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  • (Image source: LiveScience / Daily Mail)

  • BY CHRISTINA HONAN

  • Many people like to believe in the myth and the legend that is Nessie, Scotland's Loch

  • Ness monster, but NBC's "Todayreports there is new evidence on the so-called giant

  • serpent.

  • "Well, nonsense, says one Italian geologist who insists that signs aren't the work of

  • an elusive beast, but rather seismic activity. The Great Glen fault system runs right through

  • that area."

  • Scientific American has more on an interview geologist Luigi Piccardi gave to an Italian

  • paper explaining his theory. According to him, the effects on the surface of the water

  • like mysterious bubbles or shaking can be attributed to the activity of the fault that

  • runs below the lake.

  • "We know that [1920-1930] was a period ... characterized by many reported sightings of Nessie. ... With

  • increased activity of the fault, in reality people have seen the effects of the earthquakes

  • on the water."

  • So the Loch Ness Monster could literally be Scotland's fault. But on the heels of new

  • evidence, LiveScience has more on how this whole legend started in the first place with

  • some reports dating back quite a long time.

  • "The Loch Ness monster was first reported in A.D. 565, whenaccording to Catholic

  • legendSt. Columba turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness

  • River, which flows into the lake."

  • And thus, Nessie was "banished" to roam Loch Nesscausing the earth to shake whenever

  • she was supposedly spotted. As for that famous photo of Nessie? National Geographic says

  • it was a London surgeon who originally took credit for the image that was printed and

  • reprinted, fueling the rumors, but there's an explanation for that, too.

  • "Nearly 60 years later, a man named Christian Spurling made a stunning revelation. The photo

  • was the brainchild of his stepfather. Wetherell took a toy submarine, fashioned a head and

  • neck and launched the monster in the shallows of Loch Ness."

  • He then asked the surgeon to take credit for it when it was printed in the Daily Mail.

  • Still, in the face of all the myth busting, the "Today" anchors just didn't want to believe

  • it:

  • "I want to believe in the Loch Ness Monster." "We love Nessie."

  • "We love Nessie!"

(Image source: LiveScience / Daily Mail)

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尼斯湖水怪的斷層線解釋 (Loch Ness Monster Explained by Fault Line)

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