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New 'lake monster' photo from England

The photo was taken in England (the Lake District). The OP didn't say it was Loch Ness.
 
Speaking of geographical confusion, the article says

Didn't they know that Lake Windermere is reputedly the home of the British version of the Loch Ness monster?
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I thought the Loch Ness monster was the British version of the Loch Ness monster. Has Scotland moved recently?
 
Lake Windermere isn't much of a secluded area.
I'll be kind and say they were the victims of locals with a sense of humour
 
Obviously, it's fleeing a much bigger meaner underwater monster thats chasing it. ;)

And it sure looks like a legit monster/ufo/cryptid photo... blurry, unfocussed, grainy, b&w, generally ambiguous...
 
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Not a photo taken from the level of a kayak.. it's from much higher than that.
Probably from the Photoshop parking lot there.
 
Lucian said:
I thought the Loch Ness monster was the British version of the Loch Ness monster. Has Scotland moved recently?
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I've spoken to one or two Scots who would get exceedingly irate if you so much as implied that Scotland was part of Britain. Not that that makes them right, of course, but it is a viewpoint that does exist.

I've seen the situation set forth this way: "The Scots fiercely want total independence from the English. The English don't care either way".
 
I've spoken to one or two Scots who would get exceedingly irate if you so much as implied that Scotland was part of Britain.
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I think that Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, and Great Britain, but not part of England.
 
My question is....

Your telling me one person, not one single guy, has thought " **** this, if there is one, there is more, i am going to shoot/poison/electrocute/etc. this thing, and prove to the world they do exist. Consequences be damned. "

And i am not even talking about the types that would wear nessie t-shirts, and have plush lake monsters adorning their house. Just any guy with a belief in it, a gun and a want for fame. To me a mythical creature would make the absolute perfect trophy for any hunter.

" Yeah jim, your bear head is cool, but check out my hydra...."
 
I Ratant - Good spotting!

Also, it doesnt appear to swim as they have been reported to describe it, which is like a snake. If it were to swim like a snake, I'd expect to see gaps between the humps, where some bits were submerged. But it appears that the whole lot is above water.
Also - all eels I know of swim with a lateral, not vertical undulation, and in any case, dont have any part raised above water. I have no experience of catfish.

It does appear however that there are bow waves/ripples from another source (?boat)
 
peicurmudgeon said:
I think that Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, and Great Britain, but not part of England.
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Correcta-mundo. If you were to suggest to a Scot that Scotland was part of England you might find yourself in a head-lock to the cries of "Remember Bannockburn!" Or worse....
 
23_Tauri said:
Correcta-mundo. If you were to suggest to a Scot that Scotland was part of England you might find yourself in a head-lock to the cries of "Remember Bannockburn!" Or worse....
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Nationalism makes me giggle.

Someone could say canada is part of america and all it would get is a bit of a giggle at their lack of knowledge from me. I probably wouldn't even correct them.
 
Try calling a Scotsman "British" sometime... see how far you get caber-tossed. Just kidding, please don't caber-toss me.

Anyway, isn't it amazing how often people with no scientific experience, often when they've never been to the lake/forest/environment thought to contain monsters, frequently encounter animals that no one has ever seen? It's truly baffling... maybe Nessie and Bigfoot and other such mythic beasts posses a sixth sense for appearing exclusively to unreliable sources, like how aliens only abduct hillbillies and yokels who no one listens too... UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE (see Independence Day for absolute proof of this... it's science-fiction, got SCIENCE right in the genre ;) ).

There's an article in the U.K.'s Telegraph that sheds some more light on the photo taker, mainly the fact that he's an IT professional. Just the kind of person I'd believe with mysteries of the natural world, someone who stares at a computer screen daily and has no professional experience in nature. Judging by his first reaction to seeing an unknown animal species, namely "getting off the lake as quickly as possible," he definitely has that old explorer's mentality.
 
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