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The Loch Ness Monster (Scottish Gaelic: Uilebheist Loch Nis), [3] also known as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.
Robert Kenneth Wilson MB BChir, FRCSEd (26 January 1899 – 6 June 1969) was a general surgeon and gynaecologist in London, who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. This became known as "the surgeon's photograph" and was widely regarded as genuine, although scepticism was expressed about this from the ...
Ken Chaplin and his 78 year old father Clem staked out the area with a video camera. Chaplin caught what he described as a slim, serpent-like creature measuring up to 15 feet (4.6 m) in length swimming approximately 75 feet (23 m) from their canoe.
McKay’s hotel in Drumnadrochit has been turned into the new $1.8 million Loch Ness Centre and last August hundreds of Nessie fans gathered at the loch for the biggest monster hunt in 50 years ...
Hundreds joined the largest Loch Ness Monster has fascinated generations of curious minds.
Loch Ness (/ ˌ l ɒ x ˈ n ɛ s /; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Nis [l̪ˠɔx ˈniʃ]) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 37 kilometres (23 miles) along the length of the Great Glen southwest of Inverness.
In his 1968 book, The Great Orm of Loch Ness, Holiday postulated that the creature in the Loch was an invertebrate creature similar in form to the extinct Tullimonstrum gregarium, but vastly larger. Holiday also claimed that he noticed several unusual coincidences, including camera malfunction during certain Nessie sightings. For example, in ...
Over the next 35 years he mounted numerous expeditions to the loch and searched its depths with sophisticated electronic and photographic equipment, mostly of his own design. While his investigations produced multiple theories and several tantalizing photographs, he was unable to produce sufficient evidence to convince the scientific community ...