Does the Loch Ness Monster Actually Exist?
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2022
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To be pedantic. Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs. They diverged from that line before even crocodilians. Crocodilians are also not dinosaurs, but they are relatives about as closely related to dinosaurs as pterosaurs are. Ducks and flamingos are dinosaurs. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
And chickens! And I'm pretty sure the tiny raptors know it. 😂
Let's just call it a monster!
So there are descendants of dinosaurs living in the loch. Those ducks that were mentioned. 😆
@@justin522 I will have to use that one sometime!!
What's a dodecahedron come under?
It seems most likely to me that the sightings are likely some species of large sturgeon fish. Sturgeon are Euryhaline (meaning they can live in both freshwater and saltwater, plus brackish water...obviously) and they can (in some cold water species) reach enormous sizes (well over 500kgs.) It would explain the "whale like" size and wake, plus the "rolling" behavior. I've seen first hand many sturgeon that would likely bewilder folks less exposed to them. The fact that they migrate could easily explain the rarity of the sightings as well. They tend to have prolonged lifespans, which allow the size and decades and/or centuries of sightings (even in miniscule numbers.)
Anyway, just a thought.
I was just thinking of them. And they grow constantly. People have seen sturgeon in Lake Erie that are bigger than people, and they look pretty monster like. They look pretty mettle like.
Or aslo whale peen breaching the surface their wee wees do that
Is it Nessie?
Nah, it's Nicola Sturgeon out for a swim again
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Probably weather balloons.
@@Dad...... Swamp Gas
What I liked about the DNA collection was that the eels were not huge to the point of being mistaken for the monster, but they are large enough to explain some of the sightings people have had in the lake that they could not understand because people did not realize there was a population of eels in there.
Add in the mirages factor too. Or how a few seals rolling and traveling through the water together can seriously look like a creepily large serpentine or humpbacked creature.
Several drunk eels following the only eel that knows the way home.
@@albigensiac3206 Lake Simcoe has a long, narrow appendage called Kempenfelt Bay which is said to be the home of a lake monster called Kempenfelt Kelly.
I believe it's eels and seals. Also won't eels gather in a group, called a swarm or fry, that can look like a solid lumpy mass tumbling around when they gather, at least certain types?
Eels are creepy. They taste good, but live ones are scary.
two explanations for some of the sightings (not all, and not the hoaxes obviously) 1. eels have been known to group together in a mass (possibly for mating) tangling and "rolling" in a large group. this has been described very much like a "lumpy black creature rolling over in the water" 2. sturgeons. they may be rare now, but those are some HUGE and very bumpy fish, with often bowed backs...
ps. we still have dinosaurs, we call them birds
*if they choose to self identify as them...depends of the pronouns of the day*
Sturgeons are not rare.😀
I was huge into the Loch Ness Monster as a kid. Finding out the surgeon's photo was fake in '94 was like finding out Santa wasn't real.
Same.
Same 😞😓😩
Same. I really wanted Nessie to be real.
That Photo was not proven fake ! What happened was that a rival family which had been exposed as faking evidence took the chance to denounce the surgeon after he died something they didn't do whilst he was alive! So we simply don't know! 🤡
Though a careful rationalist I have come to the conclusion that these creatures are real ! Here's why - 1: they are sighted worldwide 2: they are known in only the lochs that have access to the sea not the unconnected distant ones ! 3: they are recorded all other the isles recorded in stone and script fading over the centuries from the over populated or polluted areas 4: lastly not only anecdotal references but a written official document on a particularly difficult deadly one that a knight was detailed to battle and successfully ! Please see the work of Holiday on this and by the way the creature be it the Afranc , nessie, shellag etc was a huge worm-like creature not anything like a plesiosaur ! 😎🤡✝️🌈
There is a sure way to see “the monster” and this trick was given to me by a local while I was visiting the loch. Take two bottle of your favourite whisky, preferably single malt Scotch and while sitting by the loch start drinking. You will see the monster in no time and probably a Hell of a lot of other strange things
I see what you’re saying…you’re saying maybe it’s attracted to whiskey breath. It’s been proven to be true, if a local said so.
@@coconutcore Haggis are attracted to whisky breath it’s the easiest way of hunting them that’s why it’s also tradition to top it with some whisky cream sauce when you are eating it.
I just pull back the zipper ;)
I WISH I could find something in the liquor store that induces hallucinations.
Do they put weird things in their Scotch there? Because as someone who gets positively smashed about once a week, I am pretty sure that you do not halucinate from drinking. You do pass out if you go too far, and you will generally vomit the next day if you go said far (if not somewhere during the night). But it doesn't make you start seeing things or miss-identifying things.
I love Simon's humor and the tangents he goes onto, and I love the editing on those videos. It has really grown excellent over time.
Thank you :)
He's arrogant and not in any way funny.
@@Aletheia-Mediahate comments within other comments are so funny bc who, instead of clicking off the video, goes through the comments to put hate on positive ones? 💀💀💀
My GF did some research on nessie for her Uni dissertation and one of my favourite things she dug up was apparently some tourists would asked tour guides when nessie would make an appearance like she was a sea world Orca or something 😂
Today is my birthday, and Nessie is definitely one of the most fascinating cryptids for me, so thank you Simon, and Ilze, and Aspen for this gift you have unwittingly given me. I loved the video.
Happy birthday Loethlin
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@@grahamfisher5436 Thanks so much :)
Unless you feed his little capitalist heart...he doesn't care lol
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
as i walked back into the room , i thought you said "due to the high pee content, you couldn't see but a few meters"...............of course realized you had said peat, but still got a good chuckle.........
Idk if Simon has ADHD, but I do know his job is perfect for someone with ADHD: he thinks up cool channel ideas, delegates some of the more focus-intensive tasks to others before reading the fruits of their labor with dramatic finesse and MANY tangents, all while thinking about his kayak. I'M JEALOUS!
I have ADHD and started getting really unable to listen to what he was saying at around 23:38 because it looks like he is shaking or bouncing, and it started driving me bonkers.
@@audreymuzingo933 You are WATCHING the same thing you are listening to? How do you get that focused?
@@globalrevolution Ah-ha! Good question. I actually wasn't watching most of the video (I was photographing jewelry to sell on Ebay, my full-time job because I can't work for in-person flesh and blood bosses, who use this bizarre concept they call "time" to measure against productivity, weirdest sh!t I've ever seen). My laptop and my workspace are all in the 16" x 30" area of a hospital table, the wheeled mobility of which enables me to sling it all to the side, the moment I smell burning and remember I was cooking something, or recognize that if I wait one more second to go pee in the bathroom it will happen here in the chair, LOL.
The nice thing about having my screen so close to my usual area of focus is that I can glance at it as needed, like when the dialogue indicates you have to see what they're talking about, or there's a clip of someone speaking in another language, with subtitles, that sort of thing. But this segment of the Loch Ness Monster video had my full attention because the "flipper" was the one photograph I always found compelling ever since I was a kid in the 80's. I actually went on to become a bonafide biologist, no sh!t, and did it for a while, but even that involves other people and performance judgements, so PPPPLLLL. Anyway I almost forgot about the flipper photo, and now at last that little piece of my happy, inquisitive childhood has died, ha.
Oh well. A few months ago I was sourcing a church sale for inventory, and found me a perfect 16" juvenile hyphalosaurus fossil for $25 (the frame alone would be worth way more than that). But I'll never sell it. It's on my wall, I'm looking at it right now. My own baby Loch Ness Monster.
@@audreymuzingo933 Okay now we're talking. Textbook case, including tangents that are really important for you to make the point you were trying to make
@@globalrevolution A blessing and a curse, am i right?
And did you go to that minute marker I linked, to see if he's really moving his head slightly but rapidly? Actually if you let it play for a while it goes to a different screen with a camera and stuff, but then goes back to him, and it looks like even the script is bouncing really fast in his hand.
Either that, or I am even more bonkers than I thought.
I'm actually Scottish, and have seen it.
It stood above us looking down with these big red eyes…
Oh it was so scary!
And I yelled, I said "What do you want from us monster?!"
And the monster bent down and said "I need about treefiddy."
What's treefiddy?
Three dollars and fifty cents.
Treefiddy.
Lol that takes me back
Legend 👍🤣😂
Goddammit Loch Ness Monster!
She gave him a dollar
Hur dur I guess
I'll be taking part in an excavation at a Pictish fort at Moray this summer! I'll let y'all know if I find any loch ness monster paraphernalia there :p
Oooh please do Frank!! Love Pictish art, have z-rod tattoo on my wrist! Xx
How incredible is that? I hope you find loads of interesting things! Come back and tell us! Good luck 🤞🏼
We can't wait to hear you report back, stranger. Let us know how it goes!
So . . . how was it?
I like the River Monster Jeremy Wade explanation... people are seeing Greenland Sharks that occasionally migrate in and then swim back out. They have a similar mottled appearance and stubby dorsal fin etc.
Agreed
No knowledge of the in and outlets for Loch Ness then? A dolphin would have a hard time getting in and out, check out the geography of Loch Ness….
The Coelacanth is a fascinating story, and it was only rediscovered by chance at a fish market, if I remember correctly. But it is pronounced see-lo-canth.
Remember the song like 5-10 years ago that went ‘like the ceiling can’t hold us’… I had learned about the coelacanth at that time and from then on could only sing ‘like the coelacanth told us’. Thank you for bringing that memory to mind and props on spelling it cause I couldn’t have. :)
I have heard about the fish market one but as far as I know the first specimin was actually found off the coast of South Africa by a lady fisherman. Dont remember her name. The body of it is still displayed in the Natural History museum of East London in South Africa. I have a photo of it
And it existed since way before the plesiosaur like almost 150 million years earlier.
@@chrissyboy7047Yes, the one in the fish market was in 1938.
@@nighthunter3039 Big difference between a fish that still exists and a plesiosaur. Dinosaurs were completely wiped out millions of years ago. A living plesiosaur would have had to be descended from millions of years of previous male and female plesiosaurs.
"There's like descendant of dinosaurs living today" -Simon before mentioning crocodiles
Crocodiles do share a common ancestor with dinosaurs but did not descend from them. An example of descendants of dinosaurs living today are birds.
But which one *seems* more dinosaur-y?
@@Warwallaby The secretary bird. It is literally a velociraptor that can fly, and sacrificed its teeth (it still has talons though, which are its primary offensive attack, and it is very good at kicking prey with them).
Edit: The shoebill, while a lot less initially fierce looking, definitely has a sort of dinosaur-like elegance to it as well.
The most dinosaur-y looking bird is definitely the Cassowary.
It is a proven fact that birds descending from dinosaurs is ridiculously impossible. No credible scientist any longer adheres to this theory.
11:05 - Chapter 1 - Nessie hits the charts
13:20 - Chapter 2 - More eyewitnesses account
16:45 - Chapter 3 - Hoaxes a plenty
22:40 - Chapter 4 - The flipper photo
26:50 - Chapter 5 - Nessie the boring culprits
27:05 - Mirages
27:50 - Seals
29:20 - Boats & boats wakes
30:45 - Chapter 6 - Is Nessie a Plesiosaurus
34:00 - Chapter 7 - What has been found so far
37:55 - Chapter 8 - Is Nessie a giant eel
40:40 - Chapter 9 - Non monster
40:50 - The pansy
42:30 - The wellington bomber
43:05 - Chapter 10 - Why the search for Nessie
44:10 - Conclusion
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OMG! the Shrieking Eels ! I could totally get behind the idea that Loch Ness contains Shrieking Eels!
Hahahaha. Maybe there are some R.O.U.S. out in the nearby woods as well?
when I was six I had a magazine subscription for kids and one issue had a section on monsters and urban legends. Nessie of course was one. It was a huge inspiration for me, and it lead to learning about biology, ecosystems, paleobiology, psychology, and investigating the practice of cryptology and delving into the creation of conspiracy theories. Whether or not cryptids are real (tbh I'm not sure it even matters, if they existed in the last 100 years they're probably extinct now), there is a strong desire in the world for natural mysteries or a hope that there is still more to discover. That need is just as fascinating as the monsters.
Dolphins common here on the East Coast, near the stones.
Moray eels are infamous in Scottish lochs and grow to a big size. Probs what the Picts were depicting 👍🏻
The shape of the Loch sides in some areas can cause v-shaped waves that look like something swimming underwater. They are caused by wakes from the many boats that use the Loch but the wake wave bounces off the sides and returns to meet it's opposite number, forming the v wave. As it takes a while for this to form the boat that caused the initial wave can be long gone. I've seen this form from Castle Urquhart, which I can pronounce properly.
my grandma on my moms side was born and raised in scotland, she moved to canada during or just after ww2. i remember her always telling us stories of when she was growing up. she seen the queen before she was the queen. i think she was 15 or 16 at the time( the queen) . but she'd always tell us stories about nessie and get us all scared of any lakes ponds or anything! wether or not nessie is real, it was still soo cool hearing her stories!!
“It’s making a boat sound! brrrrrrrr” was the best part of this entire episode 😂
I like the word 'obfuscate', though...
38:08 Hey, my little brother and I genuinely loved our cuddly moray eel plush from our favorite aquarium! Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey, right across from Philadelphia. They have a SHARK TUNNEL!
Seriously, it is awesome. And so are moray eel plushies.
TREY the Explainer's video on Nessie made a very good point: The modern descriptions of the monster came in the wake of King Kong, which featured a dinosaur that looks like Nessie. (He also goes into more detail on the cultural zeitgeist of the time as it relates to the mysterious and undiscovered.)
I just want to say that I am able to follow Simon so much better than anyone else cause his ADHD parallels my ADHD. Tangents are not only SUPER fun but also, necessary for focus. I love all these videos. Also, Jen's amazing sound and video editing just 😘👌 perfect. Tell all your amazing script writers I hope they are thriving 🥰
You hear that everyone, this broad can follow the channel SOOO much better than everyone else 😂……who says shit like this
Coelacanths were believed to have been extinct for 65 million years ago - until one was caught and brought in and examined by biologists and it was positively identified. This does give the chance of prehistoric creatures to exist - but I suspect that such things need to have a very large area to hide in or we would have found them ... so, mostly deep ocean.
I like when a mini sub found tracks on the bottom, it followed them until it came upon the old wheel barrow that was slowly being rolled across the bottom by currents.
I love this channel expressly *because* of the interplay between the writing and Simon's skepticism of the topics. Thumbs up on all the videos.
I believe in Skitty. :3
As a Scottish person, hearing loch pronounced as lock hurts my soul a wee bit.
Same! 😆
did you hear Loch Morar? - I think that was the pirate version Lock More Arrrr. Its basically pronounced Maw ruh
I love DTU because of Simon's casual swearing, it feels so much more personal and friendly. I feel like this is the behind the scenes space whereas all the other channels are the professional space.
I'd like to point out about the proposed name at 24:47 -
I also don't care for anagrams as secret messages, but it's clear how they came up with the name. "Nessi-" comes from Loch Ness, "rhombo-" meaning diamond-shaped (rhombus) and "-pterax" coming from "-ptera," or wing. So it's a reasonable scientific name for such a creature.
A Coelocanth Decoding the Unknown would be an excellent option!
We've known the giant squid has been real for a long time, because they wash up dead on shore. We just haven't seen a live one until fairly recently and we have no idea on their behavior.
We're confident that they're very aquatic tho
This is because they live in complete dark very deep in the ocean. It was only in the past decade that they were captured live on video for the first time, because it required a lot of special equipment to descend to the depths where they live.
Sperm whales carry scars from them
After the latest Casual Criminalist episode. We all know what the creaking in the attic could be.
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Otto! How could you?
The only logical explanation for Nessie is a Viking ghost ship sunk in the loch surfaces occasionally and sails the length of the loch crewed by ghosts the figure head explains the small head and long neck as seen in the doctors photo and oars flippers case solved
I love how these always open with a 2 minute tangent. Dont ever change Fact Boy.
@1:56 LOL. That physically made me laugh out loud. @30:30 Wels catfish is significant because of their large size. The biggest one I believe was close to 300lbs, if I recall. It was on an episode of River Monsters with Jeremy Wade (I can't say his name w/o doing an imitation of him saying it) Also, Loch Ness is connected to the ocean so an errant Bullshark or Greenland shark which can survive in fresh water and can live 250+ years seems a likely culprit. Or an as yet unidentified eel species. But to plays devil's advocate about being extinct....Coelacanths were thought to have been extinct 60+million years ago, until we found people who've been eating them for a while. So there is that. Ah....@33:29 never mind.
*Loch.
The editing in this episode was simply genius. Good lord Jen, you've outdone yourself.
I'm assuming Jen edited this*
yes, brilliant Jen.
I'd love to see an episode on zombies. They have a very long and strange history.
Like the zombies from religious origins or the zombies found in nature?
Primitive tribes eating brains.
Not to mention their cousins, the ghouls.
@@igitaq Why not both?
Like the one who were high on spice ? *Insert Into the Shadow's reference*
Simon#3, while jumping through the multiverse, popped into my living room and told me that Nessie exists, just not in our universe. I then opened another bottle of single malt scotch whisky, and we raised a few drams while we watched the wererabbits from Multiverse#244,567 chasing unicorns from Multiverse#9 & 3/4.
Just given the size of the Loch, I don't see any way that some sort of concrete evidence wouldn't have been found after all this time. If we can discover crazy new life all the time in nearly unreachable depths of the ocean, there's no reason we wouldn't have discovered a full species of animal that's been swimming the same body of water since the early Jurassic.
Why are there no living examples elsewhere in the world?
Spot on with the editing in this one. Rapidly becoming my favourite channel
That Lancaster they pulled from the lock, after 70 odd years under the water the tyres were still inflated and they hooked up a battery and the lights still worked!! Amazing stuff.
Trey the Explainer does a great video on the Loch Ness Monster, where one of the best revelations is that most of the well known sightings happened in quick concurrence with the original King Kong. Which features the famous scene where the heroes are menaced by viscous long necked plesiosaurs/dinosaurs (I know there is a difference but it’s not like the movie is accurate) in a lagoon/lake. Basically EVERY sighting since has been of long necked plesiosaurs creatures. That’s how you get the homogenous descriptions before the height of the age of the tv or the coming of the internet.
Tree fiddy...
Keep up the good work whistler!
stuff like this is what gets me through the day.
My latest favorite of the "oh **** it's real" discoveries, is the gravitational wave thing.
The way that shook out was pretty funny. Lab sets out to disprove the first finding and instead stumbles over the second one.
PS: My kid's first plushie/stuffie was a rat. Also a gift. Adult friends are a blessing and a curse.
Editing Simon into the stock photos throughout the video was hilarious and perfect.
When Simon sees Nessie's Ghost, then he will be a believer! 👻🦕
Best personality and story voice on RUclips 🙌🏼 love your channels.
I love your sense of humor and your stories and of course your honesty reactions. thank you. This one video was perfect.
Seeing the title: No, but man, I want to watch this one!
I saw a documentary which I've never been able to refind but they basically went to the Loch with science in mind and were like okay so if there's a monster is there enough food sources etc etc. At the end they looked into psychology and rigged up a pole that would bob up and down in the water. They deployed it at Loch Ness and some other Loch down the road. They then asked bystanders to draw what they thought they saw. The other Loch people all drew a pole and the Loch Ness people drew long necks, heads, even humps. Its all in the mind. You see what you want to see.
Thats interesting. Of you do ever find it, can you uodate us?
@@cheasepriest I have replied to my comment with the update :)
The idea of Nessie being an eel is quite a sound one. Okay, there's not a lot of food in Loch Ness, but that wouldn't be a problem. Anyone who's ever owned a pond will tell you that fish don't eat much in winter, when the water is ice cold - and if there's anything to be said about the water in Loch Ness, it's ice cold. So, the eel population could have a slower metabolism due to the temperature of the loch's water.
7:30 Loch Ness has a fairly direct connection to the ocean (albeit it would require a bit of upstream travel on the part of a dolphin), so it wouldn't be COMPLETELY outlandish for a lost dolphin to find its way to the Loch
That said, it would take quite a while for a population of dolphins to evolve from a saltwater to a freshwater species.
@@sethrivers5303 Dolphins don't care about fresh vs salt water though. They don't breathe in the water with gills like fish. What matters more is a reliable source of prey. (Though, reading briefly, there seems to be a case that saltwater mammals living for too long in fresh water can develop skin lesions because their skin isn't specialized for it so you may be on to something)
I still think food is the bigger concern
i didnt need photos or lack there of.. its a matter of food..
whats it gonna eat that the local fishers arent gonna have to compete with?
there just isnt enough food for people and a massive creature in or around the local area given every other predator like whales, dolphins, & birds also have to eat the fish..
Couldn't it have evolved to eat wasps?
The DNA tests were what finally killed my childhood hopes of us ever finding a Loch Ness monster. It would've been SO cool tho...
Well, look on the upside? Environmental DNA scanning is already being used to help us find and keep tabs on heavily endangered animals! It even gives us another way to track their DNA for signs of inbreeding, dangerous mutations, or infections!
Science is amazing (for crushing dreams).
Same…
In case anyone was wondering at 4:03 the high P content refers to Phosphorus which causes large amounts of algae growth that muddies the waters and decreases the visibility! :)
WHICH CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING!!!! THE LOCH NESS MONSTER PEE'S PHOSPHORUS CONFIRMED!! xD
Keep it coming with these great videos. Maybe add more time in the final edit of Simon going off on his tangents 😂
No, Simon, this is a good channel, don't put it down. As a skeptic, I enjoy listening to this sort of stuff from a fellow skeptic, who makes me laugh instead of facepalming and rolling my eyes
i love the idea of Nessie existing even with the facts infront of me saying she doesn't. I still hold onto that teeeeeny chance she could be a thing just because its something mysterious and wonderful to think about.
I think the theory that Nessie is actually a giant Wels Catfish is the scariest option. Catfish freak me out. They can get *huge*, make scary noises and are known to EAT PEOPLE.
You should do an episode on the Mokele-mbembe that would be a cool one
Just a heads up, it's pronounced, "see-lo-canth." The extinct/not-extinct fish, that is.
Hi Simon, enjoyable to watch as always. Would be interesting to see a video on the Beast of Gevuadan
Ooooh, that's a fantastic idea if we're heading into cryptids now!!
Excellent idea!
I love the fact that there is an appropriate piece of music that kicks in when Simon wanders off rambling on a tangent.
I love how open you are in these videos. And the humor is to notch lol
I saw a picture of a 600 pound sturgeon and holy crap I've never seen anything that looks more like an ancient sea monster. Coming upon one of them in the wild with no access to the internet and no way to figure out what it actually is would 1000000% make me believe there were sea monsters.
I had no idea they could get that big.
@@zarasbazaar You can see pics online and it is eye opening, makes me mentally forgive all the ancient civilizations I mocked.
@@lilykep both eye and sphincter opening!
@@zarasbazaar Some sturgeon reach over 500kgs. Incredible fish with impressive adaptations. Its a shame so many end up being slaughtered simply for the roe.
There is nothing more that scares me than to tread water above a dark. endlessly deep trench of water as you stated. Your one of the most pleasant, enjoyable informational group of channels to watch, bringing me hours of laughter and cerebral interest. Thank you Simon for all your yammering hard work. The best mate.
I was up to Loch Ness a few years ago and did a boat tour. I know it's a tourist gimmick but it's neat. Pretty place and it does seem fairly mysterious. I don't regret going.
Go for the monsters, stay for the Loch 🌿
I don't think there's one solution to the Loch Ness Monster, but several things that contributed to the story as a whole. Yes, some mis-sightings of logs, waves, birds, etc, playful seals, otters frankly messing about ... But it's more than a bunch of sightings, it's a legend and those are important for more reasons than finding a new species :)
To be fair, If I saw a monk raise the dead and repel a monster with a cross, I'd convert to Christianity, too.
Another fantastic episode. Simon has made my list of cool dudes I wanna have a pint with.
Every time you say "What happens here .." Simon my brain immediately fills in from the old Las Vegas commercials "Stays here."
What I’ve learned is that a Loch Ness monster has been found in the loch.
That being the huge model of the Loch Ness Monster from the movie.
(Also this is why I like monster hunters, because they often end up finding other cool stuff. Like the people searching for the Philosopher’s Stone finding loads of new elements by accident)
I think Simon hit a record in this video for the number of times he asked himself aloud, "What's wrong with me?!"
Simon really needed a pronounciation guide for coelacanth
The Simon’s-head-on-stock-photos gag singlehandedly made my whole year tbh, please never stop it
Great topic and video!
Thank you for making it.
See, it's perfectly plausible that a lake would have undiscovered species in it unique to that lake. There are tons of lakes with unique ecosystems. The problem with nessie is the size...there's not enough space in there to sustain a breeding population of something that size.
That is a great point there - there would have to be several creatures at least in the Loch, actually more like a small colony. The reports have often stated these animals are huge, around whale shark size or larger. There is access to the sea however through a small river that on rare occasions overflows due to excessive rainfall. There is not one clear photo or video of a large unknown animal at close range in daylight in Loch Ness but there are many, many interesting sightings by people familiar with the Loch, the wildlife in and around it, experienced anglers and fishermen. Intelligent and successful people from all kinds of walks of life have seen something they can't explain in the Loch. It's a bit of a mystery....
It's just one immortal creature. Don't ruin the economy in Inverness with your logic 😜
Isn't there underwater cave systems in the Loch?
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 No. They have used sonar in the Loch for decades and searched for caves but found nothing.
@@jnewhouseillustration6075 our sense can be easily fooled and it does not matter if we are "professional" in anything.Non of them is experienced in how our eyesight can be fooled and why we more likely see what we expect to see. We are in the 21 century and everyone gmhas s camera all the time. So we would have hundreds of pictures and films of colonies of these animals.
I love watching Simon do episodes like this. I share in the skepticism but I also keep an open mind. So Ill do the same thing he does as it goes along
1) ha this isnt real
2) hm well whats this then?
3) wh..nahh….no way..right?
4) yeah see i knew the shit was fake
😂🔥
there isn't any amount of food in the Loch in enough quantity to support any single large organism.
also, I really appreciate the isolated microphone arm. you can now type or pound the table with aplomb without creating a subsonic boom.
it's considerate. thank you.
4:50 the Drakensberg (in South Africa) is much more green and lush than any part of Scotland you could imagine. Go check out any random photo of The Great Escarpment in South Africa, it's intensely green. It's so green it will knock you over. The South African Plateau is probably one of the greenest places on Earth.
What about the Coelacanth. They were supposed to have been extinct 65 million years ago. One was discovered in 1937, 1974, and one was photographed off Pumula in 2019. I seriously doubt there are any Plesiosaurus' walking around, but just because someone says it's extinct, doesn't mean it is, especially in the oceans.
We have plenty of "dinosaurs" alive today. Take chickens for example, they are tiny angry t-rexes. 😂
Simon should definitely do an episode on the coelacanths.
There's nothing to disprove about coelacanths; we know they exist.
Considering that people have been seeing something in the loch for almost a millenia does suggest that there's something large living in the loch. I personally think that the "monster " is a sturgeon. They can grow well over 20 ft. In length, doesn't breathe air and are known to come to the surface occasionally. That would explain why sightings are so rare. And since the Scottish people have not slaughtered sturgeon for the caviar trade, it's quite possible for a population of mature sturgeon to exist in the loch without human contact. Considering that the Glenn family is decended directly from King Robert the Bruce, I really hope that there is something large living in the loch. If not, I sincerely hope that it remains a mystery. Scottish pride showing through lol.Another great video bro. Keep em coming cause I'm a knowledge whore!
I think we Irish beat you Scots when it comes to fairytales and mythical monsters. I blame Irish whiskey (the best ) and too much Guinness 🤣💚
Peace and happiness from Dublin 💚🇮🇪🏴
P.S may our countries be free from English tyranny soon‼️
Jeremy Wade in his series Lake Monsters (a spinoff of River Monsters) identified a sturgeon estimated to be 14 feet long in Lake Iliamna, Alaska. I'm not sure how long a sturgeon can get but 14' is pretty impressive and 20' probably isn't impossible.
I think Nicola Sturgeon is quite small 🤣
It could be schools of eels or lamprey too.. they look pretty knarly and prehistoric and individuals can be longer than humans
I was once fishing from a canoe on a lake in northern Minnesota and a thing at least 18 feet long swam under the canoe and bumped it fairly hard almost causing it to swamp. I assume it was a sturgeon but I desperately wanted it to be a nessie
As a Scot, im deeply offended that you couldn't butcher our lovely dialect through imitation 😉😆😂🤣
Very interesting stuff Simon. Ive had a slight fascination with the Loch Ness Monster since i was a kid. Mainly because of a roller coaster ride named after it at Busch Gardens Williamsburg that terrified me as a child. but when i was about ten my dad made me ride it and i thought it was awesome. Busch Gardens is divided into different themed countries and this ride was in Scotland. Its the first ride you see entering the park and I remember being scared of it when i was a child.
I grew up going to Busch Gardens Williamsburg too! Loch Ness was an awesome ride!
@@OpportunisticOmnivore Yeah it was and remember The Big Bad Wolf?
Look up the Okapi. Thought it was extinct and local tribes always knew it was still alive. But what about the Thylacine? I'd love to see a video on them.
I love how Simon shits on the mysterious with skepticism! This is one of my favorite Whistler channels
25:45 "this isn't proof, my dude". EXACTLY. That's why you need more than just a photo, as you requested back at 13:15.
You are soo funny Simon, I love it! I love how you say something and then get completely off topic.
I like this Channel, Simon. I don't think you're a bell end. I have actually learned about quite a few interesting things from it. Keep it up you curious skeptic
Simon, a proper descendant of dinosaurs would be a chicken. And a sparrow. Or birds in general.
Kinda explains a few things about them, don't you think?
...and thats why the egg came before the chicken too!
@@mho... Well, the egg came before the chicken because animals have to be born to exist. ;-) I have never fully understood the appeal of that aphorism.
@@bsadewitz comes from times before darvin! if you know nothing about evolution, its a tough question!
@@mho... Oh, you know, that's a good point! It seems exceedingly obvious in retrospect, and yet, in my 42 years on this planet, no one who I discussed that with ever mentioned it.
That really underscores how profoundly path-breaking and influential his thought has been. Think how much of the natural world was squarely beyond our comprehension without it--wow.
@@bsadewitz my personal favorit in the "we where ignorant in the past" stuff comes from *Edwin Hubble* #neverforget until he measures distances "out there", everyone KNEW the universe is our galaxy, THATS IT!.... until he in ~~1920ish prooved that the universe is a little bit bigger then our galaxy afterall!, but he got that knowledge for just over 100 years now!
They thought coelacanths were extinct for years, until they found some alive and thriving of the coast of Africa and an other of the coast of Indonesia.
Africa. ok. wanna cracker?
I have a friend who actually used to have a python as a pet, and it had a habit of getting out of it's cage at night. Several times she was woken up with the thing in her face, until one day it made its way into the attic. When she went to go get it it chomped down on her hand really hard and after she got away from it she ran out of the house and fainted in front of a family friend that was walking up to the door. I think she had to get stitches, iirc.
She got rid of the snake after that.
During ownership, every snake will hit you once or twice....period.. The story Simon read is b.s..
@@Cody38Super Wait, you mean snakes don't lay next to and measure their prey in the wild??🤣🤣🤣
@@Cody38Super well, the thing was almost as big as her, so I don’t blame her for freaking out when she woke up with it in her face.
Keep mixing this channel and into the shadows up. Expecting something funny come out knowing more but depressed. Or go in for something wholesome and hear a story about a famous log in a loach
I think we need to crowdfund a project to get Simon to publish a video with blatant, absurdly fake information. Just so he and his heart can retire with guilt.
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I love how much of your humor and personality we get to see in these, Simon. :) My belief in Nessie is that it is a tulpa, a creature given shape by the power of many believing minds over many, many years. Simon, do try believing in some things you can't prove. I believe in pretty much everything, and my world is HUGE. It's nice. So many possibilities.
Please, please, show us your creek/yard more! I love wild places!! ❤️❤️