Comments on: Nessies’ Death Prematurely Announced

By: scotsman

scotsman — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:31:13 +0000

I have to say as a scotsman who has seen the loch many times, i remain slightly skeptical, I am unsure what to believe, there are many hoaxes out there which tantalise our imaginations of what could be lurking in the loch. Although when you are standing looking at the water of loch, and you realise that because of how dark the water is something could be 3 feet under the water staring back at you it does send a chill up your spine, but I think that it is one of those things that the world will never know, simply because i can bet you any amount of money that the people who live on the loch know more than they are telling. Granted there will be many regular folk who know nothing about it, but has anybody heard a peep from the water baliff in the last 100 years???????? Is there possibly a reason that the water baliffs don’t do interviews????? I will leave it with you.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:30:15 +0000

An excellent point and one of my peeves too…it has been overlooked that Nessie has been sighted on land multiple times and that always gets ignored or forgotten or shoved to the background…

and CryptoGoji…even loch ness with its web cams and what not is not watched 24 /7…oh there are many places where people cast an eye to the loch, but the loch is 24 miles long and a mile wide…that is a huge amount of surface area to scan all of the time…there was a camera or video sighting…cannot recall details at the moment, but it was of someone either on shore or in another boat that got footage of a critter coming to the surface near a tour boat (and I think it was recent, as in the last twenty years), and no one on the tour boat even took notice of it…so even watching the loch–even tourists is no sure avenue either…

sorry got off on a tangent, but I also like to repeatedly point out that watching any huge body of water is not like watching a pond…a single person or even a group of people (or even a camera) has a limited viewing area, and for a loch as wide as Ness, it is near impossible to effectively scan out large areas of water…and even with binoculars, it would be easy to miss something…even as big as a 15-30 critter on a body of water that size.

By: bill green

bill green — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:41:48 +0000

hey loren , very informative new article about nessie. the above photos are great too. im realy looking forward to seeing this new nessie movie in my local theatres soon. thanks bill green

By: harleyb

harleyb — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:00:25 +0000

The Loch Ness monster is still alive and keeping it real.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:05:32 +0000

Well, considering the havoc that global warming is wreaking in some habitats, I often find myself wondering if some of these undiscovered creatures may become extinct before they are even properly documented. I’m not saying that this is what is going on in this case as I’m not even convinced of the existence of Nessie to begin with, but it is a disturbing possibility. I suppose it is possbile for a species that is very rare or elusive to dissappear without us even knowing they were ever there.

By: CryptoGoji

CryptoGoji — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:42:19 +0000

One must not forget a few things before we call one of the cryptids “dead” that the media does not always talk into account. The habitats that these creatures dwell in are vast in scope. Many of the lakes that creatures like Nessie call home are several square miles in size (twenty four for Loch Ness) and several hundreds of feet deep. Thats a lot of hiding space for a creature even of moderate size! And if one would take into consideration that they may or may not need to completely surface to breath, that maybe they could just rise their nostrils above the surface of the water, much like an alligator or a crocodile does, then we may really never see the whole creature.

Another consideration is other than Loch Ness and the surrounding Lochs in Scotland, how many of the world lakes that have had creature sightings in them are truly watched 24/7?

I agree with you Loren, the media often forgets what it said just last week… OJ for example, would be the first to come to mind. We may never find out what is beneath the waves of Loch Ness or other lakes for that matter, but the mystery, the allure is what keeps many of our dreams and wishes alive.