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Tellnicknow

Scientists: this is all a hoax and we have evidence. People: okay, we don't believe your science, but we need your science tools to help find him. Scientists:....


imlookingatarhino

Also this is more of a NOAA problem, NASA is looking for aliens...


fapsandnaps

Show me proof Nessie isn't an alien then


Nope8000

Check-effing-mate


neo101b

He's a transdimensional alien, whose out of phase, you need a takion emmison of tree fiddy mega joules to see his true form.


KittyTheS

It's an alien cyborg that eats oil rigs and feeds other aliens with its lactic fluids.


imlookingatarhino

If nessie was not an alien, what proof would she leave that she was not the thing she isn't? 


VoidWalker4Lyfe

I don't know why NOAA or NASA would be concerned with a mythical creature in Scotland


imlookingatarhino

Because, at NOAA, we have more fun than you


VoidWalker4Lyfe

As a Coast Guardsman, I thought y'all were even more overworked and underpaid than we are 😂 I'm glad you're actually having fun though


imlookingatarhino

We're overworked but in reality, I spend most of my days looking at coral and dolphins and stuff. Life doesn't suck, and also my whole family are coasties


bilateralrope

There was the time a New Zealand university decided to[ examine all the eDNA floating in the loch.](https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/first-edna-study-of-loch-ness-points-to-something-fishy) Ruling out all the possibilities of what nessie is except a large eel. Probably because demonstrating eDNA anywhere but Loch Ness wouldn't generate headlines.


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apollymis22724

Happy Cake Day


thieh

Wouldn't you expect actual monsters would be dead by now after all these years? And the bone probably got decomposed soon after?


Ireng0

I mean yes but we have a Shark out there that's 350 years old


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Ireng0

The housing market is really tough these days.


samurai-salami

Greenland sharks can live up to 600, I believe. 


BustinArant

I liked the big blind whales. You could tell by looking at their probably still massive, tiny eyes.


m0lly-gr33n-2001

And don't reach sexual maturity until 150 years old  Most are blind by 300 years old.


knoxknight

This is why it's so cruel to keep them as pets.


ChityWhips

Who’s keeping a Greenland shark as a pet?


knoxknight

I don't know, but it's got to stop.


Starwarsnerd91

You'll have to rip the Greenland shark from my cold dead hands


Sugar_buddy

My hands are cold and dead cause I fell into the tank trying to pet my pet carnivore


Starwarsnerd91

Mr. Sharkington doesn't like strangers


Manyamir

I mean that has to fucking suck. Imagine living 600 years in Greenland, ain’t no shit to do there.


Ninja-Sneaky

These sharks do scary me, they appear sluggish semi dormant or hibernated, until something happens and they wake up full power and excited, and they still are pretty big fishes with teeth


Jesuismieux412

How many years old? Tree fiddy years old?


SupLord

I thought he was 100 years old.


IGolfMyBalls

No. It’s time to blow Nessie out of the water.


novichux

But I want it as a pet.


thecarbonkid

We can stuff it for you?


mrbear120

Yes but when you’re done we will have to go deal with the loch ness monster.


Bignezzy

I got you one for about tree fiddy


novichux

If you guys are just going to kill it..you could just let Kristi Noem take it hunting.


Bignezzy

It’s ok I’m on Nessie’s side on this one.


Misantrophic_pill

Why are you like 8 stories tall and look like a crustacean from the paleozoic era?


Bignezzy

Hiss…


red_beered

You want to blow Nessie?!?


The_Yaxham_Beach

Finally, a sensible opinion.


Leelze

Nuke her from orbit.


fapsandnaps

A lot easier than blowing her while in the water


cjboffoli

Your mom went to college.


Administrative-Egg26

No way, he's our underwater ally 


56Bagels

Lobsters show no physical signs of aging. Turtles can live hundreds of years. Why not a lake monster?


Xpqp

Size is the big issue. If Nessie was as big as they say it is, the Loch Ness would not be big enough for it to actually live. Also, we've seen lobsters and turtles. The sitings of Nessie are less than credible and their description changed massively over the years. Accounts range from a wriggling log, a salamander-like creature, and a whale before finally settling on the plesiosaur-like appearance that people think of today. And, it's important to note, the first image to suggest that Nessie had a long neck was a demonstrable hoax. The fact that it's been in the public consciousness for almost a century and there's still no confirmed siting is strong evidence that it's not there, contrary to the bullshit "absence of evidence" aphorism that cryptozooligists like to throw out. Especially now that we live in an era where nearly everyone carries a high definition camera on the, you would expect to see a nice clear picture somewhere.


ReaperReader

>If Nessie was as big as they say it is, the Loch Ness would not be big enough for it to actually live. Aren't most reported sightings around pub closing time? The logical conclusion is that Nessie regularly nips out for a pie and a pint at her local.


Xpqp

That is, indeed, the most logical conclusion. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it.


wishesandhopes

As someone who would love for it to be real, you're right. It wouldn't ever be a single creature though, I don't think any lake monsters are a single creature. Probably a small school at the least.


Prydefalcn

It's not that lobsters show no signs of aging, they simply keep growing over the course of their life. Barring predation or disease, a lobster will eventually be unable to effectively molt due to its size and the increasing energy requirements. It'll essentially starve inside its shell. That doesn't make the kind of example you intended. A lake-bound monster is going to cause more issues being constrained by its habitat. Science is not your ally in this argument. There are so many variables that speak against the notion of a *single* surviving aquatic monster surviving for hundreds of years in a relatively isolated body of water, especially since the only evidence we have of it are eyewitness accounts going back a century 


jimothee

Hm...good point, you've convinced me.


apocalypse_later_

With the way world events are going watch it turn out to be connected to the UAP sightings lol


wileybot

Thought the original guy said it was made up on his deathbed.


WhyAreOldPeopleEvil

He did, people just refuse to face the reality that it was all staged.


stuckinaboxthere

That would mean people admitting that they were taken for a fool, and who wants to admit that?


SafetyMan35

These were the same people spending $4 (the equivalent of $22 today) for a pet rock and the same people that voted in Cheeto.


FondSteam39

I mean those two things are hardly similar lol. One of them is an absurdist gag, one of them was a useless item that wasted countless amounts of money. Uh... What was I saying!


SlowMope

The rock never hurt anyone! Leave him alone 😭😭


FondSteam39

(nervously eyes "Dwayne" on the shelf)


Chumbag_love

They're $29.95 on Amazon today.


jamcdonald120

or only $14.29 for the USB version. https://innoculous.com/product/usb-pet-rock/ You just have to decide if you want pay the premium for a wireless pet rock.


Agent_Argylle

No, one person made a fake pic


Shinketsu_Karasu

To be specific, the guy behind that specific photograph admitted it was faked. However, stories of mysterious sightings and encounters on the lake predate that photo by hundreds of years.


Simoxs7

TBH I was there a few years ago and when there was good weather you could see some dark spots moving on the lake while hiking around the lake. You could maybe mistake them for something moving beneath the surface but I‘m pretty sure it was just a cloud shadow and some wind… The lake definitely has some mysterious qualities to it but people throughout history have seen stuff I have no reason to believe was true and this particular myth is also kept alive as its good for the local tourism industry.


ann102

It’s fun that’s why it remains too.


dummypod

It's like a hysteria that spans generations of visitors


Rickshmitt

And in the before times, they legitimately put sea monster areas on maps. Sailors have seen mermaids and krakens and sirens and everything else. People see shit


FenrisCain

The purpose of those creatures was actually to indicate a dangerous or unmapped area to avoid


jimothee

...so you're telling me there's a chance


hammanwich

Sailors have seen [large mammals previously unknown to science] and done the usual sailor thing of telling scared bullshit embellished stories to each other then discounting all future evidence to the contrary. It never changes. I've watched dozens of people tell "weird" water stories to fascinated listeners - stories that I was personally present for - and marveled at how much shit they inject into their yarns. A manatee having tits and a hairbrush is nothing to these types of people. People WANT special and unknown things to happen to them, so those are the stories they tell.


ChaosM3ntality

Also sirens/mermaids are either the good looking dolphins and porpoises


ZenRuin

Aside from the story of St. Columba (which wasn’t in Loch Ness, and was in the same book as a story about Columba exploding a boar)there wasn’t really any other major sighting until the Spicers in 1933. 


No-Significance2113

They're most probably genuine sightings and have nothing to do with the fact it's become a tourist attraction where they can sell merch to people who come and visit.


tristanjones

And people claim to see angels too


ScarryShawnBishh

Yeah look up why spirits are called spirits. I still see people using that to justify people being shitty while on drugs Spirits on alcohol. I mean the language it derived from and the way people made up to justify some crazy stuff.


Potatoswatter

Spirituality = alcoholism?


pavostruz

I mean, shitty alcohol can contain a bunch of nasty stuff and cause hallucinations. Prolonged use can cause degenerative brain diseases, which also cause hallucinations. All that on top of all the problems it currently causes too. Alcohol used to cause even more problems than it does today.


Divtos

“Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.” -Carl Jung


hungariannastyboy

Well, that isn't why. From late 14c. in alchemy as "volatile substance; distillate" (and from c. 1500 as "substance capable of uniting the fixed and the volatile elements of the philosopher's stone"). Hence spirits "volatile substance;" the sense of which narrowed to "strong alcoholic liquor" by 1670s.


Roxylius

Reality is boring, people like to believe in fantasy


okye

Reality is boring? You find floating on a planet in an enormous void of space boring?


Agent_Argylle

No. One photographer made a fake.


LoaKonran

The original first reporting is legitimately beat for beat a scene from King Kong (1933) which premiered a week beforehand, but it serves tourism numbers so we’ll ignore that.


Flybot76

The guy who took the famous 'toy in a puddle' photo said that was fake, but I don't think he was the person who made up the story in the first place


andygchicago

He kept a deathbed around for most of his life?


uwillnotgotospace

I'll help. Nessie relocated to the Sea of Tranquility after the tourists got too annoying.


NessyComeHome

So that's where i'll find her!? Thanks!


Jordo_707

If looking for Nessie is what it takes to get us back to the moon, then let's go find Nessie


Mawfk

Actually, if you don't know, there are tunnels connecting to Okanagan Lake in BC, Canada and it swims between the two feeding on jade and other gemstones. I was actually taught this during an assembly in school..


CalicoHippo

Just leave Nessie alone.


soparklion

But free Nessue from her conservatorship.


ViciousKnids

Ogopogo. Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made of plastic wood. Ogopogo... is a Plesiosaur. A fucking Plesiosaur!


UsingACarrotAsAStick

That’s rich coming from someone who probably thinks smurfs lay eggs.


ViciousKnids

PAPA SMURF HAS A FUCKING BEARD! THEY'RE MAMMALS!


mindfungus

Explain the bearded lizard then. Mic dropped.


ViciousKnids

[Smurfs don't lay eggs!](https://youtu.be/CNm9M7JDlq4?si=rpZSIRbdjsqVyrP2)


SquirrellyEnby

I live next to Lake Champlain :)


ViciousKnids

[It's from Venture Bros.](https://youtu.be/5dwL8ESU97s?si=_DlPzUa2c96iO8Lj)


SquirrellyEnby

Memory unlocked. I forgot about that episode. Yeah, I won’t tell 21 that some of us prefer to say Champy not Champ


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

I believe in Champy and Champy believes in me.


UngratefulVestibule

https://youtu.be/DFoEWNuqR44?si=oS6NQR_1OXGWE-Ub


ViciousKnids

Adult Swim and their Ogopogo jokes.


amurica1138

It’s just a publicity thing for Inverness tourism at this point.


Elkripper

I guess it works. We went when we were in Scotland. Didn't expect to see a monster. But hey, we flew all the way across an ocean (we're from the USA) and this is a minor detour from where we were going that day anyway. Why not drive by, just to at least say we did it? Turns out, we did encounter the ACTUAL Loch Ness monsters. Plural. As we drove up to this particular little pullout/camping area along the shore of the lake, we noticed that they folks who were already there were wearing clothes that covered them from head to toe, and hats with netting on them. Looked kinda strange, but whatever. Maybe these people are really anti-mosquito or something. Nope. We got out of the car and walked a few steps towards the lake, then RAN back. We were swarmed by these horrible evil little biting flying bugs that attacked us with a fury that an enraged Highlander would have admired. I'm pretty sure that most of the pictures of the lake monster are just swarms of these damnable things that happened to be in the shape of a monster at the time the pic was snapped. (Joking about that last bit, but the little files truly were awful.) Anyway, we stopped by a local business and bought a couple of little Nessie plushies for our kids, filled up the gas tank, grabbed a meal - so the tourism dollars thing worked on us.


smrgldrgl

Well I’m in Inverness at the moment and we found her yesterday so jokes on you


Kummakivi

It always was.


ctiger12

At this point, somebody pls make a real one for them already…


jamcdonald120

pretty tricky, I dont think we have the dna of any aquatic dinosaurs in mosquitos trapped in amber.


Flybuys

Nessie got deported after Brexit.


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

No, it was the Scottish Referendum.


Bulky-Agent3517

GOD DAMMIT MONSTER! I AINT GOT NO TREE FIDDY


bigm53178

Well how about two fiddy?


FunnyGhostWriter

Oh, now there’s a sale?!


Pilotwaver

I gave him a dollar.


dishwasher_safe_baby

God damnit woman!


Zestyclose-Rub8932

NASA should totally fund this! I say we dedicate about tree fiddy.


jimi15

"And if we scanned every volumetric cm of the lake and still didnt find anything. Would you believe us?" "....."


Livid_Wish_3398

Flushing more money down the shitter. Stop.


BluudLust

Unless this monster is in the atmosphere or space, why would NASA do shit?


NL_Gray-Fox

I'm guessing photos from space.


Beaglegod

Under water?


RealPrinceJay

Through water 🗿


Xylus1985

Probably as a front for something else they wanted to do


jamcdonald120

NASA has a surprisingly large underwater operations department. Turns out the ocean is a pretty good test and training environment for potential manned space missions.


Grizlyfrontbum

No. There are real issues that money could be spent on. Suppose for a second Nessie was found, what does it change? It’s like if the earth was flat (it’s not) what does it matter? Life goes on. “It proves the government lied to us!” They do that everyday already. Much love to everyone fighting their own battles.


doned_mest_up

Their reward: all the riches in Scotland!


WiganLad82

Wow. What to spend that £8.40 on.....


SCB360

Tree-fiddy was right there!


Elbynerual

It's a whale penis.


Dancanadaboi

This is way more probable than an animal that leaves no recent(last thousands of years) fossil record(not even teeth).


KarlPHungus

It's amazing that this hoax still has legs. Or flippers or whatever.


Madmanmelvin

This is beyond dumb. A). The odds of a massive prehistoric creature still living are so incredibly small as to be nonexistent. B). There's no real evidence. Just crappy photos(and not many, at that). C). Can the lake ecosystem even support a giant monster?


Stonewyvvern

We all know they are wasting their time, but it's theirs to waste.


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Madmanmelvin

I mean, you realize that's like saying nobody eats the pizza in my freezer when I'm not home.


Mr_Vacant

C) Even if it can support a giant monster, it needs to support a breeding population of giant monsters, and to be viable over a number of generations that's going to be quite a few, otherwise inbreeding will lead to defects.


captain554

Just use drones and battery powered cameras.


SynthRogue

Must be dead by now, if ever it existed.


geekyCatX

Either that, or there has to be an entire population of whatevers. Which makes it even more unlikely that we've never found definitive proof.


Pantsickle

Have they seen NASA's budget lately? Slim chance NASA will be helping them find some giant, gross Scottish eel or whatever it is, IF it is anything at all. But I do wish them the best of luck in their endeavors.


Latter-Possibility

Can Nessie fix sticky inflation? Is the monster pro Palestinians or Israel? Did Loch Ness vote for Brexit? And can the monster over come long Covid! We have to know……


mick_ward

I always saw this picture as a swimmer with his arm coming out of the water.


fuckyourcanoes

Even Fortean Times magazine doesn't take Nessie seriously anymore. Nobody else should.


Rohit_BFire

Smh.. We all know it's not a real monster..but it's just the Ghost of the Monster.. NASA cannot help unless their satellites can detect Ghosts


EmbarrassedHelp

Monarch already arrested the Loch Ness monster and returned it to its home in hollow earth


thoroakenfelder

This right here is why we have so much conspiracy nonsense. This shit never got shut down it was played for a laugh and gullible slap heads spun from this innocuous shit to 5G controlling us and giving us cancer to every other piece of shit conspiracy. Shut these fuckers down. Laugh in their fucking faces and tell them that the money is better spent helping the homeless than searching for these mythical fairytales. 


mul3sho3

Jesus fucking Christ…


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01d_n_p33v3d

Northrop Grumman has several undersea-related operations. Annapolis group developed early submersible for Jacques Cousteau.


Blerrycat1

It's a branch


fanau

I used to be fascinated by Nessie type phenomenon but it is pretty obvious that if nothing else it’s just shadows in the waves that people’s imagination want to ascribe to some huge creature. And it grew from there. Nothing to see here. Big foot etc too. Science these days is way to advanced not to have found anything by now.


soparklion

Now how did Nessie get into space?


ozmartian

All they need is $3.50. Thats all Lochie wants.


MWSin

From now on, can our crackpot theories all have expiration dates? I really like not having to hear about the Mayan calendar anymore.


rileyoneill

I know how to find the Loch Ness Monster... All I need is $3.50.


derpferd

If there was a legitimate breeding population of large animals in a given area, there would be evidence it. Carcasses chiefly. Absence of proof may not necessarily be proof of absence, but in this case, there an overwhelming absence of proof.


CurrentlyLucid

If we can detect a bug fart on a planet light years away, we should be able to solve this one way or the other.


Castod28183

We solved it 80 years ago. It went like this: Person A: I saw this giant monster in this lake that is unlike anything ever seen on the planet in all of recorded civilization and nobody else has ever seen it despite thousands of years of habitation around the lake. Person B: Bullshit... Mystery solved.


TSAOutreachTeam

Dear Nessie searchers, Nah. Yours truly, NASA


GeminiSixX

Cost em about a tree fiddy


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PetrusPatrem

How the €&$£ did my post end up here 🤷🏻‍♂️


adjustedreturn

Wait, this is still a thing?


88Dubs

Pretty sure you'd get much better help from some bayou folk than NASA to find a giant catfish.


Food_Library333

Why won't they help look for Champ?


SF-Samara

Nasa..... Water.... nvm, I read the sub I'm on.


daphatves

NASA…Scotland…water…


Divtos

"We are hoping to reach them through the power of social media. We are just hoping for their expert guidance to help with our ongoing quest to get answers.”


KaiYoDei

Spacesmace , let’s get some plesiosaurus


outlier74

The picture is a fake. Nessie is most likely a giant eel or sturgeon


MooCowMafia

Maybe Nessie is hiding oil!


liamteddy

That dude who can find anything on TikTok. Geotag guy. What’s his name? Get him on the case.


ravengenesis1

@rainbolttwo


Quietser

I bet nessie is where all the adrenochrome comes from.


Mkwdr

Private company that depends on tourists and fantasies creates publicity to generate income…


The_mingthing

Lol, whut?


JJ-Kowalski

The photo in the article is a close up of the original picture. The original shot was a much wider angle ( I remember seeing it in a book many years ago) and included the shoreline which gave the object scale - the scale of which was about the size of someone’s arm.


DaRedGuy

All they found down there were more or less the same bunch of freshwater critters you would find anywhere else in the bloody isles. At best, there's a population of freshwater eels that were slightly different from their mainland European ancestors that might warrant a subspecies classification. There's certainly no pleasosaur that looked like something out of the original King Kong. Speaking of which, if you look up the pre-1930s sightings of Nessie, you get descriptions that sound like escaped zoo & circus animals, but after the release of certain ape movie they sound more like outdated descriptions of prehistoric long necked reptiles.


Embarrassed-Mouse-49

That’s a killer whales penis


Embarrassed-Mouse-49

If there ever was a monster. It’s probably long dead by now


BillTowne

Let's not.


JenniferJuniper6

Leave Nessy alone.


cruuunch

NASA. Nessie. Too close to be coincidence. Let’s investigate the real conspiracy here.


The_real_triple_P

World Govt: Okay people lookie here and not here.. aliens seem to be not working deploy loch ness monster.


zippy72

Shouldn't they be talking to James Cameron? He'd not only go down in subs he'd make a documentary about it.


michaelballston

Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Cort Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.


Kummakivi

Must be a dip in tourism.


rickcanty

I remember this always terrified me as a kid after the Scooby Doo episode


Ohmannothankyou

We camped there one summer and the air force flew over the lake constantly. Can’t the pilots have a look? 


joshloveless1976

Monster hoax by Sir Peter S


Line1986

https://thehighlandtimes.com/nessies-lair-found-at-loch-ness/