1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,360 The freezing cold waters of Loch Ness are deep, dark, and home to a monstrous mystery. 2 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:21,720 People claim to have spotted it thousands of times. Locals, tourists, even a saint. 3 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,560 But what are they seeing? 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:32,560 Frightening, fascinating. Some say it's even been caught on film, but it's never been captured by nets. 5 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,560 Is there really a terrifying beast alive deep in this mysterious Scottish lake? 6 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,560 Or does it just exist in our imaginations? 7 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:51,560 The Loch Ness Monster is coming for you. Next on Truth or Scare. 8 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,560 The Loch Ness Monster is coming for you. 9 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:04,560 The Loch Ness Monster is coming for you. Next on Truth or Scare. 10 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,560 North of England, in Scotland, a huge mysterious creature lives in a remote lake. 11 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,560 They call it the Loch Ness Monster. 12 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:39,560 But is it just a story? Over 3,000 people claim they've seen the monster with their own eyes. 13 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,560 But non-believers say that's just not enough evidence to prove it exists. 14 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,560 Who's right? There's only one way to find out. 15 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:57,560 Visit the Highlands of Scotland and head straight for the most mysterious lake in history. 16 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,560 Loch Ness. 17 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:08,560 But could a lake really be hiding a secret as gigantic as the monster some called Nessy? 18 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:17,560 This lake could. It's 24 miles long and 800 feet deep. 19 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,560 That's deep enough to put a 50-story building completely under water. 20 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,560 So who knows what could be living down there. 21 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:34,560 The mystery started about 1,500 years ago when a travelling monk got off of his life. 22 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,560 The year was 565 AD. 23 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:47,560 St Colomba, a holy man who was wandering the British Isles, stopped to pray at the edge of Loch Ness. 24 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Suddenly, he claimed that something like a long-necked horse came rising out of the waves. 25 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:01,560 The monk was terrified. He held up a cross almost like he was fighting a vampire and yelled, 26 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,560 Stop! Go thou no further, nor touch man. 27 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:15,560 Then, according to the story, the monster backed off and dove back down into the cold, dark water. 28 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,560 Since then, plenty of other people claim to have seen things in the lake. 29 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:28,560 Things that convince them the monster is still there, alive and well after all these years. 30 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,560 In 1933, one shocking news story got the whole world wondering. 31 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,560 A British newspaper reported giant footprints on the shore of the Loch. 32 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:48,560 A big game hunter named Marmaduke Weatherill said he'd found the prince, and the newspaper took it from there. 33 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,560 If it were true, it would have been the biggest story of the century, 34 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,560 and scientists from the British Museum of Natural History rushed out to examine the evidence. 35 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:05,560 Their conclusion? The footprints were proof positive of a hoax. 36 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:13,560 It turns out Marmaduke was playing a prank. The prints in the sand were made with a stuffed hippopotamus foot. 37 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,560 But just because one story is fiction, doesn't mean other reports can't be true. 38 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:27,560 Only one year later, monster hunters everywhere got what some say was the first good look at Nessie. 39 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:34,560 On April 19, 1934, Dr. Robert Wilson went hiking with a friend around Loch Ness. 40 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:43,560 It's a good thing the doctor brought his camera, because according to him, this was the day that the monster decided to come up for air. 41 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Dr. Wilson couldn't believe his eyes. He took pictures as fast as he could, and hoped that just one of them would turn out well. 42 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,560 He got his wish. 43 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:04,560 And there it is, in black and white, a long neck coming up from the deep. 44 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,560 Monster, head and all. 45 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,560 Finally, proof that the stories about the monster were true. 46 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,560 But many still weren't convinced. They claimed the picture was a fake. 47 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:27,560 And in recent years, a reliable source released information claiming that the famous surgeon's photo was nothing more than a piece of carved wood on top of a toy submarine. 48 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,560 At the center of the prank was none other than famed Nessie hoaxer, Amaduke Wetherill. 49 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:40,560 It was starting to look like the only way to prove that Nessie existed was to go get her. 50 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Although the monster seemed to stay well hidden for decades, by the 1960s, scientists were also starting to get interested in Nessie. 51 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,560 Tim Dinsdale was one of the first researchers to lead an all-out expedition into the unknown. 52 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,560 He loaded up his movie camera and hit the shores of Loch Ness. 53 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,560 People wanted hard evidence that the monster existed, and Tim believed he could get it. 54 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,560 On April 23rd, 1960, he says he did just that. 55 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:21,560 That day, Tim saw a strange shape was moving across the lake, and he was ready for it. 56 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,560 He followed the unbelievable sight with his camera, capturing it on film forever. 57 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:33,560 It stopped, turned, and then swam off to the other side of the lake. 58 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:39,560 Is this in fact the head of the monster as it swims away, or just another hoax? 59 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:52,560 The world's greatest monster hunter gets real deep as he searches for answers on the bottom of the lake. 60 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Next on Truth or Scare. 61 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,560 The World's Greatest Monster Hunter 62 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,560 Reports come in all the time about strange sightings in the lake. 63 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,560 But sightings of what? Exactly. 64 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:27,560 Plenty of people want to uncover the truth about Loch Ness, but who's brave enough to go looking for it? 65 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,560 Real-life monster hunters, that too. 66 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,560 Dr. Robert Reins is president of the Academy of Applied Science. 67 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:46,560 As a cryptozoologist, Dr. Reins studies mythical creatures, and just happens to be the world's foremost expert on the Loch Ness monster. 68 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,560 And for him, there's no doubt about it. The monster exists. 69 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,560 But Dr. Reins doesn't just rely on photographic evidence. 70 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:02,560 He claims that when he was visiting a friend at the lake, he saw the monster with his own eyes. 71 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,560 Basil went out to get his pipe, and he says, 72 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,560 Oh, I say that can't be an upturned boat. 73 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,560 And we all rushed out of the living room. 74 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,560 We grabbed binoculars, and there we saw a big bat of an animal. 75 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,560 An animal he'd never seen before, about 25 feet long. 76 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:33,560 For more than 10 minutes, he stared through his binoculars at the lake, watching the monster's surface, 77 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:38,560 and then disappear again under the freezing waves. 78 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:49,560 After experiencing the monster for himself, Dr. Reins realized that the Loch Ness monster could be one of the most important discoveries of our time. 79 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:57,560 So Dr. Reins decided to prove once and for all that the mysterious Loch Ness monster was a lie. 80 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,560 It was 1970. 81 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:06,560 Dr. Reins put together a team of specialists and experienced deep sea divers, 82 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:11,560 and led them down into the unknown of Loch Ness. 83 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,560 To find the monster, they needed state-of-the-art technology, 84 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:19,560 so the team's boat was equipped with strobe lights and sonar. 85 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:25,560 The waters of Loch Ness are dark and murky, the perfect hiding place for a monster. 86 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:32,560 So Dr. Reins used the sonar equipment to send sound waves out into the deep waters. 87 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:39,560 Then, using the echoes they made, he could actually take pictures in total darkness. 88 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:43,560 Unfortunately, the 1970 mission failed. 89 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:46,560 No sightings or pictures of Nessie. 90 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:52,560 But just two years later, Dr. Reins gave it another shot. 91 00:09:52,560 --> 00:10:00,560 1972, the middle of a clear August night, the monster hunters had just lowered their cameras into the lake. 92 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,560 All of a sudden, fished out of the jump, out of the water, 93 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,560 and by golly, that was the extraordinary luck we had that year. 94 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:14,560 We got a number of those pictures of big animals or parts of animals. 95 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:19,560 The pictures weren't clear at first, but by using special photo techniques, 96 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:25,560 he managed to clean up the pictures and revealed an unbelievable image. 97 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:29,560 It was the shape of a huge diamond-shaped flipper. 98 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:36,560 It was the kind of evidence Dr. Reins had always hoped for, and now it looked like he finally had it. 99 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:41,560 Think of it, flipper, like a hannie, and he went from four to six feet long, 100 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:46,560 and that's a pretty big animal that has a flipper like that. 101 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:53,560 It looked like the kind of flipper that used to be on underwater dinosaurs called plesiosauce, 102 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:58,560 which we're told were dead 65 million years ago. 103 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,560 So the mystery deepens. 104 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,560 Extinct for millions of years, or alive and well in Scotland. 105 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:14,560 If he was right, the doctor's discovery would be truly historic, but it was just one blurry photo. 106 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:20,560 Then, a few years later, in 1975, another photo was taken, 107 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:25,560 and this one looked like the whole body of a plesiosaur. 108 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:32,560 This is the publication in Nature magazine scientific journal showing the body, 109 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:44,560 the long neck, the head, and the mouth, which has the shape of an elasmus auras or a plesiosaur. 110 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,560 Was this the answer to thousands of sightings over the years? 111 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,560 There's only one way to find out. 112 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:03,560 Prehistoric monsters come back to life, and the mystery of Loch Ness gets even bigger. 113 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,560 Next on Truth or Scare. 114 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:25,560 The most famous lake in Scotland is home to legendary stories, 115 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:30,560 and maybe even a monster straight out of the age of dinosaurs. 116 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:35,560 Plesiosauce haven't been seen alive for over 60 million years, 117 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:42,560 but some monster hunters claim one of these ancient marine reptiles is living in Loch Ness. 118 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:49,560 At the end of the Mesozoic Age, the Earth was totally dominated by the dinosaurs, 119 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:53,560 but the oceans were ruled by the plesiosaurs. 120 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:59,560 This was 70 million years ago, way before evolution started working on humans. 121 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,560 Fast forward to the modern world, and humans are all over the place. 122 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:10,560 But to see a plesiosaur, you've got to check out the Natural History Museum. 123 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,560 Does marinosaurus look familiar? 124 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:18,560 Way back when it lived in the Pacific Ocean along the coast of California. 125 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,560 But don't call it a fish. 126 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:26,560 Paleontologists know that plesiosaurs, like this one, were water-loving reptiles. 127 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:30,560 But the fact that they were born in the Pacific Ocean, 128 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:36,560 they know that plesiosaurs, like this one, were water-loving reptiles, like crocodiles. 129 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:40,560 And their swimming skills came from giant flippers. 130 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:43,560 Now do you recognize marinosaurus? 131 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:48,560 Some say it looks a lot like Dr. Ryan's photo. 132 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:50,560 And guess what? 133 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,560 Plesiosaurs sometimes had to come up for air, 134 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:59,560 which would explain why there have been so many sightings at the surface of Loch Ness. 135 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:04,560 But how in the world could an ancient sea creature still be alive today? 136 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,560 It wouldn't be the first time. 137 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:15,560 Not too long ago, some fishermen off the coast of South Africa caught a fish called a silo-canth. 138 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:19,560 Only one problem. The silo-canth was extinct. 139 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,560 Or that's what everyone thought. 140 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:28,560 But paleontologists know that once in a while, animals from the ancient past can, in a way, 141 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,560 come back to life. 142 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:35,560 Dr. J.D. Stewart is a expert at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. 143 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,560 Silo-canth is a good example. 144 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,560 Now in that case, we didn't know that they were alive. 145 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,560 We knew 150 years ago that we knew them as fossils. 146 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,560 And it wasn't until about 50 years ago that we found out they were still alive. 147 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,560 And that was quite remarkable. 148 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:57,560 And Dr. Stewart says there are also still plenty of new species in the ocean, just waiting to be discovered. 149 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,560 Emery Kristoff agrees. 150 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:05,560 He's an underwater photographer, and he thinks we've only just begun to see what's lurking near the ocean floor. 151 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,560 I think it's very fair comment that we know more about the backside of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean. 152 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:16,560 This is the water planet. We have maybe looked at 1% of the bottom of the ocean right now. 153 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,560 And what about the bottom of Loch Ness? 154 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,560 It's 800 feet below the surface. 155 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:29,560 Is it hiding an ancient reptile? Or maybe even a totally new undiscovered species? 156 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,560 A dive to the bottom of Loch Ness would be nothing to Emery. 157 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,560 He's gone as deep as 6,000 feet. 158 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:41,560 Way down there, he's seen new kinds of sharks that no one's even heard of. 159 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,560 Big ones. 160 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,560 The largest meat-eating sharks, you don't see them. 161 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,560 Down there, it's 4,000 and 6,000 feet. 162 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,560 Those sharks in the deep ocean would make a great white look like a guppy. 163 00:15:53,560 --> 00:16:00,560 Emery's run into sharks as big as 28 feet, as long as a school bus. 164 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,560 Pretty terrifying. 165 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:07,560 But back in their day, plesiosaurus ate sharks like fish sticks. 166 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,560 Plesiosaurus teeth were deadly weapons. 167 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,560 They were designed to close and lock down on all victims. 168 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,560 Get bitten and there was no escape. 169 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:24,560 So if Nessie is a prehistoric predator, we know one thing. 170 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:30,560 There would have to be tons of fish in the murky depths of Loch Ness for it to survive all this time. 171 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,560 Emery Kristof says the lake is filled with a fish called arctic char, 172 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,560 which would be just fine with a plesiosaur. 173 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,560 There are enough arctic char in Loch Ness to really defeat any number of large animals. 174 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,560 And that is the basis for a food chain. 175 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,560 Is science getting closer to an answer? 176 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,560 Is the ancient Scottish lake really a plesiosaurus playground? 177 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,560 Or is the legend of Loch Ness just sucking more people in? 178 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Emery Kristof explores the bottom of Loch Ness in search of the truth 179 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,560 and barely escapes with the scare of his life. 180 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,560 Next on Truth or Scare 181 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:36,560 Witnesses have been telling stories about the Loch Ness monster since the Middle Ages. 182 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,560 Could they be true? 183 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,560 Could Nessie actually be real? 184 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,560 Or were people just seeing what they wanted to see? 185 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,560 That's exactly what Emery Kristof thinks happened with Dr. Ryan's picture. 186 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:56,560 I think that the camera actually in some bad weather was dragged on the bottom 187 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,560 and the camera fell down on the side of the shooting sideways on the bottom. 188 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:07,560 It looks like it's a pebbly brown and it looks to me like the bottom of the lake. 189 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,560 Emery has been a deep sea photographer for years, so he knows his stuff. 190 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:20,560 If this picture is just the bottom of the lake, well, then maybe there's no monster after all. 191 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:26,560 According to him, there could be other explanations for all the best photographs of Nessie. 192 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,560 When a boat goes by, it leaves ripples in the water called awake. 193 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,560 He believes those ripples are the humps that people see. 194 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,560 But when Emery went diving in the lake to check it out for himself, 195 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:43,560 he did get a creepy feeling, a feeling that he had company. 196 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,560 You're waiting for something to tap you on the shoulder back here. 197 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,560 I mean, it was very spooky. It was very spooky diving. 198 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,560 Ralph White knows exactly what Emery's talking about. 199 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,560 He still remembers the night he was diving in Loch Ness with Emery. 200 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,560 The night they almost didn't make it back to shore. 201 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:07,560 I think the spookiest we ever got at Loch Ness was very late one night, 202 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,560 and everybody was real apprehentious about going into Loch Ness at night, 203 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,560 which is the normal feeding time for most animals. 204 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:20,560 When I flipped off the boat, I remember going underwater and it was pitch black. 205 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,560 Suddenly, Ralph and Emery were hit. 206 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,560 Hit by something powerful enough to knock off their diving masks. 207 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,560 They had it straight for the surface, terrified that they wouldn't make it. 208 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,560 What was it? 209 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,560 Luckily, they got a photograph of the attacker. 210 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,560 At last, evidence of Loch Ness's historic secret. 211 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:46,560 Or not. 212 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,560 It turned out to be nothing but an eel. 213 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Emery isn't giving up hope, though. 214 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:54,560 It could be hibernating. 215 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,560 I mean, it may have gone south to Florida. 216 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,560 There's all sorts of things that just because you don't see it for a few years, 217 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,560 that doesn't mean that maybe it has a sleep cycle. 218 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,560 And the other experts are right there with him. 219 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:13,560 Paleontologist J.D. Stewart is looking forward to seeing his favorite monster again. 220 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:22,560 I think that as long as people continue to report unidentified animals in Loch Ness, 221 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,560 I think the search for Nessie should continue. 222 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,560 And the most famous monster hunter of them all is getting ready for another deep safari. 223 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,560 Because as big as Loch Ness is, 224 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:40,560 Dr. Reigns believes there's always plenty of room for this shy monster to hide. 225 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,560 And probably just as much room for our imaginations to run wild. 226 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,560 Could thousands of witnesses for almost 1,500 years just be seeing things they want to see? 227 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,560 Or is the Loch Ness monster real? 228 00:20:55,560 --> 00:21:01,560 Could it be a totally new animal species, or maybe a link from Earth's prehistoric past? 229 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,560 Unfortunately, we're not much closer to an answer 230 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,560 than the day Saint Columba claims he saw something in the waters of Loch Ness. 231 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,560 And anytime the truth is this, Merky, be careful. 232 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,560 You might just find a good scare anywhere.