# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/81 "2025-03-31T23:45:28Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > [Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20g82y1k8o) “No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.” To be fair, I hear Nessie is a real slow swimmer. [Seriously, this is the camera they were using!?](https://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/large/919e54e5-1dce-40d4-93cb-0dc565b9a711.png) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/82 "2025-04-01T10:42:18Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Good news !!! > An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found ! Well that should put to rest any rumors about the non-existence of the Loch Ness Camera, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/83 "2025-04-01T11:36:38Z")
Imagine being the guy who had to go down and rotate the flash cube after every photo. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/84 "2025-04-01T11:42:33Z")
But Loch Ness is indirectly connected to the sea through the River Ness, which flows into the Moray Firth and ultimately leads to the North Sea, so she was probably on vacation and traveling at the time. LOL ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/85 "2025-04-01T13:26:08Z")
That’s just what Big Camera wants you to think. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/86 "2025-04-01T15:50:07Z")
That has been discredited in several posts already: Just for giggles, I Google Mapped the area. While technically true, there’s no way a monster could make it. Heading for Morey Firth, there’s quite a bottleneck at 57.432299, -4.301450 (google maps). [Here’s a drones view of that section.](https://www.google.com/maps/@57.4330076,-4.3021141,3a,75y,162.45h,34.84t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNqJVkQCn7EWUfEQy-uTaSBcpV1bTmO8oZYTZ7E!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNqJVkQCn7EWUfEQy-uTaSBcpV1bTmO8oZYTZ7E%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya145.54507-ro-0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048?entry=ttu) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/87 "2025-04-01T15:57:29Z")
Nevermind, [I see you were quoting from here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/59). I thought that sounded familiar, ha ha 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938/88 "2025-04-02T02:52:00Z")
Clearly, Nessie swims upstream like salmon do. At night. When nobody is looking. No? You say an inch or so of water is too shallow? _Not during the tadpole stage_. Surely a 3 inch monster could manage that. Pic enclosed. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:kem5cevl5sjpizk4s27cbyig/bafkreievgewex3uetj7fewaeyiqa4uzu3ddtmoyszw5torjqnlnaj5afn4@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:kem5cevl5sjpizk4s27cbyig/bafkreievgewex3uetj7fewaeyiqa4uzu3ddtmoyszw5torjqnlnaj5afn4@jpeg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-still-dont-know-if-the-loch-ness-monster-is-real/195938.md?page=4)