In the summer of 564, Irish abbot Saint Columba saw a beast about to attack a man swimming along the Loch Ness shore and commanded it to“go back with all speed.” It did. And Columba was credited with ...

A man on the shores of Scotland's Dores Beach said he saw the elusive Loch Ness monster emerging from the depths of the loch, the first potential Nessie sighting reported to The Loch Ness Centre in ...

Is the blue pike extinct or just hiding? Explore the history, the massive harvests and the science behind why this legendary Lake Erie fish disappeared.

When a Loch Ness Monster story appears at the start of April, it pays to check the date on the article just to avoid red faces. But there should be no hoax with this one published on the last day of ...

Drumnadrochit, Scotland (CNN) — It’s not the volume of water in Loch Ness that impresses, although that’s substantial. It is, after all, 23 miles long with steep walls that plunge into a 754-foot ...

Loch Ness owes its fame to a monster. And the monster owes its fame to a newspaper. The Inverness Courier — unlike Nessie — definitely exists. And it was that paper, 90 years ago, that unwittingly ...

They supposedly lurk in remote lakes, hide in dense forests, and roam snowy mountains. Yet despite being refuted by science, cryptids—fantastical beasts that probably don’t exist—have awed and ...

All travel is by definition quixotic — the most seasoned globetrotters can be led on wild goose chases, deceived, and/or just plain make huge mistakes all by themselves about what's around that next ...

We love Scotland for the things that make it feel eternal: the heathered hills, the bagpipes that sound like ghosts calling across the glens, and the whisky that burns slow and warm like memory itself ...

Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and her friends will join the 2025 Rose Parade thanks to Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly Pomona has announced that “Nessie’s Lakeside Laughs” will ...