A story in the Telegraph newspaper today asks whether the folks at Google Earth have inadvertently captured a picture of the Loch Ness Monster (the coordinates given are Latitude 57°12’52.13″N, Longitude 4°34’14.16″W). Mr. Jason Cooke of Nottingham spotted “Nessie” using the mapping tool and is quoted as having said :
“I couldn’t believe it. It’s just like the descriptions of Nessie.”
Below are two blown-up pictures of what can be found at the coordinates given. The first in a normal blow-up and the second has been filtered to show up the edges.
Assuming this is in fact an object, the Google Earth ruler shows it to be about 21 meters long which does fall within the boundaries of sensible measurement for your average sea monster. If this measurement was for example a mile, then it would have to be dismissed.
The picture does appear to show something of the same shape reported by witnesses who claim to have seen the monster. It seems to have a long neck, massive body and four limbs, two at the front and two at the back. It certainly fits with the well known “Surgeon’s Photograph” of Nessie, supposedly taken by Colonel Robert Wilson, a respectable Harley Street gynaecologist who claimed to have seen “something in the water” on April 19th 1934.
This story also appears in the Mail Online along with the “Surgeon’s Photo”, which is described as:
“‘Surgeon’s photograph’: A highly respected British surgeon, Colonel Robert Wilson, claimed he took this picture, which appeared to show a sea serpent rising out of the Loch, in 1934”
In a death-bed confession however it was admitted that the “Monster” in the “Surgeon’s Photograph” was a toy submarine fitted with a head and neck made from plastic wood. The Mail says nothing about the photo having been faked however thus helping to perpetuate the myth.
As for the “Google Earth Nessie”, without corroborating evidence we can not jump to any conclusions. The object could be the wake of a small craft that just happens to have created a Nessie shape as the Google Earth cameras were snapping away.
See:
“Is the Loch Ness monster on Google Earth?” (Telegraph 26.08.09)
“The Surgeon’s Hoax”
“Picked out by a Google Earth satellite, is this the Loch Ness monster… or just a boat?” (Mail Online 26.08.09)
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