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The Origins and Search for the Loch Ness Monster
TLDR The Loch Ness Monster has been a topic of interest for thousands of years, with evidence of its existence dating back to carvings by the PICTS tribe. Numerous expeditions and sightings have added credibility to the search for the Loch Ness Monster, although its true identity remains a mystery.
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The transcript discusses the origins and characteristics of Loch Ness, including its depth and dark appearance.
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The Loch Ness Monster has been a topic of interest for thousands of years, with evidence of the creature being depicted in carvings by the PICTS tribe and stories of encounters with sea monsters in Scotland.
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In 1933, the Loch Ness Monster gained global attention after a couple reported seeing a strange animal in the Loch, and the media frenzy continued throughout the year with more sightings and the release of the movie King Kong.
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In 1933, a man named Duke Wetherill found tracks in the mud around Loch Ness that he believed belonged to a 20-foot long animal, but it was later revealed to be a taxidermied hippopotamus foot, leading to a decline in belief in the Loch Ness Monster until the 1970s when numerous credible eyewitness accounts were reported.
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In the 1970s, expeditions sponsored by the Academy of Applied Science combined sonar and underwater photography to capture pictures of odd objects in Loch Ness, adding credibility to the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
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In the 1970s, respected scientists conducted a sober expedition to Loch Ness, capturing pictures of odd objects that added credibility to the search for the Loch Ness Monster, leading to the publication of an academic paper in the journal Nature giving Nessie its scientific binomial name.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, several scientific expeditions were conducted at Loch Ness using sonar technology, resulting in the discovery of unexplained moving targets that were large in size and could not be identified.
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In 2016, researchers found a large object in Loch Ness using side scan sonar, but it turned out to be a prop from a 1970 movie that was intentionally sunk in the lake.
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In 1994, a Loch Ness monster hunter named Alistair Boyd claimed that the famous "surgeon's photo" of the Loch Ness monster was 100% fake, and provided evidence that it was staged by a man named Duke Wetherill and his son, with the help of Dr. R. Kenneth Wilson, who acted as a front man for the hoax.
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In the 1990s, some people believed that the Loch Ness monster could be a giant catfish, while others suggested that sightings in the 30s were actually elephants swimming in Loch Ness.
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The Loch Ness monster being a surviving sauropod or plesiosaur doesn't make sense because those animals went extinct millions of years ago, and the Loch is too small to sustain a breeding population.
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A protective order has been put in place to protect any new species found in Loch Ness, including the Loch Ness monster, if it is ever found.
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