A monster that lives in a highland Scottish lake is officially lost
Gary Campbell, custodian of the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, declared it - the monster - lost. The reason is the eight-month absence of any reports from eyewitnesses.
The monster was last seen on August 21 last year. Since then there has been silence, despite the abundance of observers. Harry Campbell fears the monster is not showing up because it no longer exists. In his opinion, it passed into another world quite recently - after all, last year was a record one in terms of the number of recorded observations.
Gary Campbell - he announced that Nessie was gone
There remains a small hope that the monster is sitting out somewhere, as it sometimes prefers to do in winters. And maybe it will seem in the summer.
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The Loch Ness monster was seen in the picture from space
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Photo of the Loch Ness monster, submitted by Bjarne Sjostrand, a Swedish enthusiast for finding this very monster, was recognized as the best in 2014. As a result, he won a competition organized by Scottish bookmaker William Hill. He bypassed four applicants, who also sent pictures, and received a prize of 2 thousand British pounds.
A space photo that supposedly shows the Loh Ness monster. He was awarded the prize
Bjarn has never been to the Scottish Loch Ness, where the legendary monster is supposedly found. And he was not fond of photography. But the monster spotted. Zasek, examining space images of the Google Earth service. Discovered an elongated object floating on the southern shore of the lake. The authoritative commission decided that it was undoubtedly a monster - it stretched out its long neck. Indeed, according to the most common hypothesis, the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur that miraculously survived to this day - a prehistoric lizard that looks like such a huge bag with either flippers, or with paws and a long neck.
This is what Nessie's skeleton might look like. It is possible that he will still be found
HISTORICAL REFERENCE
1000 and one meeting
According to ecologist Dr. Charles Paxton of St Andrews University, there are over a thousand documented sightings of the Loch Ness monster. It appeared to modern eyewitnesses on April 7, 1933. Next year it will be possible to celebrate a kind of anniversary - 85 years since the beginning of widespread popularity.
Two claim the right to be the first to notice the monster. This is Aldie Mackay, the wife of the manager of a hotel called Drumnadrochit, who reported seeing a whale-like creature in the lake from the shore.
Another applicant is also a woman, the wife of a certain George Spicer, who made her testimony public. Mrs. Spicer allegedly saw "a supernatural animal a meter high and about 8 meters long, which crossed the road." In that year, construction began on the northern shore of the lake.
After these testimonies, the boom began, and the Loch Ness monster gradually gained worldwide fame and received the name Nessie.
In 1934, physician, surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson (Dr Kenneth Wilson) took the most famous picture of Nessie, where she appeared in the form of a neck towering above the water with a small head.
At one time, numerous enthusiasts, relying on the so-called Freedom of Information Act, demanded from the government official documents related to the monster. And it turned out that there are such. At least under the late Margaret Thatcher, the government was keenly interested in the monster.
Believe it or not, the officials of the Iron Lady were seriously concerned about the fate of Nessie. Just then - in the 80s - several groups of well-armed "monster hunters" intended to get it. And the government was trying to find out if this could be prevented.
Among the declassified documents, there was correspondence between high-ranking officials. One of them appeals to the Ministry of Agriculture, apparently in response to a request: “Unfortunately, Nessie is not a salmon and cannot be considered a freshwater fish. Therefore, it is not protected by the Salmon and Fish Farming Act of 1951”. They agree with the author of the message: "We must develop some measures to protect this representative of the rarest species of animals."
As a result, the government came to the conclusion that with a special "monstrous" law it is possible not to "shine". The experts found that there is a Wildlife Conservation Act of 1981 that protects all wildlife, even those not yet known to science. And the monster falls under him completely.
Anyway, nobody is allowed to catch the monster.
Vladimir LAGOVSKY