Nessie The Loch Ness Monster

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The pseudoscience of modern monster-hunting is called “cryptozoology” and has as much validity as does alchemy or bloodletting. I've never given much credence to the chupacabra, Bigfoot, the Pine Barrens Jersey Devil, UFOs, Atlantis or Mormonism. But it's fun to creep yourself out by indulging in these stories from time to time.

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From the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series comes What Do We Know About?, a series that tells the stories of world-famous crytpids, mysteries, and more. Millions of years ago, the northern tip of Scotland was a separate island, until it crashed into the mainland. The prehistoric sea monsters rushed to escape - all except for Nessie, who, after the two islands had collided, found herself in the Loch, Loch Ness, or Loch na Beiste in Gaelic [The Lake of the Monster], that was created by the collision. Is the story of Nessie true? That is, had an evil monster lived in a lonely Scottish lake at one time and was it dispelled by the spiritual authority of a holy man? Sure. Why not? If this story was about a holy person exorcising a powerful demon, very few Christians would deny its veracity as in the cases of St. Anthony of Egypt or St. Francis of Assisi's struggles with such infernal creatures. Angelo has published articles in most of the major Catholic journals in the United States and Great Britain and had worked as a correspondent for the Catholic News Service having served as principle liaison for the wire service to the United Nations and to the Holy See's Office to the United Nations. Everyone on the shore cried out hoping to warn the monk of his impending doom. However, Columba was unmoved. Instead, the saint stepped forward boldly to the edge of the loch and, making the sign of the cross while invoking the Name of the Lord, spoke in a commanding voice.There’s a section of photographs of unidentified animals that have washed ashore on beaches around the world–Gould argued that these might be specimens of the same creature that was living in the loch. Below each image our anonymous, and skeptical, reader has scrawled “almost certainly basking shark” (though some appear to me as giant squid or other types of animals): More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.”

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He was baptized Colum, which means “dove,” which was Latinized into the name we know him as: Columba. There's a bit of an odd, almost preternatural pun associated with his name. Apparently, he's also known by the name Colum-cille, which means “of the Churches” in Gaelic. Kelpies were said to exist in most bodies of water in Scotland. Since there are more than thirty thousand lochs and rivers in Scotland, that’s a lot of kelpies! Much later in 1933 a road was built alongside the Loch and the noise and disruption upset Nessie. So one day she was 'sneaking over the road for a wander in the heather' when she was spotted by an astonished Mr and Mrs George Spicer from London. Nessie's life was never be the same again.

The monster roared a might roar, darting towards the swimming monk with its mouth wide open, as Lugne was in the middle of the stream. We learn that three Big Bens stood on top of each other on the bed of Loch Ness would not reach the surface; that the Statue of Liberty could happily dive in without its head hitting the bottom; that five Jumbo jets could be placed wingtip to wingtip and still perform the loop the loop. So there is plenty of room for a monster!