Charity swimmer brushes up against mystery creature in Loch Ness

[UM-Bot]

Duncan Roberts had been swimming across the iconic Scottish loch when he encountered something in the water.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/380965/charity-swimmer-brushes-up-against-mystery-creature-in-loch-ness

[Still Waters]

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 I had my eyes closed a lot of the time as the depth and darkness terrified me so I didn't see anything. I just felt it, a big thud in the chest."

A piece of wood perhaps or some other debris floating around, with his eyes closed he wouldn't have seen anything coming up ahead of him. Or it could have simply been any creature that swims in the loch, even an otter. 

[Abramelin]

4 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

A piece of wood perhaps or some other debris floating around, with his eyes closed he wouldn't have seen anything coming up ahead of him. Or it could have simply been any creature that swims in the loch, even an otter. 

I think it was a log.

I remember from 1991 when I was in Iquitos, Peru.

We were staying in some Indian camp in the jungle, next to a tribitury (?) of the Amazon.

The people in the settlement had cut down a big tree, and used it as a pier to dock their canoes.

It was bloody hot, and I decided to take a swim around that big tree lying in the water. The tree was totally bare of leaves. But many branches were still sticking out of the water.

Ok, I dived into the river, and started swimming around this tree. When I passed the farthest point of this tree, I turned back close to the tree, and... then I watched several Indians and my mates staring at me with eyes wide open...

Then it struck me as lightning: this river was infested with pirañas!

I got scared and swam back faster. Then it happened: something scratched by chest, belly and legs like razor blades.

I screamed bloody murder, but managed to reach the coast.

I left the water, and saw my chest and belly and legs were covered in bloody scratch marks.

What had happened? No pirañas, but I has swam over the submerged and sharp branches of the tree.

 

[Abramelin]

has = had

[Essan]

Could have been any many of sub-surface debris, an otter, eel, fish ......  but whatever it was it was definitely the Loch Ness monster since the guy didn't know what it was at the time!

[sanchez710]

Plenty of eels in there

[MysteryMike]

Still going on about this?

We see whales all the time in the ocean, how much harder would be for a large creature in a lake to find?

Simple because it doesn't exist.

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

Things that go bump in the dark. 

[moonman]

Bumping into big unseen stuff underwater while swimming is a huge phobia of mine. Noooooooooooooo thank you.

Edited September 20, 2024 by moonman

[MissJatti]

Sounds like a very very amateur swimmer

[Abramelin]

On 9/19/2024 at 5:15 PM, Essan said:

Could have been any many of sub-surface debris, an otter, eel, fish ......  but whatever it was it was definitely the Loch Ness monster since the guy didn't know what it was at the time!

The guy automatically expected that when touching something unknown and big, it must have been the monster.

That's why I posted my story of what happened in a river near Iquitos, Peru.

At some point I expected pirañas, and when scratched from below and under water while swimming I was scared sh!tless. At the end it were only branches of a submerged tree.

Get it, @the13bats ?

Edited September 21, 2024 by Abramelin

[openozy]

I've been brushed past by eels, turtles and a shark when swimming but the worst was a rather large lady who nearly killed me in the surf. I did think it was a whale at the time so the guy can be forgiven for his misidentification.

[Still Waters]

On 9/21/2024 at 11:18 AM, MissJatti said:

Sounds like a very very amateur swimmer

I doubt that.

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Roberts is one of only five people in the world to have skateboarded 870 miles around Iceland. However, he stated that the swim across the fabled Scottish loch was far tougher.

He said: "It was one of the toughest things I've ever done mentally. I live in Australia and surf all the time often with Great White Sharks.

 

[the13bats]

On 9/21/2024 at 3:33 PM, Abramelin said:

The guy automatically expected that when touching something unknown and big, it must have been the monster.

That's why I posted my story of what happened in a river near Iquitos, Peru.

At some point I expected pirañas, and when scratched from below and under water while swimming I was scared sh!tless. At the end it were only branches of a submerged tree.

Get it, @the13bats ?

I orginally missed where you said a tree got you so yeah i get it now,

 

[the13bats]

3 hours ago, the13bats said:

I orginally missed where you said a tree got you so yeah i get it now,

 

I guess i was maybe 13, 14 i was with mom and grandmother and finished my dinner at some rural costal restaurant, so i went down to mess around in the surf it was a bit overcast grey misty chilly but im still wading out, no one else around surfs a bit up from weather the waves are hitting about mid thigh and something hits my leg like truck knocked me backwards and it hurt horribly, i have visions of jaws took my leg, in panic as i try to get up and out,  My shin is bleeding really freely, pain is jarring what hit me was an old pier pole it had been in the water who knows how long grandmother picked barnacles and trash out of my leg, she said i was lucky it didnt break my leg.

[Zebra3]

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