For at least 1500 years, legend has been that in the Scottish Highlands, the Lochness is home to a mysterious animal in the deep, dark waters of the Scottish Lake.
Hundreds claim to have witnessed the Lochness monster. Scientists have used modern technology like the sonar and under water cameras to identify the beast. But till now nothing has been found.
History
When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the 1st century AD, they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people.
The Picts carved the figures of animals in the stones and caves of the highlands. All the animals depicted on the Pictish stones are lifelike and easily recognizable -- all but one. The exception is a strange beast with an elongated beak, a tube like head and flippers instead of feet. Some scientists describe it as a swimming elephant. This is the mysterious Lochness monster, no evidence of whose existence has been found till date.
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Legend
According to legends, in 565 AD, a Scottish priest Saint Columba was on his way to visit a Pictish king when he stopped along the shore of Lochness seeing a large beast about to attack a man swimming in the lake. Columba raised his hand, chanted the name of God and commanded the monster to go back. The beast agreed, and the swimmer was saved.
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