"Nessie" is called the monster of the freshwater Loch Ness in Scotland lovingly. The "sea snake" should be up to 20 feet long. And an estimated 1447 years old. Nessie feeds on plants, plankton and fish that live in the lake. The locals call them "water spirit", "water horse" or simply "spirit." Experts and scientists strongly doubt the existence of the sea monster.
Loch Ness - the mysterious lake
The Loch Ness is located in the Scottish Highlands. It is the largest freshwater reservoir in Britain. At the lake are the places Dochgarroch, Castle Aldouri Castle, Dores, Inverfarigaig, Foyers, Fort Augustus, the Castle Urquhart Castle, Temple Pier, Abriachan, Lochend and Drummnadrochit. Here are two exhibitions: "The Official Loch Ness Exhibition Centre" and the "Original Loch Ness Monster Centre. Loch Ness is 39 km long, 1.5km wide and unusual with at least 226 meters deep. It is geographically the second largest lake in Scotland. Seven rivers flow into the Loch Ness: Oich, Tarff, Enrich, Coiltie, Moriston, foyers and Farigaig. In the summer the water temperature is never more than six or seven degrees Celsius. And with the mild winters the lake freezes not. Loch Ness is one of the best fishing lakes in the UK. There is salmon, eel, trout, pike, sticklebacks, minnows, and some perch, carp and white fish. Many reptiles live there: lizards, slow worms and snakes. And of course our Nessie.
Nessie - fact or fake?
The sea monster was first seen in 565 of the Irish monk and missionary Colum Cille. Nessie is said to have attacked his companion. And Colum Cille, who was a holy man, lifted his cross into the air and said to God, Nessie was to leave him. What Nessie immediately retreated fearfully into the lake. After that Nessie was sighted until about 1,000 years later. For example, Nessie is in 1650 by the English chronicler Richard Franck have been seen. In 1880, finally saw the Scottish Diver Duncan McDonald the monster, as he was about to recover a sunken boat. But the most famous Nessie on 14 April 1933. The couple Mackay claims he saw from his moving car, the sea serpent. It looked like two dark hump, about six feet long, swam in Loch Ness, suddenly plunges. The amateur journalist Alex Campbell of Fort Augustus reported on 02 May 1933 in the Scottish local newspaper Inverness Courier for the first time on the lake monster Nessie. To which now wanted to see all Nessie. All reporters were sent to Loch Ness, and the curious people wanted to see the sea monster. Even a whole circus offered 20,000 pounds for the catch. In the next five to six months, followed by numerous alleged sightings of the sea serpent. Because it quickly became clear that some had hoped with the sighting of Nessie fame. Spicer, the couple even claimed to have seen Nessie between Dores and Inverfari-
gaig on land. Nessie described as being with a relatively small head, a long, thin neck and a thick body with four flippers or feet. Not much later, exactly on 12 November 1933 was also the first photo of Nessie. This photo by Hugh Gray also appeared on 6 December in the Daily Sketch. He assured that this photo was not faked. In the end, however, turned out he-that it was not Nessie, but a Labrador dog with a stick in its mouth. Only four months later, the next fake a photo followed by the London physician Dr. Wilson.
Marmaduke Wetherell, a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society was asked by the Daily Mail in the same year to research on Nessie. As a result, he pointed to the discovery of mysterious footprints were said to come from Nessie, and published photos again. A short time later it turned out it was all fake. For the photos he was by his stepson rebuild a sea serpent and put it on a toy submarine. The almost perfect forgery.
Apart from numerous other subsequent sightings and photos, there are many films about Nessie. And to this day many people travel to Loch Ness to see the sea monster.
Shannna Schwudke
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