"…Rowing across that pitch black water knowing that there was a very large animal just thirty feet below. It was the sheer size of the echo trace that was frightening." (http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/lochness.htm)
This is a quote from Peter Davies, a member of Rines team. Rine is the President of the Academy of Applied Science. Davies had spotted an unexplainable creature gilding across the murky Loch water. What Peter Davies saw just like many other people have seen before him was the Loch Ness Monster. There have been at least 10,000 sightings and about 3,000 of those sightings have been recorded since the time of 565 A.D. Scientists and other researchers such as the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, and Dr. Roy Mackal, have been trying to discover the truth behind this legendary myth. Does this creature really exist?
The Great Glenn, which is located in the Scottish Highlands, is a big gash in the earth that divides the Highlands in two. The Great Glenn forms many rivers, canals and lakes, otherwise known as lochs. These lochs connect the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most famous of the Lochs located in the Great Glenn is the Loch of Ness, where a suspicious creature is said to inhabit the murky water of the Loch. Loch Ness is the largest freshwater Loch in the British Isles. The Loch of Ness is about twenty- four miles long and the average depth is about four hundred and fifty feet. (
Loch Ness Monster?) 
From the time of 565 A.D. the local people living by the Loch of Ness have been spotting some unusual and unexplainable events happening. There has even been an account involving Saint Columbus who saved a swimmer from a hungry lake monster, which took place in the Loch of Ness. (Taylor)
The sightings have soared, after a new road was build along the edge of the Loch. The number of reports and the look of the creature have been changing throughout history with people seeing a creature with many humps, a long slender tail, and the color of a camel, to sighting of a serpent looking animal that was gray in color. There have been at least 10,000 sightings in the Loch of Ness of a dinosaur creature living in the water, but only 3,000 of them had been recorded. (Krystek)
Through the years the sightings began to pile up. There have been sightings
from people seeing the creature up close, to recordings on film, to sonar
pictures. Over the years the mysterious monster had earned itself a name. The
name that has been given to the creature was Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. (Krystek)
Nessie was named after the Loch of Ness where it was first spotted and was
its original home. Now the search was on to find out what this mysterious
creature could be, and how did it get to the colder, dark waters of the Loch.
Researchers are dumbfounded and stumped about what Nessie the Loch Ness monster could be. Some researchers think that Nessie could be a prehistoric dinosaur that belonged to the plesiosaurs. The Plesiosaurs were a class of aquatic reptilian; these are related to the crocs we have now. One of the problems Researchers faced with this theory was that these classes of dinosaurs have been extinct for more than 65 million years. They think that these certain underwater dinosaurs somehow might have escaped extinction that they came from the ocean and landed in the Loch of Ness. (Krystek) Some Scientists think that the Loch isn’t even possessed with such a creature as the Plesiosaurs. They also believe that there is a logical reason for the cause of these sightings. Some of these theories are that there are under water waves that are made in cold deep lochs and lakes such as the Loch of Ness. Researchers like Dr. Roy Mackal, a Loch Ness researcher, have also concluded that these sightings of a lake monster are none other than a large mammal like Giant Sea Slug, a sea otter, some kind of a primitive whale called a zeuglodon, a manatee, or maybe they think it is just an overgrown eel. (Krystek)
Many people have seen this unknown creature Nessie, but one person in 1934 become famous and widely known for a legendary picture the "Surgeon’s photograph." Colonel Robert Wilson a doctor that had claimed to take the picture. But, Dr. Wilson was not the man who had taken the picture and setup this scam. The man behind it all was Duke" Wetherell. He was the man responsible for the picture. The picture had captured the Loch Ness Monster in a close-up shot, but there was only one problem for this unbelievable picture, it wasn’t real. The picture had been made a fake. The fake Loch Ness Monster in the picture was made from an old toy submarine. (
The Loch Ness Mystery) 
Duke Wetherell concocted a plan- a plan to recreate the Loch Ness Monster for revenge on the Daily Mail newspaper. The Daily Mail Newspaper hired Wetherell to find the Loch Ness Monster. As he arrived at the Loch, he discovered huge footprints on the sandy shore near the water. Wetherell had the footprints cast, and he sent them to the Museum of Natural History to be looked at. At that, Wetherell found out that he had been hoaxed himself. The museum of Natural History announced that the tracks were none other than hippo tracks. Wetherell was made a fool in front of millions of people, and through all the embarrassment, the Daily Mail Newspaper had fired him. Wetherell decided to get even, and make a replica of the world famous Loch Ness Monster. He played his joke for about 30 years until he died, and his son told everyone that the photo had been a fake. (Krystek)
Many people wonder about Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. They want to see this mysterious creature. People want to know if Nessie’s real or is it just another made up story burned in our heads. There are many theories behind the Loch Ness Monster. Is it as simple as a seal or is it as complex as a prehistoric dinosaur from 65 million years ago. Are these theories true or are they fictional? How will we ever know the truth of the hidden creature inhabiting the Loch or Ness?
