Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/24/large-fish-photographed-in-loc.html
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Sturgeon, methinks.
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Didn’t she look slightly different?
ETA: also, I think she’s busy fending off stuff from Nr.10, like maintaining the 2 m distance rule.
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Obviously fake.
The real Nessie’s annual appearances have been delayed this year, because of COVID-19 disruption to the tourism sector. Mysterious cryptid sightings will resume once international travel has resumed and all those tourism Euros are needed.
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Sure, it’s no cryptid, but it would still be quite weird if there was a seal in Loch Ness!
ETA: I ignorantly assumed that Loch Ness is landlocked, but it’s not. Seals can very easily go into it. I assume that Nessie could very easily go out of it too.
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Nah. No plates on the body. For comparison:
It sure looks photoshopped. Assuming it isn’t, it’s more likely to be a seal than a fish. No fins.
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wow that looks really huge!!! or small? can’t tell.
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Odd how all these types of “cryptid” photos never have any other objects in view for scale.
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Looks like a seal that got a bit lost to me. There seems to be plenty of precedent for seals in Loch Ness and even less accessible freshwater lochs, e.g. http://lochnessinvestigation.com/SILN.html
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Looks like a fake anyway
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Nessie has been in hiding ever since his secret identity as Jack the Ripper was discovered
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Henry Silva: one of God’s more perfect creations
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Seal. They sometimes make excursions into Loch Ness.
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Can’t be Nessie, the photo isn’t blurry enough.
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The guy claims that there were many other people around, but nobody bothered to take video? In 2020?
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OK, look. . . for centuries people have been hypothesizing what “the monster” could be, and there’s this myth that it’s actually a monster monster, like a giant sea dragon or something.
It was always possible (i.e. probable) that it wasn’t a “monster”, it was a something more mundane like a large fish or a seal (my favorite was some kind of large slug that lived under the muck at the bottom.)
That said, I work from the assumption that any photo of Nessie is a fake at this point.
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Best Nessie video ever:
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The other photos in the original article show foreground objects (trees, etc.) that indicate that the thing the photographer has plainly photoshopped into the image would, if it were actually there, be pretty big.
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The mottled skin makes it likely to be a seal. Depending on the season, it could also be a kelt, a salmon that’s headed downstream after spawning (Atlantic salmon can survive spawning, unlike their Pacific cousins).
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