On planet Earth, there are many lakes in which monsters and monsters live by legends and demes. Where do the lake monsters come from? The views on the origin of large lake animals are ranked roughly as follows.

Monsters are the result of incessant falsifications. Every year, the region of the Scottish Loch Ness is visited by half a million tourists, bringing in income of up to 25 million pounds sterling.

Lake monsters - water mammoths

Monsters are "water mammoths". Foreigners who visited Muscovy wrote about the existence of mammoths. Ermak's soldiers, conquering Siberia, also met in the forests of huge hairy elephants. They were described in detail by Siberian Tatars, and in the twentieth century by the cryptozoologist M. Bykov and Soviet pilots flying over the taiga in the 1940s.

Of course, it would be difficult for a mammoth to survive in the conditions of a severe Siberian winter, but why not go to a semi-aquatic lifestyle? They can easily suffer a 60-70 degree frost, if, like walruses, they hide in water that has a temperature not below zero. The mammoth is swimming well. In the testimonies of eyewitnesses, a similar description often slips: the lake monsters have a long, flexible neck, and behind it a body rising above the water. But maybe it was a high raised trunk and the head of a mammoth? ..

Perhaps these are ancient lizards

Where else do lake monsters appear?

These can be monsters - miraculously survived plesiosaurs. Another opinion among those who believe in a living Nessie is absent. Why not? From time to time in the wild corners of the planet find animals that have long been extinct, so we can assume that some ancient lizards may well survive in some pond.
Lake monsters are messengers of aliens. Indeed, over the many famous lakes at different times were seen whole UFO squadrons. We, people, find it difficult to imagine the huge pangolins in the role of pilots of starships, we want to see them humanoid. But, most likely, our ideas are too anthropomorphic.
Through the anomalous "windows". There is almost no doubt that the areas of most of the described lakes are to some extent typical anomalous zones, where besides Nessie other abnormal phenomena and objects are observed. In such places it is quite possible the formation of chronoanomalies (disturbances in the normal process of the passage of time).

Perhaps, monsters actually live in the distant past of time or in general in parallel worlds, and to us are transferred through spatially temporary funnels of a hole. It is easy to explain the elusiveness of the ancient pangolins: today they are here, and tomorrow - they are already there, "yesterday" ... However, for the same reason, it is difficult to verify this hypothesis.

Lake monsters - mirages

Scientific version: monsters are chronomirges. This is the last and, perhaps, the only version, allowing from a rational position to explain both the extreme prevalence and the elusiveness of Nessie. In fact, monsters in lakes are only mirages, images of long-extinct animals.

Indeed, in the sky from time to time, images of long-past events (mostly bloody battles and "flying Dutch") are observed; the mechanism of occurrence and action of these images is still incomprehensible. Why do not they appear on the water as lizards of the Jurassic period, for example. Both the chronomir and the visions of monsters have many common external features.

Note also that both chronomirrors and lake monsters appear in the same countries, directly in the same provinces and regions. We overlay a map of the chronomeras on the map of "settling Nessie" and get ... the same thing.

The habitats of one who is considered to be relict lake animals truly cover the entire globe. Legends of monster-lizards are common in England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Russia, North-West Europe, Asia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, the USA and other countries.

This scale indicates that the bridges live throughout our planet. But despite such a vast geographic distribution of relic monsters, the answer to the question as to what unusual animals live (or appear?) In many water bodies of the Earth, yet ...