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 In the images filmed Thursday and posted on a website dedicated to the Storsjoe monster (www.storsjoodjuret.nu), a long serpent-like being is seen swimming in the murky waters. "A highly-advanced system on one of the cameras detected heat produced by the cells," indicating that it was a live being, Nilsson said. "It's very exciting and quite spectacular," he said. He readily admitted however that the project was also "aimed at improving business around the lake." "The monster has helped us," he added.
Hmmmmmm, there is a huge surprise!
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Bloody Swedes, trying to nick "Nessie!"
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 They've had their's for years though mate! It is one of about sixteen rather more famous lake monsters from around the world in fact! Nessie was though arguably the first to make it into the world's popular press headlines, early on last century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_lake_monsters
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Well reading your links Trev, the first reported sighting of thiers was in 1635, and Nessie some 1000 years earlier! Anyway, how dare you cast aspersions on the validity of the claims of our Celtic cousins in favour of of some bloody Vikings!
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 Nessie - first spotted in the year AD565!
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That's what I read too Paddy!
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I read it in a book written by me, so it must be true!
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 I read it in a book written by me, so it must be true! Eyewitness account Paddy?
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In that case, I can tell you with some conviction that it wasn't Nessie, it was a pair of TV licensng bods in a pantomime "Nessie" costume getting evidence on Paddy!
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 LOL Tony!!
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It's made of fibreglass and lives in a visitor centre!
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Well reading your links Trev, the first reported sighting of thiers was in 1635, and Nessie some 1000 years earlier! - Wrote Tony. Nessie though was the first to appear as a featured 'lake monster' regularly in the poular press though mate. It got to be a popular reader story from the early nineteen-twenties in Britain.If you look at Lake monsters elsewhere though, then the indigenous tribes of the areas of Canada and North America where there are resident creatures even have their own local tribal indian names from long ago back in antiquity for the monsters there - all passed on over the centuries in spoken tradition along with the history of the tribe.
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For goodness sake Trev, lighten up and join the banter! Try as you might, You CANNOT beat Paddy in the antiquity stakes!
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It was St Columba himself who encountered Nessie in AD565, a holy man of God! Actually... the only reason he was in Scotland was because he'd been responsible for the deaths of 5000 Irish monks, so he had blood on his hands, and he'd been exiled for Ireland and forced to convert 5000 'heathen' to replace the slaughtered monks. Still... seeing Nessie must have been a welcome break from the task in hand!
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Doesn't the story go that he actualy saved a local "Pictish" person from the "beast?"
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Yeah... but only after the good saint had made him swim across Loch Ness to get a boat. He might as well have just drowned him!
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Or the lazy bar steward could have walked around. (If it was possible in them days - was it Paddy, if anyone would know................? )
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Fraid I don't know whether there was a shoreline path, but I guess it would nearly always be easier to get a boat across rather than walk round. Just damned inconvenient when the boat you want to use is on the other side! Incidentally, St Columba's terms of banishment from Ireland were that he could "never set foot on Irish soil" again. Cheeky so-an-so is reputed to have gone back to Ireland with his shoes full of Scottish soil!
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