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ashling

(25,771 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 08:55 PM Feb 2014

Is the Loch Ness monster dead?

p://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/loch-ness-monster-dead-n26616

Nessie has not been seen in well over a year, and may be gone, according to a news report. This is the first time in nearly 90 years that such a lengthy lag in sightings has occurred.

Gary Campbell, who lives in Inverness in the United Kingdom. has been keeping records of Loch Ness monster sightings for the past 17 years and has put together a list of sightings that goes back some 1,500 years, according to the BBC News.


"It's very upsetting news and we don't know where she's gone," BBC News quoted Campbell as saying. "The number of sightings has been reducing since the turn of the century but this is the first time in almost 90 years that Nessie wasn't seen at all." (Apparently three reports of possible Nessie sightings in 2013 were discredited after closer scrutiny, The Inverness Courier reported.)
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Is the Loch Ness monster dead? (Original Post) ashling Feb 2014 OP
I guess Little Jackie Paper grew up... n/t malthaussen Feb 2014 #1
... ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #2
Yes, Nessie is dead... Callmecrazy Feb 2014 #3
After hearing of Rand Paul's existence, he no longer wanted to call earth home. chrisa Feb 2014 #4
Can you blame him? Marie Marie Feb 2014 #7
With the advent of instant, always-available, high-resolution photography, Aristus Feb 2014 #5
Has anyone ever seen Nessie and Andy Kaufman together at the same time...? First Speaker Feb 2014 #6
Not Dead. He's only resting. kwassa Feb 2014 #8
It's pining for the fjords! Aquavit Feb 2014 #9
No davidpdx Feb 2014 #10
Nope, at the Olympics hermetic Feb 2014 #11

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
5. With the advent of instant, always-available, high-resolution photography,
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 11:12 PM
Feb 2014

it is no longer possible to pass off a blurry, grainy, indistinct pic of a standing wave, or a boat wake, or an otter as some fearsome, elusive "monster".

I don't believe the Loch Ness Monster exists.

But that doesn't mean I don't wish it existed...

One thing I find encouraging is the fact that, despite no scientific evidence that Nessie exists, the British Parliament has seen fit to grant it protected status.

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