Comments on: English Couple Spot Loch Ness Phenomenon

By: nickthurston

nickthurston — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:23:05 +0000

Hi all! Just to say that I know what I saw was certainly alive and was very close to the Bank probably 10 feet from it! I had an excellent view from my car of what resembled a tree like stump some 100 feet away on a calm blue sunny day, directly beneath us in the Loch.

I was very reserved about the idea of something unexplained lurking beneath the water after visiting the exhibition a few days prior, but I know wholeheartedly I saw a creature that I cannot explain!

I honour your opinions and a lot of people I work with do not believe me, but I know, and that’s all that matters!

I’ll be back next year with a different frame of mind!

All the best to you all! Nick and Emma Louise. x

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:18:46 +0000

Isn’t it more likely that the Loch simply has more visitors between July and August? More people mean more sightings.

By: Benjamin Radford

Benjamin Radford — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:47:48 +0000

It does sound an awful lot like it was a tree stump. Ness has been searched for 75 years, and still little or nothing.

By: Nachzehrer

Nachzehrer — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:06:44 +0000

If a person sees what looks like a tree stump and it acts like a waterlogged tree stump, it’s reasonable to assume that it’s a tree stump. If the witnesses had never heard of lake monsters, they most likely would have never mentioned it.

When I was a child and the famous underwater “flipper” picture was taken, I was a believer. Now, after so many years, so few developments and all the interesting things that have been learned about lake “weather” it will take something along the lines of a Roy Mackal biopsy crossbow sample to convince me.

By: Nessie-Chaser

Nessie-Chaser — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:35:47 +0000

I have concluded that Nessie is a sub-speices of Cryptoclidus, that has access to the Atlantic Ocean. According to one list, most sightings occur between July and August. Perhaps most of these animals in the loch migrate to warmer climates during colder months.

Operation Deepscan took place in October, not a very good month for sightings.

We need a new expedition in the summer.

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:20:05 +0000

I agree with those that theorize that Nessie is only semi-aquatic and takes brief stints on land. As to what it is? I doubt a plesiousaur or any type of reptile, not that these don’t exist anywhere. I just don’t see Loch Ness as a likely spot for one. But then again what do I really know about where a plesiosaur would choose to make its home?. Some type of mammal, I think this is a possibility.

By: big max

big max — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:55:46 +0000

With all of the intense scrutiny of the Loch over the past few decades, if there was something there it would have been found by now. I have spent hours looking at the water on Loch Ness and vouch for wave effects and water colour variations that could confuse or delude expectant visitors to the infamous loch. An extended elaborate publicity campaign would seem to be the answer but then you have personal connections that make you think again. Australian friend Jon Brusey’s great uncle Gregory, living as a monk at Fort Augustus abbey, claimed to have seen the beast 4 times. I have no reason to doubt this highly religious man who passed away in 2001. So then I have gone in a full circle and the mystery remains.

By: caddo21

caddo21 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:56:39 +0000

The military could clear this whole thing up in one go with it’s sub-hunting capabilities…but, what’s the fun in that?

By: JRC

JRC — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:47:00 +0000

I long ago gave up on the notion of “lake monsters”. After all these years and all of the many investigations and expeditions, I feel that it is safe to say that what we are talking about here is either:

A)Misidentification of known species -or-

B)Some form of natural phenomenon that is playing tricks on people.

Land locked bodies of water are just not feasible places for large, presumably predatory creatures to live and earn a living (i.e. eat and breed). That is not to say that there are no surprises left in the world’s lakes but I think that one can say with certainty that “monsters” are not among them.

Also the notion of aquatic mammals or semi-aquatic animals seems highly unlikely. An animal like the ones that have been described would be pretty hard to miss lounging along the lakeside. If we were dealing with a creature that is capable of leaving the lake, then surely it would have been seen or captured by now so I think that we can dismiss that argument out of hand.

Now sea serpents are a horse of an all together different color. Within the Earth’s oceans many things are left to discover.

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:41:28 +0000

If this was WW11, I would say it was a German U-Boat that got lost.