Perhaps this guy can next work on solving the mystery of the grassy knoll, ufos and other quandries.

Was Nessie merely a circus elephant

Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, is in fact an elephant, according to a Scottish palaeontologist who claims to have solved the riddle surrounding the unexplained sightings of a monster in a lake near Glasgow in Scotland.

Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Museum, who has spent two years investigating the myth, said that the idea for Nessie was dreamt up as a “magnificent piece of marketing” by a circus impresario after he saw one of his elephants bathing in the loch.



  1. meli says:

    They’ve already taken Bigfoot away from us. Don’t take Nessie, too.

    Long Live Hogzilla

  2. malren says:

    My god, what a sad life when you can’t have a silly story like this without dragging politics into it. Way to ruin everyone’s good time.

  3. rus62 says:

    I thought the people who faked this admitted to this as just a clay model.

    Don’t worry Meli, Bigfoot is still around. He figured out a way to avoid the paparazzi. Also, don’t forget we have our Nessi over here in Lake Champlain, VT.

  4. joshua says:

    this is, I think the one shot that has never had a good explanation.
    After having gone to Loch Ness on my gap year and spending an hour, in the water, smeared with the most ungodly gooy stuff that my Scottish friends said would surely attract Nessie, with no luck….I decided she didn’t exist until your 10th pint.

  5. Gregory says:

    Wayne – Loch Ness is a lake, you fool.

    That photo however has been revealed as a fake, sadly. Oh well.

  6. Daniel Udsen says:

    Whats whith the waves Wayne to me it dont seams that much bigget than i can see when an coaster passes throug the fiord where i live.

    If you took an image whit an similar eqipment it would look just like that, the waves on the picture arent that big especially for an area with strong current, and limited space for the water.

  7. david says:

    I was in the car talking to my y-wife about my reservations of putting our son in a Catholic pre-K program because of the religion that would be pressed on him. Because I feel I have no choice (city public school are horrendous and secular private schools are Harvard priced) I resigned myself in telling her that I would tell our son the truth about who Jesus Christ really was. I turned around to my son who was sitting in his car seat and told him that Jesus Christ was just like Santa Claus. He looked wide-eyed at me. I went on, “and Santa Claus is fake, he is not real.” My son got instantly angry with me and shouted unequivocally, “NO! Santa Claus is for REAL”

    I feel defeated sometimes. People will believe what they want to believe. Hell, Bigfoot is a great story. Why not believe?

  8. garym says:

    Of course Bigfoot exists. I’m married to her daughter and she (Bigfoot) lives in our house with us. (Who would have thought that a woman who is only 5’5 could have FEET THAT BIG!)

    G

  9. david says:

    hahaha, I like that G.

    funny feet are funny. they just are…

  10. Pilot Mike says:

    rus62,. Yep. There was a guy who said he and his buddy made the hoax by putting clay on a toy submarine.

    Never let the facts stand in the way of continuing a myth.


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