# They still don't know if the Loch Ness Monster is real? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938 "2003-08-18T10:05:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/1 "2003-08-18T10:05:18Z")
With all the technology of today, why are people still unsure of whether or not there is a creature swimming in a lake? How big is this lake anyway? Isn’t there any way of scanning the lake all the way through using sonars or something? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/2 "2003-08-18T10:08:53Z")
" BBC proves that Nessie does not exist " [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096839.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096839.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/3 "2003-08-18T10:09:39Z")
Thank you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/4 "2003-08-18T10:10:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by icephoenix \* > \*\* Isn’t there any way of scanning the lake all the way through using sonars or something? 😕 \*\* They did just that. BUT I STILL BELIEVE!😃 ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/5 "2003-08-18T10:12:24Z")
Great response time, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/6 "2003-08-18T10:23:18Z")
Excellent. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/7 "2003-08-18T12:05:05Z")
Of course, she simply swam out to sea (via the River Ness, which empties into the Moray Firth) during the sonar scan, and swam back once the scan was over. 😃 So you believe in Nessie? Ha, but do you believe in [Morag](http://www.tangledforest.com/europe/moragx.html)? ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/8 "2003-08-18T15:15:58Z")
I just believe. Full stop. Period. ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/9 "2003-08-18T15:21:44Z")
I just believe. Full stop. Period.😛 ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/10 "2003-08-18T15:26:14Z")
ooooopsie. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/11 "2003-08-18T15:39:12Z")
So, we are (in this thread) attempting to prove that something does not exist…correct? This is the same argument that many people claim is not possible when applied to WMD, right? Hmm, maybe they should look for Nessie in Syria or … (nevermind) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/12 "2003-08-18T15:53:13Z")
Or maybe the should look for WMD in Loch Ness. ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/13 "2003-08-18T15:55:56Z")
Lmoa ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/14 "2003-08-18T17:23:51Z")
Don’t you people read the _Weekly World News_? The Loch Ness Monster _is_ Saddam’s WMD! ---
**Author:** ![BlackPheonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BlackPheonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackPheonix)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/15 "2003-08-18T17:28:30Z")
Who’d like to bid on pictures of nessie in my bathtub 😃 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/16 "2003-08-18T18:20:08Z")
Why is there something in your tub that might be considered a monster? Huge and scaly with lots of teeth (potentially dangerous)? or just something that’s hard to find… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/17 "2003-08-18T19:41:54Z")
I suspect that scientists in the field of zoology are too busy with projects that matter to take the time for such a non-problem. Money and time for such nonsense is limited to journalists and documentary producers who are looking for a story to fell an hour of TV programming time. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/18 "2003-08-18T23:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by t-keela \* > \*\*So, we are (in this thread) attempting to prove that something does not exist…correct? > > This is the same argument that many people claim is not possible when applied to WMD, right? > > Hmm, maybe they should look for Nessie in Syria or … (nevermind) > > 😉 \*\* Hush. Nessie will be considered a threat to the US, Bush will say he knows where she is in the next State of the Union, and pretty soon we’ll invade Scotland. Then Hailburton will take over the haggis industry. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/19 "2003-08-19T01:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Voyager \* > \*\* > Then Hailburton will take over the haggis industry. 😃 \*\* And it would serve them right! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/20 "2023-08-05T23:27:11Z")
Still no news 20 years after this thread started, but if anyone is free August 26 and 27: [Dream of being a monster hunter? New search for mythical Loch Ness creature needs volunteers - ABC News (go.com)](https://abcnews.go.com/US/dream-monster-hunter-new-search-mythical-loch-ness/story?id=102045583) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938.md?page=2)