Soooo you know the loch ness monster?
That monster that most people said had to be fake even though its been seen various
times throughout the years?
Yeah, it turns out that…it might actually be real.
Yes, you heard that correctly, the loch ness, might actually exist.
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Alriiiiight lets Nessie it up.
Man, I think I’ve reported like 10 stories on the loch ness monster since I started working
on IO, and as interesting as it is, I never thought that I would ever report a story about
it being actually real.
LIKE ACTUALLY THIS TIME.
I feel like the boy who cried wolf but seriously, all the sightings are from tourists and people
who work at the loch, so I was always skeptikal hearing about it.
But this time is different.
We got some sciency people coming forward who did literal tests.
Ok.
TESTS.
For hundreds of years, coming up on 15 centuries, the legend of the loch ness monster has been
perpetuated by many.
Its been supposedly seen quite a few times, and the loch lake in Scotland has become somewhat
of a tourist attraction.
Most of the sightings have been either disproven or debunked, and most scientists think the
loch ness is nothing more than a hoax that’s stemmed from myth.
But apparently, experts have changed their mind.
Professor Neil Gemmel of the university of Otago in new Zealand decided to try to put
the debate to rest.
In june of 2018, they set out to do an environmental DNA investigation of the loch ness.
Being Scottish himself, the story of the loch ness was somewhat nostalgic for Gemmel.
At the beginning of the study, he and the team of researchers did not want to get excited
about anything, they assumed that there wasn’t a loch ness monster.
He said.
I’m going into this thinking its unlikely there is a monster, but I want to test that
hypothesis.
Using a research vessel deepscan across the lench of the loch.
The Researchers travelled around the loch and took water samples from 3 different depths.
They analyzed the water samples and collected DNA left behind in skin, scales, feathers,
fur and faeces of creatures that lived around the loch.
They then sent the samples to labs in new Zealand, Denmark, Australia and france to
be analyzed.
Professor Neil Gemmel and his team have now finished their research.
Their team consists of experts in ecology, population, genomics, conservation and evolutionary
biology.
While we don’t know what the exact findings are yet, they say that the outcome of these
tests were quote ‘surprising’.
According to professor gemmel, they tested the data against most of the main theories
that have been circulating about the loch ness monster, and one of those theories might
be correct.
So what are these theories exactly.
Ok so theres number 1, it’s a long necked plesiosaur that managed to survive the extinction
of the dinosaurs.
Plesiosaurs were around for a long time, they appeared in the Triassic period, 203 million
years ago, they thrived until the cretatious period which is when the mass extinction event
was, 66 million years ago.
Plesiosaurs had a broad flat body and a short tail, some of them had very long necks and
small heads, others didn’t.
The ones that had long necks were relatively slow and ate small sea animals.
I’ve always been fond of this theory because its like, we know that Crocodiles and alligators
have been around since the age of the dinosaurs.
How is it that some of their species survived until modern day, yet no water-dwelling dinosaurs
survived?
Isnt there somewhere, some remote area of the ocean or planet that wasn’t affected
by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, that would have allowed some of them to live
on?
I don’t know I’m not a scientist but to me it sounded somewhat possible for the loch
ness to be a plesiosaur.
And the other theory is that the loch ness is another type of creature, a sturgeon or
a catfish.
Far less exciting, but unfortunately, far more possible than a plesiosaur.
Professor gemmel said, what we have achieved is what we set out to do, which is document
the biodiversity of the loch ness in june 2018 in some level of detail.
We’ve tested each one of the main monster hypothesis and three of them we can probably
say aren’t right, and one of them might be.
The research team didn’t say much more about it, the findings of the study are supposed
to be released in Scotland All Gemmel said was, I quote, is there anything
deeply mysterious?
Hmm, it depends what you believe.
Is there anything startling>?
There are a few things that are a bit surprising.
A bit surprising?
If you found out Nessie was real that’s not a bit surprising that is a huge deal bro.
BRO.
I feel like as much as I would like the loch ness to be some sort of extinct long necked
dinosaur like a plesiosaur, we probably would have far better pictures of it by now.
That long neck is pretty hard to hide.
Plus wouldn’t it have to come up for air?
Plesiosaurs are marine reptiles, but they breathed air and bore live young.
There are indications that they were warm blooded.
With all the tourists constantly taking photos of the loch, especially with todays technology,
someone would have seen it by now and have evidence of it.
What is possible is that the loch ness monster could be a giant fish, that doesn’t come
up to the surface very often.
There have been many notable loch ness sightings over the years.
The earliest sighting of the monster in the vicinity of the loch ness appeared in Life
of st Colombia, by adomnan, written in the 6th century AD.
It was about an irosh monk, saint Colombia, that was staying in the land of the picts,
when he came across locals burying a man by the river ness.
The locals explained that the man was swimming in the river when he was attacked by a water
beast, that mauled him and dragged him underwater.
Colombia sent one of his followers to swim across the river, the water beast approached
him but Colombia made the sign of the cross and said, go no further, do not touch the
man, go back at once.
The creature stopped in its tracks as if it quote, was pulled back with ropes, and fled.
The next documented sighting was made by Dr Mackenzie in the 1870s, who saw an object
that looked like a log or upturned boat, wriggling and churning up the water.
Nessie Mania first began in the n1930’s when a man named George spicer in 1933 saw
a quote most extraordinary form of an animal, cross the road in front of his car.
He and his wife said the creature had a large body, 4 gfeet high and 25 feet long, with
a long wavy narrow neck.
They saw no limbs.
What it did it do?
Wiggle across the road?
Then in 1933, the first photograph of the monster was published in the Daily express.
It was taken by Hugh gray.
The secretary state for Scotland ordered police at the time to prevent any attacks.
And then there was the surgeons photograph, the famous photo of the loch ness, you know
the one, the one in black and white.
It was taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, gynaecologist.
He didn’t want his name attached to the image and so it was called the surgeons photograph.
He sent it to the daily mail and it was published in april of 1934.
This was the prime piece of evidence that the loch monster really existed.
But in 1975 the Sunday telegraph accused it of being a hoax, a toy submarine built by
Christian Spurling, whos uncle was publicly ridiculed by his boss after he found Nessie
footprints that turned out to be a hoax.
To get revenge on the Daily Mail, Spurlings uncle created a hoax with several conspirators.
The toy submarine was bought from woolworths, its head and neck were made from wood puddy.
They took it out to test it on the loch, and gave it to Wilson and sold the photos to the
daily mail.
This hoax is why so many people find it hard to believe that nessies is real.
But there are plenty of people who do believe the loch ness is real, there have been over
11 supposed sightings since 2019 began., which is a record amount of sightings.
We wont know what the findings are of this dna analysis until September of 2019, so I
guess we will all have to wait until then to know for sure.
Tell me your thoughts, what do you think the loch ness monster really is?
Do you think it could be a plesiosaur or dinosaur, do you think it could be a fish? or do you
think all of this is bologna.
Let me know, for now I’m going to wrap up this video with some comment features.
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