QUOTE(Valency @ Apr 21 2008, 09:44 AM)

You all sicken me. I for one live in Scotland and it is actually an old folk story that has been spread on the web, I have been diving in Loch Ness about 100times. (No, I wasn't looking for the Monster) Folk Lore. That is all it is.
It's a very popular folk tale that usually gets told when you are near Loch Ness camping, People like myself like to scare others (Especially Kids

) with the stories..
Even once I made a very loud bang (I cut down a tree hours before but left hanging so I could kick it down later) and gave everyone a frigh (Pretended that it was the Loch Ness Monster)

Ah, but you see, the folk tale has to originate from
something, you know?
Stop and think for a minute, and you'll come to realize
everything comes from something. Everything people imagine and come up with is based on something else they have seen at sometime in their lives. Nothing is truly
created.
Maybe Nessie was a story an old grandfather told his grandkids about how he caught a giant fish in the Loch Ness lake. It's highly probable the story got twisted and inflated as time went on. [Example: You site a few people in a line, and whisper something to the first person and ask them to pass it down. When it reaches the end of the line, it's something completely different. That's just a handful of people over the course of a few minutes.
Imagine if it were hundreds of thousands of people, and decades of time that passed.]
The point is: There's
something out there that the Loch Ness Monster story comes from.