The REAL story of the Loch Ness Monster
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The Loch Ness monster, or Nessie, is a Scottish tourism phenomenon. Loch Ness, and Urquhart Castle are must see points on any Scottish trip, and the legend of the beast of Loch Ness leaves an enduring mystery.
But what's the real story of the Loch Ness monster? Where did the story of Nessie begin? When was the first sighting of the monster?
And why did 5 men set out to fool the press with a now infamous photo?
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Beautiful place. I love the idea of a lake monster. It is a way to explain things. I like to think Nessie is out there somewhere
I love the idea of it 🙂
Nessie is brill, if it exists.
I've been driving in my car beep beep it's not quite a jaguar by George Spicer.
Loch
I laughed so hard when you introduced us to these strange creatures known as children. I really needed a laugh today. Thank you!
An excellent piece, I really enjoyed that! And the kids are natural actors! 😂
Thanks Graham 🙂
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! I am one of your original followers and your videos just keep getting better! Thank you for sharing your knowledge of your beautiful country. You are an amazing storyteller.
Thank you! And thank you for keeping watching 🙂
Auctermuctie is the Scottish best one.
A dishonest insurance salesman…IM SHOCKED!
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@@scotlandunpluggedHave you ever watched Family Guy?
Why do we all Love Lock Ness..
Because it's awesome. Only made it there once. But still Loved it😍
Thanks for this video! My fave. I have loved Nessie since a child hearing about it for the first time. I'm 63 now, and still love the mystery surrounding Loch Ness!❤
Thank you! 🙂
I just love the stories of Loch Ness! Great video and of course beautiful scenery! The kiddo’s must have had a fun day as well. ❤
Thank you! They did indeed. 🙂
I just love your humor! And your children were right! Time to go monster hunting 😎 Nessie is wonderful lore, I hope she, it, they, stay forever! ❤
Sooo love Scotland history. Handsome family. God bless you.
Your kiddos are beautiful. Love stories of Nessie. It's fantastic to think about. Excellent work!
Thank you! 🙂
Amazing scenery. Its so beautiful there. Great to see the family out & enjoying a day out. Great video.
Thanks, Alice! It’s one of my favourite areas 🙂
Love your humor and great photography.
Thank you! 🙂
Love this video❤! I wasn't aware that the most famous photo of Nessy was proven to be a hoax. Thanks for that education. I LOVED the movie The water Horse! You tell this story well ❤!
3:26 The story of St. Columbo converting a Pict on his deathbed sounds very like that of St. Brigid converting the pagan chieftain on *his* deathbed when she made her cross out of the rushes from the floor. Do you think it's possible that, these deathbed conversions could have been conflated during the 6th century, being that Saints Columba, Brigid and Patrick were contemporaries? Yeah, I know it's an odd question that probably isn't something you've given a great deal of thought to! Still curious what you think since I love your channel and have been enthralled by many of your stories.
I’m not qualified to say, but as Adomnan was one of Columba’s successors, there’s a lot of speculation that he’d have wanted to embellish his reputation as much as possible 🙂
Some of these “saints” in particular Brigid, were not Christian saints at all but, pagan gods and goddess that were co-opted by the church and given stories such as these in order to further the churches desire to convert everyone. Personally, I take the stories of ancient saints with a large grain of salt.
Monstrous greetings from far off Virginia. I had the pleasure of spending a few days in a B&B near the shores of Loch Ness. As I often looked out the window, I thought the waves blowing across the top of the lake appeared much like a long, slow moving creature.
And now we know the “real” story! 😊👏🏻
Now this is a bit of Scottish lore that I have some 1st hand information about ... when my wife and I visited the area, we went to Urq. Castle (beautiful ruins) and hopped a speedy boat to take us down some of the length of the Loch. Having seen a good number of ducks ambling about as we boarded that boat, I theorized that they were probably followers of the Great One Who Dwells In The Deep - yes, the Loch Ness Monster! The only explanation was that the Monster is a great yellow duck, 10 meters high, and of probably the same image as the one in my bathtub. Or so I've been told. Greetings from Texas!
Outlander is a decent show, actually. On it's last season currently.
I’ve definitely heard good things!
The kids were a great addition to your video, which I enjoyed vey much.
A nice story again, thank you!
Reminds me of the legend that Siegfried killed a dragon here in Germany in the „Siebengebirge“ at River Rhine near Bonn.
Love ❤ and greetings from a very rainy Rhineland 😊
Looks like you managed to capture a shot of the monster yourself! :O Between your left shoulder and chin/cheek at 6:29. It could also, just as easily be a seal?
That would definitely up the view count 😂
I love "outlander" ....fantastic video, scenery is beautiful and what a lovely wee family you have there ❤
I have heard good things about it. Thank you 🙂
What a beautiful place!
Indeed! I have fallen in love with Scotland!
It’s quite something. I’ll be back!
This is some stunning research. Well done to you x
"NAW" Robert, Nae Nessie😮 😂🤣😂 Fantastic info 👍🏆❤
Thank you 😂
Thank you. This brings back memories of taking my two oldest grandkids to Loch Ness. They said it was fun but being teenagers who knows what they meant?
I sure enjoyed the scenery! It's beautiful around there.
It really is. I loved the castle and driving along Loch Ness first thing in the morning 🙂
Excellent story. I’ve always been interested in the Loch Ness monster.
Another outstanding presentation! Very fun! Also great multitasking with the kiddos! Thanks!
"These....are chulldren!" True Philomena Cunk energy right there. 🤣
I've heard tales of another like Nessi ... in the states, North East area (New York/Vermont, and up into Canada), Lake Champlain apparently has Champ.
That’s interesting. Definitely worth a google 😄
Your children are correct Monster hunting is required.
Well Scotland has snakes... no need for me to visit then.😂😂😂
"High risk PR strategy", 😂😂😂😂
Nessie is my favorite Scottish Legend, thank you.
Thanks, Nadine! We only have adders (a sort of weak venomed viper that hasn’t killed anyone since 1975) and non venomous grass-snakes. I’m terrified of snakes on screen but transfixed when I see them in real life 😂
@scotlandunplugged I'm beyond terrified of snakes. My siblings would use me as snake bait as a child, as snakes always found me. 53 years old now and those slimmy buggers still make me quake.
Your brother, the "Hoof GP" sent me (from his videos).
Fascinating! I remember watching the loch-scanning documentaries when I was younger... and later the hoax reveal.
Anyway, I finally subscribed to this channel after your brother twice urged me to join (the 1st time was when you appeared on his channel... but I went straight to another of his videos & forgot until tonight). I first watched your history of the Scottish kilts video - also facinating!
Anyway, I'm from Australia & love history (although dont know much of Scottish history except the Hollywood mis-tellings in Braveheart - really bad perverting history there - and Outlander, which I only just started watching either this year or last year. Oh, & Rob Roy, too.)
I'll definitely be following you closely, to learn.
As for the Hoof GP, I only just came across his channel the past week & have been hooked watching countless of his video (out of pure interest - I'm a city girl, myself).
You guys both have good storytelling skills and are easy to listen to. I'm glad he ditected us here. It's always good to expand one's knowledge of history, especially on countries one doesn't have all that much knowledge of past the basics. I didn't really appreciate until the Queen's death last year how much she loved Scotland. I watched with interest as the hearse took her coffin through Scotland, stopping at prominent places for her & the British Royal Family in general. It made me realise that I didn't know much of Scotland (although I know less of Ireland & Wales, despite trickles of ancestral DNA from all of these places, inc Scotland).
So, g'day from me in Adelaide, South Australia 👋😎🇦🇺
Brilliant! More monster videos please 😂👍
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Great video Robbie and very nice to meet your family
Thanks, Cameron! Hope you’re doing well!
I really enjoy how are you tell us the real story as well as the myth you know or what built up to the myth
Cool story... now some history on the castle... please
Nessie is all over the internet, so obviously it's true 🤣
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I found this channel at random yesterday, when RUclips suggested the video: Why DO Scotsmen wear kilts? I enjoyed that video, and I'm enjoying the other videos that you've shared. I may not be able to go to Scotland to visit, and learn about my heritage, but this is the next best thing. Learning from you and the videos you share. I've subscribed and look forward to learning more from you. Thank you for what you do, and continue to do.
Brilliant! 🙂
Another super cool video. Thanks a lot for uploading.
The Loch Ness monster has always been one of my favorite story, but here are some facts, 1) Saint Columba as you said saw the monster in River Ness (and not Loch Ness), and as far as I know there isn't a canal large enough to allow such a big creature to go back and forth from the River and the Loch, so we're probably talking about 2 different monsters here (or better, 2 different stories/legends) 2) All (and when I say all I really mean it) the sightings, photos, pictures, videos from 1933 and on turned out to be pranks, misidentified animals or objects (birds, logs, seals) modified pictures (like the one with the dog, the muppet, etc), so real or false whatever they made up from the 30s was totally disconnected with San Columba's story, the 33 monster was most likely made up after they've watched King Kong movie, the Brontosaurus scene must've inspired many Nessie witnesess. 3) Saint Columba saw so many monsters and strange creatures all around the world if you read the biography written by Saint Adamnan that I'm really surprised that only the one at Loch Ness became so popular...
The Loch Ness Monster's problem is that she needs more direction in life. As every known photo of her indicates - she lacks focus.
I love Scotland❤🏴
Nessie is such a beauty ❤
Great job!
Nessie is no monster as she in the hearts of many and you must believe in her as it’s a kind of magic,the legend goes back so far wow😮
I love your videos!
Great video! Excellent story telling. Thank you! 🐲
I'll be up that way in September. The land around Dores over to Tomatin is my family connection to Scotland...MacBean. There is a modest Memorial Park high on the hill overlooking Lochend. It's a beautiful area of Scotland but aren't all of the Highlands?
I must admit I haven’t seen enough of them! Working in that this year 🙂
We take our touring caravan and stay at the caravan site right on the Loch side. Every morning before breakfast we stand, breath in the fresh air and do a Nessy check. I would love for it to be true. 👍👍👍😆😆💛
If you do guided tours, I'm in next time I go to Scotland ? 👍
It exists it has existed in pictish folklore and illustration on old stone carvings, but what it really is as a entity is yet to be proven in science.
I think your monster and my town are inventions of a clever marketing scheme. I live in, “Sunny Rhyl.” Lol. That’s funny.
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Unfortunately the loch itself is too geologically young to have any prehistoric creatures, not even any prehistoric fossils. But Nessie is still one of the most lovable cryptids :)
History with Kayleigh just made a video about the Picts and she's coincidentally in Scotland right now. Collaboration, what? LOVE your channel! (Don't tell your brother but I love it more than his!)
Who is his brother?
@@rtalbeau7965 The Hoof GP!
@@vespurrsThanks!
Ok - a bit of family history to add an extra bit of background to the history of the story.
If you go to Lochend by Inverness you're right at the start of the loch at its closest point to Inverness. There you'll find a chapel. Up the hill behind the chapel is a croft, one of many such crofts.
Step into your time machine and pop back to the early 1930's.
You find yourself looking at men repairing boats and fishing nets, generally concentrating on looking local, rustic and busy as the horse drawn milk carts arrive from Inverness. With journalists hitching a ride. It's the journalists the local crofter fishermen are waiting for.
They've had the whole winter to cook up stories and refine them into believable ones ready for the spring journalist harvest. Winter has been a lean time - they need that extra income. I saw that hippo foot back in '87. Very tatty it was by then.
0:22; chupacabra...😁
Yes! I nearly included that! 🙂
You: Drumnadrochit, possibly the most Scottish sounding placename ever...
Me, a former 'muchty resident: Excuse y-
You: ...although that could be Auchtermuchty.
Me: ...proceed.
But really, there's a reason The Family Ness's ending song included the immortal line: "You could go to Auchtermuchty, or to Drumnadrochit too, but you'll never see a Nessie in the zoo!"
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I honestly believe in it just because it was the first cryptid i learned of as a kid and love dinosaurs still itd be cool if at least some survived
Long live Nessi !!!
I remember seeing the early 2000s documentary where they did the scans of the lake floor. And I clearly remember the fake monster picture being explained then as well.
When we toured Scotland our tourguide brought us to Nessie's visitor centre. We didn't go in, we had seen enough documentaries to know everything there was to know, and took pictures of the scenery and the monster outside, which looked different from this one, and it's basin was dry. I guess the onlt solution wiuld be to drain th lake. 😂
You got a new sub :D
That photo is Tim Dinsdale not Marmaduke Wetherall.
New to this channel and already hooked. I knew about the hoax, but nothing about the Picts, or so little, TY.
Trust the Daily Mail for printing anything, as long as it sells...
Haha. Yeah, they don’t change much 😂
But what about the Horseshoe Crag - Loch Ness 300m Descent ?
Hoof GP sent me 😂
I seem to remember that there is not much in the way of marine life in the loch so anything of the supposed size of the monster would starve to death.
My only wish is to have a horror monster flick based on the loch ness monster where its actually filmed in loch ness
You never know 🙂
@@scotlandunplugged think blair witch but Scottish
Okay... Dude, did you say dogs eating beetroot?
Someone please explain...
It’s a weird Scottish expression. Apparently they love it. (I couldn’t resist, then realised, when I was editing, that I look like a beetroot 😂
@@scotlandunplugged
I love an honest man..😂😂
You know they (evolutionary scientists) have repeatedly found red blood cells in the marrow of Tyrannosaurus Rex bones over the last couple of decades. I don’t know what that means, but I know those cells can’t be millions of years old. Maybe the Loch Ness monster had more natural origins than we think.
Haha, good ole Nessie.
I loved to visit Scotland and the lochs. Then there was the real monsters, the rain and cold wind.
But not the midges? Those biting monsters can reduce strong men to tears.
Could have been Whiskey induced.
I love Nessy! She’s awesome and real.
Actually I had to watch a couples of times as I lost your thread when you said you “hadn’t watched Outlander” I thought I was having an aneurysm! Or you where joking, because I just cannot fathom anyone not watching it. It is fabulous and probably completely historically incorrect, but thats the beauty of fiction 😊 it’s allowed to be because it’s a fantasy with a lot of artistic license. Bit like newspapers 😂
Oh and those wee lovlies are absolutely correct in stating what is wrong with the channel! 😂😂 thank goodness for them ❤
Nessie lives! At least in the minds of people… I actually am a proponent of the large eel theory.
Some people actually take the story seriously unfortunately. Abit of logic so a prehistoric dinosaur has been in Loch ness for thausands or millions of years with no way of reproducing? Hmm... the maths dont add up. Never knew 1 animal or dinosaur had that survival ability to live by its self, no way to reproduce for millions of years as for the story there is only 1. And the only sightings apparently are after decent cameras were in operation in correlation to the decade right.... ironic.
A certain detective debunked everything in the movie The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
I'm in Bigfoot country. You would think that having the guy who confessed to dressing up in a furry suit in order to pose for photographs would kill the fun. Apparently not, just like Nessie.
GP sent me LOL
Kids were right.
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I've seen it, or I've seen one of them. I don't know what I saw. Maybe it wasn't Nessie, but I definitely saw something there years ago. Not joking. I believe there is something odd in there.
Is there some sort of system in place that they use at Loch Ness to confirm an actual monster siting photograph given there is a record of hoaxes all over?
Inaccuracies and omissions 😮 as usual 🤣. Third sentence: IF it was Graeme-able there would have been a 🐄 in a crush getting a trim. Separately, you never mentioned Braveheart rode Nessie into battle. After the victory, B-Heart rode her to the celebration at the pub. 🍻🐛
I wish my Frasier and Spicer ancestors were alive to ask😅
Your brother sent me…😊
Unidentified Floating Object.........U F O
Like, ZOINKS!!!! teehee!!
The kids are right: We love monsters and ghosts. I doubt anyone was swimming willingly in cold Loch Ness. I stopped on my way down from Inverness but the monster never appeared 😕. American monsters like Champ in Lake Champlain are doubtless an imaginary copy. We should be happy with our Bigfoot.😂😂
I’m here to annoy you, curtesy of your brother!!
Can a news story written by a Campbell actually be believed
hahaa kids scarier then nessie lol
Are you ready to laugh? Another RUclipsr claimed that the Loch Ness monster was a whale's penis when it swam upside down! LMAO! 😂😂😂
Haha. Seems a bit far-fetched 😂
There's no such thing as lock Ness monster
I'm john
I don't believe any of that I truly belithe loch ness monster is real
Nessie is a hoax but it is good for tourism
75 million pounds a year, not chump change!
Why do they call the Creature a Monster?? It’s just an Animal!! And Yes I’m a true believer. Don’t tell me to prove it you prove it doesn’t exist.
The locknes is not real
I'm beginning to be a big fan of your videos... you have what is called charisma, so I understand.... but will never be a fan of the A82!
Lake monsters are almost always Giant Sturgeon... In the case of Scotland, your monster is your PM lol.... Outlander is actually pretty good and rather historically accurate... Once you get past the constant Sexual Assault P*orn for female viewers, there's cool stuff for Men.