This mysterious photo sparked the global fascination with the Loch Ness Monster

[smulder]

[anothernewbbaccount]

Did you forget the /s?

Or are you trying to, in effect, say that as long as people believe in Nessie, it exists?

Philosophical musings aside, @anon65652885’s xkcd post reflects my ‘belief’.

[FSogol]

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus Loch Ness Monster!

[BakaNeko]

You made me Google It.

[SpunkyTWS]

@gracchus

A clear, high-resolution image of an actual Sasquatch would be immediately dismissed by them as a fake.

[BakaNeko]

@Shuck

They feel like products of a far more innocent age, when people were willing to believe that even with random photos by strangers, those things could be the case.

Just like these girls.

Cottingley Fairies: How Sherlock Holmes's creator was fooled by hoax

[anon33932455]

@Shuck

It strikes me how the whole “lake monster” phenomenon was premised on the assumption that these pictures were taken by honest people in good faith, accurately reporting what they saw. They were still never terribly convincing, but it all completely falls apart when it turns out that none of those things are true. They feel like products of a far more innocent age, when people were willing to believe that even with random photos by strangers, those things could be the case.

Ivermectin.