(Newswire.net — November 24, 2014) — Besides the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster is the most renowned creature. It doesn’t matter that no expedition confirmed anything unusual going on in the lake loch, research can not explain the mysterious footage and eyewitness accounts that have kept this story alive for hundreds of years.
Romantically, we want to believe that there are some mysteries left undiscovered, and the world is unprepared to believe that Nessie is nothing more than a log.
Earlier this month, Richard Collis released a low-resolution video showing, he believed to be a neck of the monster, briefly emerged from the surface of the Loch, than disappeared beneath.
The man who keeps a register of sightings, Gary Campbell, told The Scotsman that this new sighting of Nessie stirred more water than usual.
Nessie, the Monster from the Loch is very important for development of the region since the legend draws tourists from around the world. Unfortunately, it draws all kind of sceptics keen to bust the myth.
According to the folks at the Conservation Charity the Woodland Trust, the 56-acre Urquhart Bay Wood near the deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands is the ideal “Nessie spawning ground.”
They said that all Nessie neck sightings are nothing but different curved logs washed out by rivers.
“Large amounts of wood flows out of the woodland through the two winding rivers that flow into Loch Ness each year, peaking when water is high in late autumn and spring. I think that some of that debris explains the long thin, sometimes stick-like, shapes seen,” the Independent cited a representative for the trust as saying.
The representative said that sightings occur exactly at late autumn and spring, as far as sighting is recording. With 1,036 reported sightings over the past 80 years, at least a few of them are likely to be logs.
In that period, anything was described as more reasonable explanation than monster. People have seen eels, seals, bird wakes, however, the boldest theory is the one from the paleontologist and artist Neil Clark, who in 2006 said people have seen elephants in the Loch. According to him, traveling circuses have allowed their elephants a moment of leisure in the loch, with their extended trunks, head and backs creating the illusion of the mythical creature.
Log or not, with 1,500 years of history and an insatiable public appetite for mystery, the myth of Nessie will survive any scientific explanation.