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Loch Ness

            Nestled along the Great Glen, Loch Ness runs 21 square miles and almost 800 feet deep. Since 1933 it has been the home place for a large dinosaur-like monster affectionately dubbed Nessie. Nessie is certainly one the most sighted monster in the world. At the age of 63 nessie has lost none of her charisma. She often appears in advertisements, is the object of sonar searched of Loch and or is exploited by public relations people cashing in on her ability to attract the international mass media. But nessie is more than just a tourist attraction.
             To Date there have been over 3000 recorded sightings of the celebrity monster.
             When the world learned of a Loch Ness monster in May of 1933 there had been numerous earlier sightings of a large unidentified creature in the loch. Dating back to St. Columbus" encounter with an unknown creature in the River Ness in 565 AD.
             The Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, England Charles Thomas is cited as the person to study the first nesse encounter. Thomas concluded that the significance of the supposed encounter should be discounted as misleading since a critical examination of the original text, that was reported from oral tradition 110 years after the event, reveals that St. Columbus probably encountered a stray marine mammal in the river ness rather than a moister in the Loch. Thomas's findings are based on sound scholarship and reasoning and would lead the unbiased reader to conclude that the first non retrospective sighting of the loch ness monster actually occurred in the 1930's.
             On July 22 1933, Mr. and Mrs. George Spicer of London were driving along the loch ness lake shore road returning from a holiday in the northern Scotland when their car nearly struck a huge black long necked creature the object described as a prehistoric animal shambled across the road slithered through the under bush and splashed into the murky loch.


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1. The Mystery of Loch Ness: What Lies Inside

... pictures are hoaxes, others beleive that they are true. Deep in the waters of Loch Ness lives a dinosaurlike creature... Or does there? There has been a debate for centuries about whether or not a huge creature named the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie for short) actually lives in a large lake in Scotland called Loch Ness. People say it has fins and long neck. The monster is one of Scotlands ... biggest tourist attractions. Loch Morar, in the West of Scotland, is also said to contain a monster, but that's another ... that the monster looked like a small motor boat but they were proved wrong....

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2. How the Loch Ness Monster Got Her Name

... would put on as face paint and the silly tricks they would play on their other friends. Allen begins to ask Nessie if she'd ever heard the story about the Loch Ness Monster. "Scary stories don't suit well with me." Nessie said. Allen insisted that she give it a try for the Holiday's sake. Allen proceeds to tell her a gruesome ... get up there and the only thing you see is the family of Alligators that no one has met before. They all go their own path to search for the Loch Ness Monster along the beds. Nessie comes close to the alligator family and they shy away. She insists to speak wi...

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3. Lochness Monster

... One of the creatures that might have gotten trapped is a water-dwelling dinosaur called a plesiosaurs. Over time this Plesiosaurs might have evolved into the Loch Ness Monster. This theory makes a bunch of sense, but there are a few problems. One is that the plesiosaurs has been extinct for sixty million ... It uses it's long tail and flippers to propel itself through the water. The earliest recorded sighting of what was said to be the Loch Ness Monster was in 565 ad.. Although that is the earliest reported citing, scientists believe that citings have occurred since ancient civilizatio...

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4. Scotland

Rivers and Lakes Scotland is characterized by an abundance of streams and lakes (lochs). Notable among the lakes, which are especially numerous in the central and northern regions, are Loch Lomond (the largest), Loch Ness, Loch Tay, and Loch Katrine. Many of the rivers of Scotland, in particular the rivers in the west, are short, torrential streams, generally of little commercial importance. The longest river of ... with Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, who allegedly photographed a plesiosaur-like beast with a long neck emerging out of the murky waters. That photo created quite ...

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5. Mysteries of the World

... water with a small head of a unknown creature. Pictures have even been taken of this "creature", but most scientists however, refuse to believe any creature of this kind lives in the Loch Ness. They claim that most reported cases are simply products of overactive imaginations, and as for the pictures, scientists say they are not lucid enough to distinguish items clearly, and some ... be feared as well as protected. Without any concise evidence however, no one can prove this legendary animal from the mountains exists, so the mystery continues to baffle. Like the Loch Ness monster and the...

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6. mysteries of the world

... water with a small head of a unknown creature. Pictures have even been taken of this "creature", but most scientists however, refuse to believe any creature of this kind lives in the Loch Ness. They claim that most reported cases are simply products of overactive imaginations, and as for the pictures, scientists say they are not lucid enough to distinguish items clearly, and some ... , tobe feared as well as protected. Without any concise evidence however, no one can prove this legendary animal from the mountains exists, so the mystery continues to baffle. Like the Loch Ness monster and ...

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7. Unsolved mysteries

... it meant to its builders and what compelling impulse drove them to invest so much labor and care in creating it.  Loch Ness monster? Sightings of large underwater animals in Loch Ness, a 24-mile-long lake in Scotland, have often been reported but never confirmed. As early as 565 ad, Saint Columba ... were made public late in 1975, to allow the monster to be placed on the British list of protected species. Although the 700 ft. deep loch supports numerous fish, the projected monster population is not large - perhaps ten to 20 animals. A number of scientists expressed doubts about the evi...

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8. Analyzing Steven King's

... about a "dark and Scottish lake." He says the lines three times within the poem, changing just a bit each time. Firstly, the dark and Scottish lake is most likely referring to Loch Ness, the most famous Scottish lake of them all (because we all know there are quite a lot of them). The first time the lines are said, they are "Many miles away ... from the slime at the/Bottom of a dark Scottish lake (ll. 9, 10)." These lines mirror the man's life each time they are recited. The first time, this "something" is the Loch Ness Monster. It symbolizes the man's own monster, which is his life and...

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9. Scotland

... of striking beauty" (Horn, 1998). This nation has many deep glacial lakes that are known locally as lochs. The largest lake in all of Britain is Loch Lomond, about 28 square miles. A famous loch is the Loch Ness, which has been "the subject of a centuries-old controversy over an alleged monster in its depths" (Horn, 1998). There are also numerous inlets of rivers known ... ...

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