How old is Nessie?

The Long Life of Nessie?

Most people think that the Loch Ness creature was first seen in 1933 with the building of the new road. As you can see from the list below there have been sightings since 1527.

565 1527	St Colomba Duncan Campbell said he saw 3 men killed	Beastie in Loch (possibly River Ness not Loch) Terrible beast in the loch
1600 and 1700s	Many reports ,no details, may have been soldiers stationed near the loch. There was a warship moored on the loch supplying troops at this time.	Floating islands reported but there are no mats of vegetation in the loch.
1771	Reported sighting no details	Great beastie (N.B. there is no documentary proof to support these earlier sightings only reports written many years after it happened)
1871	Dr Mackenzie reported to police	Log like, then upturned boat
1879	Children reported to police	Elephant coloured creature small head on long neck turned head side to side .waddled(on land)
1880	E.H. Bright and cousin	Long neck dark grey. emerged from wooded area and left a wash where it entered water(on land)
1885	Roderick Matheson to police	Forward moving in loch. Biggest thing he ever saw with horse like head.
1888	Alex MacDonald	Early morning in loch described as salamander like
1889	Not known	Strange creature in loch
1890,s	Gypsy lady	Unknown except strange creature in loch
1895	6 or 8 people including a forester, a ghillie, anglers and hotel keeper	Reported to police a horrible great beastie in the loch
1898 1889	McKenzie No details only several people reported to police	It appeared in the loch at times and then it seemed to go away A beastie in the loch
1903	F.Fraser and 2 others	Hump in water like upturned boat tried to row closer but couldn’t get a close look
1908	John Macleod	Long tail eel like head 30-40ft lying on the surface of the water, quickly moved off Inchnacardoch bay
1912	5 Or 6 children including William MacGruer	Queer looking animal moved to the loch and vanished in the water. Described as camel like with long neck and humped back .(land )
1919	Mrs P. Cameron and 2 brothers	Small head like a camel long neck humped back 4 limbs
1923	1)William miller and D. McGillray 2)Alfred Cruickshank	1)Like an upturned boat about 10-12 feet showing, moved off in an arc and submerged 2)at night on land. about 20 to 25 feet long arched back with 4 legs and lighter underbelly skin elephant like(on land)
1929	Mrs Cumming and D Gillvray	Motionless sank with a splash. hump size of a horses body
1930s	Several sightings Including 3 young men in a boat, Ian J Milne, Alec Muir and several school children Exact dates not recorded	Described as 2 or 3 small humps, moved in an arc One on land sighting which left a visible trail of squashed moss
1932	James Cameron	Hump like upturned boat

A creature has been seen in the Loch for centuries. As it surely can’t be the same creature ,there must have been a breeding family to continue to be seen over the years. The argument has always been that the Loch doesn’t connect to the sea and therefore no large creatures could have come that way to breed. There is new evidence to say that this isn’t true.
British and U.S. scientists claim they have evidence that the sea extended into Loch Ness at two points in history: after the Ice Age in Europe (125,000 years ago) and 12,800 years ago. A geologist working with a research team in 2001 noticed the clay on the anchor of their boat looked different from other deposits found in the same part of the Loch. Carbon  dating and amino-acid testing on the clay indicated that it contained clams  and sea urchin spines from both 12,800 and 125,000 years ago. This discovery would tend to lend credence to the theory that large animals could have become trapped in the Loch as the water receded back to the sea. Source: The Press and Journal (North Scotland) .
Food for thought indeed.Another  theory is that Nessie could be like some animals such as certain types of sharks that can breed without a mate. Whatever Nessie is , whether apparition or monster, she / he has been around a long time.

Chinese wildman and bigfoot spider in news

Sasquatch With Chinese Characteristics

China Daily’s Wang Xiaodong profiles 62-year-old Hubei native Li Guohua and his more than thirty-year pursuit of the Chinese bigfoot:

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/08/sasquatch-with-chinese-characteristics/

Trogloraptor: Spider version of Bigfoot found in caves of the Pacific Northwest

The forests of the coastal regions from California to British Columbia are renowned for their unique and ancient animals and plants, such as coast redwoods, tailed frogs, mountain beavers and the legendary Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch). Whereas Bigfoot is probably just fiction, a huge, newly discovered spider is very real. Trogloraptor (or "cave robber") is named for its cave home and spectacular, elongate claws. It is a spider so evolutionarily special that it represents not only a new genus and species, but also a new family (Trogloraptoridae). Even for the species-rich insects and arachnids, to discover a new, previously unknown family is an historic moment. A study of the new family and its evolutionary and conservation significance was published in the open access journal Zookeys.

Read rest see pics here: http://www.sciencecodex.com/spider_version_of_bigfoot_emerges_from_caves_in_the_pacific_northwest-96881

8 new species said to be found in Indian Ocean

Fishing venture turns up all kinds of weird deep-sea sharks

Researcher on commercial fishing vessel says some species are likely new to science

By Andrea Mustain

A two-month fishing expedition to the Indian Ocean has turned up hundreds of strange deep-sea sharks, and several are likely new to science. At least eight new species could be among the fishy haul, said Paul Clerkin, a shark ecology graduate student at California's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Read rest see pics here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48678352/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UC4HDaM16yd

How long before they find a cryptid? One of the new species found any day now could be what has been seen as a sea serpent or merhorse. I hope I live to see it :-)

An Interview with Nick Redfern and a report on the effects of radiation on insects.

Interview with Nick Redfern

    Nick Redfern     August 15, 2012     By: Frank Zero

http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-nick-redfern

Worth a read

'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies

By Nick Crumpton BBC News

Mutated pale grass blue butterfly The study found that mutation rates were much higher among butterfly collected near Fukushima. Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident. The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report. The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

By comparing mutations found on the butterflies collected from the different sites, the team found that areas with greater amounts of radiation in the environment were home to butterflies with much smaller wings and irregularly developed eyes. "It has been believed that insects are very resistant to radiation," said lead researcher Joji Otaki from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa."In that sense, our results were unexpected," he told BBC News.

Read rest here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19245818

I can remember an article in the Observer newspaper , many years ago, possibly the 80’s, in which an artist had drawn pictures of mutated insects she had found near a nuclear  power station. It’s not the first time insects have been found to be affected by radiation. Which begs the question what would survive a bad leak from a power station unscathed?

Bigfoot in the news again.

Locals Reluctant to Talk About Bigfoot in Public

By KRISTAN KORNS, Two Rivers Tribune
Tribes all along the Pacific coast, from Central California all the way up to Alaska, have shared stories about large hairy human-like creatures that live hidden in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Steven Streufort, who runs Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek, said that European settlers arriving in the area disregarded the stories at first – until they started finding footprints and catching sight of the creature themselves.
It wasn’t until the twentieth century that the local stories reached the outside world.
“In the late 1950s they started to cut into a remote area of virgin timber north of Weitchpec,” Streufort said. “When they started cutting roads into there, they found footprints in the new roads.”A logging tractor driver from Salyer named Jerry Crews took pictures and made plaster casts of huge footprints at his work site near Bluff Creek. The footprints were 16 inches long.The Humboldt Times in Eureka published the pictures in October 1958, and the story was retold by newspapers around the world.Despite the stories of Bigfoot being in the worldwide news media for over 50 years, and told throughout the Pacific Northwest for hundreds of years before that, people are reluctant to come forward with their own sightings.
“They may tell you if they know you and trust you,” Streufort said, “but they don’t want to go on the record. It can damage your reputation publically.”

See pics read rest here :http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2012/08/locals-reluctant-to-talk-about-bigfoot-in-public/

Over at Live Science another theory about bigfoot sightings:

Could Escaped Animals Account for Bigfoot Sightings?

Benjamin Radford, Discovery News

http://www.livescience.com/22377-could-escaped-animals-account-for-bigfoot-reports.html

Video of Skegness sea serpent?

Loch Ness Monster Spotted at... Skegness Beach? (Video)

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981546853

posted by Tom Rose .

Well this may be a hoax but it’s not the first time a strange creature has been seen off Skegness.

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/1960s-sea-serpent-sightings-skegness.html

and the follow up:

tigertim43 said...

i was on holiday in Chapel St Leonards staying in a caravan park behind sand dunes next to the beach in the late 70's I would be about 12 years old at the time. It was about 7 o'clock in the evening and was still light when I went down to the beach for a paddle. I was in the water up to my chest when I caught sight of something in the water about 20-30 feet further out from me moving as you said parallel to the beach I would say it was at least 17-18 feet long of what I could see of it poking out of the water. It had large thick fins on its back which curved back, at least 7 -8 of them as best i can remember. It was dark in colour like a grey brown colour there was no sound other than the disturbance it made as it cut through the water and was travelling at about 8-10 miles an hour it scared me quite a bit I can tell you. I watched it untill it went out of sight by which time I was no longer in the water lol. I ran back and told my parents but they just laughed at me. It was many years later when I happened on a book about sea serpents and dicovered to my amazement that there was a picture of what I had seen in the book also seen off the coast of skegness. It was passed off in the book as possibly being a flock of seagulls on the horizon or a school of porposes. I know for a fact that what I saw was real I had never seen anything like it. I saw some kind of unrecorded creature never documented. It affected me so much even after all these years and when I saw this blog I just had to say something. I wonder if it is still alive, nothing lives for ever and to have seen it means there must be more than one a species can't exist by itsself.

10 February 2011 10:11 

So what do you think?

huge python discovered

Record-breaking python found in Everglades with 87 eggs

By David Fleshler

A monster Burmese python captured in the Everglades has broken the state size record, stretching 17 feet, 7 inches, its belly bursting with 87 eggs, the University of Florida announced Monday.

The snake was brought to the Florida Museum of Natural History last Friday for examination. After the scientists are done with it, the snake will be mounted for exhibition at the museum for five years and then returned for exhibition to Everglades National Park.“This thing is monstrous, it’s about a foot wide,” said Kenneth Krysko, manager of the museum’s herpetology collection. “It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild, there’s nothing stopping them and the native wildlife are in trouble.”Feathers were found in the snake’s stomach, and these will be examined by the museum’s ornithologists. The number of eggs was also a state record.

Read rest see video here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/blogs/green-south-florida/sfl-recordbreaking-python-found-in-everglades-with-87-eggs-20120813,0,7509064.story