"Loch Ness Monster - A Tourist Hoax!" Topic

You were asked – TMP link

Is Nessie real, and if so, what is it?

34% said "Nessie is not real. It's all a tourist hoax."
19% said "Nessie is a plesiosaur/elasmosaur or descendant."
16% said "Nessie is real, but I don't know what it is."

Actually, more voters think it's real (19+16=35) than think it's a hoax (34).

And Bigfoot rides unicorns to and from work.

The tourists certainly aren't visiting Loch Ness for the haggis (gag)… ;-)

At least Haggis is real, I have it most weeks and you'll only get Nessie once in a lifetime if you are lucky.

When my wife lived in Inverness, she was driving two French nuns, one of whom had given her younger brother a piano lesson, back home. The were driving along the loch. My wife noticed an object looking like a neck with a head on it moving in the loch. She stopped two tourist busses. They all got out and saw whatever it was too.

My wife was sober and had beaucoup witnesses. She was placed on some sort of list of "official sighters" who had to have witnesses to get on the list. Later, some US news people came to Scotland to do an article on the "monster" and wanted to interview her. By that time she had moved here to the US. They never caught up with her here.

Tom

Tom

I remember taking a tourist cruise through the loch, the water was so black and cold there. The whiskey with hot chocolate they served on the boat was appreciated.

I'm quite certain St Columba saw something in 565 AD. That it is still there seems unlikely but may be . . .

It could be real, and at the same time a tourist trap.

Supposedly the long narrow loch was once an arm of the sea. The sides are filled with subterranean caves. So who knows.

As Prince Albert says, the waters are very dark.

Tom