Posted on 02/11/2014 6:55:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A veteran custodian of Loch Ness monster sightings is concerned that Nessie has not been seen in well over a year, and may be gone, according to a news report. This is the first time in nearly 90 years that such a lengthy lag in sightings has occurred.
Gary Campbell, who lives in Inverness in the United Kingdom has been keeping records of Loch Ness monster sightings for the past 17 years and has put together a list of sightings that goes back some 1,500 years, according to the BBC News.
"It's very upsetting news and we don't know where she's gone," BBC News quoted Campbell as saying. "The number of sightings has been reducing since the turn of the century but this is the first time in almost 90 years that Nessie wasn't seen at all." (Apparently three reports of possible Nessie sightings in 2013 were discredited after closer scrutiny, The Inverness Courier reported.)
This is not the first time Nessie has been a no show; in fact, there are no reports of the beast until less than a century ago. The Loch Ness monster first achieved notoriety in 1933 after a story was published in a local newspaper describing not a monstrous head or hump but instead a splashing in the water that appeared to be caused "by two ducks fighting." A famous photograph showing a mysterious head and neck brought Nessie international fame, but was revealed to be hoax decades later. [Rumor or Reality: The 10 Creatures of Cryptozoology]
Some claim that the Loch Ness monster was first reported in A.D. 565, when St. Columba turned away a giant beast threatening a man in the Ness River,
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
You can’t miss you ain’t got. You can’t lose what you ain’t never had.
Was that the oarfish?
‘E's shuffled off this mortal coil.
Joined the choir invisible.
He is no more.
Nessie is an Ex-monster
Deploy the Delochinator.
No matter what you may have heard, I had *nothing* to do with this.
I was nowhere near the place and it was like that when I found it.
The most plausible explanation for Nessie as real is that it is a mutant eel that never matured and kept growing. Although rare, such eels can become quite large. Specimens might appear sporadically, reside in Loch Ness for a time, and then die off or migrate to the sea. This would account for the intermittent nature of Nessie sightings and for similar reports from other fresh water bodies of water.
Or a separate species of large eel with a small population. Either way, those explanations may not be as sexy as a plesiosaur, but are more plausible.
I’ve passed by/visited Loch Ness twice since 2006. I didn’t see any trace of the critter. But several times my view was obstructed by this very large (8 ft.), smelly, human looking creature....what was the name they called it?...BigToe, BigMitts, Big something. I wish BigA.. or whatever it’s called would have gotten out my view so I could have seen the lake better.
The lack of a species of giant eel being known to science is against that possibility, as opposed to rare mutant eels that grow to giant size, which are known to science. Then again, the the murky deeps of the oceans and large fresh water lakes continue to hold mysteries. Like you, I surmise, I hope that there is a species of giant eel yet to be discovered.
Is the Loch Ness Monster Dead?
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No. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland’s local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
Global warming, no doubt.
No comment.
...as opposed to rare mutant eels that grow to giant size, which are known to science.
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I have to ask: Just how big are these mutant eels known to grow?
A European conger eel has been caught that weighed 265 pounds and was ten and a half feet long. Plausibly, they can grow larger.
Um, wow. So let’s imagine a 13 or 15-foot eel . . . I think I’d call that a sea monster too! ;)
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