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    #62
    Adam Khor
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    The only one that theory might apply to is the kelpie as there wasnt many dangerous animals in scotland (some bigcats survived until the 7th century like lynx ect but they were rare).

    Plus there's never been any documented case of a lynx attacking humans, to my knowledge anyways...


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    #63
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Unless the snake was actually Wonambi and therefore very real...

    Also, I suposse other ambush predators such as Thylacoleo and Megalania would've stalk near waterholes as well, so even in places where there weren´t any crocodiles, there would still be many reasons to keep away from water...

    Water holes in africa are exremely dangerous and I can imagine when austrailia had a lot more mega fauna like Thylacoleo, Megalania and even the herbivore diprotodon the water holes would have been eqaully dangerous. The native american and candaian trides did and still have strict tradiations about a woman leaving the reservation on her own. They insist on escorting all women, visitors or natives out of the reservations for fear the saquatch will attack them which would be unusual as primates have been know to make sexual advances on women. Birute galidgas reported a member of her staff was raped by an orangutang.


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    #64
    steddyeddy
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Plus there's never been any documented case of a lynx attacking humans, to my knowledge anyways...

    No there hasnt indeed. We have our own version of the kelpie I was told about when I was a nipper called the dobher chu which lived in lakes but could run on land to travel between lakes.

    EDIT: heres the story

    There is one rarity more, which we may term the Irish crocodile, whereof one, as yet living, about ten years ago had sad experience. The man was passing the shore just by the waterside, and spied far off the head of a beast swimming, which he took to be an otter, and took no more notice of it; but the beast it seems lifted up his head, to discern whereabouts the man was; then diving swam under the water till he struck ground: whereupon he run out of the water suddenly and took the man by the elbow whereby the man stooped down, and the beast fastened his teeth in his pate, and dragged him into the water; where the man took hold of a stone by chance in his way, and calling to mind he had a knife in his jacket, took it out and gave a thrust of it to the beast, which thereupon got away from him into the lake. The water about him was all bloody, whether from the beast's blood, or his own, or from both he knows not.


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    #65
    Galvasean
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    The only one that theory might apply to is the kelpie as there wasnt many dangerous animals in scotland (some bigcats survived until the 7th century like lynx ect but they were rare). So maybe they were warning their children of the kelpie to keep them from drowning in the loch?

    I would imagine so. "Don't go there, you'll drown" isn't a great deterrent to a kid when the water looks so calm, but tell them there's a monster lurking just beneath the surface ready to grab you...


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    #66
    steddyeddy
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    I would imagine so. "Don't go there, you'll drown" isn't a great deterrent to a kid when the water looks so calm, but tell them there's a monster lurking just beneath the surface ready to grab you...

    It would work for me Im skeptical about loch ness having a monster but I still find it quite a creepy lake a sentiment echoed by many divers who dived there.


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    #67
    Adam Khor
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    It would work for me Im skeptical about loch ness having a monster but I still find it quite a creepy lake a sentiment echoed by many divers who dived there.

    Hell, I live in the other side of the world and I think it's a creepy lake. The ruins of the Urquhart castle by its side only help make it creepier, too.


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    #68
    steddyeddy
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Hell, I live in the other side of the world and I think it's a creepy lake. The ruins of the Urquhart castle by its side only help make it creepier, too.

    Ive never been there myself but theres a simular one called lough bray near me which I was told contains a monster (dobher chu) and it really has a creepy feel to it.


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    #69
    Adam Khor
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    Lucky you. No monsters are said to be in the local lake. I am even thinking of inventing one and see if it becomes famous...


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    #70
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Ive never been there myself but theres a simular one called lough bray near me which I was told contains a monster (dobher chu) and it really has a creepy feel to it.

    I did read somewhere a good many years ago that the Dobher chu was supposed to be some kind of giant otter. As such things do exist in parts of the world I suppose it may be possible. But I am a bit of a skeptic. (They also spelled it Dover Chu I think which indicates poor research from the outset.


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