Oh my goose! Me too! I've so many fantastic high-detail close-up photos of Nessie, like one where I reached into their mouth and put a fish in it. Sadly I can't show them because I've never been to Scotland.
I was at Buckingham Palace watching The Queen's ghost welcome a diplomatic party of chupacabras from Jalisco. I didn't even take my phone with me. I'm that stupid.
This whole "Nessie" thing counts as mildly infuriating to me at this point. The whole loch ness monster thing was a fun thing to wonder about as child, but are people really taking it "seriously?" I'm not even sure if this article was written as a serious news story or not, it's certainly light on substantial new evidence, but then it's a BBC article not presented as satire - are we supposed to all be in on the tired joke or is there really something new and substantial there?
First heard about this major new search a few weeks back, and was entirely unsurprised to hear that one of the main organisers was... the local Loch Ness Visitor Centre, who by no means have a vested interest in keeping this nonsense going...
Pretty sick of seeing the story given coverage by the BBC, the Guardian, etc, at a time when their resources would be better spent on proper news.
I think the argument that is often made is that we have discovered so little of our oceans that it’s possible we haven’t seen all the different aquatic species there are. Not suggesting Nessie is real, just the overall thought process I feel the believers use.
Sure but Loch Ness is on the 3rd most populated island in the world, it's comprehensively explored, there's nothing newsworthy to say about it unless there was a vast oversight and that would be the head line, not the "monster".
I'm a skeptic but did once see something anomalous that fit the description of a Bigfoot.
This was pre-cell phone camera and I was a kid, didn't have one on me, but I saw a large dark shape walking upright and chasing a herd of deer in a forest.
The other side of that coin is that I was a kid who enjoyed reading books about monsters, so I probably rationalized something natural in my head.
Actually, it seems cold conditions make animals more likely to grow big in order to be more energy efficient. That is why lots of deep sea creatures are larger than their counterparts that live on the warmer waters near the surface.
Jacob Gellar's video on this is excellent... is a sentence you can say about many subjects. Anyway he highlights how the open ocean is kinda like deep space with zero visibility. Any square mile of open ocean is several cubic miles of water. Animals the size of cruise ships disappear at that scale.
right? jesus h it's the 21st century, come up with some new cryptids that fit the fucking times already. I want toxic mutants, nuclear alligators, at least come up with hilariously new lies about this shit. tell me solar power generation is breeding monster cave bats or something, fuck