OXFORD LOG NESS MONSTER
The Great Glen in the Scottish highlands is a rift valley 60 miles long and contains three famous lochs; Lochy, Oich and Ness. The most famous in these fairytales of the Great Glen is the story of Loch Ness.
Because it was said that in the bloody waters inside the Oxford diaries lives Loch Ness, and that the monster should have said; 'lurk’ in its deep waters'. The Great Glen in the Scottish highlands is deeper than the 'Red Sea', and is very long and very, very narrow and has never been known to freeze.
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.
Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with a number of disputed photographs and sonar readings. There have been numerous sightings of the monster, affectionately known as ‘Nessie’.
The hills slope down over 1000 feet (305 metres) on either side of Loch Ness, the world's most famous freshwater lake. It is one of three lochs which nestle in the Great Glen; a geological rift stretching right across the northern extremity of Britain and formed by a shift in the Earth's crust over 250 million years ago.
The first recorded account is of an eyeball to eyeball confrontation with the Irish saint, St. Columba in the 6th century. St. Columba, so the story goes, ordered one of his monks to swim across the loch and fetch a boat. Halfway across the monster appeared and rushed at the swimmer, roaring in a most frightening way! Columba cried out to the monster,” Go no further, nor touch the man! Go back!”. The monster is said to have fled!
Since then, Nessie has been seen many times but has never harmed anyone. Sightings have been sporadic over the centuries, but in the 20th century Nessie has been more active, which has had a profound affect on local business.
The circus owner Bertram Mills, who was travelling via the Loch on his way to Inverness, offered a £20,000 reward (the equivalent of £2 million today) to anyone who could capture the monster for his circus, but so far no one has claimed the reward.
Loch Ness, the largest and deepest of these lakes, containing 265,000 million cubic feet (7500 million cubic metres) of inky water, is said to be the lair of the infamous 'monster'. The friendly term 'Nessie' was largely invented by the tourist industry to ensure that the creature attracted visitors.
As a result, every year thousands of people from around the world come to Scotland hoping for a glimpse of the elusive and mysterious beast said to lurk beneath the peat-dyed waters.
Sightings of a 'monster' date back centuries. In more recent times folklore references to 'water horses' made by fishermen must be relevant. Soon after a new road was opened on the northern shore bringing more travellers to the loch side, sightings began in earnest.
It was in April 1934 when gynaecologist, Robert Wilson, took two photographs from near Inver Moriston. These sightings pose one of the greatest riddles faced by explorers of the Unknown. Researchers have long believed that these show the neck and head of one of the beasts. The pictures achieved global fame after being carried by the Daily Mail newspaper and the modern legend was born.
Over the years, a catalogue of eyewitness accounts, photographs and underwater explorations have added fuel to the controversy. Barely a summer passes without some scientific, or pseudo-scientific, expedition being mounted determined to solve the mystery.
Betty Gallagher former curator of the Loch Ness Monster Exhibition, a permanent attraction based on the shore at Drumnadrochit. This serves as a national archives for material relating to the phenomenon.
Peter Hough has made many research trips to Loch Ness and interviewed her. Betty told him, 'It is very easy to see things out there. Visitors see monsters left, right and centre. But they're not used to the tricks of the environment.
The eye is easily deceived. Normally we receive between three and five sightings a year of what we consider are probably genuine. When a report is made by one of the locals, used to the environment, we think this is it!
They know what floating logs and freak waves can do to the eye.' It is misleading to think of Loch Ness as a 'lake'. A mile (1.6 km) wide, over 23 miles (37 km) long, and with a mean depth twice that of the North Sea, it is more like an inland ocean. To the pseudo-scientific, expedition and mounted determined to solve the mystery.
Romantic it certainly is. Standing on the shore at Lower Foyers under a full moon, looking out over mill-pond conditions can be a wondrous sight. But the loch can be a 'short-tempered mistress' too.
The Great Glen acts as a natural wind tunnel. Peter Hough has been out on the loch in a small boat and has suddenly found himself riding 9 foot (2.7 metres) high waves. Freak waves can be very mysterious to the uninitiated.
One can watch boats pass along the waterway, and ten minutes later see a wave forming out of nothing some distance from the shore. To the casual tourist, already half expecting to see the monster, this could appear to be a series of humps briefly breaking the surface.
In 1972 Dr Roberta de Costa representing an organization called the Boston Academy of Applied Science produced two underwater photographs taken in Urquhart Bay which appeared to show the diamond shaped flipper of an unknown underwater creature. At the same time, according to Rines and his associates, a large object was tracked on sonar.
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The story of the Great Glen is on the most famous fairytales, inside the Oxford diaries ever recorded, has some remarkable prehistoric humoristic animal dramatic mixture of imagination, misidentification and is a blatant fraud to their own students.
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These pictures were indeed impressive. But what was not generally understood was that the originals showed nothing more than fuzzy blobs. The images released to the public were computer enhanced versions 'cleaned up' to take account of the impenetrable murk of the Loch Ness waters.
Check a visit to the Oxford Log Ness Monster, on bloody waters of Scotland's most fames places, off your bucket list on a full-day tour through the Northern Highlands, with convenient round-trip transport from Inverness.
In addition to navigating, your guide provides live commentary and anecdotes about each stop on the itinerary, from Dunrobin Castle to lunch in the Great Glen town of Wick (own expense).
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