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Nessie...real, or hoax?

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What do you belive. I think the whole Nessie thing is cool, but I'd rather find out for myself if it's real or not. I can't trust pictures either, because there's many of them that look SO fake! Like little dinosaur bath toys in water, ya know. Does anyone here think they saw Nessie? Or maybe you know a website with some video or something. Anyway...I just think Nessie is cool. (I just saw a TV show about it on the Travel Channel a little while ago) ^_^ hehe...
 
Ya know my sister and husband stayed right beside Loch Ness last yr when they went to Scotland. They talked to a lot of locals and looked around at all the Nessy paraphernalia. There really is no proof, and the lake is not infinite-soooo you think there would be some type of physical proof after all this time and with all the technology we have today-(deep breath) I don't think it's there-I'd like it to be there- just my opinion (and I know what they say about opinions) but----I don't think so.

stef
 
I wonder what made people belive that Nessie exists... Oh well...I think Nessie is cool. (If I had the money, I'd take a trip there) I don't mind opinions, it's basiclly what I asked for...lol. (I think...)
 
I'm kind of split between the "It was there at some point..." and "Definately a local legend..". But the more I look at how it's just a local legend, the more legends there are about lake creatures. Such as:

Saskatchewan's Turtle Lake Monster
Newfoundland's Crescent Lake Monster - "Cressie"
China's Lake Tianchi Monster
Vermont's Lake Champlain Monster - "Champ"
Canada's Lake Memphremagog Monster - "Memphre"
Canada's Lake Okanagan Monster - "Ogopogo"
Utah's Bear Lake Monster
California's Lake Tahoe Monster - "Tessie"
Nebraska's Alkali Lake Monster
The Chesapeake Bay (area) Monster - "Chessie"

But even with all of these "legends", I'm still inclined to blieve that it does not exist. Some things are better left unknown, in my opinion... But with the advances in technology, I'm sure that if there was anything in any of these lakes that we'd find out in due time.
 
I don't think Nessie exists simply because something that large would be hard to miss, that and the lack of physical evidence.

The giant squid has been known to exist for decades because carcasses washed up on shore, it got caught in fishermen's nets, and recently someone got one on film. But, as far as I know, no physical evidence for Nessie exists.

I watched a program on T.V. where scientists were looking for Nessie. They explained that some of the Nessie sightings were actually wake waves from a distant boat. I didn't understand that concept until one time we were at Toledo Bend Lake fishing. We were way out in the lake and I saw something "swimming" towards us. It was huge and I was hoping it was a large alligator. It got closer & closer until I realized it was one side of a wave from a boat wake. It finally passed underneath our boat. Toledo Bend Lake is very large and the T.V. program said that wake waves do this on large lakes such as Loch Ness and people think they are seeing something swimming.
 
I think that lake monsters and sea serpents do exist. There is too much anecdotal evidence by reliable witnesses throughout history. Also, there is an amount of photographic and video evidence.

I believe that a class of sea and lake creatures that have horse or dragon-like heads, serpentine bodies, and flipper-like appendages remain undiscovered by science.
 
an explanation shall come.

Sooner or later evidence will be found its a matter of time.
Once long range scanning systems are functional there will be nowhere to hide.
These creatures that are so good at hiding themselves will be found.
So as technology is created as science advances these mystery's will be uncovered.
Till then we will wonder and wait.
:rolleyes:
 
Nobody has absolutely proved the Loch Ness Monster exists, but I don't see alot of recreational swimming in the lake.
 
I was there in 1977, as my grandparents came from that area. Even the locals will tell you candidly that's it's a myth. They perpetuate it because it helps tourism.

As far as swimming, the lake is ice cold, lined by large rocks, and cloudy with peat. Not exactly the type of place you take the family for a day at the beach!
 
I personally would like to see a famous debunker, oh say, like the amazing Randi, bathe himself in fish oil and volunteer to get towed through Loch Ness at midnight on a boogie-board at the end of a long rope. If he made it out OK then I would be more inclined to believe it is a myth.

However, if all of a sudden there was a commotion at the end of the rope and we hear "He's got me, aieeeeee! crunch, crunch, crunch," I do not want to hear anything like "It must have been otters that got him."
 
I look at it this way. If there really is a Nessie, and there have been "sightings" of Nessie for years and years, then there would have to be a breeding population of these things that is unless Nessie can live over 100 years.

Not one single carcass has been found washed up on shore. It has been proven that there isn't enough food, i.e. fish, in that lake to sustain a large reptile/mammal/fish or whatever it's supposed to be. That's why I don't think it's really alive.

In this instance I'd love to be proven wrong. If someone actually finds a live plesiosaur in that or any lake I'd flip.
 
That's true Karen. But remember this, there are always new species of animals do be discovered by science. Even though we know of MANY different animals today, there are still many we haven't seen/heard of. Nessie could be one...but only time will tell. ^_^
 
bud mierkey said:
Sooner or later evidence will be found its a matter of time.
Once long range scanning systems are functional there will be nowhere to hide.
These creatures that are so good at hiding themselves will be found.
So as technology is created as science advances these mystery's will be uncovered.
Till then we will wonder and wait.
:rolleyes:
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Actually the technology does exist and it's called long range sonar. I believe it was a national geographic sponsored project. They had a total of 8 boats in 2001 span across the width of the loch/lake that strecthes about 2 miles across. Any ways,they scanned for a full 5 days and found absolutely nothing. I guess it must be escaping through the underwater caves and tunnels leading back to the ocean.
 
yes that was done

Let me refine what I meant.
we know there has been sonar used but having boats all over defeats the STEALTH nature of LONG range [like space to ground] scanning Methods.
If nessie knows your there it will never show its face.
one example is google earth.
So this type of long range scanning is what i meant.
most sonar using creatures would be scared out of the lock if it heard a fleet of ships pingging the whole lock with noisy old sonar.
later :rofl:
 
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