Towering castle ruins and shivering waters set the stage for the Loch Ness legend. Loch Ness itself is vast – the lake holds the largest volume of freshwater in Britain, stretching about 23 miles and plunging over 700 feet deep. It’s the kind of dark, mysterious expanse that invites tales of ancient beasts. Indeed, carvings from the local Pictish tribes (around A.D. 500) show a strange long-snouted creature with flippers hinting that a “water-beast” may have swum these waters for well over a millennium. Still, one must wonder: if Nessie were real, why has science never landed a direct hit…
