The Legend of Loch Ness

For centuries, Scotland has drawn tourists from far across the water to its soils, hoping to see one allusive creature: the Loch Ness Monster. But is the Loch Ness Monster actually real?

The stories of the loch being home to a monster go as far back as the sixth century AD when the Irish monk Saint Columba stood on the shores of Loch Ness and saw a giant monster rise from the water. Fearing for his life, he said a prayer and banished the beast back to the murky depths of the loch.

After that first sighting, there were no more sightings for hundreds of years. So either they refused to believe in such creatures’ existence, or Saint Columba’s prayer really did work.

In the 1930s, there was a significant return of sightings of the famous monster. It started with a hotel owner on her way to work, traveling alongside the loch, when the monster rose like a giant serpent from the water. She ran to the hotel and told of her fright. This led to a newspaper article. This resulted in a vast increase in tourism around Loch Ness, with many more reported sightings. A motorcyclist almost crashed into the monster on the road on a foggy evening. He clearly described a monster with a long neck and a humped back. The sightings became so popular in the newspapers that a monetary award was given to anyone who captured a photo of the beast. Unfortunately, this brought stories of a lot of faked sightings. The most famous involved a toy submarine with a plastic long-necked head stuck to it. It was only when the man was on his deathbed that he confessed that he had faked the sighting. The other classic faked sighting was the footprint on the shores of Loch Ness. Unfortunately for the professor who faked it, he hadn’t hidden the evidence of how he did it well, and someone found the giant elephant foot-shaped ashtray with mud still on the bottom. He was told to leave and take his elephant foot with him. Unfortunately, the faked sightings brought lousy press for the Loch Ness Monster.

So, what do I believe?

Well, my theory is one I have not seen written anywhere. When you speak to the locals around Loch Ness, they all have stories of things they have seen. Very recently, I heard an eyewitness account whilst staying in Foyers, just south of the loch. The son of the man I spoke to was fishing on the loch in a rowing boat when something rose up underneath his boat and lifted the boat out of the water. It scared him so much that he would no longer go on the loch. So, to answer my own question, I do believe there is something, and the recent story has strengthened my belief. The real question is, what is the Loch Ness Monster? People have said the monster is many things, from seal to driftwood to giant sturgeon and a great deal of many other things. Though all stories talk of something much bigger than any of those. We even have proof from sonar scans of something huge in the depths. One sonar scan picked up an object moving close to the bottom, the size of a large transit van. Then, there is the famous picture of what looks like a fin captured underwater. There have also been many more credible sightings from live cameras set up to watch the loch 24/7. Even on Google Maps they captured an image of something big swimming just beneath the water’s surface. However, despite all the photo evidence, nobody has found any DNA, touched the monster, or got a clear close-up photo. Marine biologists have also surveyed the loch and concluded that there was not enough food to sustain a creature the size of a whale. That is what makes people so complexed. I think the source of the answer is related to the many similar described sightings and my work with the paranormal. I have been investigating the paranormal for years, travelling all over the country. Those years have not been wasted, as I have repeatedly proven that the afterlife is real, capturing some extraordinary recorded evidence. Now, the similarities in the sightings have been so precise we have been able to build up a picture of a likely creature, a plesiosaur. We have proof that some dinosaurs survived the asteroid. Sharks and crocodiles are living proof of dinosaurs surviving the apocalyptic event. So it is likely even more survived than we realised. So I believe it is a plesiosaur that found its way into the loch ten thousand years ago when the last ice age thawed. Only then were the rivers into the loch deep enough for something big to swim up them. I don’t think we will find something living, however. For something still living today, there would have to have been many breeding pairs, which would have given us very conclusive evidence with how far we have gone with our research. This means that the Loch Ness Monster is, in fact, a ghost. If humans can come back as spirits, why can’t dinosaurs? If you do your research, you will find more stories of other monsters in Scotland and across the world. Are all these documented ghost sightings of dinosaurs? I will let you decide.