FAMOUS
CASES
"Nessie"
(NOTE:
The following article was found at the
Parascope.com
website. Copyright at end of article.)
Nessie Sighted by 16 Witnesses
By D. Trull
Enigma Editor
PSCP
Trull@aol.com
The forever-bashful Loch Ness
Monster has reportedly just made a spectacular near-appearance. Sixteen people
were awestruck to see a powerful wake thrashing across the famed Scottish lake
for five to ten minutes. No one saw the creature itself, but the eyewitnesses
are convinced that some sort of large submersed creature must have caused the
motions on the water's surface.
The event was observed by
staff and guests at the lakeside Craigcarroch House Hotel on the evening of
June 6. Part-owner Kate Munro was the first person to spot the strange wake,
while out for an evening stroll with her daughter-in-law.
"We saw a disturbance on the
loch, a frothy disturbance with a wake tailing behind it," Munro said. "It
would have been something large that was creating that disturbance, and it
zigzagged quite a few times as an animal would do."
She notified her husband Dave
at the hotel, and a number of intrigued guests joined them in watching the
bizarre occurrence until it vanished. Loch Ness was otherwise placid, devoid
of passing boats or other forces that might explain the wake.
"I do not think there is any
other explanation than it was the Loch Ness monster," said David Neeld, a
tourist from England. "There were a few locals in the hotel's bar and they
said it was Nessie, so I will go along with that," he said. Alcohol presumably
played no part in the sightseers' testimony.
Whether this phenomenon was
really Nessie nosing about or not, a lot of guests of the Craigcarroch House
Hotel will go home thinking they've seen Scotland's greatest legend
firsthand... and that can't be bad for business. ParaScope will be watching
for further developments at Loch Ness.
In other recent sea-monster
news, in May fishermen landed a strange 25-foot skeleton off the coast of
Malaysia. With a "reptilian" skull and large, sharp teeth, it was first
believed to have been a dragon or some sort of unknown aquatic beast.
Examination by a taxonomist revealed it as the remains of a killer whale, a
species common to Malaysian waters.
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