
(The University of Chicago categorized his claim as “wild speculation.”) A visit to Loch Ness convinced Mackal that massive eels drifted deep below its surface. The eel theory dates to the 1970s when a zoologist named Roy Mackal became obsessed with cryptids - animals that have been claimed to exist but never proven to exist.

So temporarily suspend your disbelief and allow yourself to accept the following: Nessie is a real creature that someone, at some point, saw. But as any investigator knows, a confession rendered under life-threatening pressure usually won’t hold up in court. The “Surgeon’s Photograph” is now called a hoax, based on a deathbed confession. Physician Robert Kenneth Wilson submitted that image to the Daily Mail, and the rest is history. Nessie as we know him (her? They/them?) first surfaced in 1934 in the form of the alleged creature’s most famous photograph. Queen Zahra / Mr.A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and a fish.Nishant the Great / Boulderar / Flasherion / Volcanyx - 10,912.Darmith Khan / Cherub Cupid / Arch Duke - 10,560.Plantomination / Chieftain Alarorc / Barbatos Rex - 10,681.


Helgudin / Olnir / Talos the Island Protector / Warmaster Ragnarok / Zombic - 3,696.Nitroblaster / Devastress / Zenfira- 3,707.
