does anybody here believe in Nessie?

Magic Fairy -
If you want to believe in Nessie, go ahead. If you want to believe Nessie is a sweet, gentle creature just trying to go about her own business - go for it!

I was in Scotland on a tour with about fifty older people who all said there is no monster. However, when we drove around the loch, every eye and camera was trained on the water - the whole way!

I want to first say that I once wasted a perfectly good evening watching this film but I can actually say "I've seen worse" (if you can believe that).

Oh I don't know, about 2 years ago I would have said small chance but now I would have to say large chance. It was after I learned that planet earth is a few years over 6,000 now and what dinosaurs were thought to have lived millions of years ago, actually lived the same as us and have only recently died off (most anyway). Though they were called dragons when they lived.
To my answer, yes I would believe that Nessie exists or did at one point in recent history.

I don't get the big deal with beliveing.
I really don't see why we should act like we know everything.
For my part I don't see a lot of reasons Not to believe.

I believe very much that there was a , as cryptozoologists say, a aquatic unknown creature, or a aquatic dinosaur, but I dont believe it is there now. the very earliest reports suggest that it is very true. email me privatly and I will tell you my theory.

Interesting debate going on here. But to go off topic, was this actually filmed at Loch Ness? I haven't been there, but it didn't look like the pictures of the Loch that I've seen. And I don't think the modest budget would have allowed for them to use the real location, surely?

As to Nessie, well, we're always making new discoveries so there is a possibility. I think what is more interesting is the proliferation of these kind of legends worldwide. Lake Champlain in Canada/USA, Lake Okanagan in Canada, Wenbu Lake in Tibet, the swamps of the Ubangi-Congo basin; these are just a few examples of natural bodies of water said to be the homes of unidentified 'monsters'. Why this universal fascination (and possibly fear)?

Last week, Japanese scientists placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.

There is also supposed to be a similar "monster" in the Chesapeake Bay, which goes by the name of "Chessie". Couple sightings and photos.

In the case of Chessie, she would have left in the 70's. Besides the fact that the Bay is too darn shallow (I think the average is maybe 10 or so feet, excepting in the dredged channel (which is where all the shipping is concentrated in), the fact of the matter is that Hurricane Agnes in the 70's dumped so much rain in the Chesapeake Bay that at least 2/3rds of the life in it was killed off from the sediment. I have done some scuba diving in the Bay in aid of the State of Maryland and a non-profit group examining efforts to bring life back to the Bay. Not happening so far. The bottom is literally like a desert. The only place where it looked good was a pilot project where cinder blocks were dumped on the bottom. Those are like huge concrete bricks with two large rectangular holes through the body. The advantage of that is that it gives a firm base for thing to attach onto, and gives lots of holes for things to hide in and stop being pushed by the tides/currents. Frankly, it looked like a paradise in comparison to the rest of the bottom--the equivalent to a reef down south. The project was one to seek a way to protect Bay oysters so they can thrive and filter out the water of the Bay. There are reports from the 18th century that say that there were oysters the size of dinner plates, and estimates that the entire volume of the Chesapeake Bay was filtered through oysters every three days!

The State of Maryland won't allow a large scale project with cinder blocks on the justification that they would not be able to dredge cinder blocks. Never mind the fact that the project would only be done in wildlife protected waters, and therefore supposedly protected against dredging in perpetuity. They only allowed used oyster shells to be dumped, and the result was predictable--the bottom ooze and sand swallow them up.

So, maybe there was one in the Chesapeake Bay, but she would have had to move on to better hunting grounds.

the first reports of anything at loch ness was a 13th centuary monk who said he felt a strange spirit, around the turn of the centuary the monstor was discribed as being like a millipeed, but with seqments the size of cows. the dino shaped nessie s a concept only 30 years old, after a lot of sightings and photos showed a tall curved neck.
i cant help feeling the science is forming the signtings, not the other way round.

its worth noting that they have found many dead sea lions in the lock, who have come from the sea. im sure they make up a large % of the sightings. im not saying its not true 100% but im pretty sure. yes we are still discovering new forms of life and fish thought to be dead millions of years ago, yes the lock is deep (but nothing compared to an ocean), but no there is not a huge monstor in that single lock,
there may be medium sized aquatic mamel that resides there every so often (even one we have never seen), but nessy as its been described here is a childrens story that has been nourished and encouraged by the scotish tourist board.