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This picture, from the Nat Geo article referenced earlier, shows what some people believe the monster really could be. In this it shows that an elephant swimming could be what people see. Now this being real is in actuality less than 1% because elephants coming from nowhere, and swimming in a Scottish body of water without being noticed is basically just as crazy as a monster that can live at the depths of the Loch being there. No idea how someone came up with this, but the fact that there have been multiple sightings means the elephant idea is probably out the window.

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In this video a guy hunts for Nessie. Like those ghost hunters on TV, but without the budget this guy looks for the monster. Obviously he finds nothing, and he looks dumb while doing it. Even sounding like he pretty much looks up nonsense on conspiracy blogs and just regurgitates it like he's a parrot. In all the video is just a joke, and as bad as television paranormal investigators.

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This video, while hilarious, is more of a debunking and making fun of "proof" video thank actual explanations. Despite the obvious joke video that it's supposed to be, if you pay attention it opens your eyes to the fact that if someone can make fun of "proof" like that then why are we believing that information when it comes out online. The narrator even takes the time to explain similarities between creatures that are known to be real, and things in pictures said to be the Loch Ness Monster. Good video for a laugh, and can make you pay attention if you're not closed minded.

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Irish Loch Ness Monster Caught on Camera

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American Loch Ness Monster Video Going Viral

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How many times are we going to "see" the Lochness monster caught on tape? Loch Ness Monster Reportings on the Rise After Sighting on Apple Maps http://abcnews.go.com/International/loch-ness-monster-report-rise-sighting-apple-maps/story?id=23394714 Has the Loch Ness Monster been spotted on Apple Maps? http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/04/21/loch-ness-monster-spotted-on-apple-maps-draws-skeptics/

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Some people believe Loch Ness to be a dinosaur species that survived extinction, others have come up with many other possible ideas. This article, goes over each hypothetical creature that the Loch Ness monster could be. It's fascinating because it was always just common sense to think it was a dinosaur, or relative of one, but going over those ideas (no matter how crazy) really makes it more interesting.

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If the Loch Ness Monster Exists, What Is It? Reptile, Invertebrate, Amphibian, Mammal, Delta Quadrant Shape Shifter, Fish or Nothing?

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If the Loch Ness Monster Exists, What Is It? Reptile, Invertebrate, Amphibian, Mammal, Delta Quadrant Shape Shifter, Fish or Nothing?

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This website Live Science goes into detail giving only the known facts about the elusive creature. There is no assumption or opinion here only what is known, and stories told about the creature known from the depths of the Scottish Loch. This is a good website for people who don't know about or who want to hear unbiased information about the creature.

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Though there are dozens, if not hundreds, of lake monsters around the world, one superstar marine denizen outshines them all: Nessie, the beast said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.

Some say it's a myth; others say it's a living dinosaur or even a sea serpent that swam into the lake before it became landlocked. Whether real or fictional, it is what Scotland is best known for around the world (aside from whiskey, bagpipes and kilts).

Some claim that the Loch Ness monster was first reported in A.D. 565, when - according to Catholic legend - St. Columba turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness River, which flows into the lake. However tempting it is to suggest that the encounter was a true historical record of the beast's existence, it is only one of many church myths about righteous saints vanquishing Satan in the form of serpents and dragons.

The first purported photo of Nessie was published in The Daily Mail on April 21, 1934.

Credit: The Daily Mail

In fact, there are no reports of the beast until less than a century ago. The Loch Ness monster first achieved notoriety in 1933 after a story was published in "The Inverness Courier," a local newspaper, describing not a monstrous head or hump but instead a splashing in the water that was described as appearing to be caused "by two ducks fighting." Some suggested a more monstrous explanation; however it wasn't until the following year that Nessie shot to superstardom with the publication of a famous photograph showing a serpentine head and neck. That image, taken by a London surgeon named Kenneth Wilson, was touted for decades as the best evidence for Nessie - until it was admitted as a hoax decades later. [ Countdown: Our 10 Favorite Monsters]

Civic pride

In 2010, archives shed some light on how seriously some locals took the monster. William Fraser, the chief constable of Inverness-shire in the 1930s, wrote a letter to a government official noting that a man from London, Peter Kent, "stated that he was having a special harpoon gun made and that he was to return [to Loch Ness] with some 20 experienced men on August 22 for the purpose of hunting the monster down." Fraser added that he warned Kent not to hunt for the creature, and suggested that some official government protection might be established: "That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful."

Like other reputed lake monsters around the world, those who are convinced that Nessie exists have tried to pass legal measures to protect them. There is of course a strong incentive to protect monsters like Nessie, even if only symbolically: tourism. Loch Ness is by far the main tourist draw in the Scottish highlands. It's a beautiful lake in its own right - as is the town of Inverness on its shores - but tourists come from all over the world hoping for a glimpse of the famous monster.

Though people often speak of Nessie as a solitary animal, if it exists there must, of course, be many of them in the lake - not just one or two but dozens or hundreds. This is because of biological and genetic pressures; there must be a breeding population of them to have survived in the lake.

In 1994, The Daily Mail published this account, revealing that the famous photo was an elaborate hoax.

Credit: The Daily Mail

Elusive beast

Dozens of inconclusive and ambiguous photos, films, and videos have surfaced over the years, but the monster apparently has not. Loch Ness itself has been repeatedly searched for more than 70 years, using everything from miniature submarines to divers. In 2003, a team of researchers sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) undertook the largest and most comprehensive search of Loch Ness ever conducted. They scoured the lake using 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation. One of the lead searchers, Ian Florence, was quoted in a BBC news release: "We went from shoreline to shoreline, top to bottom on this one, we have covered everything in this loch, and we saw no signs of any large animal living in the loch."

The Loch Ness monster story is buoyed by occasional photographs and sightings, though there is no hard evidence of Nessie's existence: no bodies (or even parts of bodies) have been found on the lake bottom or washed ashore.

Though the evidence for Nessie has been contaminated by hoaxing, many sightings are likely honest mistakes and misidentified encounters with birds, swimming deer, seals, waves, or even logs. For every lifelong local who swears he's seen the creature, another dozen insist they've never seen anything unexplainable on the loch - though they're always happy to take hopeful tourists out by the boatload.

For those who can't make it to Scotland to search for the mythical beast, you can now hop online. The Loch Ness is now on Google Street View, meaning you can explore just about every inch of Nessie's home, which extends about 23 miles (37 kilometers), while sitting behind a computer. Such digital adventurers can search above and below the surface of the lake, connected to the River Oich to the south and the Bona Narrows to the north.

Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of "Skeptical Inquirer" science magazine and author of six books including "Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures." His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com.

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Benjamin Radford, Live Science Contributor

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Though there are dozens, if not hundreds, of lake monsters around the world, one superstar marine denizen outshines them all: Nessie, the beast said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness. Some say it's a myth; others say it's a living dinosaur or even a sea serpent that swam into the lake before it became landlocked.

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This photo depicts an elephant seal that was at a time believed to be the Loch Ness Monster thanks to some pranksters who wanted to fool colleagues. The seal died, and one zoologist wanted to prank his friends who were looking for the real monster. In the end the ruckus it caused was farther reaching that the prankster wanted. While this floating in the Loch would cause some people to believe, upon examination the prank should have ended

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Story debunking the first Loch Ness Photo

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Story debunking the first Loch Ness Photo

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This story talks about the first "real photo" of Nessie. It goes on to thoroughly debunk the photo, however, the theories varied and no conclusive theory was given. It does throw caution to the monster theory, or at least strike down the validity of the photo.

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The modern history of the Loch Ness Monster began in 1933 when a new road was completed along the northern shore of Loch Ness, providing easy access to unobstructed views of the water. Soon after this, a couple spotted an "enormous animal" in the Loch. The Inverness Courier wrote up their sighting, describing what they saw as a "monster." Intense media interest followed, and thus was born the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster.

Later that same year, the Daily Mail, taking advantage of the Nessie craze, hired a famous big-game hunter, Marmaduke Wetherell, to travel up to the Loch to investigate the sightings and to find the monster, if he could. Although he found no monster, in December 1933 he did locate what appeared to be its tracks—enormous footprints on the shore of the Loch leading into the water. Unfortunately, when researchers from the Natural History Museum examined the tracks, they determined they had been made with a dried hippo's foot, of the kind that were popularly used as umbrella stands. Humiliated, Wetherell retreated from public view.

But a few months later, the Loch Ness monster again made headlines when a highly respected British surgeon, Colonel Robert Wilson, came forward with a picture (top) that appeared to show a sea serpent rising out of the water of the Loch.

Wilson claimed he took the photograph early in the morning on April 19, 1934, while driving along the northern shore of Loch Ness. He said he noticed something moving in the water and stopped his car to take a photo. For decades this photo was considered to be the best evidence of the existence of a sea monster in the Loch. But Wilson himself refused to have his name associated with it. Therefore it came to be known simply as "The Surgeon's Photo."

For years skeptics were sure that the photo was somehow a hoax. But no rigorous studies of the image were conducted until 1984 when Stewart Campbell analyzed the photo in a 1984 article in the British Journal of Photography. Campbell concluded that the object in the water could only have been two or three feet long, at most, and that it probably was an otter or a marine bird. He suggested it was likely that Wilson knew this to be the case.

But as it turned out, Campbell was wrong. The object in the water was not a form of marine life. It was a toy submarine outfitted with a sea-serpent head. This was revealed in 1994 when Christian Spurling, before his death at the age of 90, confessed to his involvement in a plot to create the famous Surgeon's Photo, a plot that involved both Marmaduke Wetherell and Colonel Wilson.

According to Spurling, he had been approached by Wetherell (his stepfather) who wanted him to make a convincing serpent model. Spurling did this, and this model was then photographed in Loch Ness. The picture was then given to Wilson, whose job it was to serve as a credible front-man for the hoax.

Apparently Wetherell's motive was revenge, since he was still smarting from his humiliation over the hippo-foot tracks. "We'll give them their monster," his son later remembered him saying.

In the original version of the image (bottom) the diminutive size of the Nessie model in relationship to the Loch can be seen. (The dark band along the top of the picture is the opposite side of the Loch.) The image given to the media was cropped to hide this perspective, making the "monster" appear larger than it actually was.

Martin, D. & Boyd, A. (1999). Nessie: The Surgeon's Photograph Exposed. Thorne Printing.

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The modern history of the Loch Ness Monster began in 1933 when a new road was completed along the northern shore of Loch Ness, providing easy access to unobstructed views of the water. Soon after this, a couple spotted an enormous animal in the Loch.

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This video shows what someone believes hard proof that the monster of the Loch is real. Who knows how much editing was done while they put this video together, and if some of the things that happened in the video are indeed true then why didn't it make a bigger news story? There's no way to prove this is true, and without evidence to the contrary it's in a state of flux.

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This article on National Geographic is a small explanation by some on what's really being seen when people report Loch Ness sightings. While Nat Geo is certainly a reputable source, this story just gives one side, also people might assume since its Nat Geo that they're automatically right, and throw a tremendous amount of bias onto their theory.

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photo in the news: loch ness monster was an elephant?

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Photo in the News: Loch Ness Monster Was an Elephant?

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Throwing a bit of cold water onto the legend of Loch Ness, a paleontologist and painter says the monster was perhaps a paddling pachyderm.

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Probably one of the best pictures you can find out there on the internet, this creature looks like a long serpent in the water, and could potentially be the famed Nessie.
It's said that the person who shot this picture was a whisky worker so who knows what he was seeing, but this is probably the clearest photo that does start a conversation.

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This photo from the Legend of Nessie website was posted there by George Edwards. He had people from the military analyze the photo to prove that it was in fact an animate object that he saw.
While no evidence was given to prove the military said it was animate, it's also not exactly clear what's going on in the picture.