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The Loch Ness monster
Many times we have been in a dilemma whether to believe or not someone who tries to persuade us for something and very often by listening his arguments and by having enough evidence we finally manage to get out of the dilemma. Nevertheless sometimes we cannot be sure about an event because although there is enough evidence, our minds cannot be persuaded. An example to justify that is the existence of the Loch Ness monster, or as it is widely known “Nessie”.
Nessie’s story begins from the first century A.D, when Romans first went to Northern Scotland and found carved, standing stones (which are still found in the region around Loch Ness) that represented animals, which were all easily recognizable, except one. The exception was a strange beast with an elongated beak or muzzle and flippers instead of feet (see photograph 1) Described by some as a swimming elephant, this beast is the earliest evidence that Loch Ness is home to a mysterious animal.
The earliest written reference that verified the existence of a mysterious aquatic animal in Loch Ness is in the biography of Saint Columba, who in A.D. 565 on his way to visit the king of Picts (the people who lived at the coast of Loch then), stopped along the shore of Loch Ness to rest and saw a large beast ready to attack a man who was swimming in the lake. He immediately raised his hand, calling the name of God and commanded the beast to “go back with all his speed”. The beast obeyed and the swimmer...
When all the evidence is noted (and there is even more beyond that which is stated here), one can not ignore the overwhelming presence of a
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
...vided in this research presented evidence that brought the conclusion to Bigfoot does not exist. In the first account, the claimant tries to proves that Bigfoot is real, yet there was no adequate information. In the second account, the claimant thinks she saw a Bigfoot from 50 feet away, and she was blind by the sun while she was looking. It makes the account inadequate. In the third account, the claimant also thinks he saw Bigfoot while walking his dog. The information is inadequate because he had no actual evidence to show. All the accounts contained inadequate information, and did not contain any factual information. Although the accounts had a lot of evidence, there was nothing to support the claim of the existence of Bigfoot. None of the accounts were believable or replicable. Summarizing everything up, Bigfoot is just a mythical creature that does not exist.
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One of the most intriguing creatures known to cryptozoologists it the Loch Ness Monster, often called Nessie. She is known to live in Loch Ness Lake in the Scottish Highlands, which is 23 miles long and almost 750 feet deep in certain parts, making it difficult to locate the monster. There are multiple theories on what N...
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