Nessie was an Elephant?

It is being reported today that another theory of the Loch Ness monster has appeared, that Nessie was an elephant.

Well I like my theory that like other Fresh Water Lake Monsters it is a Lake Sturgeon.

Of course then there is the guy that claimed to have found Nessies tooth.

And then there was the idea that maybe it is a crocodile. Crocodiles, elephants wandering around on the loose, it gives new meaning to Scotland the Free.

A tip o the blog to Nunc Scio for this,he tells his own Nessie tale as well.

Elephantine Theory Stirs Misty Waters of Loch Ness

By Mary Jordan

Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, March 8, 2006; Page A14

LONDON, March 7 -- So maybe the Loch Ness monster was actually a circus elephant.

Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, sees striking similarities between descriptions of Nessie and what an Indian elephant looks like while swimming. And perhaps not coincidentally, a traveling circus featuring elephants passed by the misty lake in the 1930s at the height of the monster sightings.

According to a curator of paleontology, a swimming Indian elephant, left, looks strikingly similar to the Loch Ness monster, allegedly pictured in a 1934 photo by R. Kenneth Wilson taken at the height of the monster sightings. (By John Mcconnico -- Associated Press)

"It is quite possible that people not used to seeing a swimming elephant -- the vast bulk of the animal is submerged, with only a thick trunk and a couple of humps visible," thought they saw a monster, Clark said in an interview Tuesday.

By publishing his theory in the current issue of a British scientific journal, Clark has reignited passionate discussion here about the great Scottish mystery.

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