You ought to do a vid about the US Government finally admitting UFO's are real, kinda hard to deny now that the Video got released take from some F-16's. .
As a boy my friends and I used to cycle to Loch Ness and Loch Ashie and Duntelchaig to fish and camp the night. Loch Ness definitely has a different feel to other Lochs. It is so deep and dark and quite foreboding really. From the shore along by Dores if you look to the lochend side the hills above that are red and the stone consists of an ancient desert from countless millions of years ago. When I was older and started getting into boats I was on the Loch quite a lot and seeing Urquhart castle from the water is a great experience. In all my time on and around the Loch I have never seen "Nessie" but the Loch is dark and deep and hides gigantic eels and huge Sturgeon as well as the seals that swim up the river Ness to the Loch. In the 70's my Father had a good friend called Bill,Bill had a job in the 60's that included recovering bodies of unfortunate people who had met their end one way or another. Bill had to go out on Loch Ness to recover a body that had been spotted, he told us he was thirsty and when he put his hand over to scoop up some water when he tasted it,it was salty. He reckons they found a roughly 400 yard patch of brine in a freshwater Loch leading to the possibility of underground passageways to the sea. However I believe anything wanting into the Loch would have used the river which going back a long time was two miles wide and routed nearer Daviot than Inverness,you could have navigated a nuclear sub up the river at that time.🏴
In the Outlander books Diana Gabaldon had the best theory about Nessie: there is a time travel portal near the bottom of the lake and Nessie is actually several aquatic dinosaurs that accidentally swim through it, which is why we can go many, many years without a sighting.
The New Zealand scientists have a balanced view. "We can't confirm or deny the theory," meaning of course that it remains a theory because until it is verified one way or the other it is a possibility, not a fact or a myth. I love science!
The whole geography of the Great Glen itself (of which Loch Ness is just one of a chain) is worthy of an episode. Indeed the Caledonian Canal could be a subject for Megaprojects
I thought he would have mentioned the hydro power station on the bank of Loch Ness, the way the pump the water through those humongous pipes up to the holding loch to release at peak times is worthy of a mega project
I was at Urquhart Castle in July of 2014 with my family, and near the "kitchen" area of the castle when we heard people making a fuss while looking at the lake. We ran over, and something bobbed it head above the water, enough to make 12"-16" ripples. By the time I took a picture it had slipped below the surface, but the lake was still, with no boats in sight. It was very eerie.
"I just given him treefiddy the week before." "What?! You gave that monster another damn treefiddy?!" "He tricked me." "Well no wonder the damn monster keeps coming back to our house! You keep giving it treefiddy!"
I like that this video wasn't just about Nessie, but also about the Loch itself. Loch Ness is wild, beautiful place. I've stood on the shore at Castle Urquhart on a dark, cloudy afternoon, surrounded by history, and wondered what lay beneath the surface.
The eel theory is interesting as some recorded sightings of Nessie have actually been in the surrounding hillside. Interesting as eels have the ability to cross short distances of land to get from one area to another!
Not too long ago I commented on a video saying that this guy talks too fast and without emphasis but that I really like the content of his videos and I just wanted to say that he's made a vast improvement in verbal presentation that allows me to enjoy it easier. Good work man!
On the subject of challenging extinction, When I was 6 my family visited Loch Ness. I got a plushie Nessie with a hidden button in it to make it roar. Now at almost 32 years old, I still have that plushie, and it still roars albeit very quietly. The day I finally have to unstitch a seam and replace that battery will be a sad one.
I got my son one the day he was born 27 years ago (fuck me 27 years ago), anyway it made the same noise and it was psychadellic. Kid loved it because of all the psychadellic colours.
Visited Invermoriston, Fort Augustus and Loch Ness a few years back. Amazing that 3 days visiting there was a rare heat wave in the area. Beautiful place.
My Favorites are the military comparison videos. Like the US one where sharpshooters are using 2 american smgs vs the german mp40. And were like "nah german guns suck lol"
There are similar stories from all over the world in other huge bodies of water and, of course, of sea monsters for hundreds of years. The Coelacanth was a fish that was supposed to have become extinct 60 million years ago but it was discovered alive in 1938 and only 10 per cent of the sea has been explored. Many unknown species of aquatic animals could have adapted to fresh water over time so let’s keep an open mind !
In addition to conger eels, a lot of Nessie videos are pretty clearly a group of seals, which commonly enter the loch, rolling along together in ways that can appear like one, long rolling serpent from the distance (the first video probably being an example of this)
Hey Simon here’s two great suggestions for future Geographics episodes. The Yemeni island of Socotra where it’s trees and plants are found nowhere else on earth described as the most alien place on earth. The other is Babylon in modern Iraq with a tremendous amount of history! That reminds me perhaps a Biographic on Hammurabi?
'Showing' and 'depicting', WTF? That comment makes no sense. Why would you use those two words together since they both mean the same thing? I wouldn't be criticizing anyone's accuracy since you can't even write a sentence that's grammatically accurate. Maybe if you threw in a forward slash to indicate a connecting relationship then it would be okay (except for using 'Well' to start the sentence). What, is 'Well' the name of the 'subtitle'?
🤣Well it's a joke I guess. Oddly enough it's the first speech I heard where I noticed Hitler's Austrian accent. Quite uncomfortable I'd rather he sounded completely German
So close on the pronouciations Simon, Invermoriston was spot on :) Drumnadrochit close (its Drum not Drim so actually goes as read, you got the hard bit :):)) and Urquhart better than most tourists :) Nessie doesn't really have sea access though River Ness starts at a weir which she would have to clamber over and the Canal has locks
I was in the US Air Force in England circa 1981. The BBC used to broadcast the news at 9pm. They would always run a teaser just before 9 at the end of whatever program that was on before that. We lived in a dorm on base and there'd always be TV's on while we did whatever we were doing. One night, there were 4 or 5 people in my room and the TV was on. It was also on in our dayroom, which was a communal relaxing room on the floor. ANYWAY,,,,,the teaser for the news came on. It totally blew us away. There in front of us on the TV was footage,,,,not video,,but film,,,taken from inside an RAF helicopter over a shallow area of Loch Ness. The guys in the copter were yelling and the camera was pointing below them. You could see the wash from the propeller on the water and in the middle of it was a creature. It looked like a small dinosaur,,,it had four flippers, a long neck and a somewhat short tail. It was thrashing about in a panic under the helicopter. The footage was real. They didn't have CGI back then, the inside of the copter was real,,,the men were yelling, the noise was loud,,,and the scene on the water was real. The announcer was saying something to the effect that the RAF had found Nessie and details would follow at 9. Of course we all freaked out. We watched at 9 and absolutely nothing was said. We were completely perplexed. Many people saw the clip,,,I know of at least two of my superiors who contacted the BBC and the RAF and no one seemed to know anything. We'd all seen it. I met locals who saw it as well. There was no internet then,,,no phones to text with,,,,so word couldn't get around like we can do today. I talked to people about it for weeks and many people saw it. The story faded away and one can only wonder what the hell happened. Over the years I have talked to people who remember it. But for me,,,,the creature,,whatever it is, exists.
The part never considered in the monster myth is for as long as "sightings" have persisted, there would need to be a bare minimum of 2 monsters to reproduce. In reality you need many more to sustain the species healthily. There would be way more sightings of a species that lives this high up in the water column.
Still don't believe their hypothesis that the Loch Ness Monster is some gigantic eel. It will always be a prehistoric dinosaur that still somehow evades detection.
If Scooby-Doo taught me anything it is that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a robot made by St. Columba to trick the locals into worshiping him and his god.
I’m glad you brought up the recent evidence of eels. A giant eel, I can believe. A prehistoric remnant, however, is a fun thought experiment, but quite a stretch.
@Boom Diggaty All I'm saying is that there was a picture of one on the screen, and an undiscovered species of oarfish is equally as plausible as an excessively large species of anadromous eel, which the illustration definitely did not depict, because it depicted an oarfish.
Theres the sturgeon which is fresh water, loch ness is only connect to the sea at both endsbut one has locks on it dont know about the river ness at the Inverness end ive seen the river you couldn't get very big fish swimming up it in summer
Oh my god THANK YOU for bringing up the EDNA project!! Aside from this just being an awesome advancement, this has definitively solved the mystery if you ask me. Like 100% case closed.
It's 11:54pm, i just walked 3 hours straight to get home and am sitting in my underwear drinking tea before bed. A video about The Loch Ness is exactly what i need right now
One thing Simon didn't mention is that for any organism to survive long-term, it can't survive all by itself. There has to be a population of them, and the more complex the organism, the larger the population needs to be. Therefore, if it's a pleisiosaur, there has to be a whole population of them, and anything that big and numerous would be well documented. So, no monster. Still the area is lovely and worth a visit just for that.
Back in the day, New England had Sea Serpents "Allegedly"...carved and painted wooden images of the creatures were often used as decoration along the coastline on houses. They look in many cases like "Nessy"..
Nope. The real Nessie is my brother. He's rarely seen in public (works a lot & doesn't like sitting still). It's often said that when you do see him, take a picture bc no one will believe you. It's the classic "Pics or it didn't happen" type of thing.
Pretty cool and informative video. However, some famous underwater photos were missing, and the end of the video seemed a bit rushed. Otherwise, great work as usual.
And that was the third time we saw the Loch Ness monster. Then one time, I believe it was July... August, there's a knock on the door. I open it, and there's this cute little girl scout and she says to me "how would you like to buy some cookies?" And I said "Well, what kind do you have?" She had thin mints, graham crunchy things... Raisin oatmeal, and I said "We'll take a graham crunch. How much will that be?" And she looks at me and she says "I need about treefiddy" Well it was about that time that I notice that girl scout was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the palezoic era I said "Dammit monster! Get off my lawn! I ain't giving you no treefiddy!" It said "how about just twofiddy?" I said "Oh now it's only twofiddy?! What is there a sale on Loch Ness munchies or something?!"
Holy crap my dad is a professor of neurology at otago university and is close friends with neil who I've meet on several occasions! I didnt know anything about this! Small world.
I love these videos and Simon's channels... but I accidentally snorted at the Loch's depth, because I live nearby a lake over 2,000 ft deep. This episode also dusted the cobwebs off an old Scooby-Doo memory
It's easy to spot Nessie at the right time, you just have to be there at the same time as breeding season of the wild Haggis, which is a rare event in itself... :P
The issue with the "record eel specimen" picture you posted is that it is not of a Conger Eel, but instead of an Oarfish, as noted by the crested dorsal fin and the protruding lower jaw.
Lake Chelan in Washington state US, is 50.5 mi (81.3 m) long. At it deepest, it is 388 ft (118 m) below sea level. Current elevation is 1100 ft (340 m) above sea level. The width varies, depending on the mountain ridges along the sides. No stories of monsters as the water is so clear you can see to the bottom of the lake at many places. Additionally, there is housing development all along the south end of the lake and a small town / village at the extreme north end. In between, there are no roads, limiting house building. Hard to imagine any monsters in the lake as at some points, the lake is so narrow. I can verify the water is exceedingly cold, having capsized a small sailboat in it one summer.
You should try to do one on lake Champlain in the United States. We got a knock off monster named Champy. The lake also played a pretty big role in both the revolutionary war and war of 1812
As a german speaker I was surprised by the subtitles of hitler's speach... What he really says is: "Whether you think I have been diligent, whether you think I have worked, whether you think I have done my best for you this year." So it is clearly propaganda but he dosen't mention the lochness monster at all 😂
When my dad was on subs and would travel the world , he would bring me dolls from each country he went . he went to Scotland and brought Nessy back for me 💙 . i remember it was green and looked kinda like a 🐍
Could you make a video over Unit 731? It was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that did lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II. I can't seem to find any good videos covering it on youtube .
St. Columba wanted to get to the other side of the Loch Ness. (This Saturday will be the anniversary, by the way, you should have waited a few more days to release this.) "I could use a boat . . . Hmm. Oh, by the way, sir, where were you on the night of . . ." (A "Columbo" television mystery reference).
Excellent offering, thank you. I like to believe there is some creature that lives in Loch Ness part time, heading out to the ocean and back again as it needs or feels to do. I don't it is a pre-historic reptile, tho I wont say that is absolute. We have been finding animals who were thought extinct for decades or up to several millions of years, after all. However, there is some science to tell us that the huge animals that were alive during the previous eras, even the huge Ice Age Mammals cannot thrive or even survive in the current era due to various environmental factors, including the magnetic field of the planet being far weaker now than even 12,000-10,000 years ago. This issue with magnetic fields is generally overlooked by Crypto fans, but really needs to be brought to their attention. It might even be a factor in the extinction of the beloved Meglodon. Maybe Simon can have a writer dive into this and thereby debunk many myths of huge animals still roaming around?
_British_ man using _American_ measuring units, now that’s a good one. Yeah, meanwhile the rest of us _Europeans_ are just going to pretend we aren’t offended by this choice.
Visited Loch Ness in 2019. Took a drive around the lake and also took a boat tour. Searched and searched. Didn’t see any monster. Oh well. Urquart was nice and had a pint in Fort Augustus.
I dont know if a German allready pointed that out but: The Part with Hitler had nothing to do with Nessy. He was asking if someone (or something) thinks he was busy, if he (or it) thinks that he was working hard, that he sacreficed himself in those years to a cause. Pretty much nonsense, just a piece of conversation.
It actually is a crustacean from the protazoic era. It is said to be about 8 stories tall and can take the form of a Girl Scout selling cookies. If engaged, Nessie will need about tree fiddy
I don't know about the Loch Ness or Bala Lake monster. But here in Wales we have wild Gwiber flying about, I have seen them many times when out and about in the countryside. *That's because pheasants are believed to be the source of the Gwiber stories.
I think that Nessie may be an as yet unclassified form of amphibian similar to the Chinese salamander which can grow up to 5-6 ft in length, (and beyond) and is occasionally discovered in storm drains and reservoirs in that area of the world. (look them up elsewhere on youtube. they are quite magnificent and awe inspiring) I saw a similar creature up close and personal in a remote lake in Wales which looked like an over-sized newt, where they are known locally as 'Alfancs'. My personal theory is that they were once fairly common in the British isles until the middle ages when they were called 'wyrms' and were hunted down to near extinction for being an agricultural pest.
Maybe Geographics, or (another Simon Channel) would be the place for a multi-part video on each mass extinction event. The progression of life until that point and the aftermath. The next video would pick up from what the resulted and how the world evolved until the next cataclysm.
2 videos in one day (this & a mega-projects ) you are spoiling us Simon .... in the summer of 2000 i spend 3 months camped by Urquhart castle , Archaeology & geography field trip .. beautiful scenery , didn't see any monster , or anything close
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Hi Simon love ur vids
140k subs before quarantine ends
Also love ur videos
You ought to do a vid about the US Government finally admitting UFO's are real, kinda hard to deny now that the Video got released take from some F-16's. .
Good vid
I've binged so many of these videos. I can hear Simon's voice in my dreams.
Allegedly
@@oliviagreen7423 you beat me to it!
Isn't it odd how different his voice is in the 5 year old vids? Almost like he murdered the original Simon and assumed his identity...
Same bruh!!
Andrew don’t you remember the video where that happened (I think it was the one about the pyramid on the dollar)........allegedly.
As a boy my friends and I used to cycle to Loch Ness and Loch Ashie and Duntelchaig to fish and camp the night. Loch Ness definitely has a different feel to other Lochs. It is so deep and dark and quite foreboding really. From the shore along by Dores if you look to the lochend side the hills above that are red and the stone consists of an ancient desert from countless millions of years ago. When I was older and started getting into boats I was on the Loch quite a lot and seeing Urquhart castle from the water is a great experience. In all my time on and around the Loch I have never seen "Nessie" but the Loch is dark and deep and hides gigantic eels and huge Sturgeon as well as the seals that swim up the river Ness to the Loch. In the 70's my Father had a good friend called Bill,Bill had a job in the 60's that included recovering bodies of unfortunate people who had met their end one way or another. Bill had to go out on Loch Ness to recover a body that had been spotted, he told us he was thirsty and when he put his hand over to scoop up some water when he tasted it,it was salty. He reckons they found a roughly 400 yard patch of brine in a freshwater Loch leading to the possibility of underground passageways to the sea. However I believe anything wanting into the Loch would have used the river which going back a long time was two miles wide and routed nearer Daviot than Inverness,you could have navigated a nuclear sub up the river at that time.🏴
Germany: We killed Nessy!
British Government: Nah, we checked. She's good. 👍
As a Scot I can confirm its existence. It feeds off wild haggis and has almost brought the animal to extinction.
You sure not fried Mars bars ?
@@jantschierschky3461 What do you think is in haggis?
@@garyoa1 hnmm meat and vegetables, you maybe right
There are no feral haggis anywhere North of Bridge of Allan, because they've the best chippy in the World.
The wild haggis has been brought to extinction? or the Scot?
In the Outlander books Diana Gabaldon had the best theory about Nessie: there is a time travel portal near the bottom of the lake and Nessie is actually several aquatic dinosaurs that accidentally swim through it, which is why we can go many, many years without a sighting.
You know it's a Scottish miracle cure when it cures not just infertility - like seemingly every eastern medicine - but also hangovers.
Runs counter to an Irish saint who turned her used bathwater into beer.
All Scots know that the best thing to cure hangovers is more alcohol
@@Outside85 There are so many streamer Saints in modern times turning used bathwater into cash monies.
The New Zealand scientists have a balanced view. "We can't confirm or deny the theory," meaning of course that it remains a theory because until it is verified one way or the other it is a possibility, not a fact or a myth. I love science!
The whole geography of the Great Glen itself (of which Loch Ness is just one of a chain) is worthy of an episode. Indeed the Caledonian Canal could be a subject for Megaprojects
My understanding is that it's a fault. And since I just watched Simon's videos on San Andreas, I think that would make a good episode.
I thought he would have mentioned the hydro power station on the bank of Loch Ness, the way the pump the water through those humongous pipes up to the holding loch to release at peak times is worthy of a mega project
I can't believe how well Simon kept a straight face filming this, it must have taken him forever.
I was at Urquhart Castle in July of 2014 with my family, and near the "kitchen" area of the castle when we heard people making a fuss while looking at the lake. We ran over, and something bobbed it head above the water, enough to make 12"-16" ripples. By the time I took a picture it had slipped below the surface, but the lake was still, with no boats in sight. It was very eerie.
"I gave him a dolla!"
"Christ woman you dont be giving no Loch Ness monster a dolla! He'll be back thinking you got more!"
“About treefiddy.”
"I just given him treefiddy the week before."
"What?! You gave that monster another damn treefiddy?!"
"He tricked me."
"Well no wonder the damn monster keeps coming back to our house! You keep giving it treefiddy!"
How can yae have anae pudding if yae don' eat yaer meat?!
Well it was about this time I noticed this "girl scout" was about 8 stories tall...
@@legallyfree2955 and a crustacean from the pandadoic era.
I think there is more fresh water in Loch Ness than in all the lakes of England and Wales combined. It's huge.
more than a mile wide though
Yeah but the English lakes have got way more shopping trolleys
I canoed across it (in choppy weather) some years ago. It's dark, windy, violent, and beautiful. A special place.
Callum corner
Only A Scot would brag about the size of a lake. Go shoot some dope and trainspot.
I like that this video wasn't just about Nessie, but also about the Loch itself. Loch Ness is wild, beautiful place. I've stood on the shore at Castle Urquhart on a dark, cloudy afternoon, surrounded by history, and wondered what lay beneath the surface.
"Perhaps the Lake Nose Monster wanted to remain lost"-Ferb.
The eel theory is interesting as some recorded sightings of Nessie have actually been in the surrounding hillside. Interesting as eels have the ability to cross short distances of land to get from one area to another!
read over 1000 reports of sightings. not an eel.
Simon: Shows photo of lochness monster
Me: ALLEGEDLY
The saint to Nessie, “You shall not pass!!!”
That's what immediately popped into my head! 🤣🤣
Not too long ago I commented on a video saying that this guy talks too fast and without emphasis but that I really like the content of his videos and I just wanted to say that he's made a vast improvement in verbal presentation that allows me to enjoy it easier. Good work man!
I have heard that there are (or were) signs along the Loch that read, "Don't be messy while searching for Nessie!" 😄
On the subject of challenging extinction, When I was 6 my family visited Loch Ness. I got a plushie Nessie with a hidden button in it to make it roar. Now at almost 32 years old, I still have that plushie, and it still roars albeit very quietly.
The day I finally have to unstitch a seam and replace that battery will be a sad one.
I got my son one the day he was born 27 years ago (fuck me 27 years ago), anyway it made the same noise and it was psychadellic. Kid loved it because of all the psychadellic colours.
Most mysterious loch of them all. Scotland is a beautiful place
As a scot i can confirm that but we arnt a very beautiful people i can tell ye that.
@@maddog5284 Been to Scotland last year and I can confirm both :) jk. You do have cattle with best hairdos though.
Found you. Where will I find you next 🤔
Visited Invermoriston, Fort Augustus and Loch Ness a few years back. Amazing that 3 days visiting there was a rare heat wave in the area. Beautiful place.
14:21 I think you mean.... “Land-Loch-ed.”
I’ll be here all week, folks
I down voted your comment. Not because it really deserves it, but because as a joke, that line really needed a heckler...
Joe Hemmann That was kinda the point. I was going for a bad one.
@@mitchellneu mawahaha thanks for the chuckle!
My husband and I went there and he became a child again when he saw the castle, we adore Scotland!
“Drain the lake” C Montgomery Burns
Release the hounds
Gets smithers to do it with a hand pump haha
No way! Aberdeen rules!
The MacDonalds were under the control of the mean Burger King. I know my history, lads.
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That's hilarious!
👍 Good one!
You just put the cheese into cheeseburger
Boo.
I absolutely appreciate the level of quality all of these videos are at. This is good content right here.
WWII propaganda really cracks me up.
"WE KILLED THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!"
"NAH-AH YOU DIDN'T!"
My Favorites are the military comparison videos. Like the US one where sharpshooters are using 2 american smgs vs the german mp40. And were like "nah german guns suck lol"
There are similar stories from all over the world in other huge bodies of water and, of course, of sea monsters for hundreds of years. The Coelacanth was a fish that was supposed to have become extinct 60 million years ago but it was discovered alive in 1938 and only 10 per cent of the sea has been explored. Many unknown species of aquatic animals could have adapted to fresh water over time so let’s keep an open mind !
In addition to conger eels, a lot of Nessie videos are pretty clearly a group of seals, which commonly enter the loch, rolling along together in ways that can appear like one, long rolling serpent from the distance (the first video probably being an example of this)
Hey Simon here’s two great suggestions for future Geographics episodes. The Yemeni island of Socotra where it’s trees and plants are found nowhere else on earth described as the most alien place on earth. The other is Babylon in modern Iraq with a tremendous amount of history! That reminds me perhaps a Biographic on Hammurabi?
1:25 - Chapter 1 - More to the ness than just nessie
6:35 - Mid roll ads
7:50 - Chapter 2 - Nessie & columba
10:05 - Chapter 3 - Nessiteras rhombopteryx
17:35 - Chapter 4 - Mystery solved
19:45 - Chapter 5 - A fascination with monsters
Well the subtitle about Hitler's speech is as accurate as the pic showing depicting nessie
'Showing' and 'depicting', WTF? That comment makes no sense. Why would you use those two words together since they both mean the same thing? I wouldn't be criticizing anyone's accuracy since you can't even write a sentence that's grammatically accurate. Maybe if you threw in a forward slash to indicate a connecting relationship then it would be okay (except for using 'Well' to start the sentence). What, is 'Well' the name of the 'subtitle'?
Cool story bro
@@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718 you must be so much fun at parties
@@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718 calm yourself
🤣Well it's a joke I guess. Oddly enough it's the first speech I heard where I noticed Hitler's Austrian accent. Quite uncomfortable I'd rather he sounded completely German
So close on the pronouciations Simon, Invermoriston was spot on :) Drumnadrochit close (its Drum not Drim so actually goes as read, you got the hard bit :):)) and Urquhart better than most tourists :)
Nessie doesn't really have sea access though River Ness starts at a weir which she would have to clamber over and the Canal has locks
Amazed Simon can be so serious about this topic.
That area is worth a trip. Lots of cool lochs around it. The loch ness boat tour is worth it too.
Now I want Simon to make a channel on myths
2nd that
I was in the US Air Force in England circa 1981. The BBC used to broadcast the news at 9pm. They would always run a teaser just before 9 at the end of whatever program that was on before that. We lived in a dorm on base and there'd always be TV's on while we did whatever we were doing. One night, there were 4 or 5 people in my room and the TV was on. It was also on in our dayroom, which was a communal relaxing room on the floor. ANYWAY,,,,,the teaser for the news came on. It totally blew us away. There in front of us on the TV was footage,,,,not video,,but film,,,taken from inside an RAF helicopter over a shallow area of Loch Ness. The guys in the copter were yelling and the camera was pointing below them. You could see the wash from the propeller on the water and in the middle of it was a creature. It looked like a small dinosaur,,,it had four flippers, a long neck and a somewhat short tail. It was thrashing about in a panic under the helicopter. The footage was real. They didn't have CGI back then, the inside of the copter was real,,,the men were yelling, the noise was loud,,,and the scene on the water was real. The announcer was saying something to the effect that the RAF had found Nessie and details would follow at 9. Of course we all freaked out. We watched at 9 and absolutely nothing was said. We were completely perplexed. Many people saw the clip,,,I know of at least two of my superiors who contacted the BBC and the RAF and no one seemed to know anything. We'd all seen it. I met locals who saw it as well. There was no internet then,,,no phones to text with,,,,so word couldn't get around like we can do today. I talked to people about it for weeks and many people saw it. The story faded away and one can only wonder what the hell happened. Over the years I have talked to people who remember it. But for me,,,,the creature,,whatever it is, exists.
The part never considered in the monster myth is for as long as "sightings" have persisted, there would need to be a bare minimum of 2 monsters to reproduce. In reality you need many more to sustain the species healthily. There would be way more sightings of a species that lives this high up in the water column.
Loch Ness is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been and I intend on going back some time soon.
Still don't believe their hypothesis that the Loch Ness Monster is some gigantic eel. It will always be a prehistoric dinosaur that still somehow evades detection.
“....Or for the next discussion you have with your know it all brother-in-law.”
I felt that. I felt that deeply and spiritually
If Scooby-Doo taught me anything it is that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a robot made by St. Columba to trick the locals into worshiping him and his god.
"You..shall.. not pass!!" - Saint Columba
Nessie still owe me tree fiddy
And girl scout cookies.......
@crazy silly "Don't give no monster no tree fiddy!" South Park (Season 3, episode 3-- "The Succubus"--Chef's dad's story)
I’m glad you brought up the recent evidence of eels. A giant eel, I can believe. A prehistoric remnant, however, is a fun thought experiment, but quite a stretch.
19:11 That's an oarfish. A freshwater species of that is equally plausible, as it is probably the source of a lot of sea monster tales.
@Boom Diggaty All I'm saying is that there was a picture of one on the screen, and an undiscovered species of oarfish is equally as plausible as an excessively large species of anadromous eel, which the illustration definitely did not depict, because it depicted an oarfish.
Theres the sturgeon which is fresh water, loch ness is only connect to the sea at both endsbut one has locks on it dont know about the river ness at the Inverness end ive seen the river you couldn't get very big fish swimming up it in summer
Oh my god THANK YOU for bringing up the EDNA project!! Aside from this just being an awesome advancement, this has definitively solved the mystery if you ask me. Like 100% case closed.
It's 11:54pm, i just walked 3 hours straight to get home and am sitting in my underwear drinking tea before bed. A video about The Loch Ness is exactly what i need right now
If you average 15 mins/mile, you would cover 12 miles. So how far did you walk?
One thing Simon didn't mention is that for any organism to survive long-term, it can't survive all by itself. There has to be a population of them, and the more complex the organism, the larger the population needs to be. Therefore, if it's a pleisiosaur, there has to be a whole population of them, and anything that big and numerous would be well documented. So, no monster. Still the area is lovely and worth a visit just for that.
I think he does mention that on his Decoding the Unknown episode about the Loch Ness Monster.
Loch Ness - the land of four engined midges . . . 'We love a good waistband & why bite folk once when 25 times will do?'
Back in the day, New England had Sea Serpents "Allegedly"...carved and painted wooden images of the creatures were often used as decoration along the coastline on houses. They look in many cases like "Nessy"..
Nope. The real Nessie is my brother. He's rarely seen in public (works a lot & doesn't like sitting still). It's often said that when you do see him, take a picture bc no one will believe you. It's the classic "Pics or it didn't happen" type of thing.
Pretty cool and informative video. However, some famous underwater photos were missing, and the end of the video seemed a bit rushed. Otherwise, great work as usual.
And that was the third time we saw the Loch Ness monster. Then one time, I believe it was July...
August, there's a knock on the door. I open it, and there's this cute little girl scout and she says to me "how would you like to buy some cookies?" And I said "Well, what kind do you have?" She had thin mints, graham crunchy things...
Raisin oatmeal, and I said "We'll take a graham crunch. How much will that be?" And she looks at me and she says "I need about treefiddy"
Well it was about that time that I notice that girl scout was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the palezoic era
I said "Dammit monster! Get off my lawn! I ain't giving you no treefiddy!" It said "how about just twofiddy?" I said "Oh now it's only twofiddy?! What is there a sale on Loch Ness munchies or something?!"
I thought that the Loch Ness Monster was actually Jack the Ripper, not a girl scout?
Holy crap my dad is a professor of neurology at otago university and is close friends with neil who I've meet on several occasions! I didnt know anything about this! Small world.
Can you check with Neil if they found DNA of conger eels in the Loch? That would solve the mystery once and for all.
Arnaldo Teodorani what about oar fish? They look like sea serpents
probably didn't have dinosaur dna to check against. also awesome! id love to chat with him!
Mike Yara That sounds like a question for Prof Neil ... maybe @leg can tell him next time they meet?
Arnaldo Teodorani but I don’t think our fish live in lakes I’m not sure
Thank you for sharing, Simon! Good job!
Glad to see you highlighted my castle. It's as majestic as it is in need of a refurbish.
I just found your channel and it’s freaking amazing!! I subscribed and I’m about to watch some more videos :) thanks man
I love these videos and Simon's channels... but I accidentally snorted at the Loch's depth, because I live nearby a lake over 2,000 ft deep.
This episode also dusted the cobwebs off an old Scooby-Doo memory
the last picture you used of the conger eels is actually an oarfish but those also get crazy big as well
It's easy to spot Nessie at the right time, you just have to be there at the same time as breeding season of the wild Haggis, which is a rare event in itself... :P
A Tom Baker Doctor Who series was set here. With Sara Jane, The Brigadier and of course Sgt Benton.
Yep! Then they let Zygons be Zygons......Innocent look.
@Boom Diggaty Not to everyone as the comment above you and the likes show...
But I understand your struggle to be witty.
Gordon Lumbert He was my favorite Doctor Who!
14:49 “Dinsdale! DIIIINSDAAAAALE!!!” 🦔
And how large is Spiny Norman today?
Normally about twelve feet from snout to tail, but today... eight hundred yards long.
Home of the DInnaDome.
Your ability to keep a straight face while discussing the various monster sightings is epic.
The issue with the "record eel specimen" picture you posted is that it is not of a Conger Eel, but instead of an Oarfish, as noted by the crested dorsal fin and the protruding lower jaw.
Lake Chelan in Washington state US, is 50.5 mi (81.3 m) long. At it deepest, it is 388 ft (118 m) below sea level. Current elevation is 1100 ft (340 m) above sea level. The width varies, depending on the mountain ridges along the sides. No stories of monsters as the water is so clear you can see to the bottom of the lake at many places. Additionally, there is housing development all along the south end of the lake and a small town / village at the extreme north end. In between, there are no roads, limiting house building. Hard to imagine any monsters in the lake as at some points, the lake is so narrow. I can verify the water is exceedingly cold, having capsized a small sailboat in it one summer.
You forgot to mention the apples.
Great video, as usual 👍
Suggestion: St. Basil's Cathedral in Russia and Red Square
Thank you for listing the author & producer at the end.
Geographics: Water horse
Turkmen President: takes notes
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Gurpgork
Real Mr Kim? Or impostor?
Nessie IS my favorite cryptid! Thank you for doing this video!
Went there with the wife 2 years ago. I saw some ripples in the water that I assume must have been the Loch Ness Monster :D
You should try to do one on lake Champlain in the United States. We got a knock off monster named Champy. The lake also played a pretty big role in both the revolutionary war and war of 1812
As I recall it's not a knock off...the name is a copy though. Several of the big lakes in the NE have native American legends of huge aquatic critters
Chappy ain't no knock off
As a german speaker I was surprised by the subtitles of hitler's speach... What he really says is: "Whether you think I have been diligent, whether you think I have worked, whether you think I have done my best for you this year."
So it is clearly propaganda but he dosen't mention the lochness monster at all 😂
I don't think the Loch Ness monster exists, but of all the unknown creatures out there, it's the one that I desperately hope is real.
No mention of Boleskine house and the creepy cemetery. The vibe in that area is spooky as hell.
When my dad was on subs and would travel the world , he would bring me dolls from each country he went . he went to Scotland and brought Nessy back for me 💙 . i remember it was green and looked kinda like a 🐍
"cures infertility, Rhuematism, and Hangovers"
So, two things that can't really be proven, and water for hangovers... Got it!
Well there is one way to prove that it cures infertility
@sledge hammer Thanks, little boy. I'll go look for one.
Havent even finished watching but epic so far. More please on lakes. I would love to a video on the island of Nauru, the island that ate itself.
Still amazed how big this loch is every time I drive past it
What? You expecting it to change size anytime soon?
Could you make a video over Unit 731? It was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that did lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II. I can't seem to find any good videos covering it on youtube .
That Braveheart bit was great.
St. Columba wanted to get to the other side of the Loch Ness. (This Saturday will be the anniversary, by the way, you should have waited a few more days to release this.)
"I could use a boat . . . Hmm. Oh, by the way, sir, where were you on the night of . . ." (A "Columbo" television mystery reference).
OMG that Hitler clip is pure gold. Now for one from Downfall...
Excellent offering, thank you. I like to believe there is some creature that lives in Loch Ness part time, heading out to the ocean and back again as it needs or feels to do. I don't it is a pre-historic reptile, tho I wont say that is absolute. We have been finding animals who were thought extinct for decades or up to several millions of years, after all.
However, there is some science to tell us that the huge animals that were alive during the previous eras, even the huge Ice Age Mammals cannot thrive or even survive in the current era due to various environmental factors, including the magnetic field of the planet being far weaker now than even 12,000-10,000 years ago.
This issue with magnetic fields is generally overlooked by Crypto fans, but really needs to be brought to their attention. It might even be a factor in the extinction of the beloved Meglodon. Maybe Simon can have a writer dive into this and thereby debunk many myths of huge animals still roaming around?
_British_ man using _American_ measuring units, now that’s a good one.
Yeah, meanwhile the rest of us _Europeans_ are just going to pretend we aren’t offended by this choice.
The image posted at 19:12 is not an eel. That's a surprisingly accurate drawing of an oarfish.
Visited Loch Ness in 2019. Took a drive around the lake and also took a boat tour. Searched and searched. Didn’t see any monster. Oh well. Urquart was nice and had a pint in Fort Augustus.
I dont know if a German allready pointed that out but:
The Part with Hitler had nothing to do with Nessy. He was asking if someone (or something) thinks he was busy, if he (or it) thinks that he was working hard, that he sacreficed himself in those years to a cause. Pretty much nonsense, just a piece of conversation.
It actually is a crustacean from the protazoic era. It is said to be about 8 stories tall and can take the form of a Girl Scout selling cookies. If engaged, Nessie will need about tree fiddy
I am blazing one in honour of our boy Simon
I don't know about the Loch Ness or Bala Lake monster. But here in Wales we have wild Gwiber flying about, I have seen them many times when out and about in the countryside.
*That's because pheasants are believed to be the source of the Gwiber stories.
I think that Nessie may be an as yet unclassified form of amphibian similar to the Chinese salamander which can grow up to 5-6 ft in length, (and beyond) and is occasionally discovered in storm drains and reservoirs in that area of the world. (look them up elsewhere on youtube. they are quite magnificent and awe inspiring) I saw a similar creature up close and personal in a remote lake in Wales which looked like an over-sized newt, where they are known locally as 'Alfancs'. My personal theory is that they were once fairly common in the British isles until the middle ages when they were called 'wyrms' and were hunted down to near extinction for being an agricultural pest.
As much as I love these videos, i love seeing the real Simon on the business blaze
I'm sure ETA (Simons electric heater) has some interesting ideas about this mystical beast
Allegedly
Maybe Geographics, or (another Simon Channel) would be the place for a multi-part video on each mass extinction event.
The progression of life until that point and the aftermath. The next video would pick up from what the resulted and how the world evolved until the next cataclysm.
Big Eels makes sense to me more than a Dino. Awesome video. Thanks.
Er... plesiosaurs were not dinosaurs. They were marine reptiles.
2 videos in one day (this & a mega-projects ) you are spoiling us Simon .... in the summer of 2000 i spend 3 months camped by Urquhart castle , Archaeology & geography field trip .. beautiful scenery , didn't see any monster , or anything close
I'm never this early to a video, so here's a pointless comment to commemorate that.
Same.
My dog has the same name as you! *Bruno* 💕
Best “1st” comment I’ve seen in a UA-cam video.