Scientists Hunt for Nessie DNA in Loch Ness

Scientists are hunting for Nessie’s DNA in Loch Ness.

THE Loch Ness Monster mystery could be finally solved once and for all thanks to a team of international scientists combing the world-famous Scottish loch for signs of Nessie’s DNA.

Myths and legends of giant monsters lurking in the murky water of Loch Ness date back more than 15 centuries.

But an academic from the University of Otago in New Zealand is ready to figure our whether there is any grain of truth to the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Read more

Has the Loch Ness Monster's Home Been Discovered?

A newly discovered trench in Loch Ness is just the right size for a monster.

Is this the home of the legendary Loch Ness Monster?

A boat captain in Scotland claims to have discovered a previously unknown trench at the bottom of Loch Ness that's more than 100 feet deeper than the loch's official depth. Read more

An Ancient Nessie? Long-Neck Dinos Once Prowled Scottish Lagoon

Researchers have discovered that a long-necked dinosaur prowled the Isle of Skye's rocky coast - an area that was a lagoon during the Jurassic/

Hundreds of dinosaur footprints and handprints dating to 170 million years ago adorn the shore on the Isle of Skye, making it the largest dinosaur site ever discovered in Scotland, a new study finds. Read more

Is the Loch Ness Monster a Giant Catfish?

A top expert has changed his mind about the Loch Ness Monster.

FOR 24 years he has assiduously watched the waters of Loch Ness convinced that it holds a family of prehistoric monsters.

But now Steve Feltham, who is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil of the loch, believes Nessie is no plesiosaur but a giant catfish first introduced by Victorians. Read more

How to Search for the Loch Ness Monster from Your Computer

You don't have to go to Scotland to search for the Loch Ness Monster. With Google Street View, you can search for Nessie from your computer.

You don't have to rent a boat to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster any more. You don't even have to travel to Scotland.

Google mounted a Street View camera on a boat to give people a 360-degree view of the 23-mile-long loch in all its murky glory, and to allow armchair monster hunters around the world to join the search for Nessie.

You can start your search -- or just check out Loch Ness and get a monsters-eye view of the famous ruins of Urquhart Castle -- right here. Read more

Is Nessie DEAD?

For the first time in ninety years, no confirmed sightings of the legendary Loch Ness Monster have been reported.

Reports are coming in that Scotland’s beloved Loch Ness monster may be dead.

For the first time in almost 90 years no ‘confirmed sightings’ have been made of the Serpentine Scottish beast.

Veteran Nessie spotter Gary Campbell, who keeps a register of sightings, said no one had come forward in 18 months to say they had seen the monster. Read more

Loch Ness Monster Mystery Solved?

Ever so often a scientist pops up to offer a "scientific" explanation for a paranormal phenomenon - that doesn't actually address the phenomenon. This seems to be one of those since Loch Ness Monster sightings are not just of "bubbles" but of a large creature. 

Legendary beast, or harmless geological activity? That is the question raised after a scientist's surprising theory about the Loch Ness Monster resurfaced recently.

Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi first floated his theory in 2001, telling a meeting of colleagues organized by the Geological Society of London and the Geological Society of America that seismic activity may underlie the majority of supposed monster sightings around the Scottish lake from which the fabled creature takes its name. Read more

The Top 10 Mysterious Monsters of Today

What are the top ten mysterious monsters of today? Here's the list:

Given the rich folklore and ancient mythology, I believe it is safe to assume that mankind has always been fascinated with monsters. Interestingly enough, even though most people nowadays perceive those creatures as pure fiction, it is necessary to mention that their existence was undisputed until two centuries ago.

However, not everyone accepts the unrealism of frightful and mysterious creatures. While the modern creatures are not as fascinating as those of the past, some people strongly believe in their existence, particularly after being witnesses to various inexplicable circumstances. Whether they are real or not one thing is for sure: their anonymity will always hunt us. Let’s meet nowadays’ puzzling creatures in our top 10 list. Read more

Nessie Sighting on Land: The Harvey-MacDonald Case

Not all sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have been in Loch Ness. Some, such as the Harvey-McDonald case, have been on land.

In the course of emails between like minded Nessie people, I was reminded of this land sighting from 1934 which, like most such cases today, tends to move beneath the radar of modern Internet surfers. My fellow Nessie enthusiast pointed out that the provenance of the original story was the March 3rd 1934 edition of the Glasgow Herald which by a stroke of luck I was able to access and reproduce for your interest below. It is a fascinating story and all the more since the beast was so near to the witnesses. I am trying to think of a sighting that was so close in proximity to the observers but for now such an answer eludes me. Read more

Is Nessie a Monster or a Ghost?

Is the Loch Ness Monster really a monster, or is it a ghost? Maybe a joint investigation by Destination Truth and Ghost Hunters International is needed.

No less than 250 million years ago, massive and violent changes in the Earth’s crust carved a gigantic rift across a specific area of the landscape of Scotland, which has since become known as the Great Glen. Over countless millennia, the huge, basin-like Glen began to fill with water, and eventually transformed much of the country into an area populated by countless lakes – or lochs, as they are known to the Scots.

And, without doubt, the most famous and mysterious of all those many and varied bodies of water is Loch Ness, the dark and mysterious abode of the legendary long-necked monster dubbed Nessie. In excess of twenty miles long, nearly a mile wide, more than seven hundred feet deep and home to the famous Urquhart Castle – the origins of which date back to the 6th Century - Loch Ness is a distinctly eerie and magical place. Read more

Nessie Sonar Sighting Wins £1000 Prize

A sonar sighting of a large mystery object wins the £1000 prize for the Best Nessie Sighting of the Year.

A sonar image of a large mystery object deep below the surface of Loch Ness has netted boat skipper Marcus Atkinson the Best Nessie Sighting of The Year Award — the first time in several years it has been presented by bookmaker William Hill.

The photograph, claimed by at least one seasoned Nessie spotter to the conclusive evidence of a creature, was a late contender in the contest which has been dormant following several lean years of close encounters with the loch’s most famous resident.

However, 2011 proved to be a bumper year with three “good” sightings reported to the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club which first launched the competition in conjunction with the bookmaker in the 1990s. Read more

Loch Ness-Like Monster Filmed in Alaska?

The alleged sea serpent has a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes and back bumps that stick out of the water.

A video from 2009 shows something mysterious moving across the surface of the sea that resembles an Alaskan version of the Loch Ness monster.

Some are claiming that the animal is a "Cadborosaurus," a type of reptile or lizard that got its name from Cadboro Bay, in British Columbia. They say that what's in the video is a sea serpent that dwells in the North Pacific and possibly other regions.

Accounts generally describe it as having a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water. Read more

New Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

A new photo of the Loch Ness Monster is being published all over the world. Is it the real thing this time?

Is this the Loch Ness Monster, a new rare photo of a Nessie? It was taken from the banks of Loch Ness, in Scotland; this copyrighted [© Richard Preston] image is being published all over the UK. And now the world.

Richard Preston, a landscape designer, was working on Aldourie Castle gardens on the southern shores of Loch Ness, when the 27-year-old Yorkshireman spotted a shape on the loch’s surface out of the corner of his eye. The object caught his attention at about 3 pm. The images were taken from the grounds of the castle looking towards Lochend. Read more

Nessie Spotted on Google Earth

Jason Cooke was surfing through Google Earth when he decided to look at a satellite photo of Loch Ness in Scotland and spotted an image which may be the Loch Ness monster.

An extraordinary new image on Google Earth has given fresh life to the age-old conundrum of whether Loch News really is inhabited by a monster. The image was unearthed by security guard Jason Cooke who was browsing through satellite pictures on the website, presumably on a quiet night, and has reignited the previously slumbering world of Nessieology – there have been no wavelets since a spate of sightings in 2005. Indeed, so worried had Nessieologists become that some were speculating that he/she/it might have fallen victim to climate change in the Highlands.

The object spotted by Cooke looks like a giant tadpole, with an oval body, tail and flippers. Read more