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Loch Ness Monster

Teacher: Popescu Elena Lucia

Student: Costescu Andrei

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Table of contents:

1) Introduction 2) Chapter 1: Beginning of the myth 3) Chapter 2: What is Nessie ? 4) Chapter 3: Proofs and sighting of Nessie 5) Conclusions

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1) Introduction

Last picture taken of the monster

I chose talk about Loch Ness monster because the people heard about Nessie but not many know the reality about him. Many people believe that monster doesnt exist but are others which saw it and they know this monster is real. The story about Nessie is from year 565.First time when Nessie was taken in a picture was in 1933 when Hugh Gray saw it in the lake. Nessie was seen on the land when to people who drove saw it on the road and then the monster wnt right in the water. After that Loch Ness monster had more sightings what goes to Nessie craze began. Many people spent days on the lake, they tried to see Nessie. King of sighting is Alex Cambell he saw Nessie with 18 diffrent occasions. The most important sightings was in 1936 when Nessie showed herself to a tourists group, than almost 50 people saw Loch Ness monster. From year 1963 the scientists tried to find this creature by setting off explosive to upset Nessie, after that they use sonar to see the bottom of the lake. In 70s took under water pictures, they capture something interesting because in this pictures they saw flipper, large body and a small head with a long neck in different pictures. After more sightings people tried to discover what kind of creature is Loch Ness monster; they have more theories: some persons believe Nessie is a plesiosaur, some of them believe it is a basilosaurus or is a giant eel.

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2) Beginning of the myth

Some people say something about strange life in the Loch Ness. They sa the creature what lives in the loch have a large body, small head, flippers and small front legs. People call it Nessie this nickname came from the name of the loch. Long ago , the lake was attached to the sea maybe that prehistoric creature was got caught in the lake, and still lives there.
L O C H N E S S

Long ago people have stories with sea monsters, even the Vikings ship displayed statues with dragons or sea serpents. The Vikings also believe in a monster called kraken. Other lakes may have theirs monsters. Some people think are creatures in Lake Champlain and Lake Okanagan. In 1933, along the Loch Ness was built a new road, this made a lot of noise and that may disturbed Nessie, after that there were many sighting. Later when two people were driving on the road a giant creature walked through their face and then the beast went into the water. Later in the same year, farmer Hugh Gray saw something in the lake. The farmer took a picture, this looked like something swimming under water surface. After many sighting the Nessie crazy begun, many people said they saw Nessie and they tried to prove the existence of Nessie. Tim Dinsdale spent a week watching Loch Ness, after that Tim said he was able to film the monster, but the images were not very clear and many people believes he filmed just a motorboat. Scientists tried different ways to find Nessie , they set off explosives to try to make the creature upset, then they use sonar to see what is on the bottom of the lake. The scientists got three signals of a large object moving in Loch Ness.

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2) What is Nessie ?
For this Question are numerous theory, but each of them have its problem. Obviously the favourite is plesiosaur, but are other theories which are equally with plesiosaur theory. Other theories are the eel and the basilosaurus theory The Plesiosaur Plesiosaur is a big reptile with large body, flippers, long neck and small head. The problem when we talk about this theory is what type of plesiosaur was Nessie . Best option is elasmosaur, the biggest and longest plesiosaur, is the best candidate. The plesiosaur supposed to have died 70 million years ago. That creature have to come up for air, but not very often because they can hold the breath for hours.

Plesiosaur us

The Basilosaurus(Zeuglodon) The basilosaurus is another candidate. It is a long ,slander whale, which live long ago, but seems some of them are still around .The monster of Okanagan (called Ogopogo),also seems to a creature like basilosaurus. The zeuglodon may be too large, this can reach 70 feet in length, Nessie seems have 50 feet.

Basilosaurus

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The Eel One of a lot of theories is that monster can be an eel. Eels match the hump description much better than a plesiosaurus but the length of the eel is more reduce then Nessie. The longest eel what was found had than Nessies length.

Eel

Some people think nessie might be a mammal, like whale, giant turtle, porpoise or sea cow. Maybe Nessie is undiscovered animal. In 1979 biologist Dennis Power explain that the photo made by Hygh Gray was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant.

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3)Proofs and sightings of Nessie.

Nessie have more sightings on land and water. Sightings on the land are strange for a lake monster. First seen of Nessie on the land was in 1933 by MR. and MRS George Spicer. They are people who see Nessie on the road and then it goes in water with a movement like seal. Another land sighting was by Torquil Macleod :
"I had a clear view of its left four flipper which is grey in colour and spade shaped... I confess to being rather appalled at its size, somehow the dimensions have never sunk in, but there is no doubt in my mind that this individual was of the order of 40-60 feet in length."

In water it estimated that about 11000 people have seen Nessie. King Loch Ness Monsters sighting is Alex Cambell .He had seen Nessie on 18 occasions ,best sighting was in 1934:
"My best sighting was in May 1934 right off the Abbey boathouse. That morning I was standing at the mouth of the river Hawick looking for what we call a run of salmon. I heard the sound of two trawlers coming through the canal from the West. Suddenly there was this upsurge of water right in front of the canal entrance. I was stunned. I shut my eyes three times to Picture taken in 1933 by Hugh Gray .First picture taken of make sure I wasn't imagining the monster things-the head and the huge humped body were perfectly clear. I knew right away that the creature was scared because of its behavior. It was twisting its head frantically. It was the thud, thud of the engines that was the reason for its upset. Then it vanished out of sight when the trawler came within my line of vision. I estimated that the body alone was 30 feet long, the height of the head and neck above the water was 6 feet, and the skin was grey."

In 1936 the creature showed herself to group of tourists and busses for 15 minutes, almost 50 people saw creature in that day. After more sighting of Nessie, scientists ttried to find Loch Ness monster,they took more underwater photos. Four were make clear on the computer, two of them show large flipper another looked like large body and the last one showed a nech with a small head.

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3)Conclusions
Loch Ness is the most know monster from the world, besides Loch Ness monster are other monsters in USA and Canada in Champlain and Okanagan Lake. In Scotland are old story about Nessie since 565.When the beast attacking a swimmer and a monk banished the monster. In 1933, along Loch Ness was built a new road, since that happened the monster showed herself many times. First picture of Nessie was taken in year 1933 by Hugh Gray .Many people saw the creature in water even on the land. In same year two people who were driving saw the monster right on the road, it look like a seal whit four flipper and long neck with small head. The king of the sighting is Alex Cambell, he saw the monster in 18 different occasions, but the best sighting was in 1936. In time appeared many theories about the type of the creature, the best theoty is the plesiosaur theory but that didnt explain the humps from the photos. Another theory sustain that Nessie is a basilosaurus (a prehistoric whale). The theory what explain the humps is eels theory but that didnt explain the length of the creature. In 1979 a biologist explain the picture taken by Hugh Gray, that picture was taken in another place and show a swimming elephant. Scientists tried to discover where live Loch Ness monster they use sonar and other equipments to check the lake. They use sonar to create a map of the bottom of the lake, then with special cameras they took picture, in them they saw bodies parts of the monster,in tow of them they saw the flippers in one of them they saw the body and in the last one they saw a long neck with head. Many people thought the scientists capture in pictures objects. The most important sighting of Nessie was on the land by Torquil Macleod and the 18 sightings of Alex Cambell. Last sighting was in 2009 since that wasnt registered another sighting that is the reason for which people think the Loch Ness monster is death.

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