2. LOCH NESS MONSTER
AKA - NESSIE
• THE LOCH NESS MONSTER IS SAID TO HAVE LIVED IN LOCH NESS IN
SCOTLAND.
• THERE ARE LOTS OF STORIES AND EVIDENCE ABOUT THE LOCH NESS
MONSTER…
• IT COULD BE A DINOSAUR (PLESIOSAUR-DIED OFF IN EARLY JURASSIC PERIOD)
OR A SEA SERPENT THAT SWAM IN BEFORE THE LOCH BECAME LANDLOCKED.
• CATHOLIC LEGEND STATES, THAT IN 565 A.D, SAINT COLUMBA TURNED AWAY A
GIANT BEAST THAT WAS ABOUT TO EAT A MAN.
3. LOCH NESS MONSTER
AKA - NESSIE
• IN 1933, A COUPLE DRIVING ALONG THE NEWLY BUILT ROAD NEXT TO LOCH
NESS CLAIMED THEY SAW AN ENORMOUS ANIMAL, SPLASHING ON THE LOCH’S
SURFACE.
• REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS WERE SENT TO THE LOCH BY
NEWSPAPERS TO OBSERVE.
• ENORMOUS FOOTPRINTS OF THE ANIMAL WERE ALSO FOUND.
• SCIENTISTS ARGUED THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT TO HAVE SURVIVED FOR
MILLIONS OF YEARS.
4. FAKED PICTURES
THIS PHOTO
TAKEN BY
ROBERT
KENNETH WILSON
WAS PROVED
FAKE IN A 1975
NEWS PAPER.
MANY PICTURES
OF NESSIE HAVE
BEEN PROVED
FAKE.
5. BLUE MEN OF THE MINCH
THERE WERE SEA CREATURES WHO USED TO
INHABIT A STRETCH OF WATER KNOWN AS
THE MINCH, BETWEEN THE
ISLE OF LEWIS AND GAIRLOCH.
THEY HAD BLUE SKIN AND WOULD SWIM
ALONGSIDE PASSING SHIPS TRYING TO
LURE SAILORS INTO THE WATER, AND
CONJURE UP STORMS TO WRECK SHIPS.
6.
7. MORAG
LIKE NESSIE, MORAG IS ALSO A VERY WELL KNOWN SCOTTISH LOCH MONSTER,
REPORTED TO LIVE IN LOCH MORAR.
THE NAME "MORAG" IS A PUN ON THE NAME OF THE LOCH, AND OF THE
SCOTTISH FEMALE NAME, "MORAG". SIGHTINGS DATE BACK TO 1887, AND
INCLUDE SOME 34 INCIDENTS AS OF 1981. SIXTEEN OF THESE INVOLVED
MULTIPLE WITNESSES.
8. KELPIE
• A KELPIE IS A WATER-HORSE SAID TO HAUNT RIVERS AND LOCHS IN
SCOTLAND.
• THEY ARE VERY STRONG AND POWERFUL.
• THEY CAN MORPH INTO DIFFERENT FORMS: WOMEN, MEN, PONIES ETC.
• THEY LURE HUMANS INTO THE WATER TO DROWN AND DEVOUR THEM.
• HUMANS GET STUCK TO THE KELPIE’S SKIN, ONLY TO BE DRAGGED BENEATH
THE WATER.
9. BEAN-NIGHE
• BEAN-NIGHE: SCOTTISH GAELIC FOR ‘WASHER WOMAN’, IS A SCOTTISH FAIRY
SEEN AS AN OMEN OF DEATH. IT IS SAID SHE COULD BE FOUND BY STREAMS
AND POOLS WASHING THE CLOTHES OF THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE.
10. SELKIE
• THE SHY SELKIES ARE MARINE CREATURES IN THE SHAPE OF A SEAL.
• THEY CAN BE FOUND NEAR THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND SHETLAND. A FEMALE
CAN SHED HER SKIN AND COME ASHORE AS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
• WHEN A MAN FINDS THE SKIN, HE CAN FORCE THE SELKIE TO BE A GOOD, IF
SOMEWHAT SAD, WIFE.
• SHOULD SHE EVER RECOVER THE SKIN, SHE WILL IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO SEA,
LEAVING HER HUSBAND BEHIND.
• THE MALE SELKIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR STORMS AND ALSO FOR THE SINKING
OF SHIPS, WHICH IS THEIR WAY OF AVENGING THE HUNTING OF SEALS.
11.
12.
13. SHELLYCOAT
• THE SHELLYCOAT IS A SCOTTISH BOGEYMAN WHO HAUNTS THE RIVERS
AND STREAMS.
• HE IS COVERED WITH SHELLS, WHICH RATTLE WHEN HE MOVES,
ANNOUNCING HIS PRESENCE.
• HE ENJOYS MISLEADING WANDERERS AND OFTEN PUTS THEM ON THE
WRONG TRACK.
• THE SHELLYCOAT IS PLAYFUL AND RATHER HARMLESS.
• GENERALLY, THE CREATURES WHO INHABIT RIVERS ARE LESS
DANGEROUS THAN THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOCHS AND SEAS.
