HELP us find the tooth!

This is very interesting and seems a very credible explanation as to what The Loch Ness monster (Nessy) really is!

It's common belief it's a plesiosaur, an aquatic dinosaur that has survived to this day... Whelp, this is wrong, and many residents around the loch know this very well...

I heard all of this off of a Coast to Coast AM. An author who wrote a fictional book has based the tale on the monster in reality.

You see, the reason the residents and others in the know don't come forward, is mainly because the myth is a major driving force in their economy. If it comes out this thing is NOT a dinosaur, and is instead some breed of an eel like fish, once it's learned, the tourist trade would basically die... It would simply be a new species and if you think about it nobody would be drawn to the monster any more...

The monster is a fish, that looks remotely similar to an eel, is around 40 feet long, and lives in the deepest portions of the loch. It is sensitive to light, so does NOT come out during the day. It feeds on fish, however sometimes comes up during the winter (evenings) for other forms of food when the fish population in the loch (salmon) is down... It has very vicious teeth (as you can see in the site linked above), and is actually capable of feeding on land creatures. It can go across land in the same way a snake does... Are there more of these creatures in existence? Yes. There are a series of deep sea creatures in neighboring seas that have been picked up by sonar (and are called bloops by the navy). These creatures live in extremely deep water and normally never surface (except in rare instances when they can't find food down there, which never happens in the sea but does in the loch)... They have been detected by sonar, but live much to deep to be whales, sharks or other normally large sea creatures. They normally don't get overly gigantic, because they die shortly after mating... However if one were trapped alone, say in a deep loch, they would live for many years, being incapable of mating... Due to this, it would continue to grow and could get very large... Say 40-50 feet and 3000lbs...

At any rate check out the link above and you can see one of it's teeth. You would NOT want to camp on the loch shore at night in the winter, as this thing could take a sizable chunk out of your leg. It's not a pretty creature (and again, the residents know all this)... The story with the tooth is that these two kids found it, filmed it and photographed it. They then signaled a passing boat being very excited. Whelp, the boat was what is called a water bailiff, think of it as the loch's version of a forest ranger. He took the tooth and their pictures and videos saying he needed it for a report and they could pick everything, including the tooth the next day... Well, when they went to get it the police acted as if they were a couple crazy kids, then threatened to take away their passports if they continued to press the issue...

Well, the bailiff didn't get everything, they had another tape and some photographs that they managed to keep. They are now looking to try to get the tooth back, and are offering a $100,000 reward (which has gone up, as it was announced on Coast to Coast as being $5,000)... The bailiff of course took it for the same reason nobody there actually talks about it, it would kill the massive tourism for people wanting to find the monster themselves... And things like little plastic dinosaurs and other tourist trinkets...

So, if you wondered, this seems like a nicely credible story to me... I've always been one interested in cryptozoology... Along with the other things such as UFO's & extraterrestrials, ancient mythologies, and biblical artifacts... Dunno why, I just find them very intriguing...