"Nessie"

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"Nessie" was first spotted by the Vikings. Celtic and Norse folklore have stories of water horses seen in the lochs.

The first written account of a meeting with Nessie seems
to be that of Adamnan in 565 AD. He describes St. Columba's sighting of a very large monster in Loch Ness.

There have been hundreds of close encounters reported since.

The remains of one of the largest castles in Scotland dominates a rocky promontory on Loch Ness. Splendid views up and down the Loch make it a popular viewpoint for monster spotting.

Legend tells of how St. Columba heard about the monster's murder of a man and how he rowed out to the center of the loch to order the beast to desist from such attacks in the future. Ever since that time, Nessie has never been known to have repeated its misdemeanor.

The monster was also seen last century, but the poor man who sighted the beast was so shocked he did not speak much about the incident. Throughout this century, so many people have seen Nessie who seem to have no identifiable gain from telling of their sightings, that it seems likely that a great unexplained mystery does exist.

This is the most famous image of the Loch Ness Monster. It was taken by R.K. Wilson, a London doctor on April 19, 1934. The photo was acknowledged as a fake, though, by Christain Spurling, who helped build the model monster that was photographed. He admitted the hoax shortly before he died at the age of 90, in 1993.

Loch Ness is located in the North of Scotland and is one of a series of interlinked lochs which run along the Great Glen. The Great Glen is a distinctive incision which runs across the country and represents a large geological fault zone. The interlinking was completed in the 19th century, following the completion of the Caledonian Canal.

For many years, it has been supposed that there is a large dinosaur-like "monster" resident in Loch Ness. The
evidence for its existence are a series of sightings of a plesiosaur-like dinosaur throughout the last 100 years.

The case has occasionally been supported by indistinct photographic evidence.

Looking north east up the loch from one of the prime 'monster-spotting' points.

However, several scientific studies have been conducted, including thorough sonar surveys of the loch, and these have not revealed any presence of such a
"monster".

Many people believe that the size (21 square miles) and great depth of the loch (almost 800 feet), together with potential underwater caves, gives the monster many places to hide.

Regardless of the truth, the suggestion of the Monster's existence makes Loch Ness one of Scotland's top tourist attractions.

A still from the film "The Loch Ness Horror," Nessie has worked her way into popular culture.

Is Nessie really an oversized River Otter?

Dr. Roy Mackal, a Loch Ness researcher, has suggested a large mammal like a manatee or a primitive whale. Others suggest a long necked seal or a giant otter. Earlier, Mackal considered it might be a giant sea slug. A few have suggested that Nessis is just an overgrown eel.

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