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The Loch Ness Monster (Scottish Gaelic: Uilebheist Loch Nis), [3] known affectionately 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.
Robert Kenneth Wilson MB BChir, FRCSEd (26 January 1899 – 6 June 1969) was a general surgeon and gynaecologist in London, who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. This became known as "the surgeon's photograph" and was widely regarded as genuine, although scepticism was expressed about this from the ...
Variously described as a walrus, a sturgeon, or as a three-eyed Loch Ness Monster-like creature [42] Lake Nahuel Huapi Río Negro Province and Neuquén Province Argentina: South America: Nahuelito: Plesiosaurs or Loch Ness Monster-like creature. [43] 1910–2024 Loch Ness Scotland United Kingdom: Europe: Nessie: Plesiosaurs-like Lake Norman ...
Loch Ness has a monster. But what was the deciding factor that made her famous?
Hundreds joined the largest Loch Ness Monster has fascinated generations of curious minds.
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.
A view of the Loch Ness Monster, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934. The photograph, one of two pictures known as the 'surgeon's photographs,' was later exposed as a hoax.
Almost every sizeable Scottish body of water has a kelpie story associated with it, [11] [38] but the most widely reported is the kelpie of Loch Ness. Several stories of mythical spirits and monsters are attached to the loch's vicinity, dating back to 6th-century reports of Saint Columba defeating a monster on the banks of the River Ness. [45]