Is there a monster in Lochness?

[solus]

I suspect we're about due for another "sighting" from Loch Ness: usually happens shortly before Easter and the start of the tourist season!

A good few years back we were in Ireland, about to leave a B&B in Donegal to head south to the renowned pilgrimage site at Knock. "'Sure and the miracle there's what it's done for the place" said our landlady, crossing herself. Not far removed from what the "Monster" has done for tourism in the Highlands then!

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by artdemole

WE still don't know whats in the oceans,forests ,skies.It woud be great if there was something in the depths.What we imagine sometimes rings true...

The Bells .......The Bells ......(that's my Quasimodo impression, good eh ?)

Neil.

[david156]

Of course nessie is alive!
When his not in loch ness his in the lake at Hogwarts.

Gandalf told me so

[shenk1]

We have a monster living in the canal near us and it steels shopping trollies and bikes to eat, only to find them indigestible and throws them back up half sticking out of the water!
I bet no one else has a monster like this.

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by rlchew

I have visited the Scottish Highlands and Islands on numeous occasions and never seen a monster anywhere.

Scottish Wild Cat, Pine Marten, Otter, Red Deer, Red Squirrel, etc. have all made it on to my "mammal trip lists" but never a monster .... other than all those strange sightings after a little too much malt whiskey

Ooops, sorry I degenerated wizzo .... and that is probably also a description of me after that malt whiskey

Loch Ness is very, very deep and very, very long .... a lot of water for a monster to hide in but you would have thought in our age of science, technology, radar, echo location, etc. that something would have been found by now if it was down there.

Richard

Did you see that King Kong film ? Well, what do you think they did with the body when they shot him down off that skyscraper ?
That's right, they stuffed him in a C5 Galaxy cargo jet, flew out to Scotland, and just as everybody was leaving the pubs, they dropped Kong into the Loch.
The local people who saw it happen keep telling us there is a monster in the Loch, but we take no notice because we know they'd all been in the pub.

Elementary dear Watson.

Neil.

[wizzo]

Ah hmmm.....I'm a watching you Loripo (and ) PMG! (said in a broad Highlands accent!) I was about to present a little pro-monster story at this stage, but after reading the above posts, I've ermmmm - chickened out!!

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by Richard G.

Aye, but this is Scotland, I expect its staple food is Haggis rather than fish?

Thats just silly, why would eat haggis when there is a steady supply of juicy tourists standing right by the edge of the Loch

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Boddie

The Scots have a nack of promoting otherwise dull areas by fabricating stories around them. Loch Ness is one of the dullest of the Scottish lochs hence the story

You're really Anne Robinson writing under a pseudonym aren't you Boddie?

[solus]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

Thats just silly, why would eat haggis when there is a steady supply of juicy tourists standing right by the edge of the Loch

Exactly! Wild Haggis are far too diffcult to catch, living as they do in the remote mountain areas and the farmed ones are all in fenced enclosures watched over by CCTV.

[poohbear]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Did you see that King Kong film ? Well, what do you think they did with the body when they shot him down off that skyscraper ?
That's right, they stuffed him in a C5 Galaxy cargo jet, flew out to Scotland, and just as everybody was leaving the pubs, they dropped Kong into the Loch.
The local people who saw it happen keep telling us there is a monster in the Loch, but we take no notice because we know they'd all been in the pub.

Elementary dear Watson.

Neil.

I've always wanted to know...remember that huge pair of gates in King Kong that the natives locked and barred with huge pieces of tree trunk?

Well if he could climb the Empire State Building..how come he couldn't climb over that perishing gate??