Young
journalists are generally not aware that giant eel-like animals have been
sighted on Loch Ness for nearly a thousand years, by more than a thousand
credible witnesses, beginning with Catholic priests who lived in monasteries
on the edge of the lake in the Middle Ages.
The case is not closed on Loch Ness just because one photo was disproved.
It does not explain all the sightings over the centuries. It did not all
start with one photo.
Skeptics often skew the facts by saying there are not enough of a permanently
food supply in Loch Ness to support giant eels. Skeptics also falsely
assert that large scale sonor searches have never detected anything unusual
in Loch Ness.
The facts:
1) Many of the large scale sonor searchers have detected large moving
creatures deep in Loch Ness.
2) There are not enough fish living permanently in Loch Ness to
support giant eels, but there are loads of large fish that pass through
Loch Ness on their way to spawn in feeder streams. That's why people go
fishing
on Loch Ness.
There are always enough smaller eels to feed on in Loch Ness as
well -- a situation that would have naturally given rise to a giant "super-eel"
design.
If they ate migrating fish and smaller eels in the muck on the
bottom, there would be a vast abundance for them, and they would be out
of view most time.
Another skeptical distortion about Loch is that a small population of
giant eels in Loch Ness would not be able to survive in isolation.
Loch Ness is connected to the open ocean by waterways large enough float
medium-sized oceanliners. That is how all those large fish (five-foot
salmon and five-foot pike) get into Loch Ness from the open ocean. Five-foot,
juvenile giant eels could easily travel in both directions through those
same waterways.
The
word "sea serpent" refers to Loch Ness-type animals (giant eels)
seen in the open ocean. "Sea
serpents" are occassionally spotted in rivers. They are also sighted
near certain river mouths. All of the locations have one thing in common
-- lots of large, migrating fish.
They are occassionally spotted by Sicilian fisherman near the mouth of
the Carmel River near Monterey, California; and by Quinault Indian fisherman
near the mouth of the Queets River in Washington; and by Yurok Indian
fisherman near the mouth of the Klamath River in Northern California.
Nothing would stop juvenile giant eels from pusuing migrating fish up
rivers and water channels to places like Lake
Champlain, on the NewYork-Vermont border, or into Chesapeake
Bay in the eastern United States.
The "Loch Ness Monster" and "Bigfoot" have a few things
in common that are not often mentioned.
The sightings of both suggest giant variants of known species --
Orangutans and common eels. In some instances these giant variants are
living in the same neighborhoods as their smaller counterparts.
Both giant eels and giant apes are truly
gigantic, compared to humans. They are way too intimidating,
and way too fast, and way too large, to be captured
the way their smaller counterparts are captured.
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The famous photo debunking story, ten years ago -- the one that instantly
misinformed the general public about Loch Ness history -- was very hot
and very global. The history was knowingly distorted to make it the biggest
story possible. In order to make it the biggest story possible, the story
writers had to pin the whole legend on that one photo, so they pinned
it all on that one photo, and then they triumphantly announced the "Loch
Ness Hoax Finally Revealed".
Hopefully Bernama will never do the sorts of things that are common
practice with British tabloids.
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An analogy for young journalists to keep in mind:
If you are a lawyer defending a client in a trial, and you have a thousand
witnesses arrayed against you, and those witnesses are all credible and
adamant about what they saw your client doing, and they are now testifying
against your client one by one ... just see how far you will get with
a judge and jury by trying to argue that all those witnesses were hallucinating
when they observed your client.
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