2005 two students claimed to have found a huge tooth embedded in the body of a deer on the loch shore. They publicized the find widely, even setting up a website, but expert analysis soon revealed that the "tooth" was the antler of a muntjac.
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid, claimed to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, the most voluminous freshwater lake in Great Britain.
Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster is one of the best-known mysteries of crypto zoology. Belief in the legend persists around the world. Local people, and later many around the world, have affectionately referred to the animal by the diminutive of Nessie (Scottish Gaelic: "Niseag").
Many explanations have been postulated over the years to describe what kind of animal the Loch Ness Monster might be. These falls into three categories:
(1) Misidentification of known animals;
(2) Unknown species;
(3) Paranormal creatures.
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2.Burton Maurice, The Elusive Monster: An Analysis of the Evidence from Loch Ness, London, 1961
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5.Holiday F. W., The Great Orm of Loch Ness, London, Faber & Faber, 1968,
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7.Whyte Constance, More Than a Legend: The Story of the Loch Ness Monster, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957
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11.www.wikipedia.org
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