# New sighting of Loch Ness Monster **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224 "2007-05-31T19:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/1 "2007-05-31T19:04:11Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/britain.lochness.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/britain.lochness.ap/index.html) The video hasn’t made its way onto YouTube yet, that I could find. I’d be interested to see it, even though I highly doubt it’s a long-lost dinosaur descendant. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/2 "2007-05-31T19:16:27Z")
The video is online, but it’s [nothing very convincing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_c2RwpbXU). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/3 "2007-05-31T19:26:00Z")
You’re right. I searched using the phrase “Loch Ness” and not “Nessie,” which is why I didn’t find it earlier on YouTube. The Scottish TV report was frustrating, though - didn’t show the banks of the loch or any nearby landmarks in the video excerpts, as the [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) story says the guy shot. Hard to see much other than a dark shape apparently moving through the water. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/4 "2007-05-31T20:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I searched using the phrase “Loch Ness” and not “Nessie,” which is why I didn’t find it earlier on YouTube. [/QUOTE] I used “Loch Ness” as well. The trick is in the sorting – I set it to “most recently uploaded”. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/5 "2007-05-31T21:04:53Z")
For those who haven’t watched that news report, we’re obviously not seeing the guys entire clip. What we do get to see is about 5 seconds of grainy footage of what looks like a dark blob in the water, shot from a distance. Nothing to show scale or speed (although the CNN story says the rest of the video provides visual cues to allow for figuring that out) or really any detail at all. What I saw could have been a duck swimming along, a log, a fish, somebody’s dog, a closeup of an ant leaving a trail in a rivulet, etc. I’ll wait until I can see the whole thing before passing judgement but there’s nothing amazing (or even interesting) going on there. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/6 "2007-05-31T21:56:01Z")
Rockin’ accent on the newscaster, though. I’m a sucker for Scots. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/7 "2007-05-31T22:02:08Z")
They’re trying to get Loch Ness declared a World Heritage Site these days. Coincidence? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/8 "2007-05-31T22:40:41Z")
Does anyone else find the idea of little towns and their lake monsters adorable? Sure it’s all BS, but it’s just so cute. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/9 "2007-06-01T04:38:24Z")
As usual, grainy footage of nothing much is claimed to be something spectacular and important. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/10 "2007-06-01T18:48:06Z")
I kept waiting for the youtube clip to turn into a Monty Python sketch - interviewing Angus Podgorny or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/11 "2007-06-01T20:05:34Z")
[QUOTE=Little Bird] Does anyone else find the idea of little towns and their lake monsters adorable? Sure it’s all BS, but it’s just so cute. 😃 [/QUOTE] I’m with you there. It’s nice to have these mad things that seem to have come straight out of a children’s story book. 🙂 Anyway, why wouldn’t Nessie prefer to hide? I mean, if everybody called you a “monster” behind your back, I bet you wouldn’t want to come and meet them all that often. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/12 "2007-06-01T22:33:50Z")
I think “monster” has become politically incorrect. How about “differently-structured large lifeform”? ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/13 "2007-06-01T22:44:37Z")
The only way to falsify the claim of the superstitious people who believe in this monster without any serious evidence would be to drain the lake. I throw the pseudoscience flag on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/14 "2007-06-02T01:25:08Z")
> [@](#): > > They’re trying to get Loch Ness declared a World Heritage Site these days. > Coincidence? An’ den I got to dis heah Heritage park, see? An’ I asked da kid at da boof, How much is it to get in? An’ da kid said, “tree-fitty.” An’ den I noticed dat da kid was five hunnert feet tall. An’ da kid had flippers comin’ outta his uniform. An’ I said DAMMIT MONSTAH! I AIN’T givin’ you no tree-fitty! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/15 "2007-06-02T02:20:21Z")
Real or not, I wouldn’t want to live in a world where creatures like Nessie didn’t exist in the popular imagination. I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention Herzog’s amusing [_“Incident at Loch Ness”_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374639/) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/16 "2007-06-02T03:11:54Z")
Pfft. Everybody knows the Loch Ness monsters became extinct in the early 1900s due to pollution. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/17 "2007-06-02T03:21:34Z")
Are you sure [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxN-D0MzTM) isn’t the new sighting? Muahaha! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/18 "2007-06-02T05:06:05Z")
The thing is, if something that looked exactly the same as those images were photographed in a different lake, nobody would bat an eye, because it would just look like a regular animal or natural phenomenon. But because it’s (apparently) in this particular lake, suddenly it has to be considered something exotic. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/19 "2007-06-02T10:55:32Z")
[LOOK! IT’S NESSIE!](http://www.getodd.com/duck/largeimg/db1-1152x864.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sighting-of-loch-ness-monster/406224/20 "2007-06-02T11:11:02Z")
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