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Ness and was
Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.
Along with the excavations of settlements such as Skara Brae, Links of Noltland, Barnhouse, Rinyo and Balfarg and the complex site at Ness of Brodgar these cairns provide important clues as to what civilization in Scotland was like in the Neolithic.
Some believe he was beheaded on a Fife beach, following a battle at Fife Ness, near Crail.
The term " monster " was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness Courier.
According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness.
In 1993, the makers of Discovery Communications's documentary Loch Ness Discovered analysed the uncropped image and found a white object was visible in every version of the photo, implying it was on the negative.
Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.
He commented that " Before I saw the film, I thought the Loch Ness Monster was a load of rubbish.
In this feature, Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness Centre was also interviewed and suggested that the footage showed an otter, seal or water bird.
On 24 August 2011, Marcus Atkinson, a local Loch Ness boat skipper, photographed a sonar image of a long 5 ft wide unidentified object which was apparently following his boat for two minutes at a depth of 75 ft. Atkinson ruled out the possibility of any small fish or seal being what he believed to be the Loch Ness Monster.
The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.
The device was fixed underwater at Temple Pier in Urquhart Bay and directed towards the opposite shore, effectively drawing an acoustic ' net ' across the width of Ness through which no moving object could pass undetected.
It was only when the Pisces arrived at Ness that the LNPIB obtained new data.
No animal of any substantial size was found whatsoever and despite high hopes, the scientists involved in the expedition admitted that this essentially proved the Loch Ness monster was only a myth.
In a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.
In 1934 the Sir Edward Mountain expedition analysed film taken the same year and concluded that the monster was a species of seal, which was reported in a national newspaper as " Loch Ness Riddle Solved – Official ".
Specific mention of the kelpie as a water horse in Loch Ness was given in a Scottish newspaper in 1879, and was commemorated in the title of a book Project Water Horse by Tim Dinsdale.
A study of the Highland folklore literature prior to 1933 with specific references to Kelpies, Water Horses and Water Bulls suggested that Loch Ness was the most mentioned loch by a large margin.

Ness and featured
In 1993 Discovery Communications made a documentary called Loch Ness Discovered that featured a digital enhancement of the Dinsdale film.
Page's fantasy role involved climbing up the face of a snow capped mountain near Boleskine House, Loch Ness during the nights of a full moon on December 10 and 11, 1973. The act was meant to show Page on a quest of self enlightenment, and deep understanding, by seeking out the Hermit, a character featured in many Tarot packs.
The three best-known of these include the 1950s / 1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.
* The popular children's computer game Poptropica featured the Jersey Devil along with the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra on the Cryptid Island level.
Originally a Filipino restaurant and club owned by Ness Aquino, it featured many Filipino celebrities, including Amapola aka Amapola Cabase.
In December 2006, another controversy featured Zinta when Ness Wadia was reported to have attacked construction workers at her residence in Bandra.
Sully is featured in the third series of the BBC One / BBC Three hit sitcom Gavin and Stacey, when the character of Ness, played by Ruth Jones, moves into a caravan in the village with fiance Dave Coaches.

Ness and independent
According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.
The independent girl's boarding school Adcote is situated in the parish, in the nearby village of Little Ness.

Ness and film
Burton refused to show the film to Loch Ness investigators ( such as Peter Costello or the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau ).
Owned by Vickers, Ltd., the submersible had been rented out to produce The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, a film featuring a dummy Loch Ness Monster.
Written by C. Gardner Sullivan and directed by Reginald Barker, the film tells of the love affair between high society girl Octavia van Ness ( Enid Markey ) and the loutish Chuck Hemingway ( Dustin Farnum ).
* In the 1987 film The Untouchables, during a raid on the Canadian border, one of Al Capone ’ s bookkeepers agrees to provide Eliot Ness with information after Jim Malone ( Sean Connery ) pretends to kill the bookkeeper ’ s friend by putting a gun in his mouth and blowing the back of his head off.
Lake Wakatipu doubled as the famous Scottish Loch Ness in the 2007 film The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
Mystery Incorporated ( currently running ) series, Vanessa Marshall voiced Danica in the What's New Scooby-Doo series and Grey DeLisle voiced Shannon in the Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster ( direct-to-DVD ) film.
In the film, Nitti is thrown off a Chicago courthouse roof by Ness ( Kevin Costner ), an event which never happened in real life.
* Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale, 2010 documentary film directed by Marilyn Ness
“ The use of film in anthropology generally fails to develop its full potential ,” according to Sally Ann Ness, although film is the “ most appropriate ” medium for the study of cultural performance.
The small cast film follows Herzog and his crew ( Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams II ) while working on the production of an abandoned movie project on the Loch Ness Monster entitled Enigma of Loch Ness.
Throughout the film, Herzog asserts the Loch Ness Monster is merely a creation of a collective psychological need in society.
In a twist of events, when Herzog and his crew are working on their film, the crew begins to see what appears to truly be the Loch Ness Monster.
His final film appearance was a cameo at the end of the family film Loch Ness, which was released in 1996.
The film includes live footage of Social Distortion doing a then written but not yet recorded, " Mommy's Little Monster ," as well as the creativity of Mike Ness writing the song, " Another State Of Mind ," for which the film was named.

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