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For centuries, the highlands of Scotland
have provided a stunning backdrop to
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one of the world's most enduring
mysteries.
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A terrifying creature that's been
spotted beneath these tranquil waters
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thousands of times, but still remains
unidentified.
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The Loch Ness Monster.
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Is it simply a legend?
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Or a case of mass hysteria?
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Or... Could it be much more?
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Is a massive creature actually lurking
in the depths?
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To find out, we'll compare decades of
encounters across northern Europe, and
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modern science to create a brand new
profile of the beast, with help from the
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world's top aquatic experts.
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What might we discover?
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Could Nessie possibly exist in some
form?
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Could it even be a new, never -before
-seen species?
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No!
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And if so, could we potentially find it
and have an up -close encounter of our
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own?
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Tonight, we dive deep in search of the
Loch Ness Monster.
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Oh, there's the bubbles! There's the
bubbles. He's getting ready to come up.
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You've probably heard this one before.
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If a tree falls in the woods and no one
is around to hear it, does it make a
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sound?
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What about this?
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If a monstrous creature swims across the
surface of a Scottish loch and no one
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takes a picture, was it ever really
there?
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For over 1 ,400 years, according to
thousands of eyewitnesses, the answer is
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yes.
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All of them saw something emerge from
the depths of Loch Ness.
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The question is, what was it?
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Whatever it is, it's certainly camera
shy.
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But that doesn't mean that Nessie can't
be identified.
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In fact, we actually have a large pool
of information to draw from.
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We have first -person encounters,
recorded histories, and even some
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video.
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We have known species with similar
characteristics that we can study for
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to Nessie's behavior.
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Add it all up, and perhaps we can build
a profile of the monster to find out
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once and for all if the legend could
possibly be true.
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With that goal in mind, let's start with
a man who says he's actually seen
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the beast.
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Retired engineer Gordon Holmes is one of
the few people who claims to have
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captured the Loch Ness Monster on
camera.
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He's taking us the exact spot at the
water's edge where his life changed
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forever.
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I saw the monster at 10 minutes to 10 on
the 26th of May 2007.
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During the morning I'd been doing
hydrophonic research on the Loch.
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At the evening, I decided to go up to
the lay -by, which had a good commanding
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view of the lock, about 70 foot above
the surface.
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This was my fourth visit up to the lock,
and I hadn't actually got anything
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concrete, evidence of something
mysterious.
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Despite years spent waiting, Gordon
remained determined to see the Loch Ness
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Monster.
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And on this day, his persistence finally
paid off.
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I'd been there for a few hours and then
suddenly I saw something coming towards
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me.
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I immediately reached over the back seat
and grabbed my camcorder.
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I dashed out, slammed the door, and then
suddenly I realised that's not what
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you're supposed to do. I've read that if
you see a potential monster...
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Don't slam the door, because that'll
frighten it. So I then ran down to the
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of the lay -by and realised it
disappeared. Where's it gone?
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And then suddenly I saw it over to the
right and immediately I got the
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and zoomed into its position.
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For the next two and a half minutes, I
was privileged to one of the most
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sights I've ever seen.
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As you can see from Gordon's footage,
there is most definitely some type of
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large animal swimming across the loch.
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But what could it be?
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This thing was like bubbling along the
waves. At no point did it break through
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the surface of the streamlined water
flow.
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The creature appears to be moving in a
serpentine fashion.
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almost slithering through the water.
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Based on the species known to inhabit
Loch Ness, one might conclude that this
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an eel.
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But when you analyze the video more
carefully, the eel theory seems
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I read somewhere that if you ever get a
sighting of something like this, you
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should zoom in and out.
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so that the people that analyze the
footage can always then estimate the
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whatever the creature was.
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And at the same time, you can prove it's
not like a fake because she's seen it
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in context.
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In context, the animal appears to be at
least 15 feet long, much larger than any
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freshwater eel species, and therefore
potentially something completely
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It was certainly going at speed into the
waves. It wasn't some sort of log.
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This was a creature that had energy, it
had power. It was thrusting through the
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waves.
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In addition to the creature's length,
experts were able to determine that it
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moving at a top speed of six miles per
hour.
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This is probably the best footage up to
this time of the so -called Loch Ness
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Monster.
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I realised this was a turning point in
the history of the Loch Ness Monster.
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But Gordon is still unsatisfied.
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He hopes to eventually have another
encounter with the creature.
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And this time, he plans to be ready with
even better equipment.
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If money was no object, I'd have my own
research boat with underwater robotic
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vehicles.
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Meanwhile, Gordon has purchased a
hydrophone to pick up sound signatures
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water, a sky camera carried by helium
balloons as a makeshift drone, and a
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magnetometer.
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In order to understand Nessie's
environment, should she exist, you need
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to delve into all the parameters
possible, the variables and the
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But science alone may not be enough to
catch a second glimpse.
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Gordon believes it will take some luck
as well.
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I've witnessed several times tourists
that come to the side of the lock and
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can tell they're praying to see
something, to see the monster.
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And I, by chance, being in the right
place at the right time, just happened
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capture on film something remarkable.
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But of course Gordon Holmes' sighting is
only a small part of a much longer
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history for this unknown species.
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If we want to solve the mystery of the
Loch Ness Monster, we'll have to go back
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a whole lot further.
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The Loch Ness Monster was first written
about in 565 A .D. in the story of St.
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Columba, an Irish monk who was traveling
along the banks of the River Ness.
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when he happened upon a man's funeral.
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The townspeople explained that the man
had been swimming when he was attacked
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and killed by a water beast.
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At that time, people most likely
believed this water beast was a dragon.
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But as the centuries passed, people
stopped believing in dragons.
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Yet the sightings continued.
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All in the same area, and all eerily
similar.
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A massive unidentified animal churning
up the water as it swims across the
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This was no mythical creature.
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This was no dragon.
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Witnesses confirmed that whatever it
was, it was very real.
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Local pubs were full of stories of the
mysterious beast.
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But the legend of the Loch Ness Monster
wasn't taken seriously until 1933, when
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a reputable law enforcement officer,
Loch Ness water bailiff Alex Campbell,
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spotted the monster multiple times.
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What's the most you've ever seen of it
at any one sighting? The best view I
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had was the very first thing. I saw the
head, the neck, and the huge body, which
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I'd say was about 30 feet long.
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And the skin was exactly like that of an
elephant.
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Wrinkly, tough -looking.
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Is it not possible, Mr. Campbell, that
you're mistaken in this? Not at all.
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When all of this evidence is combined,
it seems that there actually might be a
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large, unidentified species in Loch
Ness.
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Monster or not, we can start to use this
information to build a profile and find
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out for ourselves.
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Campbell described a beast 30 feet from
end to end, with a four -foot -high body
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and a wavy, narrow neck stretching 12
feet long.
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After years of vague descriptions and
tall tales, this was the first highly
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detailed account of the alleged creature
that would soon be dubbed the Loch Ness
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Monster.
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And just a few months later, an even
more spectacular bombshell fueled Nessie
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fever around the world.
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On April 21st, 1934, London's Daily Mail
published what it claimed
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was the first photograph ever taken of
the Loch Ness Monster.
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Sightings of Scotland's famed Loch Ness
Monster have been reported since the 6th
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century.
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But it wasn't until April 21st, 1934,
that the search for the creature truly
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took off.
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And it was all thanks to this.
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Known as the Surgeon's Photograph, the
picture was snapped by London
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gynecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson while
out for a lakeside walk and published
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in London's Daily Mail newspaper.
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The image appears to show a silhouetted
figure with a long, slender neck, a
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small head, and a large body that's
obscured by the waterline.
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Immediately after the photo was
published, the British public began
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on the nature of this mysterious beast.
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What could this photo possibly depict?
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Some suggested it was the dorsal fin of
a dolphin or whale.
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Others thought it might be a submerged
elephant raising its trunk to breathe.
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A circus had recently visited the area,
giving more strength to this theory.
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But the most popular belief may also
have been the most far -fetched.
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Many thought this was a creature that
had been extinct for millions of years.
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It's a theory that continued for decades
after the photo was first published.
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So what particular species do you think
it is?
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The evidence, as I interpret it, all
fits, and I know this is a fantastic
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statement, but this all fits plesiosaur.
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Could it be possible that the
plesiosaur, thought to have died out
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dinosaurs, had actually survived, only
to end up here in Scotland?
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Before you decide for yourself, there's
one thing you should know.
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This first iconic image was a Hulk.
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In 1994, 60 years after it was first
published in the Daily Mail, the true
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of the photograph came to light.
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The newspaper hired big game hunter
Marmaduke Wetherall to find evidence of
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monster. Instead, he created a model of
a beast with a long neck and attached it
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to a toy submarine.
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He then chose a trustworthy physician,
Dr. R. Kenneth Wilson, to deliver the
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photograph of his creation.
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And the rest is history.
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But that one hoax doesn't explain
countless other sightings and more
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photo and video evidence that has yet to
be disproven.
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In 1955, Peter McNabb captured this
image.
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In the 1970s, an American scientist shot
this underwater photograph depicting a
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30 -foot -long flipper.
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And of course, we have the 2007 footage
from Gordon Holmes.
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None of these sightings provide
definitive proof of the Loch Ness
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existence.
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But they do suggest the possibility that
some large species might be lurking
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there.
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The question is, what species could it
be?
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Can we build a profile to potentially
identify it?
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First of all, Gordon Holmes described an
eel -like aspect to the front of the
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creature.
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His video shows that it can hold itself
up near the surface for an extended
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period, with a cruising speed of 6 miles
per hour.
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Therefore, Something below the water is
propelling it upwards as well as
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forwards.
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Most likely the flippers seen in this
image.
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Unfortunately, this small amount of
visual evidence can't tell us much else.
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But we do know one more key piece of
information that's crucial to our
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We know that if this species exists,
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It has managed to elude capture for more
than 1 ,400 years in these Scottish
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waterways.
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Local water bailiff Chris Conroy thinks
he knows how an animal could manage to
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stay undetected for so long in these
unique conditions.
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Loch Ness contains as much water as all
the rivers and lakes in England and
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Wales combined.
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It's the largest water body in the whole
of the UK. It's absolutely massive.
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It's really hard to comprehend just how
big this loch is.
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It runs from east to west. It's a total
of about 23 miles long.
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It averages about a mile wide and it's
about 750 feet deep.
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If you look at the shape of the loch,
you've got these really steep sides.
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The tops of the hills here are about the
same height up as the depth of the
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loch, and they go straight down on the
edges, very, very steep, and as you hit
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the bottom of the loch, it becomes very
flat, very full of sediment, and you get
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this sort of bathtub shape.
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In other words, there's plenty of room
in Loch Ness to hide.
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And even if someone were to search
beneath the water, they wouldn't survive
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long.
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Loch Ness features a phenomenon called a
thermocline, which causes deadly
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conditions as you dive down.
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It's a stratification of temperature.
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So as you go down into the water column,
a relatively short distance, you
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suddenly hit a temperature barrier and
there'll be a significant change in
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temperature up to maybe around 10
degrees.
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This affects the chemistry underneath.
So if you are to go underneath...
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that barrier, you'll suddenly become
very, very cold.
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Even at the locked surface, the average
water temperature is 42 degrees
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Fahrenheit.
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Beneath the thermocline, without the
protection of a modern dry suit, a diver
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could drown in under six minutes.
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And those freezing temperatures are
paired with near blackout conditions.
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it's an absolutely perfect place for
something to hide it's it's very
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to see anything the water is very peaty
as we call it now the peat is basically
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organic matter that's breaking down it's
washed into the rivers and that comes
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flows into the loch and you end up with
this really dark tea colored water okay
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let's do a little bit of a test here
just to show you what the water's like
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here so i've got a standard whiskey
glass we just pop it in the water here
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in the top you can see how clear it is
but don't let that fool you because
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as you get deeper down you'll see the
color change if you were to go just a
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little bit further down or towards the
bottom it would start to look more like
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this you can see it's much more tea
-like in color and it's all the organic
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matter that's broken down leaves and
other plant material that's washed down
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rivers and creates this really dark
color
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While that unique watercolor makes the
alleged monster hard to find, it also
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gives us a significant clue to its
possible appearance.
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If it can stay undetected in these
conditions, it must have a natural
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camouflage.
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Nessie's skin has often been portrayed
as flat gray or bright green.
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But in fact...
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it much more likely matches the tea
-like appearance of the surrounding
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mottled brownish color.
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But if we hope to identify the Loch Ness
Monster, knowing its color won't be
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enough.
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At 750 feet deep and 23 miles long, near
blackout conditions
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below the water,
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and average surface temperatures of 42
degrees,
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Loch Ness is an incredibly challenging
place to track down an unknown species.
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But if we hope to identify the Loch Ness
monster, at some point, we'll have to
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dive in.
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Fortunately, before we do, footage from
several underwater cameras can give us a
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preview of what lives beneath the
surface.
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A surprising number of species thrive in
the loch, even at its maximum depth of
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750 feet.
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We've got trout, brown trout, we've got
arctic char, we've got eels, we've got
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lamprey species, and then we've got
other species which have been seen here,
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which include the records of sturgeon,
northern pike, and perch.
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In addition to the fish, mammals follow
the fish into the river, and we
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regularly get seals.
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living in Loch Ness, particularly the
common or harbour seal, and it's an easy
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food source for them.
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And could it also be a food source for
something else?
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Could the loch's population of trout,
arctic char, pike, eels and lamprey
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possibly be enough to feed a large
predator all year round?
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Sounds like there's a lot, but
actually...
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Given the depth and the size of it,
there isn't as much as a density of food
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you might think. The fish are generally
focused in key areas. There are quite a
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few fish in here, but there's also a lot
of nothing as well.
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But two times a year, the situation
drastically changes, and Loch Ness
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veritable all -you -can -eat buffet.
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All thanks to the Atlantic salmon that
return to these waters in large numbers
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annually to spawn.
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The salmon migrate up from the sea and
they use the loch as a refuge for them.
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It's nice because it's so deep and dark,
they can hide in here.
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And they generally need a nice flow of
fresh water, so you'll quite often find
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them at the mouths of rivers where
they're waiting to migrate upstream to
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They're packing on these nutrients and
by the time they return to the river,
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they're really fit, healthy, fat fish.
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Would this be enough food for a large
predator like Nessie?
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Chris hasn't seen the monster yet, but
thinks it is within the realm of
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possibility.
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I've been here six years, so I've still
got time for us to see something.
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But I'll say my colleagues don't rule
anything out. You do tend to see some
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strange things at strange times of the
day and night.
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It does show you that things can turn up
and things can appear that you don't
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expect.
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If Nessie exists, then clearly it needs
to eat in incredibly large quantities.
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The spring and summer salmon migrations
would go a long way towards sustaining
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the creature, assuming it could somehow
live off that feeding frenzy through the
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less bountiful fall and winter.
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Sightings place Nessie at between 30 and
50 feet in length.
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For comparison, consider the great white
shark.
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which is half as long and averages 5
,000 pounds in weight.
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Nessie, therefore, could tip the scales
at upwards of 10 ,000 pounds.
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Based on a great white's diet, to
maintain that weight, the Loch Ness
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would need to eat around 250 pounds of
fish per day during its feeding season
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sustain it through the year.
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The creature's diet, size, and weight
are crucial additions to our profile.
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especially when added to our previous
theories on its coloring, its movement
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speed, and its partial serpent -like
appearance.
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Despite thousands of sightings and near
constant speculation about the Loch Ness
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Monster, there's still very little
agreement about its features or where it
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might be found.
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It's a problem that's been frustrating
Nessie hunters for decades.
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We're not spending all this time and
money trying to prove that there's a
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unidentified species in Loch Ness. We
know that.
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We've seen it. We know it's here.
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What we are trying to do now is identify
the species.
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Today, a brand new profile is emerging,
which once complete, could help us
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finally find the beast.
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But while most researchers have focused
their efforts within the Scottish
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Highlands, they're ignoring a key data
source.
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Because as it turns out, this unknown
species might have a long -lost twin
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outside the loch.
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In the 17th century, a similar creature
began appearing here, in northern
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Sweden's Storsjön Lake.
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The Swedes call it the Great Lake
Monster.
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In the eastern town of Åstersund,
archaeologist Anders Hansson has been
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the Great Lake Monster for years and
believes there is a definite link to
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Ness.
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We know that people have always been
seeing strange things in big waters, and
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this is part of the Western and
Norwegian tradition, and even up to
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that we have these sea serpents.
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There have been rumors of an unknown
underwater species in Storzjan as far
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as the 11th century, not long after
rumors of Nessie began.
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One early description was even recorded
on a Viking relic.
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called the Frozo Runestone, that has
stood in Östersund since 1050.
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And as you can see, it's got this great
serpent, this dragon on it.
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And this is what is said to be the
first, actually first picture and story
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the Great Lake Monster.
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A similar timeline isn't the only thing
these two creatures share.
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Both Loch Ness and Storzian are cold
freshwater lakes, and both feed directly
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into the same common body of water, the
North Sea.
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In other words, a migratory aquatic
species could swim between both
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lakes.
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Physical accounts of the Swedish monster
also line up with alleged Nessie
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sightings.
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Seeing something in the lake, sometimes
it's three meters, sometimes it's 15
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meters long.
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Almost all the witnesses describe the
monster with a long sea serpent -like
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and the head of a dog or a horse.
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Some of them are quite dramatic, talking
about the speed of the monster and how
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the mouth of it was so big that you
could put down, I mean, your whole head
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the mouth of the monster.
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Ready to see the archive?
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Yeah. We have it in the vault.
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Material or what? Anders' colleague,
Anna Engman, keeps careful track of
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hundreds of written witness statements
at the Jamtli Museum.
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This way.
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Today, she's agreed to let us take a
rare look at some of them.
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Yeah, here it is. Great lake monster.
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Storsjö og djuret.
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Okay, it's all this about the monster,
really?
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Yeah, it's all this is about the monster
So this
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is a lot of observation from Dating from
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1990 until the late 18th century This
one
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is from around 1930 She's telling this
story
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about how she She saw the monster when
she was doing the laundry by the lake,
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and it was huge, and it was grey and
ugly.
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Grey and ugly?
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Yeah, grey and ugly. And she got so
scared, she ran away, left the laundry
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ran away.
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And when she turned around, the monster
was gone.
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Okay.
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Many sightings also describe a back that
is covered in pointy, fin -like
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protrusions.
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A man who's seen the monster.
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He's seen something black with three
bumps on it.
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Oh, yeah. Here we can see.
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The museum also keeps records of
attempts to trap the monster, like one
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1890s, sponsored by the King of Sweden,
Oscar II.
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We have this huge trap.
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And it's said to come from a company
that was established 1894.
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And the reason for the company was to
catch the monster.
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And this big trap was supposed to be
baited with a pig and sunk down into the
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lake. And to guard it and catch the
monster, they hired a Norwegian whaler
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because he could use his harpoons.
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That early capture attempt failed.
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But the search for the Swedish monster
continues today on the south side of
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Storsjön.
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Kurt Jansson runs the monster center
there that monitors activity in the
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The center was opened in 2012.
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Here at the center we are searching for
the Great Lake Monster.
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During the summer with the boats and
during the night with cameras.
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And hopefully that we're going to find
it and have it on picture.
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That's the goal.
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Kurt and his team set up two surface
cameras, two underwater, a night vision
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camera, as well as one that's sensitive
to temperature.
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Despite 24 -hour surveillance, they have
yet to pick up an adult specimen of the
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creature. But Kurt believes...
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He did see a younger one.
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Many times we have seen something, but
actually we don't know what it is. One
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time we saw a little baby from the Great
Lake Monster.
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And it was posing up like this at the
end of the picture, like Loch Ness.
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If one is willing to believe in the Loch
Ness Monster, there's no reason to
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doubt Sweden's accounts of the Great
Lake Monster.
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Perhaps its features can help add to our
profile.
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Witnesses in Sweden have managed to spot
two more key details.
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First, the addition of fin along the
creature's back.
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No Scottish sighting has been clear
enough to make this determination.
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Second, the Swedes describe a head that
resembles a dog or a horse.
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While it's unlikely to be covered in
fur, it does change our concept of the
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skull's shape.
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indicating that Nessie's head could
taper into a longer, thinner contour,
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unlike a dog's snout.
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So what do we have here?
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Two similar creatures spotted along
similar timelines, both in large, cold,
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northern freshwater lakes.
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And what's more, these two lakes are
directly linked via the North Sea.
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If the Swedish and Scottish monsters are
related, or even the same species, it
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raises a frightening possibility.
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Perhaps the Loch Ness Monster isn't
trapped in the loch at all.
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For over 1 ,400 years, people have
struggled to identify the mysterious
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creature. known as the Loch Ness
Monster.
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While definitive proof of the monster's
existence has yet to be found, it's
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clear that something big has been
spotted multiple times.
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Could it potentially be a new, still
undiscovered species?
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In our quest to profile the animal,
we've just made a shocking discovery.
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Another creature, described as nearly
identical to Nessie, allegedly living
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miles away in Sweden's Storsjön Lake.
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This is a potential game changer in our
quest to identify the Loch Ness Monster.
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Is it possible that Nessie is part of a
migratory species?
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If so, what does this mean about its
behaviors and appearance?
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Believe it or not, the answers may lie 3
,500 miles from the loch, on the James
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River in Virginia, where ecologist Dr.
Matt Velazic has been studying another
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migratory species for 12 years.
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We're at the VCU Rice River Center on
the James River in Richmond, Virginia,
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we're going to be going after some
spring adult Atlantic sturgeon.
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Atlantic sturgeon are the perfect
species to study to figure out what it
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take for an animal to survive in Loch
Ness.
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Atlantic sturgeon cover a massive range.
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While you can find them here in
Virginia, they're also one of the top
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predators in the North Sea near
Scotland.
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Just like the alleged descriptions of
the Loch Ness monster, they're big, They
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thrive in cold water, and they're among
the most mysterious and elusive hunters
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in our waterways.
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You could have a fish that's 12 feet
long swimming under you, and you'd never
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even know.
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Once common in this area, sturgeon
hadn't been seen in the James River in
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generations.
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But then, residents began spotting signs
of a mysterious marine creature in
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their midst.
455
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People were seeing these things with
just quick glances. And you're like,
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that was some kind of monster.
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And people's imaginations get rolling.
458
00:36:17,020 --> 00:36:19,620
My favorite was, oh, there's mutant
sharks.
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In 2007, Matt caught the first sturgeon
in the area in decades and
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finally identified the unknown creature.
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It was...
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Almost the equivalent of catching a
unicorn.
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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:44,559
It was an almost six -foot -long fish,
covered in armor, and just something
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you wouldn't even think existed anymore.
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00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:50,219
And we had it right there in front of
us. There was no ifs, ands, or buts
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00:36:50,220 --> 00:36:51,270
it. It was right there.
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00:36:55,860 --> 00:37:00,759
Since then, Matt and his team have
caught and tagged more than 700
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sturgeons. using acoustic receivers to
track their migratory movements.
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00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,140
So that's a fish.
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00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:15,559
If he can catch one today, it could
provide critical new information to help
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00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,840
identify the creature hiding in Loch
Ness.
472
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,930
Oh, there's the bubbles. There's the
bubbles. He's getting ready to come up.
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As we continue to build our profile of
the Loch Ness Monster, we've zeroed in
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a compelling new theory.
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00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:42,059
What if the creature is a migratory
animal with a range that stretches far
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00:37:42,060 --> 00:37:43,140
beyond the loch?
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00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:52,559
If that's the case, another large
migratory species, the Atlantic
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hold clues to Nessie's behavior.
479
00:37:58,690 --> 00:38:00,920
We're getting ready to pull in the first
net.
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00:38:00,921 --> 00:38:04,009
There's the bubble. There's the bubble.
He's getting ready to come up. He's
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00:38:04,010 --> 00:38:06,169
getting ready to come up. Yeah, he's
pulling.
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00:38:06,170 --> 00:38:07,220
There he is.
483
00:38:10,310 --> 00:38:11,570
Okay, hold on.
484
00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:13,440
Yeah, he's pulling.
485
00:38:17,490 --> 00:38:18,670
All right, we're done.
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00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:25,730
Despite this fish's impressive length,
it's only a medium -sized specimen.
487
00:38:25,731 --> 00:38:29,189
We're just going to measure it down the
length of its belly.
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00:38:29,190 --> 00:38:30,240
Okay.
489
00:38:31,150 --> 00:38:37,489
This fish is just over 7 feet long, but
historically there are records of them
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00:38:37,490 --> 00:38:42,630
twice as big as this, and there's
unofficial records of 18 feet long.
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00:38:45,050 --> 00:38:48,090
These sturgeon also have incredible
lifespans.
492
00:38:48,410 --> 00:38:51,530
The biggest ones can live over 100
years.
493
00:38:52,650 --> 00:38:58,229
For our purposes, as we try to identify
the Loch Ness Monster, we need only ask
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00:38:58,230 --> 00:38:59,280
one question.
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00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:04,509
What does it take for a massive North
Sea predator like the sturgeon, and like
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00:39:04,510 --> 00:39:07,170
Nessie, to survive for so long?
497
00:39:10,910 --> 00:39:16,330
One possible explanation is the
sturgeon's natural built -in armor
498
00:39:17,230 --> 00:39:19,850
This is the dorsal line of scoots right
here.
499
00:39:19,851 --> 00:39:24,209
These are actually bone. It's a form of
calcium phosphate, which is just like
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00:39:24,210 --> 00:39:27,649
our bones. And it's actually wrapped all
around the fish. It's got them on the
501
00:39:27,650 --> 00:39:31,189
side and it has them on the belly. This
is pretty much a suit of armor all
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00:39:31,190 --> 00:39:32,240
around it.
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00:39:33,470 --> 00:39:38,169
These bony plates, called scutes, have
given the sturgeon the ability to
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00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:43,670
outgrow, outlive, and outsurvive almost
every other species in the North Sea.
505
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,080
They are some of the ultimate survivors.
506
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:53,739
240 million years ago is the upper end
of when these fish started to come
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00:39:53,740 --> 00:39:57,140
around. And these fish have persisted
that whole time.
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00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:02,919
The fact that this fish here was dodging
dinosaurs, I think that's pretty
509
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:03,970
awesome.
510
00:40:04,420 --> 00:40:09,259
According to Matt, armored plates much
like the sturgeon's could be a perfect
511
00:40:09,260 --> 00:40:13,479
explanation for one of Nessie's key
features as described by alleged
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00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,530
eyewitnesses.
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00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:22,820
A lot of the sightings in Loch Ness are
of, like, humps on the side.
514
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:27,839
Those could potentially be scoots,
especially on a big sturgeon when the
515
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,430
will be really big and the ridge will be
really tall.
516
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:39,779
Is it possible that the Loch Ness
monster's famous humps along its back
517
00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:44,040
humps at all, but instead are a series
of bony armored plates?
518
00:40:45,290 --> 00:40:49,610
The Atlantic sturgeon may just have
provided an important clue in our
519
00:40:52,890 --> 00:40:58,109
And other members of the sturgeon family
tree could offer even more useful
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00:40:58,110 --> 00:40:59,160
information.
521
00:41:00,590 --> 00:41:05,449
Atlantic sturgeon are really just bottom
feeders eating bugs, but there's a lot
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00:41:05,450 --> 00:41:09,589
of other sturgeon species, like the
belugas and the white sturgeon, that
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00:41:09,590 --> 00:41:12,370
actually do actively prey on fish.
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00:41:12,590 --> 00:41:14,820
And those sturgeon actually get really
big.
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00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:21,119
As you can see in this photo from 1903,
beluga sturgeon have been documented at
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00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,420
nearly 30 feet long.
527
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:29,819
Considering their massive size, body
shape, and ability to hide and survive
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00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:35,199
cold, dark water, the sturgeon is one of
the closest species we can study to
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00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,450
determine the behavior and appearance of
the Loch Ness Monster.
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00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,239
Despite their 30 -foot length, beluga
sturgeon can freely move between
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00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:47,160
freshwater and saltwater while hunting
their prey.
532
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,340
And sturgeon have been found in both
Loch Ness and in Sweden.
533
00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:57,800
Is that our answer?
534
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,960
Could the monster simply be an overgrown
sturgeon?
535
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:08,180
As we're about to find out, the mystery
is still far from being solved.
536
00:42:11,470 --> 00:42:16,589
Next time, there's a chance we've had
physical evidence of the Loch Ness
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00:42:16,590 --> 00:42:17,640
for centuries.
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00:42:18,130 --> 00:42:19,180
Go!
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00:42:19,930 --> 00:42:25,369
And if that's the case, then we may know
exactly where to look for our own
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encounter with the beast.
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