Loch Ness Monster-Scotland's great lake monster

-is a cryptid (Unidentified Mysterious Animal)
-claimed to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness & most volumnious freshwater lake in Great Britain
-one of the best-known mysteries of cryptozoology
-belief in the legend persists around the world
-local people, and later many around the world, have affectionately referred to the animal by
the diminutive of Nessie (Scottish Gaelic:"Niseag")
-the explanation fall into 3 categories:
-misidentification of known animals
-unknown species
-paranormal creatures