by The Loch Ness Monster is always difficult – but now one of the leading universities of Britain has found that the best time to recognize the mysterious creature is on a sunny summer day.
A study by the University of St. Andrews used a database with visual reports from “Nessie” to translate anecdotes about the creature into data and to identify patterns when it seemed apparently.
The researchers found sightings of the monster spike in the summer months when the weather conditions were “excellent”, and most of them found around noon in August.
The number of people who claimed to discover it considerably in the winter months, in the evening and lunch.
In addition, the vast majority of the sightings took place when the weather conditions were calm and still without wind or very light winds.
The researchers also found that reports about second -hand visits tended to exaggerate, whereby the monster was closer and larger than that of people who claimed to have seen it themselves.
A team from the University Center for Research on ecological and environmental modeling worked with Adrian Shine, the Loch Ness project in Drumnadrochit, for the study.
From 1850 they analyzed 1,433 alleged “Nessie”.
The average duration of the encounters was “surprisingly long” after four and a half minutes, which indicates that the monster does not “counteract the folk poems, which is generated by misconvenience or misinterpretation, which are caused by a brief look at an object”.
While the researchers admitted that their study did not prove the existence of the monster, they said that they highlighted the power of statistical thinking when evaluating anecdotal evidence.
Dr. Charles Paxton from St. Andrews said: “We cannot draw conclusions about Loch -Ness -Monsters from these reports, but we can draw insights into the wider population of Loch Ness Monster Reports.
“Nessies are mainly reported in the summer months, during the day, in contrast to the night – with a decline at lunchtime – and under excellent weather conditions.”
“Distorted in retelling”
With reference to the conclusion that reports from the second hand were generally exaggerated, he said: “However, these patterns could be created by the monsters themselves, but rather reflect the availability of witnesses and the tendency that stories are distorted when counting.”
The first recorded sighting of the monster came in the 6th century with a report on a hole -unity water in a biography of St. Columba, the Catholic missionary.
It was once again discovered by Walter from Bingham, a small English clergyman, who put a picture of a bear-like sea creature with fire from his eyes.
In the 1930s there were several sightings that were relentlessly treated by newspapers and the interest became global.
The most famous image of the monster, which appeared out of the water from the water, was published in 1934, although it is now generally agreed that it was a detailed joke.
At the beginning of this week, the first potential Lochness -Monster sighting of 2025 was reported, with pictures showing a “black mass” under the water. It appeared in “absolutely perfect conditions” on Loch’s Dores Beach for a few minutes.
