Loch Ness monster is back!

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Runes911

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Searched for Loch and Ness.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/britain.lochness.ap/index.html

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw.

And now Nessie's back.

An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45-feet (15 meters) long, moving fairly fast in the water," said Gordon Holmes, the 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, who took the video this past Saturday.

He said it moved at about 6 mph (10 kph) and kept a fairly straight course.

"My initial thought is it could be a very big eel, they have serpent-like features and they may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years."

Loch Ness is surrounded by myth and mystery, as it is the largest and deepest inland expanse of water in Britain. About 750 feet (230 meters) to the bottom, it's even deeper than the North Sea.

Nessie watcher and marine biologist Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness 2000 center in Drumnadrochit, on the shores of the lake, viewed the video and hopes to properly analyze it in the coming months.

"I see myself as a skeptical interpreter of what happens in the loch, but I do keep an open mind about these things and there is no doubt this is some of the best footage I have seen," Shine said.

He said the video is particularly useful because Holmes panned back to get the background shore into the shot. That means it was less likely to be a fake and provided geographical bearings allowing one to calculate how big the creature was and how fast it was traveling.

While many sightings can be attributed to a drop of the local whisky, legends of Scottish monsters date back to one of the founders of the Christian church in Scotland, St. Columba, who wrote of them in about 565 A.D.

More recently, there have been more than 4,000 purported Nessie sightings since she was first caught on camera by a surgeon on vacation in the 1930s.

Since then, the faithful have speculated whether it is a completely unknown species, a sturgeon -- even though they have not been native to Scotland's waters for many years -- or even a last surviving dinosaur.

Shine doubts that last explanation.

"There are a number of possible explanations to the sightings in the loch. It could be some biological creature, it could just be the waves of the loch or it could be some psychological phenomenon in as much as we see what we want to see," he said.

But Nessie isn't just an icon of the paranormal -- she's also an emblem of Scottish tourism. She has been the muse for cuddly toys and immortalized on T-shirts and posters showing her classic three-humped image.

The Scottish media is skeptical of Nessie stories but Holmes' footage is of such good quality that even the normally reticent BBC Scotland aired the video on its main news program on Tuesday.
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I wanna see the video :(
 
dud

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"Well, what you expecting a 1080p full HD video with closeups?"

What is your point?
 
Jeff7

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Fry: Sir, if I may, why don't you just set up like a billion video cameras in the woods and see if he walks by one?

Ranger Park: Ah, that would be very expensive, and most people who believe in Bigfoot are broke.





And of course, "Fry: Bigfoot! He's real! I knew it! The Loch Ness Monster's book was right!"
 
FlashG

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Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: mooglekit
Here you go! :D

Video here Just looks like a shadow mostly though..
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LOL, i love that accent on the anchor woman. i wonder what she sounds like in bed.
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I thought the same thing. I wonder what her name is?

 
GagHalfrunt

GagHalfrunt

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Originally posted by: Runes911
Originally posted by: mooglekit
Here you go! :D

Video here Just looks like a shadow mostly though..
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They call that "...the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature..." bah!
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The sad part is, that's true. All the other footage is 100% junk, so this 99.99999% junk footage is the best ever.
 
pyonir

pyonir

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You have no way to compare it in size to anything...so it could be a piece of wood floating just under the surface. I'd say that's not convincing enough...perhaps it was an eel.

I've taking a boat trip across Loch Ness...that loch is unbelievably beautiful.
 
pyonir

pyonir

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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
wtf... if there was a "monster" there, it would have been found by now...
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For the most part i agree with you. But there are a lot of caves and caverns at the bottom of Loch Ness and a pretty strong current at the bottom which makes it tough to survey the entire lake.

At least that's what i remember from reading about it a few years ago. lol.
 
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