[Merged] No Loch Ness monster sightings in 2013

[DeWitz]

The U.S magazine "This Week" (February 21st 2014 edition) notes that the fabled Loch Ness Monster has not been sighted for over 18 months. This is apparently the longest sighting "dry spell" in 90 years. What could be the cause of such shyness?

-Nessie, the last of her leftover plesiosaur species, has died and the myth is now immortal.

-The Monster has become electronics-shy in this day and age of multiple recording modes.

-The beast has found an egress in the depths of the Loch and has moved into the ocean.

-Nessie has been graced with some form of Trekkie-ite 'cloak of invisibility' by anomaly-loving aliens.

What say you? Any guesses, theories or interpretations?

[MissJatti]

people have come to their senses, that is, that nessie never existed, and no huge sea monster lived in the sea since 65 million years

[+OverSword]

This is the longest dryspell of Nessie sightings in 90 years? I had no idea.

[Mikko-kun]

If there's still unexplored crevices and underwater caves in the lake, then who knows. I'd say it all depends on how divable the waters there are, and if there's anyone dipping in.

[PlanB]

The Loch Ness Monster is what got me interested in cryptids in the first place and the paranormal in general when I was a kid, so I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Nessie. I guess we all kind of outgrown her, kind of like in the song Puff the Magic Dragon. Or maybe that song was about marijuana use. If so, my 2nd grade music teacher has some explaining to do.

[beelzebufo]

are you suggesting that there are more than one monster that really exits

No, I'm wondering why people who do believe in that all seem to think it's just one individual monster in the lake, when there would obviously have to be a breeding population. I don't believe there are any monsters in Loch Ness.

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Edited February 22, 2014 by beelzebufo

[Mikko-kun]

No, I'm wondering why people who do believe in that all seem to think it's just one individual monster in the lake, when there would obviously have to be a breeding population. I don't believe there are any monsters in Lock Ness.

Yup, but the nessie population wouldn't just keep growing, because what happens when there's more eaters than there's food. This is just what I've read and not actually field studied myself, but usually when you introduce a new species to a small ecosystem, like a new fish to a lake, or a new coyote to certain valley or a rat to a certain forest: if the species survives and keeps reproducing, the population may peak in the beginning but eventually the population will stabilize and not grow beyond the certain point unless some change happens, like introducing a new species or an environmental change, whether it's ice age or warm seasons coming or trees being chopped off or grown to alter wind patterns. In any case, population doesn't usually grow after a certain point due to reasons of feeding and natural competition, is why we dont have armies of bears in our forests here.

Also, whenever there's a dominating species anywhere, it usually tends to be taken over or put back in line by having its population culled somehow. Like a disease or some predator which can take advantage of their weakness, or another predator who feels threatened and makes a pre-emptive attack to sustain their hunting grounds. Humans and smaller animals too can kill big dangerous bears by going to the throat, my grandfather knew a guy who went against bears with a knife and lived, I think he did it for a living kind of. Anything short of dinosaur is a fair game, and dinosaur populations would be restricted by the available food.

[Duck33]

Maybe Nessie is off pond hunting in case we vote NO to independence.

[lismore]

if it is a flesh and blood creature, all the noise from boats would drive it away.

Having spent many summers camping by the Loch that it a very noticeable thing, at night you can hear the noise of a boat engine from miles away. A creature in the water, with sensitive hearing couldn't stay there. Interestingly enough some of the eye witness reports seem to suggest it has sensitive hearing, reacting to the sound of a boat before a human heard it. And in the past few years the number of boats on the Loch has increased one hundred fold at least.

There are a dozen lochs nearby that have zero boats and next to no visitors. The creature would move, swim or haul itself over the ground to one of these and live in peace.

Animals in the ocean often shy away from busy shipping lanes, the noise of engines and propellors under the water drives them away. Why not Nessie.

Edited February 25, 2014 by lismore

[+DieChecker]

dinosaurs are officially extinct.

Except for birds....

people have come to their senses, that is, that nessie never existed, and no huge sea monster lived in the sea since 65 million years

Except Megalodon, which was in the oceans as late as 1.5 million years ago.

[+DieChecker]

There are a dozen lochs nearby that have zero boats and next to no visitors. The creature would move, swim or haul itself over the ground to one of these and live in peace.

You know that after a couple hundred years, the sheep eventually learn not to go down to the water's edge. So the critter packs up and moves to another pond. Maybe? (Maybe not....)

[lismore]

You know that after a couple hundred years, the sheep eventually learn not to go down to the water's edge. So the critter packs up and moves to another pond. Maybe? (Maybe not....)

Animals are often distressed by loud noises, it would make sense for a creature to move away from Loch Ness. I would imagine that the number of deer living in the area has declined since it became a tourist hot spot.