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Loch Ness Monster
has sister in Loch Lochy
Loch Ness Monster hunters are
now flocking to Loch Lochy following a spate of sightings
Loch Ness isn't the only loch in
Scotland hiding a mystery in it's depths. Loch Lochy has it's own
mystery monster. Read the following press articles to find out
more!
IT'S A MONSTER!
- Stunned visitors see Loch Lochy's mystery Resident
Lizzie, a three humped first cousin of Nessie, the Loch Ness
Monster, surfaced again last week on Loch Lochy.
And several people, locals and vistors, confirmed on Thursday the
sighting of the water beast.
Staff and guests at the Corriegour Lodge Hotel watched in
amazement as a dark shaped twelve foot long "something"
caused a commotion on the loch which is overlooked by the hotel.
Guests and waitresses at Corriegour Lodge rushed to the picture
window of the dining room to get a better view of the creature
which had come to the surface.
"At first we thought what we were seeing was an upturned
boat", said husband and wife Derick and Lindsay Burney, from
Hornchurch, who were having dinner at the hotel.
"Then suddenly it started moving backwards, and then round in
circles, and we noted that it had three humps. It was causing
quite a stir. It was very large, about twelve feet in length, and
it wasn't a seal or any other mammal we've ever seen before. And
we've been coming to Loch Lochy on boating holidays for the past
seven years"
Lorna Bunney, joint proprietor with her husband Rod, of Corriegour
Lodge revealed that she had originally seen a marine animal in the
loch three weeks previously.
"I thought at first that it was just the wake from a cabin
cruiser but it was too fast, and the ripples too close together
for that. I ran to look out of the kitchen door and I realised it
was some kind of creature. I've never seen anything like it
before."
In July, 1960, there were reports at Loch Lochy of a creature
measuring up to the usual descriptions of the Loch Ness Monster
And evidence of a monster on the loch was gathered in 1933 by
monks at Fort Augustus Abbey.
Long moving swiftly
- "that's her, they cry"
It
started off as aspot on a sonar screen then grew and grew until it
was the size of a rowing boat. Then bigger...
Monster
hunter Cameron Turner stuck his face in the hi-tech radar screen
and snapped: "We've got contact!"
After long days and nights powering his little boat above the
deepest trenches of this prehistoric loch he had at last found
what he was looking for.
His quarry is Lizzie - the distant cousin of the fabled Nessie.
Loch Ness lies along the same fault line as Loch Lochy and hunters
who have plumbed the depths of this great gash across Scotland are
sure there are underwater tunnels connecting them.
Of course he wasn't the first to have been captivated by the
secrets of Loch Lochy near Spean Bridge.
The first reported sighting was in 1929 by two gamekeepers who
followed what appeared to be a floating log along the surface for
about a mile.
In 1960, nine witnesses spotted a large, black creature -
estimated to be 30-40ft long - roll over exposing one of its
flippers and light coloured underbelly.
Most recent sighting was by local angler Alaistair Stevenson, who
reckons he snared Lizzie by accident while fishing for pike.
"I knew immediately it wasn't a pike with that ferocity. I
had to stop the line but when I did the power started dragging the
boat behind it. All the time i'm thinking it was like a scene from
Jaws.
"Fortunately my line and rod snapped and that was the end of
that. I have no idea what it was but it was a lot bigger than a
pike."
Monster
links
Visit
these sites for more rumour, fact and fantasy about the Loch Ness
Monster and her relatives in Loch Lochy and elsewhere
Loch
Ness Monster travel route - Driving through the Great Glen
The
Official Loch Ness Exhibition Centre - All about the Loch Ness
Monster and much much more
The Legend of Nessie - All
the evidence, scientific studies and pictures
Cryptozoology
- The study of still unknown species of animals
Fortean Times - Unexplained phenomena of every kind
Laurence
Broderick sculptures
- Otters, mermaids, water-horses and other mystical creatures
captured in bronze and stone
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