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The Loch Ness Monster (Scottish Gaelic: Uilebheist Loch Nis), [3] also known as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.
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Loch Ness is known as the home of the mythical Loch Ness Monster (also known as "Nessie"), a cryptid, reputedly a large unknown animal. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next.
McKay’s hotel in Drumnadrochit has been turned into the new $1.8 million Loch Ness Centre and last August hundreds of Nessie fans gathered at the loch for the biggest monster hunt in 50 years ...
Even the Loch Ness Centre’s logo — the instantly recognizable picture of a sort of humped eel cruising through waves on the lake’s surface — comes from a fuzzy 1934 black-and-white photo ...
Plesiosaurs or Loch Ness Monster-like creature. [43] 1910–2024 Loch Ness Scotland United Kingdom: Europe: Nessie: Plesiosaurs-like Lake Norman North Carolina USA: North America: Normie, Lake Norman Monster Long and serpentine with scaly fins and flippers, a dog-like head, and red eyes. [5] 1967– Great Salt Lake Utah USA: North America
Eighty-one years ago, this blurry, vague photo - supposedly showing a monster in the Scottish Loch Ness - was released, setting off one of the biggest legends, and hoaxes, of our modern age.
The monster has appeared in local folklore for centuries, and started receiving wider attention following a sighting in July 1933. [1] It has made appearances in fiction literature since at least the January 1934 short story "The Monster of the Loch" by William J. Makin, and in film since at least the May 1934 film The Secret of the Loch.