Loch Ness Monster Research Paper

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What is scaly, creepy, 50 feet long, and swims in the world's most notorious lake? If you said The Loch Ness Monster, then you’re correct! The Loch Ness Monster, mostly known as the creature Nessie, is a huge, “mythical” creature that has been scaring the people of Ireland for centuries, but this monster is actually real. While many theories exist trying to disprove the existence of this elusive beast, many also exist proving its existence. The first reported sighting made by St. Columba, an Irish missionary, in the a.d. 500s. He was from Scotland and came to spread Christianity. He saw the beast attacking a man and saved him by making a cross and ordering the beast to be gone. The Loch Ness Monster is not just a beast from the Medieval mythology. Many people have reported sightings of a creature matching the description “of an ‘extinct’ dinosaur called the Plesiosaur”(“Myths and Legends of the World”). There have been many attempts to find this elusive creature ,but all have turned up unsuccessful neither proving nor disproving the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. …show more content…

The Loch Ness can easily hold a plesiosaur without it being discovered. The Loch Ness Lake has a volume of 1.775 cubic miles, far bigger than the average plesiosaur (8ft. to 46ft. long). This means that The Loch Ness monsters size from eye witnesses are well proportioned. The Loch Ness Lake itself is connected to the sea via the River Ness and the Caledonian Canal which both feed into Moray Firth. “The Loch Ness is 51 ft. higher than sea level, 23 miles long and 1 mile wide”(“Loch Ness Water Facts”), and it has a depth of 788 ft.. This gives the beast enough room to move that wherever people might search it would move to another part of the lake to stay hidden. In reality this beast could just be scared and doesn’t know what to do, so it instinctively hides from anything considered a

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