Loch Ness monster spotted? Tourists' photo sparks debate

a log, a gd log. a gd log with a branch that long.

And with one dubious snap, the Loch's continuing popularity as a lucrative tourist attraction is assured.

a reply to: Krakatoa

Not Loch Ness Monster

If it was any other lake, nobody would look twice. Tree branch for sure.

I think you may be right. There are not many monsters that have leaves.
a reply to: BlueAjah

Ah, "the Loch Ness lobster", as my younger brother used to call it.
Loch Ness has an outlet in the Ness river, which leads to the sea (in a controlled way, because it is all part of the Caledonian Canal system). So geography says there ought to be a slight current, heading north.

originally posted by: Sublimecraft
Well, if it's not a piece of thread disguised as a mermaid, it's a log that's a monster.

Either way - these 2 are LESS fake news than all the TV's put together.

I am inclined to be suspicious that the mermaid and monster are working together to # us all up.

I lost it here.

Its string shaped by mermaids to show us to never stop believing

The origin of the monster (first sighting) is really a good read. WP has a great history of it :

First sighting

Saint Columba (year: 565)
The earliest report of a monster in the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the sixth century AD.[15] According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events described, Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he encountered local residents burying a man by the River Ness. They explained that the man was swimming in the river when he was attacked by a "water beast" which mauled him and dragged him underwater. Although they tried to rescue him in a boat, he was dead. Columba sent a follower, Luigne moccu Min, to swim across the river. The beast approached him, but Columba made the sign of the cross and said: "Go no further. Do not touch the man. Go back at once."[16] The creature stopped as if it had been "pulled back with ropes" and fled, and Columba's men and the Picts gave thanks for what they perceived as a miracle.....MORE at WP[16]

We are talking 1452 years ago, which is quite impressive. The idea that more than one exists, and procreation would be absolutely required to take the sightings up to today.