The Loch Ness Monster, also known as “Nessie” or “Ness” (Gaelic: Niseag), is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures that inhabit Lake Ness (Loch Ness – A freshwater lake located near the city of Inverness in Scotland with the deepest point up to 230 m. Many people believe that this monster is just a product of imagination or only in legends. Others believe in its existence.
Notably, the first records of the appearance of a sea monster living in Loch Ness appear in the history book “The Missionary Life of Saint Columba” written by Saint Adamnan in the 6th century.
In 1888, bricklayer Alexander Macdonald in the village of Abriachan watched an enormous animal emerge from the lake and swim about 50 meters from where Macdonald stood. Macdonald later reported his sighting to Loch Ness security officer Alex Campbell and described the creature as resembling an iguana.
Many people believe that the Loch Ness Monster is just a product of imagination, while others believe in its existence.
The stories of the Loch Ness monster seemed to have been forgotten for 45 years, before being revived again on July 22, 1933, when George Spicer and his wife saw “a kind of strange animal.” strangest” crossed the road in front of their car. They describe the creature as large (1.2m high and 8m long), with a long, wavy, narrow neck, slightly thicker than the trunk of an elephant and 3–4m long.
In the same year 1933, the first image of the Loch Ness monster was officially taken. Hugh Gray, an employee of the British Aluminum Company, was walking home from church on November 12, 1933, when he suddenly noticed something unusual on the shores of Loch Ness.
Hugh Gray quickly used the camera he was carrying to capture the image above. The image was later published for the first time in the British newspaper Daily Record, sparking controversy over the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
The first image of the Loch Ness monster was officially taken by Hugh Gray in 1933.
In 1934, British doctor Robert Kenneth Wilson while on vacation at Loch Ness took a picture of the Loch Ness monster. The image that later became the most famous image of the Loch Ness monster shows a long-necked monster emerging from the water.
However, it also continues to cause controversy as to how practical it is. Many people believe that this is just a fake image or just an image of an ordinary object on the lake surface, but many others believe that this is real evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
So far, more than 1,000 people have claimed to have seen this mysterious monster. In 2003, the BBC conducted a study that used up to 600 sonar rays (used to detect submarines) and satellite tracking to scan the entire length of the lake. As a result, they did not find any evidence of the existence of a monster at the bottom of Loch Ness. However, many people still believe in the existence of this mysterious monster.
The most famous image of the Loch Ness monster, taken by Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson in 1934.
With the scientific community alone, many researchers have raised a number of different theories about the Loch Ness monster. Some theories suggest that the Loch Ness monster is a descendant of the reptile Cryptoclididae of the aquatic reptile group Plesiosaurus. However, this hypothesis was later disproved, after researchers from the University of Otago in 2019 confirmed that Loch Ness does not contain a dinosaur DNA sample. Some scientists have not even ruled out the possibility that the Loch Ness monster is actually a giant eel.
However, have you ever wondered: What if the Loch Ness monster really existed? What will humanity do after we discover this mysterious monster? Will we try to preserve the Loch Ness monster strictly, or will we destroy it immediately for research?
This is the topic that has just been raised by the popular science-themed YouTube channel What IF in a recent video, which lists the situations that will happen if the Loch Ness monster is real.
What would happen to the Loch Ness monster if it really existed?