LOCH NESS: Good News, Bad News, New Evidence?

We examine the history and latest news about everyone’s favorite sea monster, Nessie!

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DESCRIPTION: LOCH NESS MONSTER VIEWS AS REPORTED IN SIGHTINGS. ORIGINAL ART BY SHALOM

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DESCRIPTION:  ILLUSTRATION OF LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTING BY ARTHUR GRANT JANUARY 1934

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DESCRIPTION: LOCH NESS AFTER DEPARTURE FROM FORT AGUSTUS BY STEFAN GOETTE

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DESCRIPTION: DR ROBERT RINES OF MIT AND THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, PHOTOGRAPHED THE LOCH NESS PLESIOSAUR (OR ELASMOSAUR) IN JUNE 1975-1976 AUTHOR: CLIFFORDANTHONYPAIVA1

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DESCRIPTION: THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

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DESCRIPTION: LOCH NESS 30 May 2014 by Chris Combe

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DESCRIPTION: Loch Ness with Urquhart Castle in foreground by Sam Fentress

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DESCRIPTION: Nessie replica in Scotland

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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS  

“Rutland ichthyosaur fossil is largest found in UK”. BBC.com. 10 January, 2022. Accessed 11 January 2022.   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-59902730

Caryl-Sue  “Aug 22, 564 CE: Loch Ness Monster Sighted”  National Geographic Society.  16 September 2021. Accessed 12 January 2022. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/aug22/loch-ness-monster-sighted/

History.com Editors. “Loch Ness Monster”  HISTORY  October 6, 2017 Updated June 10, 2019. Accessed 29 January 2022 https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/loch-ness-monster

History.com Editors. “This Day in History 1933 May 2: Loch Ness “Monster” sighted for time, igniting the modern legend”  HISTORY  November 24, 2009 Updated April 30, 2021. Accessed 12 January 2022. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/loch-ness-monster-sighted

Knowles, Hannah. “The Loch Ness Monster is still a mystery. But scientists have some new evidence for a theory. “  The Washington Post  September 7, 2019. Accessed 12 January 2021.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/06/loch-ness-monster-is-still-mystery-scientists-have-some-new-evidence-theory/

Lyons, Stephen. “The Beast of Loch Ness”. NOVA Online. PBS.org > wgbh.  Updated November 2000. Accessed 29 January 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend3.html

Vigdor, Neil. “A Naturalist Stumbled on an Ichthyosaur Skeleton, the Largest in U.K. History”. The New York Times January 10, 2022. Accessed 14 February 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/science/earth/ichthyosaur-sea-dragon-fossil.html

Linge, Mary Kay. “’Loch Ness Monster’ Spotted again? This time on drone footage”. New York Post  September 25, 2021. Accessed 14 February 2022. https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/loch-ness-monster-spotted-again-this-time-on-drone-footage/

“RNLI Warning over ‘Storm Loch Ness’ Monster Hunt”. BBC.com 22 July 2019. Accessed 14 February 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49070362

Fahey, Ryan. “’Loch Ness Monster Sighting’ in London a dead ringer for mythical beast”. Mirror Online. 27 January 2022 Updated 27 January 2022. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/loch-ness-monster-spotted-london-26061699

Quote from G. K. Chesterton : “Many a man has been hanged on less evidence than there is for the Loch Ness Monster” 

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