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The idea of Nessie being a species of colossal eel that have been trapped into the Loch, unable to return to their spawning grounds, and thus continuing to grow larger and larger is so terrifying.
@@imp4209 the implausible part is probably the location, if the largest species of moray is half the size of what this video deems colossal (20ft) and they are found in environments with much better conditions, more food, and more reason to increase in size if that would even benefit their biology - the ocean has large fish that can prey upon an eel, loch ness has sheep crap. The idea that a species being in an arguably worse environment and evolving a form that requires even more resources is the silly part of this idea.
I believe in the 70s there was a boat that hit a large creature in the loch and had a huge chunk of flesh on the propeller that they connected to an eel species in some way or another. It was described as having a rubbery like black skin upon the flesh, but the sample was thrown out by a fool who did not know any better. wish I could remember more but its many 20 years since I have come across that information so I don't remember it in it's entirety. But I do think it is a really good explanation for the situation. It clearly cant be a dinosaur because the only habitat that could fit a large enough breeding species for a creature of that size without being noticed over the last 1000 years would likely be the ocean. So I believe that its a reasonable guess based on the survivability of other eels.
@damian5528 there's definitely enough sightings to be sure there is something that lives in a deep lake environment. But a large breeding population would be noticed. So it's kinda tough to say really, but a giant eel species is a very good logical guess
This video was basically adapted from a book called "The Loch" by Steve Alten. You can find more information and links in the description. I read the book years ago and loved it, so check it out!
Did you know that, in the “Meet the Demoman” short, the part that is bleeped out is not a long cursing session, the uncensored version has him say “they got more f##king monsters in the Great Lake of Lock Ness than they got the likes of me”, but it was bleeped out in-universe by the Scottish government because it revealed the location of the Loch Ness monster TF2 lore is hilariously wacky
@@taleandclawrock2606 1. Team Fortress 2 is set in the 70’s, before the invention of the internet 2. Not everyone in the TF2 universe knows it’s real in their universe 3. The fact that they censored it because it revealed the LOCATION implies that it may have been moved several times before 4. This is the same universe where the substance “Australium” behaves like vibranium and can make you both immortal and strong enough to tear a plane apart whilst fighting a yeti, teleportation turns bread into monsters, and Abraham Lincoln used his rocket launcher to get between floors easier because stairs hadn’t been invented yet, nothing is supposed to make sense (yes, all that is canon)
Some prehistoric Cryptids, you can do Kasai Rex Emela-Ntouka Mokèlé-mbèmbé Nguma-monene Georgia Raptor Ichisonga J̌irmu Xiao J'ba FoFi Kajipogo arica raptor
Oh, this is a brilliant take on the Loch Ness Monster! So much attention has focussed on Nessie being plesiosaur that surveys of the fish population have been done in an effort to see if the Loch could support such a relict population. This video flips this idea completely on it's head. What if, rather than a relict population of fish eating aquatic reptiles, Nessie is in fact a semi aquatic land animal hunting carnivorous fish? This would mean all those surveys that looked at eels and said there weren't enough to keep Nessie alive, were looking at Nessie all the time?
@@remuslazar2033 No, I happen to think that Jeremy Wade of River Monsters came up with the answer, that People have been seeing migratory Greenland sharks that took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the Loch
@@piglin469 Contrary to the idea that the Loch is a lake without any connection to the sea, it is, in fact a central feature of a waterway that stretches to the sea both north east and south west. The loch sits in an ancient rift valley, a bit like the African Great Rift, only it stopped opening up millions and millions of years ago, so looks like a narrow steep sided valley. It's this rift that makes Loch Ness so deep in comparison to it's narrowness. In fact, its very much like Lake Baikal in this regard. I believe that one of the waterways going into/ out of the loch is natural, whilst the other is a man-made canal, though I can't say which one. I have suggested that perhaps Greenland sharks have got confused, lost and taken a wrong turn into one of these connecting waterways: it might be that, in tasting/ smelling the water, and sensing that the waterway including the loch is rich with salmon, eels and other migratory fish, they have deliberately swum up them, and swum into the loch. Whether or not they were then able to find their way out is a little moot. The point is, there are some shark species that habitually swim from salt to freshwater habitats quite happily, Bull Sharks in particular, and there is a lot about cold-water- living sharks that we do not know. It wasn't until not too long ago that Greenland Sharks, being slow-moving and otherwise sluggish, were a docile species and rather harmless. In fact, they are vicious predators of seals, actively hunting their prey.
I've been on a Loch Ness kick the last few days, listening to biographies and analyzes on it and the creature. This is always been my favorite cryptid, and I am so happy that you're covering it! It makes me more excited to see what else you're going to be covering!
There is clear photographic proof of seals in Loch Ness. Yet no seal DNA was found in the 2019 study. Of all freshwater wildlife, seals bear the closest physiological similarity to the plesiosaur...
This depiction of the Loch Ness Monster could also easily explain Jörmungandr the Midgard Serpent from Norse mythology the same way gigantic squid inspired the Kraken
Vikings reported the kraken looked like an island a mile long or so there is no squid we know bigger than 50 60 ft range. It could be a titan like Scylla or Cthulhus kid
@@odapunkt Exactly, the Kraken is a gigantic octopus so it has nothing to do with squid sightings. The Kraken was purely fictional and never came from sightings of giant squids. I bet those sailors didn't even realize that giant squids existed.
Since you mentioned Lake Champlain, I feel like I should include the fact that I know someone who has claimed to have witnessed Champ several times, and in some cases has seen multiple individuals at once. These sightings are not connected to the most popular pieces of 'evidence' for the creature, such as the likely disproven Mansi photograph. Based on the descriptions I heard, Champ bears remarkable resemblance to the Triassic reptile Tanystropheus. Although impossible to be a living descendant, it is most likely to be a reptile of some sorts that has convergently evolved a similar body plan. This means it is likely under 20ft long with roughly 30-40% of its body being its neck. This also means that it's capable of terrestrial locomotion, which has been reported in a few other Champ sightings. According to what the witness told me, he was on a boat in sometime in the late 2000s and noticed not one, but two Champs. He claims to have seen the two corral a school of fish using their necks into a shallow cove, and even saw it eating them. He didn't capture it on film but did notice the animal from the shoreline years later with its head above the water, notably possessing a very flexible neck. Dennis Hall, a cryptozoologist who has claimed to have seen Champ over 20 times, also supports this idea of Champ being a Tanystropheous or something like it. There are also unknown sounds that have been recorded in the lake which sound like the echolocation of belugas and dolphins, which if connected to Champ, suggests the reptile is capable of using echolocation. I would love to see you tackle this cryptid, regardless of what it would end up becoming in your video.
Arguably the closest thing we get to this Tanystropheus-like aquatic reptile is the extinct Choristoderan which did survive into Cenozoic with the youngest representative being found on Miocene epoch
So you don’t like to imagine & speculate that Champ could be (in the slightest chance) a plesiosaurian that’s evolved to tolerate freshwater & became amphibious, even though is unlikely ? Because I would find it somewhat more plausible for Champ being a plesiosaurian then Nessie.
@@ekosubandie2094 I’ve looked up on that & is pretty remarkable, but if that order of reptiles was able to survive from the age of the dinosaurs to the age of mammals. Then why couldn’t any species of plesiosaurians by any chance ?
The original descriptions of Nessies, all the way back to 565 A.D., were of a sea serpent, or a Wyrm, not a Plesiosaur, so describing it, specifically, as a kind of large eel makes quite a bit more sense. In fact, here are some things that I've found that suggest an even earlier time period- "The earliest written record of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as "Nessie", is from 565 AD when St. Columba is said to have driven a beast back into the water of the river that flows into Loch Ness. Between the 1500s and 1800s, there were 21 recorded sightings of the creature by local people. Some of the earliest evidence of the Loch Ness Monster may be carvings made by ancient inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands around 1,500 years ago." "However, the Picts weren’t the first people to live around Loch Ness, and if the dinosaur-like creature is as old as has been claimed, earlier inhabitants may have spotted the beast. In the last 10 years, another prehistoric cemetery in Drumnadrochit on the northern shore of Loch Ness has been excavated. Several discoveries on the site, including a beaker pot found in a small stone-lined grave (known as a cist) in late 2017, dated the cemetery to the Bronze Age, about 1,000 years before the Picts were around. But the site was also occupied for a brief stint in the Neolithic period around 3,600-3,500 BC."
The people of 16th century Scotland did not know about plesiosaurs. Also, I suspect that if Darren Naish wrote about the Loch Ness Monster in his book Cryptozoologicon, he would have gone with the large eel himself.
Imagine if it was a giant species of anphiuma or caecillian I’ve always felt like lake Omer sightings were giant eels or some kind of unknown mud burrowing giant amphibian
Can you provide a link to a source on sightings dating back to the 1500s? The first 'genuine' sighting.of the monster that I know of was by the couple driving near the lake in 1933.
The Loch Ness Monster, a fantastical classic! It makes perfect sense that it's a massive species of Anguila Eels, and why no one has ever found proof of the Monster's existence. It's better than assuming it's a Plesiosaur that miraculously survived the Kp-g Extinction. I was honestly hoping that the next episode after the Minotaur was gonna be Centaurs, given that we were heading to the Mountains of Thessaly after the last episode. Also, I hope we'll be seeing some more legendary greatures, like Griffins, Trolls, Elves, or some other creature that doesn't need to be observed or dissected. But rather, be interviewed. That would be game changing! But regardless, This is such a good episode, and I hope to see more!! Keep up the astounding and fantastic work, Thought Potato!!!
I confess I have nearly always taken a dim view of "big fish" hypotheses for lake monsters, seeing them as a cop-out. Yours, though its reliance on specially circumstantial growth anomalies is a stretch, is an exception as usual. Bravo.
LET'S DO IT NOT ONE OF YA IS GONNA SURVIVE THIS (EYELANDER SCREAMING) ONE WAYWARD WIRE ONE PINCH OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE ONE *_ERRAND TWITCH_* AND KABLOOEY [GULP GULP GULP GULP GULP CLINK] They've gotta make yer head I'm a black Scottish Cyclops THEY GOT MORE MONSTERS IN THE GREAT LOCH AT NESS THEN THEY GOT THE LIKES OF ME [BEEP BEEP BEEP] SO THAR YOU FINE DANDY SO PROUD SO COCKSURE PRANCING ABOOT WITH YA HEAD FULL OF EYEBALLS COME N GET ME I SAY I'LL BE WAITING ON YA WITH A WHIFF OF THE OLD BRIMSTONE I'M A GRIMM BLOODY FABLE WITH AN UNHAPPY BLOODY END [BOOOM] AAAHAHAHAHAH OH THEY GON TA HAV TA GLU YOU BACK TOGETHER *_IN HELL_*
Man, the pronunciation of Storsjön, it took me a few seconds to realize which lake he meant. The name means the Great Lake (despite it only being the fifth biggest one in Sweden), and it too has legends of a monster dwelling in its depths; The Great Lake Monster, or Storsjöodjuret in Swedish
I once tried coming up with some decent explanations for cryptids. I made the Mokele-Mbembe into a giant species of softshell turtle, and Nessie into a long-necked otter. That said, this is cooler.
I suggest you do an episode with the norse world-serpent, Jörmungandr. It's a terryfying idea, a serpent, surrounding the whole world, so large that he feasts on his own tail, spitting acid that's prophecised to kill the strongest of gods, Thor himself! I just think it's a fun concept, fitting the channel. Aslo, great work with the video, enjoyed every second of it! Keep it up!👍
I really like this variant of Nessie. I have never heard of the Nessie Eel theory before and whilst I do like the ancient dinosaur concept, a giant land dwelling Eel is just so cool.
Keep up the badass work my guy! I look forward to getting home to watch your videos every time i get a notification! The manticore and the mothman ones have been my fav!! Looking forward to your next video
Gosh, this is so amazing! You should make a Book with all this cryptology series! And, I have a suggestion: how about You make a video on the Naga (snake people) similar like how you did the siren and merfolk?? Keep up the amazing work!
I've seen many loch ness monster documentaries. I had my doubts about the "eel" theory. But watching your video has convinced me that the eel may just be the monster. The eel "slide" from land to water fits in with an account I read and saw drawings of. I think your video was masterfully done and you have convinced me...of the eel.
As a semi-longtime viewer of your channel and a person currently undergoing a college in pursuit of ichthyological studies, seeing you tackle the Loch Ness Monster- and hearing the very words “advanced teleost fish” were absolutely incredible to hear! Time and time again, fish prove that despite being the oldest vertebrates, they’re far from obsolete! 🐟🦈🐠
wow.. i clicked expecting this to be your most "fantastical" work but this might be the most anatomically plausible (technically) work of yours yet! super cool
A giant eel! OK, I would not have thought to go in that direction but it makes perfect sense. Your scientific solutions to cryptids continues to impress me
I'm absolutely obsessed with this series, and all of the incredible work you've put into it. I've seen every video at least five times; I love listening to your voice. Suggestion/request: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! It's a great short story that heavily inspired the Hulk franchise. It's especially intriguing as it describes Dr. Jekyll's body and psychology becoming addicting to being Mr. Hyde, a completely different person with a taste for violence and destruction. I think you would have a ton of fun figuring out how or what causes the draft to transform its consumer, and how it led to Dr. Jekyll's demise.
An absolute masterpiece, as expected of this channel. I never in a million years would have thought of Nessie being an eel, but it makes sense now that I’ve heard of the idea.
I love just how realistic you bring all these cryptids to life, especially for one as famous as The Loch Ness. Another cryptid you could tackle from this region is the British Big Cat. Either as European Puma or even an unclassified Panthera species.
What will also be cooked up in your creative brain, Professor? Fae creatures? Banshees? Goblins? Trolls? Ogres? The Jersey Devil? Selkies since you do a lot of mermaid-like creatures? Either way, I can’t wait
It would be neat to see your take on the Con Rit, a Vietnamese cryptid typically described as a very large aquatic centipede. I've seen some interpretations of it that are more akin to crustaceans and radiodonts, so there are lot of avenues that you could go explore with it.
I really love the way you present these, even if they are inspired from novels and what not; these are top rate mockumentary style fiction done right. Like those low budget Discover and Animal Planet mockumentaries have nothing on your work and presentation. Entertaining enough to just enjoy the fantasy and fiction, but still just enough science tossed in to give us all the classic markers of a good sci-fi story. I also really like the first person narrative style you tend to go with when voicing these videos; it reminds me of some SCP channels formats.
Can't wait for the other cryptid icon Sasquatch covered, feel you'll do that one justice as ya did with Nessie here~! Likely can be a nice and juicy two-parter each nearing over an hour in length. With the second part possibly even covering the smaller, lighter-colored reddish brown and mottled coated skunk ape subspecies that's more fond of hotter environments and thus is mainly found across Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, and with much smaller family groups and reduced territories, i bet!
I like the idea of them being super long-lived eels that only started existing in the 30s to explain why no remains have been found. Also, I heard that sightings of Nessie have gone down in recent years, lending to the idea that maybe she's finally died and lying somewhere at the bottom.
Omg I cant believe you rly chose to do a video about the loch ness monster from my suggested list. you probably already had it in motions in your plans but I'm just happy you made a video of a creature I suggested. please keep these videos going for years to come, I absolutely love them. btw in your last video you said you missed your flight, so you're still in Greece? I would've thought you would've made your next video on a Greek mythical creature. I'm sure you have thought about this already and have an explanation on why you're in Scotland now and I cant wait for that video. ♥ ♥
Yes, in most of old legends and in old tales the "Sea Monster" is actually a Sea Serpent. Tribes have been telling these stories for hundreds of years. Compelling stories, attacks, and video evidences are the same. ALWAYS eel or snake-like creature .Even the small details on these creatures are always serpent-like. I have no idea why people keep pushing this Plesiosaur BS. Fan of the topic, but never understood it. Great and smart video!
Interesting interpretation. It makes sense that Nessie is an Eel rather than a Plesisoaur. And not just Nessie but the Mythical Sea Serpents in general. Do you think you can talk about the Ahuizotl (Lake Monster of Texcoco, México) and/or the Jersey Devil in the future, please?
Not sure if you’ll see this comment but I have an interesting idea for the phenix video when you inevitably get to it. Flame resistant down. Duck like oil glands that make a substance with a low flashpoint and that burns relatively cool. Instead of molting it burns it’s flammable top feathers. Why? To scare predators. To burn off parasites. To signal others for whatever reason. To play dead either to seem less appetizing or to draw in a carnivore that eats dead things and ambush it. On maybe flame molting is just faster.
There was a special on PBS where some people went out to Loch Ness with equipment and all that, but on the last day they were getting some stock footage of the lake. There was something large moving just under the water and leaving a wake, but you couldn’t see what it was. If it was faked by them I guess they could’ve use an underwater drone or something, but even that seems kinda weird. There are lots of things on this world that I think bleed through from other dimensions and wander around, I don’t see why if they do it on land there can’t be ones that live in the water too. That would explain why they’re rarely ever seen. As our scientific knowledge increases we show that things are possible, which a hundred years ago seemed impossible. We want to believe we’re at the apex already, but we’re nowhere close.
I absolutly adore your videos, I'm just smilling every time I get the new video notification ! I wonder what you think about the Tarasque (not the DnD one, the french one) ? It's features would be interesting to explore I think !
This was very well done! Between the minotaur and nessie, these two beasts are the most unlikely of your lot so far, but yet you've done a good job! So, I have a challenge for you. The biology of the great saige equal to heaven! Sun Wukong!!
Indeed, I’ll have to agree! Though the art displayed seems to have the most detail portrayed in Nessie’s anterior regions, so I can say the lack of attention to the tail may be a stylistic choice? Furthermore the skeletal structure in the thumbnail & video ignore the pectoral fins, dorsal fin spine-vertebral structures, and just most anything beyond the skull and vertebrae.
I remember reading a book with a blue cover in my school library when I was a kid about the Loch Ness Monster, and it also suggested the possibility that it could be a giant eel. Seems more likely than a plesiosaur, if he does exist. I know it's more likely the result of indulging too much at Iverness pubs, but still, it would be just nice if it did exist.
Lowkey would've been cool seeing you like, commissioned certain artists like that one famous horror one (Val-something, i think) that does wicked photoshopped pieces to cook up a photo of the caught specimen, just to nicely amp up the immersion~!
I think this is a solid take especially given your research on land, however it doesn’t explain long neck often associated with the monster and the fact that Nessie swims/undulates vertically, is seen swimming at high speed at the surface, and ‘bounds’ on land which eels are not able to do. That being said I think this is still a very interesting discovery and I still believe Nessie is rather a large mammal that is capable of aquatic & terrestrial movement
If there isn't a monster, then what are they selling plushies of? There may or may not be something there, but Nessie is real, and essential to the local economy.
Cool take on the Loch Ness monster! Very inspiring. Here are some suggestions of scientific takes on mythical and fictional creatures of mine. 1, kraken 2. Cthulhu 3.Godzilla 4.leviathen and behemoth. 5. King ghidorah, mothra and rodan. 6.hydra. 7. Jourmangandr (world serpent). 8. Scylla and Charybdis. 9.ego the living planet and the Celestials. 10. Galactus and the black winter.
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For one of your upcoming “The Sceince of…” videos, could you make one of Sasquatch and the Yeti please??
I'd love to see if you could make ghost real.
Hey potato, I have a question could you do a video about the movie the mist and the creatures in it
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USE!!! METRIC!!! SYSTEM!!!! I HAVE NO IDEA WTF IS FEET OR POUND!!!!
Dude, start your own cinema franchise. Your videos about the anatomy of monsters are absolute peak of science.
From your lips to God’s ears
@@ThoughtPotato please dragons I beg you 🙏
@@ThoughtPotatocan you please do a ropen video?
@@ThoughtPotatoplease make a video on Mokele mbembe next
@@ThoughtPotato I imagine something a lot like Supernatural, but more realistic and scientific.
"Oh wow a 10 ft nessianicus, Y O I N K!! Have *you* seen the 50+ footer?"
I know that reference!
"Hey I'm here in loch Ness and I'm looking for that 50 footer"
Oh no he’s yoinking in the Loch now
“Awh he’s giving me kisses”
It's only a matter of time before he switches targets
The idea of Nessie being a species of colossal eel that have been trapped into the Loch, unable to return to their spawning grounds, and thus continuing to grow larger and larger is so terrifying.
Totally implausible but a great sci fi film basis
Not that implausible...exactly what is not possible about this
@@imp4209 the implausible part is probably the location, if the largest species of moray is half the size of what this video deems colossal (20ft) and they are found in environments with much better conditions, more food, and more reason to increase in size if that would even benefit their biology - the ocean has large fish that can prey upon an eel, loch ness has sheep crap. The idea that a species being in an arguably worse environment and evolving a form that requires even more resources is the silly part of this idea.
@@imp4209 pretty much everything
I wonder what would it taste like?
I like how this was a unique take on the "Big Eel/Fish" Theory for the monster.
Keeps it grounded yet still has some fantastical elements.
I believe in the 70s there was a boat that hit a large creature in the loch and had a huge chunk of flesh on the propeller that they connected to an eel species in some way or another. It was described as having a rubbery like black skin upon the flesh, but the sample was thrown out by a fool who did not know any better. wish I could remember more but its many 20 years since I have come across that information so I don't remember it in it's entirety. But I do think it is a really good explanation for the situation. It clearly cant be a dinosaur because the only habitat that could fit a large enough breeding species for a creature of that size without being noticed over the last 1000 years would likely be the ocean. So I believe that its a reasonable guess based on the survivability of other eels.
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So if Nessie can’t be a plesiosaurian, then what about Champ or Morgawr?
@damian5528 there's definitely enough sightings to be sure there is something that lives in a deep lake environment. But a large breeding population would be noticed. So it's kinda tough to say really, but a giant eel species is a very good logical guess
This video was basically adapted from a book called "The Loch" by Steve Alten. You can find more information and links in the description. I read the book years ago and loved it, so check it out!
Nice I really love Nessie :)
DUDE!
I LOVE this book and the explanation it gives for Nessie is probably the most plausible and believable!
Thank you!
All we need is a Sasquatch video and the collection is complete!! *PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!*
always loved this book. hopefully this is the next steve novel to get adapted into a film.
please do a video on the Lusca.
Did you know that, in the “Meet the Demoman” short, the part that is bleeped out is not a long cursing session, the uncensored version has him say “they got more f##king monsters in the Great Lake of Lock Ness than they got the likes of me”, but it was bleeped out in-universe by the Scottish government because it revealed the location of the Loch Ness monster
TF2 lore is hilariously wacky
And funnily enough the Scottish government censoring free speech is happening right now! It’s a wonderful madhouse of a world we’ve shifted into.
Yeah demoman killed the Loch Ness monster
@@Iwascrazy I thought that was the Loch Ness Hamster?
That makes no sense, everyone with internet has heard of the Loch Ness Monster.
@@taleandclawrock2606 1. Team Fortress 2 is set in the 70’s, before the invention of the internet
2. Not everyone in the TF2 universe knows it’s real in their universe
3. The fact that they censored it because it revealed the LOCATION implies that it may have been moved several times before
4. This is the same universe where the substance “Australium” behaves like vibranium and can make you both immortal and strong enough to tear a plane apart whilst fighting a yeti, teleportation turns bread into monsters, and Abraham Lincoln used his rocket launcher to get between floors easier because stairs hadn’t been invented yet, nothing is supposed to make sense (yes, all that is canon)
Some prehistoric Cryptids, you can do
Kasai Rex
Emela-Ntouka
Mokèlé-mbèmbé
Nguma-monene
Georgia Raptor
Ichisonga
J̌irmu
Xiao
J'ba FoFi
Kajipogo
arica raptor
Partridge Creek Monster comes from a single fictional newspaper story. It's more fictional than other cryptids.
@@dalekrenegade2596 ah ok thanks didn’t know that
Yesssss more variety of creatures!
@@kremstoin thank you
African peacock exist
Oh, this is a brilliant take on the Loch Ness Monster!
So much attention has focussed on Nessie being plesiosaur that surveys of the fish population have been done in an effort to see if the Loch could support such a relict population. This video flips this idea completely on it's head. What if, rather than a relict population of fish eating aquatic reptiles, Nessie is in fact a semi aquatic land animal hunting carnivorous fish? This would mean all those surveys that looked at eels and said there weren't enough to keep Nessie alive, were looking at Nessie all the time?
So you mean Nessie is a giant eel?
@@remuslazar2033 No, I happen to think that Jeremy Wade of River Monsters came up with the answer, that People have been seeing migratory Greenland sharks that took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the Loch
@@carolynallisee2463 How did the sharks get in the loch
@@piglin469 Contrary to the idea that the Loch is a lake without any connection to the sea, it is, in fact a central feature of a waterway that stretches to the sea both north east and south west. The loch sits in an ancient rift valley, a bit like the African Great Rift, only it stopped opening up millions and millions of years ago, so looks like a narrow steep sided valley. It's this rift that makes Loch Ness so deep in comparison to it's narrowness. In fact, its very much like Lake Baikal in this regard. I believe that one of the waterways going into/ out of the loch is natural, whilst the other is a man-made canal, though I can't say which one. I have suggested that perhaps Greenland sharks have got confused, lost and taken a wrong turn into one of these connecting waterways: it might be that, in tasting/ smelling the water, and sensing that the waterway including the loch is rich with salmon, eels and other migratory fish, they have deliberately swum up them, and swum into the loch. Whether or not they were then able to find their way out is a little moot. The point is, there are some shark species that habitually swim from salt to freshwater habitats quite happily, Bull Sharks in particular, and there is a lot about cold-water- living sharks that we do not know. It wasn't until not too long ago that Greenland Sharks, being slow-moving and otherwise sluggish, were a docile species and rather harmless. In fact, they are vicious predators of seals, actively hunting their prey.
@@carolynallisee2463 huh wierd
I never ever thought of the loch ness monster to being a possible creature shown in this series, but I'm so glad it is!
I've been on a Loch Ness kick the last few days, listening to biographies and analyzes on it and the creature. This is always been my favorite cryptid, and I am so happy that you're covering it!
It makes me more excited to see what else you're going to be covering!
All we need now is the varied species of Sasquatch
There is clear photographic proof of seals in Loch Ness. Yet no seal DNA was found in the 2019 study. Of all freshwater wildlife, seals bear the closest physiological similarity to the plesiosaur...
The fact that the sponsor segment had clues for the video it’s wild
‘And for viewers like you, thank you’ gave me a shock of memories from when I used to watch pbs
This depiction of the Loch Ness Monster could also easily explain Jörmungandr the Midgard Serpent from Norse mythology the same way gigantic squid inspired the Kraken
Vikings reported the kraken looked like an island a mile long or so there is no squid we know bigger than 50 60 ft range. It could be a titan like Scylla or Cthulhus kid
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I believe the Kraken was real and an octopus not a squid
The giant squid did not even inspire the Kraken, the Kraken is a purely fictional creature that has nothing to do with giant squids.
@@odapunkt Exactly, the Kraken is a gigantic octopus so it has nothing to do with squid sightings. The Kraken was purely fictional and never came from sightings of giant squids. I bet those sailors didn't even realize that giant squids existed.
Since you mentioned Lake Champlain, I feel like I should include the fact that I know someone who has claimed to have witnessed Champ several times, and in some cases has seen multiple individuals at once. These sightings are not connected to the most popular pieces of 'evidence' for the creature, such as the likely disproven Mansi photograph.
Based on the descriptions I heard, Champ bears remarkable resemblance to the Triassic reptile Tanystropheus. Although impossible to be a living descendant, it is most likely to be a reptile of some sorts that has convergently evolved a similar body plan. This means it is likely under 20ft long with roughly 30-40% of its body being its neck. This also means that it's capable of terrestrial locomotion, which has been reported in a few other Champ sightings.
According to what the witness told me, he was on a boat in sometime in the late 2000s and noticed not one, but two Champs. He claims to have seen the two corral a school of fish using their necks into a shallow cove, and even saw it eating them. He didn't capture it on film but did notice the animal from the shoreline years later with its head above the water, notably possessing a very flexible neck.
Dennis Hall, a cryptozoologist who has claimed to have seen Champ over 20 times, also supports this idea of Champ being a Tanystropheous or something like it. There are also unknown sounds that have been recorded in the lake which sound like the echolocation of belugas and dolphins, which if connected to Champ, suggests the reptile is capable of using echolocation.
I would love to see you tackle this cryptid, regardless of what it would end up becoming in your video.
Arguably the closest thing we get to this Tanystropheus-like aquatic reptile is the extinct Choristoderan which did survive into Cenozoic with the youngest representative being found on Miocene epoch
So you don’t like to imagine & speculate that Champ could be (in the slightest chance) a plesiosaurian that’s evolved to tolerate freshwater & became amphibious, even though is unlikely ? Because I would find it somewhat more plausible for Champ being a plesiosaurian then Nessie.
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I’ve looked up on that & is pretty remarkable, but if that order of reptiles was able to survive from the age of the dinosaurs to the age of mammals. Then why couldn’t any species of plesiosaurians by any chance ?
The original descriptions of Nessies, all the way back to 565 A.D., were of a sea serpent, or a Wyrm, not a Plesiosaur, so describing it, specifically, as a kind of large eel makes quite a bit more sense. In fact, here are some things that I've found that suggest an even earlier time period-
"The earliest written record of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as "Nessie", is from 565 AD when St. Columba is said to have driven a beast back into the water of the river that flows into Loch Ness. Between the 1500s and 1800s, there were 21 recorded sightings of the creature by local people. Some of the earliest evidence of the Loch Ness Monster may be carvings made by ancient inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands around 1,500 years ago."
"However, the Picts weren’t the first people to live around Loch Ness, and if the dinosaur-like creature is as old as has been claimed, earlier inhabitants may have spotted the beast. In the last 10 years, another prehistoric cemetery in Drumnadrochit on the northern shore of Loch Ness has been excavated. Several discoveries on the site, including a beaker pot found in a small stone-lined grave (known as a cist) in late 2017, dated the cemetery to the Bronze Age, about 1,000 years before the Picts were around. But the site was also occupied for a brief stint in the Neolithic period around 3,600-3,500 BC."
The people of 16th century Scotland did not know about plesiosaurs. Also, I suspect that if Darren Naish wrote about the Loch Ness Monster in his book Cryptozoologicon, he would have gone with the large eel himself.
@@nathanfleischman9856 Cool bud.
Imagine if it was a giant species of anphiuma or caecillian I’ve always felt like lake Omer sightings were giant eels or some kind of unknown mud burrowing giant amphibian
@@calvinjones4480 Personally, I do think that an eel would make the most sense considering many different factors.
Can you provide a link to a source on sightings dating back to the 1500s? The first 'genuine' sighting.of the monster that I know of was by the couple driving near the lake in 1933.
more oddly scientific background noise to have, can never get enough of it
Ive loved seeing your journey all the way through, I'm beyond honored having been a part of your journey with this series. Keep going, Grant. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much :)
Ooooh I'm very quick this time. Ooooh next Trolls, Kappa or Mongolian Death Worm.
100% Norwegian trolls!!!
@@eyokirvideos7400Yes! Also, Jörmungandr should make an appearence.
Yeah let’s see a troll. Can it smell the blood of a Christian?
It was BIG! it was MEAN! and it was PINK! It was… THE MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM!
I was thinking a Gorgon vid would be hype.
The Loch Ness Monster, a fantastical classic! It makes perfect sense that it's a massive species of Anguila Eels, and why no one has ever found proof of the Monster's existence. It's better than assuming it's a Plesiosaur that miraculously survived the Kp-g Extinction. I was honestly hoping that the next episode after the Minotaur was gonna be Centaurs, given that we were heading to the Mountains of Thessaly after the last episode.
Also, I hope we'll be seeing some more legendary greatures, like Griffins, Trolls, Elves, or some other creature that doesn't need to be observed or dissected. But rather, be interviewed. That would be game changing! But regardless, This is such a good episode, and I hope to see more!! Keep up the astounding and fantastic work, Thought Potato!!!
Why would the animal be related to small eels?
@@melvinfranco2142 Watch the video and find out!
Thought Potato does not post these videos in chronological order.
@@nathanfleischman9856 That’s true.
@@melvinfranco2142 Only one way to find out.
Fictional or not, this is the best theoretical explanation for the Loch Ness Monster I've ever come across.
More power to you, Potato-lad!
Was not expecting this one, but you won’t catch me dead complaining about it. Love your work!
Can you imagine coming across a 15-meter-long predatory eel in a dark lake while having a wee swimm in the moon light? That would give anyone PTSD.
The way I TELEPORTED when I saw the notification
I confess I have nearly always taken a dim view of "big fish" hypotheses for lake monsters, seeing them as a cop-out. Yours, though its reliance on specially circumstantial growth anomalies is a stretch, is an exception as usual. Bravo.
bro could honestly make his own sort of SCP thing with all of his biology videos. If there was 3d animation of some of this stuff id pay to see that
I'm so glad you went with the eel hypothesis; it's always been my favorite explanation for if Nessie actually exists.
SCOOOOOOTLAAAAND FOREEEEVEEEER
LET'S DO IT
NOT ONE OF YA IS GONNA SURVIVE THIS
(EYELANDER SCREAMING)
ONE WAYWARD WIRE
ONE PINCH OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE
ONE *_ERRAND TWITCH_*
AND KABLOOEY
[GULP GULP GULP GULP GULP CLINK]
They've gotta make yer head I'm a black Scottish Cyclops
THEY GOT MORE MONSTERS IN THE GREAT LOCH AT NESS THEN THEY GOT THE LIKES OF ME
[BEEP BEEP BEEP]
SO
THAR YOU FINE DANDY
SO PROUD
SO COCKSURE PRANCING ABOOT WITH YA HEAD FULL OF EYEBALLS
COME N GET ME I SAY I'LL BE WAITING ON YA WITH A WHIFF OF THE OLD BRIMSTONE
I'M A GRIMM BLOODY FABLE
WITH AN UNHAPPY BLOODY END
[BOOOM]
AAAHAHAHAHAH OH THEY GON TA HAV TA GLU YOU BACK TOGETHER
*_IN HELL_*
Running a dnd session today where my players are gonna fight a sea serpent, perfect timing!
Man, the pronunciation of Storsjön, it took me a few seconds to realize which lake he meant. The name means the Great Lake (despite it only being the fifth biggest one in Sweden), and it too has legends of a monster dwelling in its depths; The Great Lake Monster, or Storsjöodjuret in Swedish
Channels like this are why I watch RUclips over regular TV.
I always thought the plesiosaur theory was lacking and that a giant slug was more plausible.
I once tried coming up with some decent explanations for cryptids. I made the Mokele-Mbembe into a giant species of softshell turtle, and Nessie into a long-necked otter. That said, this is cooler.
Okay, I'm loving the long necked otter idea, and I've also drawn mokele mbembe as a long necked turtle
@@AlexBadger Glad you like it. Want to hear some of the others?
@@denisovan_the_menisovan sure!
Nessie WOOOOO
Thoughtpotato+Nessie = instant click
Actually...a giant eel makes perfect sense, especially with an eels shy nature and long lifespan.
I suggest you do an episode with the norse world-serpent, Jörmungandr. It's a terryfying idea, a serpent, surrounding the whole world, so large that he feasts on his own tail, spitting acid that's prophecised to kill the strongest of gods, Thor himself!
I just think it's a fun concept, fitting the channel.
Aslo, great work with the video, enjoyed every second of it! Keep it up!👍
18:42 I just wanted to say that, by eel skeleton standards, this looks downright tame.
SCOTLAND FOREVOR!!!!!!!🏴
*bagpipes intensifies*
Truly some of the best content on the platform. Please keep doing what you’re doing. Can’t wait to see how your channel continues to grow.
I will never have had enough of these.
Love it, as always!
Thank you so much!!
Yes! I've been waiting for this one! Nessie is my all time favorite cryptid! As always, fantastic work!
I really like this variant of Nessie. I have never heard of the Nessie Eel theory before and whilst I do like the ancient dinosaur concept, a giant land dwelling Eel is just so cool.
Keep up the badass work my guy! I look forward to getting home to watch your videos every time i get a notification! The manticore and the mothman ones have been my fav!! Looking forward to your next video
Gosh, this is so amazing! You should make a Book with all this cryptology series! And, I have a suggestion: how about You make a video on the Naga (snake people) similar like how you did the siren and merfolk?? Keep up the amazing work!
I've seen many loch ness monster documentaries. I had my doubts about the "eel" theory. But watching your video has convinced me that the eel may just be the monster.
The eel "slide" from land to water fits in with an account I read and saw drawings of.
I think your video was masterfully done and you have convinced me...of the eel.
As a semi-longtime viewer of your channel and a person currently undergoing a college in pursuit of ichthyological studies, seeing you tackle the Loch Ness Monster- and hearing the very words “advanced teleost fish” were absolutely incredible to hear! Time and time again, fish prove that despite being the oldest vertebrates, they’re far from obsolete! 🐟🦈🐠
wow.. i clicked expecting this to be your most "fantastical" work but this might be the most anatomically plausible (technically) work of yours yet! super cool
A giant eel! OK, I would not have thought to go in that direction but it makes perfect sense. Your scientific solutions to cryptids continues to impress me
I'm absolutely obsessed with this series, and all of the incredible work you've put into it. I've seen every video at least five times; I love listening to your voice.
Suggestion/request: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! It's a great short story that heavily inspired the Hulk franchise. It's especially intriguing as it describes Dr. Jekyll's body and psychology becoming addicting to being Mr. Hyde, a completely different person with a taste for violence and destruction. I think you would have a ton of fun figuring out how or what causes the draft to transform its consumer, and how it led to Dr. Jekyll's demise.
An absolute masterpiece, as expected of this channel. I never in a million years would have thought of Nessie being an eel, but it makes sense now that I’ve heard of the idea.
I love just how realistic you bring all these cryptids to life, especially for one as famous as The Loch Ness. Another cryptid you could tackle from this region is the British Big Cat. Either as European Puma or even an unclassified Panthera species.
I had the shadow fox zoid when I was a kid
I’d love a Medusa/Gorgon video.
What will also be cooked up in your creative brain, Professor? Fae creatures? Banshees? Goblins? Trolls? Ogres? The Jersey Devil? Selkies since you do a lot of mermaid-like creatures? Either way, I can’t wait
I was just binging this channel yesterday and was wondering exactly when he'd get around to Selkies
It would be neat to see your take on the Con Rit, a Vietnamese cryptid typically described as a very large aquatic centipede.
I've seen some interpretations of it that are more akin to crustaceans and radiodonts, so there are lot of avenues that you could go explore with it.
I really love the way you present these, even if they are inspired from novels and what not; these are top rate mockumentary style fiction done right. Like those low budget Discover and Animal Planet mockumentaries have nothing on your work and presentation. Entertaining enough to just enjoy the fantasy and fiction, but still just enough science tossed in to give us all the classic markers of a good sci-fi story. I also really like the first person narrative style you tend to go with when voicing these videos; it reminds me of some SCP channels formats.
I would love to see your interpretation of lake Okanagan’s Ogopogo. Had a sighting of the creature of my own last year with my dad!
Can't wait for the other cryptid icon Sasquatch covered, feel you'll do that one justice as ya did with Nessie here~! Likely can be a nice and juicy two-parter each nearing over an hour in length. With the second part possibly even covering the smaller, lighter-colored reddish brown and mottled coated skunk ape subspecies that's more fond of hotter environments and thus is mainly found across Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, and with much smaller family groups and reduced territories, i bet!
Possibly an American baboon, slightly larger, and adapted to have a colored fur more in tune with our climes.
@@philyeary8809 ... baboon?? that may look just like a lycan, tbh, so a highly unlikely candidate moreso than even gigantopithecus
Can you do the mokelembembe next? Btw I LOVE your cryptids video
I was absolutely fascinated by the Loch Ness monster as a kid. Thanks for this, brought back some fun memories.
Hey, have you ever considered doing an episode on The Invisible Man or Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde? Could make for a fascinating entry!
I want to thank you thought potato. These series are an absolute addiction
Please do one of these on the changeling from Irish Mythology, I would like to see your take on it!
Not even mad at the ad, bro. This fit so well🤣
I like the idea of them being super long-lived eels that only started existing in the 30s to explain why no remains have been found. Also, I heard that sightings of Nessie have gone down in recent years, lending to the idea that maybe she's finally died and lying somewhere at the bottom.
I assumed that it would have been a nothosaur like reptile with the way you described the second monster, it also looked like one in the drawing
While you're near Ireland, maybe Biology of Banshees next?
I remember a documentary on Loch Ness they found caves in the sides of Loch Ness.
Omg I cant believe you rly chose to do a video about the loch ness monster from my suggested list. you probably already had it in motions in your plans but I'm just happy you made a video of a creature I suggested. please keep these videos going for years to come, I absolutely love them. btw in your last video you said you missed your flight, so you're still in Greece? I would've thought you would've made your next video on a Greek mythical creature. I'm sure you have thought about this already and have an explanation on why you're in Scotland now and I cant wait for that video. ♥ ♥
Yes, in most of old legends and in old tales the "Sea Monster" is actually a Sea Serpent. Tribes have been telling these stories for hundreds of years. Compelling stories, attacks, and video evidences are the same. ALWAYS eel or snake-like creature .Even the small details on these creatures are always serpent-like. I have no idea why people keep pushing this Plesiosaur BS. Fan of the topic, but never understood it.
Great and smart video!
Also the sponsorship is really cute because of how it ties into the video. It's a nice touch when creators can do themed sponsorships in their videos
Interesting interpretation. It makes sense that Nessie is an Eel rather than a Plesisoaur. And not just Nessie but the Mythical Sea Serpents in general.
Do you think you can talk about the Ahuizotl (Lake Monster of Texcoco, México) and/or the Jersey Devil in the future, please?
Not sure if you’ll see this comment but I have an interesting idea for the phenix video when you inevitably get to it. Flame resistant down. Duck like oil glands that make a substance with a low flashpoint and that burns relatively cool. Instead of molting it burns it’s flammable top feathers. Why? To scare predators. To burn off parasites. To signal others for whatever reason. To play dead either to seem less appetizing or to draw in a carnivore that eats dead things and ambush it. On maybe flame molting is just faster.
There was a special on PBS where some people went out to Loch Ness with equipment and all that, but on the last day they were getting some stock footage of the lake. There was something large moving just under the water and leaving a wake, but you couldn’t see what it was. If it was faked by them I guess they could’ve use an underwater drone or something, but even that seems kinda weird. There are lots of things on this world that I think bleed through from other dimensions and wander around, I don’t see why if they do it on land there can’t be ones that live in the water too. That would explain why they’re rarely ever seen. As our scientific knowledge increases we show that things are possible, which a hundred years ago seemed impossible. We want to believe we’re at the apex already, but we’re nowhere close.
I absolutly adore your videos, I'm just smilling every time I get the new video notification !
I wonder what you think about the Tarasque (not the DnD one, the french one) ? It's features would be interesting to explore I think !
This was very well done! Between the minotaur and nessie, these two beasts are the most unlikely of your lot so far, but yet you've done a good job! So, I have a challenge for you. The biology of the great saige equal to heaven! Sun Wukong!!
PLEASE do a video on succubus and incubus!! I’d love to see your take on them and the way u explain things is so satisfying
I love these videos man, this would go well with something a like a biology of Godzilla or Cybermen
You’re in luck cause there’s 2 Godzilla vids on the second channel😮
PLEASE do a video on the many dinosaur cryptids in the Congo!!!
A cool way of making the Loch Ness Monster unique and realistic. I wonder if we get a video on video on the griffin or Mokele Mebembe.
The only bummer/flaw is the tail being finless, but aside from that this is still one of the top faves so far of this series!
Indeed, I’ll have to agree! Though the art displayed seems to have the most detail portrayed in Nessie’s anterior regions, so I can say the lack of attention to the tail may be a stylistic choice? Furthermore the skeletal structure in the thumbnail & video ignore the pectoral fins, dorsal fin spine-vertebral structures, and just most anything beyond the skull and vertebrae.
I remember reading a book with a blue cover in my school library when I was a kid about the Loch Ness Monster, and it also suggested the possibility that it could be a giant eel. Seems more likely than a plesiosaur, if he does exist. I know it's more likely the result of indulging too much at Iverness pubs, but still, it would be just nice if it did exist.
You should do the biology of mutants (Marvel comics) and start with Wolverine!
This man really goes out and finds mermaids regularly but still doubts there's a monster in loch Ness at the beginning.
I have a lifelong love of Nessie! Content on her never gets old to me. ❤
Lowkey would've been cool seeing you like, commissioned certain artists like that one famous horror one (Val-something, i think) that does wicked photoshopped pieces to cook up a photo of the caught specimen, just to nicely amp up the immersion~!
Gonna be in Scotland tomorrow, perfect timing on the video 👍
I would love a video on the Ahuizotl from Aztec mythology
See how a "hand" on the end of it's tail would work!
i hope the next video will be about a vampire werewolf hybrid, lots of love ❤
I think this is a solid take especially given your research on land, however it doesn’t explain long neck often associated with the monster and the fact that Nessie swims/undulates vertically, is seen swimming at high speed at the surface, and ‘bounds’ on land which eels are not able to do. That being said I think this is still a very interesting discovery and I still believe Nessie is rather a large mammal that is capable of aquatic & terrestrial movement
I'd like to see your take on Skinwalkers & Mimics
The River Monsters episode about Nessie is amazing. Postulates that Greenland sharks occasionally wander into Loch Ness.
Please do one about the Fresno Nightcrawlers and the Nuckelavee
I would love to see this as a podcast
Okay this actually makes a LOT of sense
If there isn't a monster, then what are they selling plushies of?
There may or may not be something there, but Nessie is real, and essential to the local economy.
Bingo
Yep, a tourist trap!
Ogopogo next?
Cool take on the Loch Ness monster! Very inspiring. Here are some suggestions of scientific takes on mythical and fictional creatures of mine. 1, kraken 2. Cthulhu 3.Godzilla 4.leviathen and behemoth. 5. King ghidorah, mothra and rodan. 6.hydra. 7. Jourmangandr (world serpent). 8. Scylla and Charybdis. 9.ego the living planet and the Celestials. 10. Galactus and the black winter.
The Hook's island sea serpent was also a giant tadpole like eel.
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