Is the Loch Ness Monster a legend or a fact?

Loch Ness is located in the Scottish Grand Canyon in northern Scotland, UK. It is located 200 meters below sea level. For this reason, people call it "the lake sunk under the sea", but there are many kinds of creatures in the lake, some of which The size is quite large. There are ravines at the bottom of the lake, like a maze, with the deepest reaching 200 meters. For more than a thousand years, there have been reports of water monsters appearing in Loch Ness, which has cast a mysterious veil on the lake, making it particularly magical and unpredictable. Among the immigrants who settled on the shores of Loch Ness, they all knew that whenever there was a storm on the lake, a mysterious monster would appear in the lake and harass the people. The contents of heroic epics in Britain and some Nordic countries are mostly stories of fighting against such monsters. People also gave this monster a very affectionate name - "Nissi", which means the interesting little monster in Loch Ness.

2. Historical records

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1. In the autumn of 1802, a farmer named Alexander MacDonald was busy by the lake. Farm work, suddenly, a huge wave sound came from the lake, startling the farmers. He hurriedly looked up and saw a huge monster appearing in the lake only about 45 meters away from him: the farmer saw a black-gray thing in front of him, with its neck stretched out, and its short and thick fins paddling in the water like a boat oar. He was swimming rapidly towards the center of the lake.

2. In 1880, Duncan Macdonald dived to the bottom of the lake to inspect the wreckage of a sunken ship. Shortly after entering the water, he frantically sent out a distress signal. People at the lakeside quickly dragged him up, but he was already unconscious. A few days later, when he had recovered, he told people about his underwater encounter. He said that he was about to inspect the keel of the ship when he suddenly encountered a monster that looked like a giant frog lying there. It was very scary.

3. On April 14, 1933, a couple suddenly discovered a huge snail-shaped monster leaping sideways into the lake from the embankment on the shore of Loch Ness. The frightened couple were so frightened that they could hardly explain what they saw, but they felt extremely terrified. People often count this day as the day when the monster is actually discovered. After the couple encountered the monster, they carefully and calmly recalled it and wrote an article, which was published in the British "Cloak Courier". The article described the Nessie Tide Monster and said that it had two hump-like backs exposed in the lake. , the skin is very rough, gray-black, the neck is slender, as flexible as a snake, and the body is about 12-15 meters long. The article immediately caused a sensation and was reprinted by newspapers and magazines around the world. From then on, the Loch Ness Monster became known to the world. This is the reason why people regard this day as the actual discovery of the monster.

4. In April 1934, Surgeon Wilson of London went on vacation, drove through Loch Ness, and took what is said to be the first-ever photo of "Nessie". In the photo, a monster with a small head with an elongated neck can be seen emerging from the water. The photo was published in London's Daily Mail and sparked a controversy. Another two years later, a documentary about "Nissi" came out.

5. On June 15, 1938, the Woodlaws and their friends from Pimbridge, England were boating on Loch Ness. Suddenly, a monster appeared on the water about 100 meters away from them. Fortunately, the monster ignored the boat and swam quickly away alone. A few days later, two pastors from Liverpool also encountered a monster while rafting. According to memories, suddenly about 300 meters ahead of the lake, a black monster appeared from the rolling waves. It seemed to have five humps on its back and dragged a long tail. The two priests were frightened out of their wits and hurriedly Row ashore. Fortunately, the monster did not chase the boat and swam away quickly on its own.

6. In 1960, a British aeronautical engineer in Dinstead took another photo of possible water monster activity.

7. In June 1978, someone was fishing on the shore of Loch Ness and found Nessie emerging from the water 30 meters away.

8. One morning in August 1993, veterinarian Gerrit was riding his motorcycle home along the shores of Loch Ness. He accidentally discovered a big monster crawling on the shore. It looked like an extinct monster. dinosaur. Grid quickly stopped the car to watch. The monster made a "humming" sound from its nose, as if to warn Gretel not to move forward. At the same time, it quickly climbed into the lake and swam away.

9. In 1995, on the lake in front of an old castle, the monster just showed two humps. According to the castle's height of 15 meters, people speculated that the monster was very big. Someone took this photo.

3. Statistics

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According to statistics from relevant departments, more than 3,000 people have seen "Nisi" with their own eyes.

Based on various eyewitness reports, people summarized the shape of "Nixi" as follows: a long and thin neck, a small triangular head, a hump on the back, a body length of 15 to 20 meters, and a whole body. Black, moving quickly, like an overturned boat.

4. Solving the mystery of the Loch Ness monster

On April 23, 2001, the "Loch Ness Project" laboratory located on the shores of Loch Ness received a call. Marine biologist Ann Dr. Delia?6?1 Dr. Thern immediately rushed to the shore of the A82 National Highway near Loch Ness. Two giant female moray eels more than two meters long were lying quietly, with their brains stabbed to death by something sharp. They looked like they were dead. Very scary.

Moray eels usually only grow to 80 centimeters.

Why are there such unusual giant moray eels in Loch Ness? And who killed them? Dr. Andrea Thern, who has been studying the "Loch Ness Monster" for 29 years, immediately thought of the "Loch Ness Monster". In order to catch the real culprit who killed the giant moray eel in time, on May 2, Dr. Andrea Thern urgently organized a fleet, installed underwater cameras, and rolled out a large net to survey Loch Ness. After 50 hours of searching, nothing was found.

Moray eels live in the coastal areas of Europe and northern Africa. They are generally between 0.5 meters and 1 meters in length. They look like sea snakes. However, unlike sea snakes, they have short pectoral fins and slender fins. dorsal fin. Moray eels are ferocious, gluttonous and aggressive, and they stay out during the day and night. Catching wild moray eels is not an easy task. After applying for a fishing order from the British Wildlife Conservation Society, Dr. Andrea Thern began fishing for moray eels in Loch Ness. What was puzzling was that all the moray eels caught showed female characteristics. So where did the male moray eels go?

In order to find the answer, Dr. Andrea?6?1 Thurn read a lot of information about moray eels and learned that "the gender of moray eels changes due to the environment. When food is insufficient, most moray eels The eels will turn into males, but when there is enough food, most of them will turn into females. "It seems that Loch Ness's rich food resources have turned most of the moray eels into females, so the 10 he caught were all female." .

Dr. Thern implanted electronic chips in the abdomens of these 10 moray eels, and then released them back into Loch Ness to track their whereabouts. It didn't take long before Dr. Thern discovered that 9 of the 10 moray eels were swimming towards the mouth of the sea, beginning the final stage of the moray eel's life - migrating down to the sea. Soon, all nine moray eels stopped hunting and swam desperately toward Florida, the United States, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

After swimming at sea for about 6 months, the moray eels finally arrived in the Bermuda Sea near Florida, where each moray eel lays 7 to 10 million eggs. Ten days after spawning, the trackers showed signs of the moray eels' discrete movements. When they were fished out, they found that all nine moray eels had died from exhaustion.

Soon, under the care of the male moray eels, all the baby moray eels hatched, and the male moray eels and baby moray eels were pushed by the vast ocean currents and quickly drifted towards the other side of the Atlantic, escorting the small moray eels. The number of male moray eels is also decreasing rapidly, and in a few months, they will all die. The young moray eels were reduced to half of their initial size without shelter. By the time we reached the mid-Atlantic, there was not much left. In the end, only about a hundred small moray eels arrived in Loch Ness. After 10 years of growth, they will follow in the footsteps of their parents and migrate to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean to start a new round of reproduction.

Dr. Thern studied the moray eel that had not migrated and found that after not seeing it for three years, the moray eel had a stronger appetite and was getting bigger and bigger. Dr. Thane fished out a moray eel that was about 13 years old and found that it had grown to 1.5 meters and weighed more than 60 pounds. After replacing the electronic chip with a new one, Dr. Thern examined it and found that the moray eel had a congenital defect in its reproductive system. It was a female moray eel that was unable to reproduce. It can only "set up camp" in Loch Ness and spend the whole day hunting. Scientists named it the "eunuch eel."

Animal's predatory ability and food intake are both limited. Why is this moray eel's food intake getting bigger and bigger, and there seems to be no limit? What is the reason why it has such a powerful predatory ability? Professor Mehta, an American evolutionary biologist, joined the "Loch Ness Project" laboratory and brought a state-of-the-art high-definition underwater camera to places where moray eels often hang out.

One day in 2004, an underwater video caught the attention of Professor Mehta: a 50-centimeter-long giant grouper was bitten by a moray eel with its fanged jaws. The grouper was quickly swallowed by the moray eel as if it were sucked by a vacuum cleaner. There was barely any movement in the lake, and the grouper was already dead. Professor Mehta felt that the feeding process of this moray eel was very unique and seemed different from that of other moray eels. Later, I personally went into the water and used a fixator to open and fix the big mouth of the moray eel. When I carefully inspected the structure of its mouth and pharynx, I found that it actually has an inner jaw. Whenever the medicine holds food, the inner jaw becomes conditioned. It pops out reflexively, hooks the food and quickly drags it into the belly. It looks like prey has been sucked in by a vacuum cleaner. The Loch Ness moray eel is the only animal found to have this special way of eating. Moreover, the moray eels in Loch Ness have no natural predators. As long as their mouths open and close, they can sweep prey into their mouths like a vacuum cleaner.

On September 23, 2004, British cryptozoologist Richard Freeman joined the "Loch Ness Project" with the most advanced multi-wave sonar locator and voice-activated camera. ".

One day in September 2006, a child picked up a dark and shiny scale on the shore of the lake, which was as big as a person's hand. Richard?6?1 Freeman immediately purchased it at a high price and took it back to the laboratory for testing. Through DNA testing, he determined that these were the scales of a moray eel. The "owner" of the scales was 15 meters long and over 100 years old.

During a heavy rain three days later, a sound-activated camera in the water captured this scene: a huge moray eel's tail swept gently in front of the camera, and then disappeared into the turbid lake water...