Loch Ness Monster Dead?

Loch Ness Monster sightings are down the last several years and some people believe this is a sign the occasionally photographed giant creature that inhabits the murky waters of the 22 square mile fresh water loch is dead.

The recent MonsterQuest episode “Death at Loch Ness” looked at the theory that the Loch Ness Monster might be dead. Researcher Robert Rhines’ claim that Nessie may now be dead and its body at the bottom of Loch Ness.

Gary Campbell, president of the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club, said there has been only one recent credible sighting, made just off the Clansman Hotel on 6th June, 2009. Campbell added, “Ten years ago we had a lot of good sightings, but in the last two or three years, they have tailed off.”

I guess the Ian Monckton report and pictures from earlier in the year don’t count as credible to Campbell and neither do the ‘Allo ‘Allo star Vicki Michelle’s report from May.

Could the Loch Ness Monster be dead? I guess, depending on what it is to start with.

If you are part of the ‘nessie is a left over plesiosaurs’ crowd, could something like global warming finally catch up with this creature that survived the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event? Never mind that Loch Ness is only about 10,000 years old and Nessie would have had to survive much more extreme climate changes in the last 65 million years. Global Warming’s affect on cryptozoological creatures has been debated before.

I personally think the Loch Ness Monster falls into the ultraterrestrial or paranormal phenomenon, rather than a flesh and blood dinosaur that has survived for 65 million years in a remote Scottish loch. Interdimensional and possibly traveling through space and time, maybe the ‘magic’ of the loch somehow makes it for such a creature to be seen. In that case, no. How could something that may not exist in our world as we know it die?