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Does the Loch Ness Monster Have English Relatives?

Sep 13, 2010 – 10:27 AM
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Lee Speigel

Lee Speigel Contributor

(Sept. 13) -- The hunt is on for a new lake monster -- not at Scotland's Loch Ness, home of the fabled "Nessie," but this time in nearby England.

Ever since 2006, when the first report emerged from England's biggest lake of a 20-foot-long creature in Lake Windermere, a new lake monster legend has gained strength on the sightings of something dubbed "Bow-Nessie."


A view of the Loch Ness Monster, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934.
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This April 19, 1934, photo of the Loch Ness Monster was allegedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson. It was later exposed as a hoax by Chris Spurling, who said on his deathbed he staged it with Wilson and Marmaduke Wetherell and his son Ian.
Sky News reports that monster hunters are using sonar to try to find the elusive animal that reportedly lurks in the 220-foot-deep, 10-mile-long lake.

Lake Windermere, located in the northern part of England, is a popular holiday and summer home destination and is bordered by two towns, Ambleside and Bowness-on-Windermere -- hence the clever monster nickname, Bow-Nessie.

Some suggest its name comes from the bow-like wave it has been reported making as it glides through the water.

One witness, hotel owner Thomas Noblett, said he had a very close encounter with Bow-Nessie. "All of a sudden, I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish. And then I was lifted up by a 3-foot wave. I've no idea what it was."
As a new legend is born, it probably won't hurt local tourism, either -- Bow-Nessie T-shirts can't be too far away.

Read more at Sky News.
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