The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. Nessie is usually categorized as a type of lake monster. Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti (the "Abominable Snowman"), Nessie is one of the best-known mysteries in cryptozoology though most mainstream scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting Nessie unpersuasive ...

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Loch Ness Monster, Loch Ness Monster - History of alleged sightings, Loch Ness Monster - Ancient, Loch Ness Monster - Recent and Principal, Loch Ness Monster - Theories, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence for, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence against, Loch Ness Monster - The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture, Loch Ness Monster - Literature, Loch Ness Monster - Movies, Loch Ness Monster - Television, Loch Ness Monster - Media, Loch Ness Monster - Games, Loch Ness Monster - Reference, Loch Ness Monster - Loch Ness Monster Researchers

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The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. Loch Ness Monster - Literature. A Saint story titled "The Convenient Monster" written by Leslie Charteris featured the Loch Ness Monster. The story appeared in the 1962 collection Trust the Saint and was included in The Fantastic Saint (1982). The story was also made into an episode that first aired November 4, 1966, in t ...

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Champ or Champy is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain. The creature's existence has never been scientifically verified. Some people believe that Champ is legend, while others believe that perhaps some unknown species of creature does live deep in the lake. The state government of Vermont has put Champ on its Endangered Species List, so that, if an unknown water animal is present, it will be protected by law. Champ has a famous photo (like the Surgeon's photo) of a plesiosa ...

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An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge (for example, astronomy or biology). Anomalous phenomenon - Introduction. Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, ghosts, demonic encounters, poltergeists, as well as sightings of UFOs and reports of alien abductions are phenomena, most of which are not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far ...

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The Zygons are a fictional extraterrestrial race in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They first appeared in the Fourth Doctor serial Terror of the Zygons, where they unleash the Loch Ness Monster as part of a bid to invade and conquer the Earth. In Terror of the Zygons, it was revealed that centuries ago, the Zygon homeworld was destroyed in a stellar explosion. A craft escaped and somehow made it to Earth, where it then crashed into Loch Ness. When the Doctor encounter ...

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The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La bête du Gévaudan) was a creature that terrorised the general area of the former province of Gévaudan (in today's Lozère département), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France, from about 1764 to 1767. While a number of attacks took place, there has been debate regarding the identity of the culprit. The story is a popular target of conspiracy theorists, and some consider the creature to be the French equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster.

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A legend (Latin, legenda, "things to be read") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants, includes no happenings that are outside the realm of "possibility", defined by a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition of indoctrination where th ...

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1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1933 - Events. January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government i ...

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1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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The first sightings of Ogopogo's existence date back as far as 1860 as the area was being colonized by the first European settlers, sixty years before the first modern reports of The Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. The first clear sighting that was witnessed by a large group of people occurred in 1926 at an Okanagan Mission Beach. There were about thirty cars of people who all claimed to have witnessed the same event. It was also in this year that Roy Brown, then editor of the Vancouver Sun, wrote, "Too many reputable people have seen [the ...

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So far, all investigations have failed to find evidence of a creature corresponding to the native legend, although casts of inexplicable footprints have reportedly been taken, which some say were made by the mokèlé-mbèmbé, and a controversial videotape was recently presented. The Congo Basin has wide expanses of marshland and swamps, including several large lakes, that have not extensively been explored by scientists. A recent megatransect into the wilderness of the Congo basin by the biologist and Africa explorer Michael Fay did ...

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Cryptozoologists may further argue for the existence of sea serpents by pointing out that people see similar things, and it is possible for them to classify the different "types". While there have been different classification attempts with different results, they all share several common characteristics. Sea serpent - Anthonid Cornelis Oudemans. Megophias megophias : A large (200+ feet) sea lion-like creature with a long neck and long tail ...

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Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, ghosts, demonic encounters, poltergeists, as well as sightings of UFOs and reports of alien abductions are phenomena, most of which are not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far as calling the study of them pseudoscience. Sometimes the phenomenon is acknowledged as being real, but then the way it ...

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Anomalous phenomenon, Anomalous phenomenon - Introduction, Anomalous phenomenon - Written works

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The creature has often been likened to the Loch Ness Monster. Some cryptozoologists suppose that the creature might be a type of dinosaur that could have survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago, which is beleived to be possible due to the thickness of the Congo Rainforest. Mokèlé-mbèmbé's description is consistent with a sauropod. The tales of the mokèlé-mbèmbé are an apparently ancient component of the oral history of the Pygmy tribes. These peoples have an intimate relationship with th ...

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Anomalous phenomena seem to lack a clear scientific explanation, and thus are the subject of much controversy, debate, mystery, and potentially fear. However, at the same time, most of them are simply not widely accepted as real phenomena by mainstream scientists, who view them as hoaxes, lies, or conspiracies, perhaps going so far as to call their study pseudoscience. In other cases, the observation or sensing of a particular phenomenon is acknowledged as being a real, personal experience, but its interpretation - or the methods used ...

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Anomalous phenomenon, Anomalous phenomenon - Examples, Anomalous phenomenon - Written works

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Ogopogo, contrary to popular belief, did not come from an Indian name for the creature. In Ogopogo: The Okanagan Mystery, author Mary Moon (1977) gives the story of a local man, Bill Brimblecomb, who sang a song about Ogopogo which was a parody of a then popular British music hall tune at a Rotary club in Vernon. I'm looking for the Ogopogo, His mother was a mutton, His father was a whale, I'm going to put a little ...

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In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (often anglicized as Jormungand) was a sea serpent so long that it encircled the entire world; stories were told of how sailors would mistake its back for a chain of islands. Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway. On Swedish ecclesiastic and writer Olaus Magnus's Carta marina, many marine monsters of varied form, including an immense sea serpent, appear. Moreover, in his 1555 work History of the Northern Peoples, Magnus gives the fo ...

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In the 19th century there were several major sea serpent sightings on the Gloucester and Maine coasts of New England; these spawned several rather silly mix-ups. On August 18, 1817, for example, a meeting of the New England Linnaean Society went so far as to give a deformed terrestrial snake the name Scoliophis atlanticus (thinking it was the juvenile form of a sea serpent that had recently been seen nearby). Another time a prankster who had caught a tuna claimed that it was really a sea serpent. More serious sightings from the same p ...

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The most famous lake monster is certainly the Loch Ness Monster, which for many decades has been reported to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. In more recent years, similar animals have been widely reported, such as Ogopogo in Okanagan Lake in the heart of British Columbia; Manipogo in Lake Manitoba, and Champ in Lake Champlain. Other locations which have been claimed as homes for lake monsters are Bear Lake (Idaho/Utah), a large, very deep lake with sightings as early as 1850. Flathead Lake in Montana, Lake Tianchi in China, Bala Lake i ...

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Lake monster, Lake monster - Description, Lake monster - In popular culture, Lake monster - Lakes in which monsters are said to be

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