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	Loch Ness Monster - Crystalinks
		The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a creature or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a deep freshwater loch (lake) near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
		Rumors of a monster, or animal, living in the loch are claimed by believers to have been known for several centuries, though others have questioned the accuracy and reliability of such tales, which were generally unknown before the 1960s.
		Loch Ness is located in the North of Scotland and is one of a series of interlinked lochs which run along the Great Glen.
	www.crystalinks.com /loch_ness.html (1747 words)

	Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called Nessie or Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to inhabit Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
		Rumours of a monster or animal living in the loch are claimed by believers to have been known for several centuries, though others have questioned the accuracy or relevance of such tales, which were generally unheard of before the early 1960s when a strong "wave of interest" in legitimizing Nessie's 1930s-based history began.
		This theory is troubled, however, as the loch traces to the last Ice Age, being about 10,000 years old, while the plesiosaur is thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster (2846 words)

	Loch Ness Monster, Nessie
		The Loch Ness "monster" -- affectionately known as "Nessie" -- is an alleged plesiosaur-like creature living in Loch Ness, a long, deep lake near Inverness, Scotland.
		Since the Loch Ness monster story has been around for more than 1500 years, if there is a monster it is not likely that it is the same monster seen by St. Columba.
		Shine, who has been studying the Loch Ness story for some twenty-five years, now thinks that what people see when they think they see the "monster" is actually an underwater wave.
	www.skepdic.com /nessie.html (2472 words)

	Nessie - Loch Ness & The Monster
		Loch Ness, and it's most famous resident 'Nessie' the Loch Ness Monster, has become one of the most famous lochs (or lakes) in the world.
		Loch Ness lies in a natural geographical fault that stretches across the width of Scotland and is joined at either end by the Caledonian Canal, built by the engineer Thomas Telford in 1822.
		In the 1960s manpower and technology joined forces when the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was formed to intensify the search who, with the aid of still and movie cameras, teams of spotters monitored the surface of the loch every summer for ten years, and recorded an average of 20 sightings each year.
	www.visitlochness.net /nessie.php (627 words)

	Loch Ness Monster - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to inhabit Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
		Rumours of a monster or animal living in the loch are claimed by believers to have been known for several centuries, though others have questioned the accuracy or relevance of such tales, which were generally unheard of before the 1960s when a strong wave of interest in legitimizing Nessie's 1930s-based history began.
		Theories as to the exact nature of the Loch Ness Monster sightings are varied: pareidolia or misidentification of seals, fish, circus elephants http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4779248.stm, logs, mirages, seiches, and light distortion, crossing of boat wakes, or unusual wave patterns.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Loch_Ness_monster (1946 words)

	Loch Ness Monster
		Loch Ness is the largest of three lochs located in the Great Glen which divides the North of Scotland along a line from Fort William to Inverness.
		The loch is large by British standards, being 23 miles long and a mile in width, and averaging 600ft in depth.
		The Loch Ness monster has been described as a long necked sea serpent, or could possibly be a prehostoric "plesiosaurs", a aquatic dinosaur believed to have become extinct at the very end of the cretaceous period.
	www.tamesideparanormal.co.uk /lochnessmonster/4515313590 (307 words)

	Loch Ness Monster - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Loch Ness monster, more commonly known as Nessie, is supposedly a large unidentified aquatic animal inhabiting Loch Ness.
		So the earliest identifiable claim of a monster in the loch is probably that of Mr and Mrs Mckay, in 1933, who reported seeing “an enormous animal rolling and plunging", as was reported by the ‘’Inverness Courier’’.
		Loch Ness seems a strangely dismal habitat to be the last refuge of a species facing extinction: Britain has other lakes with more temperate climates and richer in life; and it has even been questioned whether any creature the size of Nessie could manage to fulfill its energy requirements in such an impoverished environment.
	www.skepticwiki.org /wiki/index.php/Loch_Ness_Monster (973 words)

	Loch Ness Guide to Nessie the Loch Ness Monster
		The world famous Loch Ness monster, known affectionately as 'Nessie' by most people and by the scientific believers as Nessiteras rhombopteryx goes back a long, long way, the first recorded sighting being by no less a person than a holy saint.
		When Columba was travelling in the Loch Ness area converting the heathen Picts (who had probably lapsed somewhat since Ninian), his biographer, St. Adamnan, tells the story of the driving away of the monster by the power of prayer.
		On the 21st December 1933, the Daily Mail carried the headline: "Monster of Loch Ness is not a Legend but a Fact." The hunter, M A Wetherall, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the London Zoological Society said: "It is a four fingered beast and it has feet or pads of eight inches across.
	www.lochnessguide.com /html/nessie.html (995 words)

	The Loch Ness Monster
		Physically the loch is well suited to hiding a large creature, it is the largest fresh water loch in Britain at 22 1/2 miles long and 1/2 a mile broad at its widest.
		Loch Ness is the largest in a string of lochs along the Great Glen Fault.
		One of the first recorded references to the monster harks back to 565 AD, when St Columba is said to have summoned a water monster in the River Ness, and banished it with the word of God.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /fortean/nessie.html (831 words)

	Loch Ness monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He described how St. Columba heard about the monster killing a man, and then rowed to the centre of the loch to order the beast to stop such attacks in the future.
		Loch Ness is the largest of three lochs located in the Great Glen of North Scotland.
		The loch is 37 km (23 miles) long and 1,6 km (1 mile) in width, and averaging 182 m (600 ft) in depth.
	www.didyouknow.cd /nessie.htm (299 words)

	Loch Ness Monster Key to Sightings
		It is fair to say that no visitor to Loch Ness passes by without some sense of expectation and many would hold that a predisposition to see monsters is, in itself, a sufficient explanation for the controversy surrounding this enigmatic expanse of water.
		In a facing cross loch wind, which does not often create large waves, even if quite strong; one or more solid humps break surface, and head towards the observer leaving a broad wash. The hump then submerges and the wash subsides.
		In a strong and usually cross loch wind, where waves are only evident towards the shore opposite to the one from which the wind is blowing, a violent water disturbance is seen.
	www.lochnessproject.org /loch_ness_reflections_news_links/adrian_shine_sighting_1.htm (1088 words)

	The Loch Ness Monster Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The first "modern recording" of the Loch Ness Monster was made by a Saint Columbia, who wrote about saving a swimming man from a large creature by invoking the name of God, an incident occurring in the 500's.
		The photographer said it was a photo of Scotland's famous Loch Ness monster, taken in 1933 near Invermoriston by a surgeon at 200 to 300 meters (half a mile).
		Loch Ness Project, once said the monster could be a Baltic sturgeon, a primitive fish with a snout and spines which can grow up to nine feet long and weigh in at around 450 pounds.
	www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com /lochnessmonster.htm (2463 words)

	The Loch Ness Monster (ART Blurbs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Loch Ness monster is said to be a huge, long, plesiosaur or eel-like creature that inhabits the depths of Loch Ness, a lake in the Scottish Highlands.
		A creature of the size the monster is supposed to be would not be able to feed and reproduce in an area as small as the loch.
		Loch Ness was visited and surveyed in the 1800's and no sightings were reported then.
	www.cincinnatiskeptics.org /blurbs/loch-ness-monster.html (249 words)

	Loch Ness Information Site - Loch Ness Monster Candidates
		Around 12,000 years ago Loch Ness was still within the grips of the Lomond advance of ice and the loch would have been a solid block of ice.
		Owing to Loch Ness being fresh water and the North Sea being salt water, plus the fact that the only way into the loch was from the sea after the last ice age, we can conclude that no large invertebrate could have made that transition.
		Small fresh water invertebrates entered the loch on the feet of water birds over a period of time, but this could not have assisted their salt water cousins who would have needed a gradual change in salinity, which certainly did not occur in the case of Loch Ness, to adapt.
	www.loch-ness.org /sections/themystery/evidencepages/candidates.html (1479 words)

	Loch Ness monster
		The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
		In the 1975 Doctor Who serial Terror of the Zygons, the Loch Ness Monster is revealed to be an alien cyborg controlled by the extraterrestrial race known as the Zygons and is used in a bid for world conquest.
		In the 1985 story Timelash (and somewhat contradictory to the previous adventure), the Loch Ness monster was revealed to be the Borad, a tyrant whose DNA got mixed with a dinosaur type monster.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Loch_Ness_monster.php (3222 words)

	Loch Ness Monster
		Yet the existence of some kind of phenomenon is beyond question - and investigation is continuing in the peaty waters of the Loch.
		Loch Ness is the largest body of freshwater (by volume Loch Ness holds more freshwater than all the lakes and reservoirs in England and Wales put together) in the British Isles and is surrounded by some of the most spectacular scenery in the Highlands.
		The loch is circled by castles, forts, waterfalls and valleys, yet despite these many natural attractions it has been famous for over 1400 years for one simple reason: the Loch Ness Monster.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/lochnessmonster?version=1 (125 words)

	The Loch Ness Mystery
		Loch Ness is 23 Miles long, 1 Mile wide and averages 700 feet deep, with some parts going down to 754 feet.
		In the Sixties when the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau maintained a constant look out over the summer months, the number of sightings and photographs were less than for any 10 year period before this.
		In his 1976 book "The Monsters of Loch Ness" Roy Mackal claimed there were 10,000 reported sightings, of which 3000 had been recorded.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/lesj/ness.htm (773 words)

	Loch Ness Monster DVD
		The film investigation assesses the classic Monster photographs and follows the fortunes of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau of the 1960's as they set up their camera stations around the shore.
		The Loch Ness Monster or 'Nessie' as it has become fondly known is still one of the strangest inexplicable phenomena in the world today.
		The most common area for sightings of the monster is close to the ruins of Urquhart Castle at Drumnadrochit, which now attracts over 200,000 visitors a year.
	www.angelfire.com /scary/loch-ness-monster (1944 words)

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		Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, is twenty four miles long and, at one point, one and a half miles wide.
		Probably the most famous picture of the Loch Ness monster was the "surgeon's photo" supposedly taken by Colonel Robert Wilson.
		Roy Mackal, a Loch Ness researcher, has suggested a large mammal like a manatee or a zeuglodon (primitive whale).
	www.unmuseum.org /lochness.htm (1119 words)

	Loch Ness Monster
		The Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) is probably the most well known cryptid in the world.
		The first known mention of a monster in Loch Ness is in A.D. 565, when St. Columba supposedly confronted some sort of beast which had been killing people, and caused it to flee backwards.
		Anyways, that is probably why I still believe that there is a group of "monsters" in Loch Ness, and that they are a group of plesiosaurs that have somehow lived past their day.
	jasonfinch.tripod.com /cryptozoology/crypnessie.html (424 words)

	The Cryptid Zoo: Nessie (or Loch Ness Monster)
		The Cryptid Zoo: Nessie (or Loch Ness Monster)
		The Loch Ness monster, also known by the nickname Nessie, is probably the creature that most often leaps to mind when ordinary people think about cryptozoology: the study of animals that may or may not exist.
		The Beast of Loch Ness: Birth of a Legend
	www.newanimal.org /nessie.htm (672 words)

	Loch Ness Monster: Nessie Hoax Redux; Investigative Files (Skeptical Briefs March 1996)
		Then, in 1994 two Loch Ness researchers made news when they provided information that the photos were indeed a hoax, that they depicted a model made from a toy submarine to which had been affixed a neck and head fashioned of plastic wood (Nickell 1995).
		The part of the loch where Wilson said he took his photo consists of a series of inlets and there is no reason to suppose it wasn't photographed in one of these inlets (the promontories of which would not have shown in the Wilson photo).
		To be fair, very few people who have examined the Loch Ness legend, with the exception of the most dedicated believers, ever doubted that this picture was a hoax -- or at least that it showed something other than a monster.
	www.csicop.org /sb/9603/nessie.html (1659 words)

	Loch Ness monster (Nessie) photo is a fake
		The photographer said it was a photo of Scotland's famous Loch Ness monster, taken in 1933 near Invermoriston by a surgeon at 200 to 300 meters (half a mile).
		There is rippled wash around the monster, genuine reflection in the water, and an extended neck reminiscent of a plesiosaur.
		Half a million tourists flock to the loch each year hoping to catch a glimpse of the monster — even though scientific evidence for it is negligible.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rdoolan/nessie1.html (336 words)

	Loch Ness Monster Hoaxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Frank Searle, a former army captain, arrived in Loch Ness to search for the monster during the early 1970s and soon established a reputation as a definite character.
		He was like a colonial-style adventurer, assisted by a succession of attractive young "monster huntresses." He took an enormous number of photos of Nessie, many of which were published by the media, but all of which have been dismissed by experts as fakes.
		But subsequent examination revealed the vertebrae were embedded in limestone not found near Loch Ness, and the fossil showed signs of having recently been in a marine environment.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /nessiehoaxes.html (1562 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Beast of Loch Ness \| Birth of a Legend
		From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around Loch Ness, it is clear the Picts were fascinated by animals, and careful to render them with great fidelity.
		The earliest written reference linking such creatures to Loch Ness is in the biography of Saint Columba, the man credited with introducing Christianity to Scotland.
		But the modern legend of Loch Ness dates from 1933, when a new road was completed along the shore, offering the first clear views of the loch from the northern side.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lochness/legend.html (928 words)

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		Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, is twenty four miles long and, at one point, one and a half miles wide.
		Probably the most famous picture of the Loch Ness monster was the "surgeon's photo" supposedly taken by Colonel Robert Wilson.
		Roy Mackal, a Loch Ness researcher, has suggested a large mammal like a manatee or a zeuglodon (primitive whale).
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /lochness.htm (1119 words)

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