vicaphit wrote:by the picture, it looks like someone put a camera in their pond, then pushed a pencil past the lens... How long has nessie lived in loch ness?
I know wikipedia is sometimes suspect but here 's a quote from the wiki for "Lochness Monster"
Rumours of a huge animal living in the loch have existed for
centuries. Some believers have argued that a lengthy history of monster sightings in the loch provides ample circumstantial evidence of the creature's existence.[citation needed] Others question the accuracy of such tales, and argue that they were generally unknown before the early 1960s when a strong wave of interest focused on the first clear examples of Nessie sightings in the 1930s.[citation needed] For example, an alleged sighting in October 1871 by a "D. Mackenzie", who supposedly described seeing something that moved slowly before moving off at a faster speed, has been repeated in several places [24][25][26], no original 1871 source for this report has been discovered, indicating that it may be an invention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster