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Yes palaeontologists...

I find it fascinating that extinct animals from before the dinosaur period do turn up


Yes the overwhelming consensus from scientists is the Loch sightings are giant eels or some other known aquatic creature.

However snakey beasties that resemble plesiosaurs have been seen in freshwater lakes all over the world

Another sighting of Nessie


Apparently 2020 has already seen 5 plausible sightings

Part of the connection is a manmade waterway: the Caledonian Canal. Both recent, and it probably has locks. Not a feasible way for Mesozoic sea monster to move back and forth to the sea.

it looks like a rock.

Rocks generally don't move in a serpentine manner in water but I take your point the cam footage isn't earth shattering

is there video of this "serpentine" movement?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/13 ... ss-monster

Yet another sighting of the Loch Ness monster has supposedly been recorded, with a new image doing the rounds. A photograph supposedly taken at the Scottish lake or loch shows what appears to be a large grey hump moving through the water. Subsequent images reveal the 'monster' is heading away from the camera.


The images were posted to the Facebook group Anomalous Universe by the group's founder Steve Carrington.

According to Loch Ness research blog Loch Ness Mystery, Mr Carrington said: "Took this in Loch Ness last September but I don't know what kind of fish it is".

While fooling many of the group, the Twitterverse was quick to conduct its own investigation.

As it turned out, the Loch Ness monster in this image was a catfish - and had been photoshopped into the photo.



The specific catfish has even been tracked down, which had been captured in the river Po in Italy by anglers Benjamin Gründer, Kai Weber, and Marcus Brock in 2018.

Markings on a catfish's back are unique, much like a fingerprint, so the people of Twitter troweled through famous images of catfish and discovered the one in the picture, which weighed a staggering 286lb when it was captured.

By analysing the back of the beast which is poking out the water, Twitter account @supahflylol discovered the identical markings on the catfish from the 2018 image.

Supahflylol said of the image: "Can't believe we gotta say this, but the loch ness monster picture is fake. Compare these unique patterns here."

Every self respecting lake on the planet has its own "monster". Nessie is the most famous, and "Champ" (lake Champlain) is the second best known. But folks seem to see these creatures in every lake in both the tropics and in the temperate zone.

Teddy Roosevelt was on a hunting safari circa 1900,in Africa. The natives told him about a legendary big serpentine monster that inhabited one of the big lakes at the source of the Nile in Kenya (like Lake Victoria).

There was a commotion in their lakeside camp when some of the local Africans actually SAW the creature. Roosevelt ran to the shore for a look, and sure enough there in the lake was a series of humps moving through the water in echelon . What looked like a big overturned row boat being followed by several smaller overturned rowboats following behind single file- just like they were part of one enormous sea serpent dozens of feet long.

Roosevelt lowered his hunting rife and shot at one of the humps of the beast. The "hump" froze in the water while the other humps disappeared. He ordered an African guy to paddle a canoe out into the lake to retrieve the "hump".

It turned out that the "hump" was a dead baby otter. And the "monster" was the family of otters - mom leading, being followed by her pups!

So my guess is that that is what 90 percent of lake monster sightings are.

But then...there is that other ten percent! (Twilight zone music).