Loch Ness Monster

(Epistimology, media literacy, research, debate, Scottish culture)
https://youtu.be/z3G9D9GzFio

Many people believe a monster lives in the Scottish lake of Loch Ness. There have been a few reports since the middle ages when the region was less accessible. In the 7th century a bishop known as Saint Colombo reported a creature in the lake had killed a man and when the man was being buried on the shore the creature came back. Saint Colombo was able to fend it off by calling on God and making the sign of the cross. The creature retreated.

Reports of a loch ness monster became very common starting in 1933.

Loch ness is a large lake 24 miles long, and a mile wide. At it's deepest it's 750 feet deep, which is deeper than 4 football fields and would submerge every building in Tampa. It's deeper than a 50 story building. It was formed 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

The great marine reptiles died out 66 million years ago. They swam in the open ocean. They had flippers and scientists believed they moved like modern day turtles. Some scientists believe they were able to walk on land like a walrus. Plesiosaurs and elasmosaurus were creatures with long necks. They were carnivores that mainly eat fish.

On 5 January 1934 a motorcyclist, Arthur Grant, claimed to have nearly hit the creature at about 1 a.m. on a moonlit night. According to Grant, it had a small head attached to a long neck; the creature saw him, and crossed the road back to the loch. Grant, a veterinary student, described it as a cross between a seal and a plesiosaur. He said he dismounted and followed it to the loch, but saw only ripples.

On 21 May 1977 Anthony "Doc" Shiels, camping next to Urquhart Castle, took "some of the clearest pictures of the monster until this day". Shiels, a magician and psychic, claimed to have summoned the animal out of the water. 

Surgeons photo

According to Wilson, he was looking at the loch when he saw the monster, grabbed his camera and snapped four photos.

Demon-haunted page 69

Research 

There have been 10 studies, two of which were sonar scanning which found nothing and a DNA sampling of the lake that found a lot of eel DNA but no reptile DNA.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/european-sturgeon#:~:text=The%20European%20sturgeon%20is%20a,under%20the%20Endangered%20Species%20Act.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200221183348/https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/report-of-strange-spectacle-on-loch-ness-in-1933-leaves-unanswered-question-what-was-it-139582/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/4/21/8459353/loch-ness-monster

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1933/7/22/loch-ness-monster-witnessed-by-george-spicer-and-his-wife

Questions

What else would have to be true for Nessie to be real? (Mates and parents)

Does the lake hold an adequate food supply?

What problems get in the way of the theory?

Is it possible?

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