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I have been visiting Loch Ness and informally researching Nessie for the past 4 years now. I have interviewed a number of people who live on its shores including the person who has had the longest corroborated sighting of the "phenomena" (2 people one side of the loch and 9 people on the other for 30 minutes).

I have spoken with historians, full time researchers and scientists who live and work in the Inverness area and the circumstantial evidence would suggest that there is an unknown, or "criptid" living in the Loch, or at least a profound possibility of one.

Having said this, it is generally agreed that whatever might inhabit the Loch is NOT going to be a plesiosaur, or mammal or even likely to be air breathing, nor is it likely to be a fish.


And that's the "truth".

rcarlsen wrote:It's like believing in Santa.....

Now come on! there is differents between santa and nessie. everybody knows santa does'nt exist. but there is still a millions of people around this world still believe nessie does exist. I know that worlds famous picture of nessie is a hoax. but does'nt mean there is no chance of the monster existing. there are other evidene such as
''eyewitness's''
other photos'' (non hoax)
video clips

you can either believe it not there's something in the loch

By a strange co-incidence there was a prog on one of the Sky channels last night which dealt with the latest on Nessie. The NASA enhanced closeup photo of a flipper from the 1970's was discredited by the original photographer as being over enhanced by magazine editors before publication and there was some good discussion of wave formations and the effects they can produce. Web cams are positioned over the Loch and a recent competition to 'capture' the best shot of Nessie was mentioned. Again, nothing to support the existence of a large swimming creature other than an eye witness account from a local fisherman. As much as I have my doubts about there being anything in the Loch other than normal fish, eels etc, I'd just love to see a huge Nessie head and neck stick out of the water one day and blow raspberries to all the doubters!

I too would LOVE to believe there is a mythical beastie in the Loch. I'd also like to believe that there is life after death. I'd LOVE to believe that we aren't the only intelligent species in the universe.

But, being of a scientific mindset, I can only believe what I see, or see evidence of.

And so far, unless there is anything above the hoaxes we all know of, I can't see that I'll be doing much Nessie-spotting in my own lifetime.

Steven Spielberg is a great visionary movie director. He likes to believe. His theory is that there's something innocent about belief, something which takes us back to our childhood. ET, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hook, Jurassic Park, Gremlins, Men in Black, A.I. etc etc.

These films have nurtured deep thoughts and provoked thinking in many people. In a positive sense, these films are a backdrop to many of our lives: I personally have been touched by Jaws, ET, Close Encounters, Raiders and Jurassic Park.

It's our belief and WANTING to believe in these far-fetched fairy stories that releases us from the harsh, factual world that we actually live in.

Sorry if this sounds negative towards the Nessie theory, but surely—if those of you who BELIEVE in Nessie are allowed an opinion—so are the NON BELIEVERS allowed to voice theirs.

Older UK people may remember when the Sunday Sport claimed to have solved the mystery by saying it was a German Submarine that had been there hiding in the Loch during the war! they claimed the Germans were still living in the submarine

(I can hear the tune now, 'We all live in a German submarine, a German submarine.....')

Sorry if this sounds negative towards the Nessie theory, but surely—if those of you who BELIEVE in Nessie are allowed an opinion—so are the NON BELIEVERS allowed to voice theirs.

No...no you're not. JERK!

There was a video '"The best of the Sunday Sport" (is that not an oxymoron ) the explains the whole story:

1. Hilter ordered german troops to enter the loch and spy on the village.
2. They did leave the sub sometimes dressed as local people and to get to get food. These are the times that people saw Nessie (it was the sub coming to the surface).
3. When Germany lost the War, no one told the Germans in the sub (radio was broken).
4. They claim these old men still live there.

I think there may be something in the Nessie story but it is rubbish like the above that puts off serious reasearch

Having a background in Biology (University) i have a big problem with what the creature would eat. A creature of that size would need so much food per day to maintain his functions.

2. They did leave the sub sometimes dressed as local people

They left a sub dressed as local people?!

Yes Silly isn't it Tom! The germans were spies gathering information on local roads etc and need to blend in. I posted to highlight the rubbish that gets printed about a very interesting topic.

The sub was dressed as local people?!?!

That's just plain weird...weirder than Nessie!

Bad grammar from me, sorry everyone

Ok, let's be serious for a sec. A creature of that size would not have enough food to eat. It would need so much food per day.

Think mollusc...leech..that sort of thing.

Non-air breathing, oppertunistic, predatory & scavaging, hybernating, muscular and extremely sensative to sound/vibration and motion...like a big Earth worm.

THAT doesn't need the amount of food a mammal or even a big fish would, nor the same type of food...which is more abundant than previously thought...nemitoads (sp?) would do for food at a push.