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The Loch Ness Monster. Loch Ness is an immensely deep lake in the Northeast in Highlands of Scotland. It is overlooked by brooding hills and wild moorland. A perfect setting for strange and unexplained events. In 1933 a motorist on the New Lake Side Road saw a tremendous upheaval in the loch. The water's churned and boiled as a huge monster of about the size of a whale broke the surface. The incident was reported in the local paper, and soon the national press was buzzing with news of what came to be called "the Loch Ness Monster". But the legends of large water creatures in Loch Ness go back much further than 1933. In the 6th century A.D. the Irish missionary sent Columba who was set to banish the monster, which had attacked a swimmer. And local folk tales, going back centuries, speak of water horses and water bulls inhabiting Loch Ness. Scientists have seriously suggested that large creatures may have been stranded in the loch, when 60,000,000 years ago it was cut off from the sea. Perhaps, their descendants live there still. But despite hazy photographs, mostly highly magnified, of strange humps in the water, it is very little evidence as yet to go on. |
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