Creatures, Myths & Legends

Loch Ness sees spate of monster sightings

By T.K. Randall
November 22, 2014 ·  14 comments

Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness. Image Credit: CC 2.0 Dave Conner After 18 months of no sightings at all there has been a sudden and unexpected increase in the number of people reporting encounters with the famous lake monster over the last few weeks.

Most of them, including that of Richard Collis who filmed a dark object protruding from the water earlier this month, have described witnessing a long, thin, serpent-like head and neck rising up from the murky depths of the loch.

While these sightings might seem like definitive evidence that something strange is going on, it just so happens that this latest wave of reports coincides exactly with an increase in the amount of logs and other debris being washed in to the loch from nearby Urquhart Bay Wood."Large amounts of wood flows out of the woodland through the two winding rivers that flow into Loch Ness each year, peaking when water is high in late autumn and spring," said a spokesman for the Woodland Trust conservation charity.

"I think that some of that debris explains the long thin, sometimes stick-like, shapes seen."

The Urquhart Bay area has in fact been described as a "Nessie spawning ground" due to the sheer number of monster-shaped objects that end up in the water there.

Source: Independent | Comments (14)

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