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The Loch Ness monster might just be a very, very large eel

Womp, womp.

 

Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture

Posted on Sep 5, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 4:40 am CDT

The Loch Ness monster has been a creature we all believed and hoped to be real since its public conception in the 1930’s. But because crushing dreams is ~so~ 2019, scientists are now saying the Loch Ness monster might just be a giant eel. Womp, womp.

Reports of the cryptid surfaced in the ’30s, and many–scientists and curious folk, alike–have been trying to find a plausible explanation for the Loch Ness monster, who is said to inhabit the Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Plesiosaurs, sharks, giant catfish, and circus elephants taking a dip have all been floated around as plausible explanations for the Nessie sightings. But now, scientist say, eels of unusual size are the most likely culprits.

Scientists with the University of Otago project, which catalogs life in Loch Ness, took water samples from every level of the loch and sequenced the DNA its inhabitants have left behind.  The scientists found that an eel was the only plausible explanation.

With all that’s going on with Brexit, of course, politics were roped into the Nessie news. “Eel or not, more people have seen Nessie than have seen an honest Tory,” Twitter user @CrowSaorAlba1 quipped.

https://twitter.com/CrowSaorAlba1/status/1169598124815474690

And people are obviously very disappointed. “If it’s not ‘Nessie is real’ then I don’t want to hear it,” Twitter user @24shaz wrote.

https://twitter.com/_Ignister/status/1169676687971426305

https://twitter.com/callumstweets/status/1169693682762747904

https://twitter.com/vanessaivy_/status/1169612216217346048

https://twitter.com/Kafkaesque_Blog/status/1169689063793844225

People are posting their own Nessie “sightings.” One user sighted a sharpie-made Nessie, à la President Donald Trump.

https://twitter.com/judemcdonald02/status/1169568208849920001

Well actually, Scotland found the Loch Ness monster “ages ago”–and it has proof. The official Scotland tourist Twitter account posted a video, featuring a very cute and very stuffed pink Nessie.

https://twitter.com/VisitScotland/status/1169542549293453313

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*First Published: Sep 5, 2019, 9:58 pm CDT