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Is the Loch Ness monster real or is it just an elaborate hoax?

The Loch Ness monster is an urban myth.

Have you ever heard of the Loch Ness monster?

An undated photo shows a shadowy shape that some people say is the Loch Ness monster in Scotland.

Scotland's fabled Loch Ness Monster might most likely be a giant eel, a study of samples of DNA in the lake's murky waters has found.

We can't exclude the possibility that there's a giant eel in Loch Ness, but we don't know whether these samples we've collected are from a giant beast or just an ordinary one — so there's still this element of "we just don't know."

We can't exclude the possibility that there's a giant eel in Loch Ness.

The first written record of the Loch Ness monster relates to the Irish monk St. Columba, who is said to have banished a "water beast" to the depths of the River Ness in the 6th century.

There is only one "lake" in Scotland: the Lake of Menteith. All the rest are "lochs", as in "Loch Ness".

Other cryptids are Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot in North America, and central Africa’s dinosaur-like Mokele Mbembe.