The Scottish Highlands are way north, and the terrain is rather bleak--hills and moors. Loch Ness is 57 degrees north. If you go west to Canada, it is in the middle of Hudson's Bay. Not exactly a teeming tropical paradise.

The water of Loch Ness is full of peat. Basically there is nothing for a sea monster to eat there although there is fish in the loch. Seals also get into the loch from the sea. How could a huge sea monster survive all these year with basically no food?

A giant Monster, unseen to most in a small Scotish Loch, is like a fat Person hiding behind the serving platters at a buffet

Like I said with bigfood... legends and reallity aren't the same. Mithology aren't true, and the loch ness monster is something like mithology, old legends that pass throught generations since ours days.

Just how old is this Nessie creature supposed to be?

Come on.  No one believes in this anymore.

Nessie likes french fries...

The main evidence for this is a bunch of Glenlivet soaked Scots. Well, that sets my mind at rest.

Legends are fun at the campfire and this is one of the best. I hope the mystery lives on.

No truth to this legend,.........

I realize that this is a fantasy that people like to maybe... realize in -- BUT, if there was actually such a thing in this lake, it would have been discovered a long time ago. This is the most bogus thing I have ever heard. They whoever that is, tries to suck you into this, if they were really considering trying to find this creature they would have done it by now. Case Closed.

There are no such things. Its probably either a huge fish, or a wild imagination!

A fascinating story exists behind this creature. In the 1960s, America was leaps and bounds ahead of the Soviet Space Program. As Kruschev's N-1 rocket continued to explode and get delayed and the Zond program was replete with failures, America's Apollo 8 had already seen men around the moon. Determined to be first, a crack team of Communist Robot engineers designed a remote-control monster to be launched into Cape Canaveral, destroying America's glorious fleet of Saturn V rockets. Launching on the more successful Proton rocket, this was to have landed a hundred miles from the Cape, and come inland thanks to a conventional submarine-esque propulsion system. However, the launch did not go as planned. The rocket went haywire. But, the scientists did not let the Range Safety destroy the wayward rocket. It landed, instead, in a dreary lake in Scotland. But, the force of the unplanned impact reduced the efficency of its remote control systems to under twenty percent. So, it could only move back and forth, and not even surface or dive. With the collpase of the Soviet Union, the United States Special Forces discovered that in its current state, it was harmless and let the robotic monster remain where it was. However, one month ago, this remote was stolen from Fort Knox by a mysterious thief...

Let me get this straight. A bunch of drunken Scotsmen see ripples in the water at night, and all of a sudden a legend is born that will last hundreds of years and span continents. If you're going to believe in such nonsense as prehistoric plesiosaurs dwelling in the depths of frigid Scottish lochs, then try to find at least one credible witness.

Could be a surviving sea dinosaur or plesiosaur.

I love the story of Nessie! I think it's a great myth and apparently, it draws the tourists. I don't think there's anything in there, but I like the idea of it. I always found sea monsters living in small lakes very interesting.

A bit on the hokey side, if you ask me. I would like to believe that Nessie exists, but with today's advanced tracking and sonar equipment, it would be all to easy to prove it a hoax.

It came out as a hoax, the guy who made those two photos confessed on his death bed

I'm still trying to figure out how they can't find enough evidence of a creature of that supposed size in a closed body of water with our current technology. And, why is it that it's mostly considered to be one single creature rather than several in the Loch? This mystery doesn't interest me as much as some of the others listed here, though.